My: "Folklore of Scotland" Come on a magical journey in faerie tales and folk horror, introducing almost 200 characters from Scottish folklore more: folkloreofscotland.com 📚 ships to UK via the website. Worldwide via Amazon, Apple Books, etc #folklore #book #Scotland

We can't have a #HowlAtTheMoonDay without mentioning the infamous "Hexham Heads" news story, and subsequent werewolf activity. Real life folk-horror, courtesy of the BBC

It's #HowlAtTheMoonDay but in Cumbrian lore we don't have werewolves, we have were-sheep. Belle Sheephead is her name, and you can find out more in my: "Folklore of the Lake District" more: folklorepress.co.uk/

Beware visiting stone circles during Halloween; 'The Savages' are a race of goblins most common in the three days around Samhain read more in my: "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com/ art: Brian Froud

At Samhain past, present, and future are one, and beings of The Otherworld walk amongst the living. It is a time of faerie folk, demons and spirits of the ancestors. Saturday is Halloween and the oncoming Winter is the 'season of the ghosts' art: Alan Lee #FolkloreSunday

From Sunday 25th the full moon is the Hunters Moon (if it doesn't get blown away by Storm Boleo!) It signaled the time to go hunting in preparation for the winter ahead I prefer the Cree name Migrating Moon in reference to the time when birds begin to fly south to warmer climes

"stars is shining, moon is breet, Boggart won't cum out to-neet!" Boggart, my favourite character from northern folklore, a mischievous and malevolent hobgoblin and read more in my "Folklore of the Lake District" folklorepress.co.uk/ art: Stephen G. Rae

#Caturday Púca is a goblin-like being from Irish lore, that brings both good and bad fortune. It's a shapeshifter, able to take the form of a goat, hare, or cat more in my: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" folklorepress.co.uk art: Stephen G. Rae

In the Highlands, chief amongst the Forest Spirits is the Uruisg, a half human/ goat being similar to the Faun that Ofelia meets more in my "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com/ 🖼 poster for "Pan's Labyrinth", Guillermo del Toro's 2006 masterpiece, by Ise Ananphada

#FridayReads my: "Folklore of Scotland" Come on a magical journey in faerie tales and folk horror more: folkloreofscotland.com 📚 ships to UK via the website, and worldwide via Amazon, Apple Books, etc

Unicorns in Scotland? The "Beast of the Lowering Horn" on the Isle of Skye to be more precise and read more in my "Folklore of Scotland" folkloreofscotland.com art: Stephen G. Rae

In Scottish language, 'bawd' and 'baud' is hare Hare is a symbol of femininity and rebirth, and a messenger, moving by moonlight between this world and The Otherworld art: Adam Oehlers

A hare was shot by hunters using a silver coin. At which moment an old lady passing-by, carrying wool for spinning cried out: "They have shot my familiar spirit" and she fell dead! in my "Folklore of the Lake District" folklorepress.co.uk/ 🖼 Gustave Doré #witchwednesday

The superstition that witches favoured brooms as their mode of transport was popularised at the time of the Lancashire Witch Trials. Older sources tell of them travelling by pitchforks, pig troughs, plant stems. 🖼 Jakub Rozalski #witchwednesday

#AppleDay Ents were the most ancient living creatures surviving in Tolkien's Middle-earth in the Third Age, and similar to the Tree Guardians of lore such as Oak Man and Apple Man art: Apple Man by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law