The original Pixies

I'm actually posting this at 5 in the morning! The neighbour upstairs is having a party for two and I can't go back to sleep... Blogging in the dark as not to stir the Glenn is a tricky thing since his computer keys don't light up....

I discovered that the fairies have been dancing in my 'hood while we were away.
Wikipedia dearest says: "One resident of Balquhidder, Scotland, said that the fairies sit on the mushrooms and use them as dinnertables, and a Welsh woman claimed that fairies used the mushrooms as parasols and umbrellas."
But we all know they've been dancing, right?

I'm not so much New Age:y as raised on Northern fairytales. I love seeing traces of the old mythology in my everyday life, a kinda layers on layers thing.
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Yesterday I forgot to mention it was my sister's birthday.

Hurra Spo!

But it's okay since she doesn't read this blog. Today I'll keep on making a little paper Citroën 2CV for her.
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Yesterday's paintings still give me a shiver.
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Friday Hello!

HC SVNT DRACONES

Olaus Magnus' Carta Marina shows Scandinavia in a rather different light than the guidebooks normally do. Here be dragons, my friends, in the sea and in Lapland. In Finland there is a big snake problem and in the east the bears are climbing the trees.

Click to enlarge. The amount of detail is worthwiledly sweet.

Lindorm dearest

Sitting in the sun by the allotment gardens, we saw lindormen try to renew its grasp of the world. It's a good thing to see as it means good luck, and the Glenn and I weave manyfold plans.

Wikipedia my friend, tells me:

"The belief in the reality of a lindorm, a giant limbless serpent, persisted well into the 19th century in some parts. The Swedish folklorist Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius collected in the mid 19th century stories of legendary creatures in Sweden. He met several people in Småland, Sweden that said they had encountered giant snakes, sometimes equipped with a long mane. He gathered around 50 eyewitness reports, and in 1884 he set up a big reward for a captured specimen, dead or alive. Hyltén-Cavallius was ridiculed by Swedish scholars, and since nobody ever managed to claim the reward, it resulted in a cryptozoological defeat."

Cryptozoology: The study of hidden (legendary) animals.
Loveliness. Why didn't the study counsellor of my suburban school tell me of this career path?

A brittle, transparent crystalline solid

An abandoned home, vaguely reminiscent of of a ship burial, never burnt but frozen in ice.

Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising by Kenneth Anger 1972.

If you want soundtrack - Bobby Beausoleil - and art, go Lucifer.
If you want your films with an actual plot go The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy 1973.
Both are cinematic treats, in their own wicked, wicked ways.

Protection

I stand in front of you
I'll take the force of the blow
Protection...

(Remember that song?)

"The gargoyle's grotesque form was said to scare off evil spirits so they were used for protection. / ... / Some gargoyles were depicted as monks, combinations of real animals and people, many of which were humorous. Unusual animal mixtures, or chimeras, did not act as rainspouts and are more properly called grotesques. They serve more as ornamentation, but are now synonymous with gargoyles."

From Wikipedia