Today is the feast day of St Melangell, the patron saint of hares. The daughter of an Irish king, she fled to Wales and founded a community of women in Powys. According to legend she was gifted the land after saving a hare from a pack of dogs. #FairyTaleTuesday

Good Tuesday 🎃🍂🧸🧡🦇🍁🤎 I Know! It’s a BearBat! Extremely rare. I was so lucky to be in the right place at the right time for this 📸 photo. Halloween countdown : 14 days #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash

The mysterious Crow - cryptic messenger art by Angela Rizza #FairyTaleTuesday

“The darkest of nights bring the brightest of flames. What you fear most often reveals your greatest strength.” #FairytaleTuesday

🕯️🎃🕯️Pumpkin Lanterns - by Arthur Rackham #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

#FairyTaleTuesday “A dandelion plant has moon and sun, and the stars too, as seeds fly one by one. And all is done, and all is new-begun.” - Ruth Pitter

#FairyTaleTuesday 'Over the Garden Wall' makes direct allegories to Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'. Created by Patrick McHale, the series chronicles Wirt and Greg as they journey to find their way home through treacherous woods called the Unknown. https://t.co/Qg3znicNO4

In Popeljuha Zavaljuha the king promised his dying wife he'll only remarry a woman who fits her ring. The unlucky winner is her daughter (who escapes & claims her chosen mate by giving him…half a ring). #AnotherCinderella #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess 🎨August Bourotte

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash The Shadow People saw him coming and whispered among themselves, “Careful, Raven is here! He who twists truths! He who is cunning is here! Watch him, watch him, watch him! Carefully!” https://t.co/7HMUezxQhS

Many believed witches didn't merely have cats, they could shapeshift and become cats! #FairyTaleTuesday #cats

In Scots Gealic lore the 'cait sìth' is a faerie cat, a faerie that takes the shape of a black cat with a distinctive white spot on it's chest. ~ from Stephen's upcoming book "Elves and Fairies", due in 2026 https://t.co/bhTSAmpRxB #FairytaleTuesday #Scotland

Looking for the ancestors, Hannah Willow #FairytaleTuesday #Samhain is coming

All aboard, it's #FairyTaleTuesday! According to Irish and British superstition, black cats bring good luck aboard ships. However, the ship will sink if a black cat walks onto the boat and then back off again. #fairytaleflash #catlore

Houses in fairy tales are never just houses; they always contain secrets and dreams. ~ Kate Bernheimer #FairytaleTuesday

There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens J. M. Barrie Arthur Rackham #FairyTaleTuesday 🍁

The cave is to sacred space what the skull is to the jack-o’-lantern. #FairyTaleTuesday

#FairyTaleTuesday “Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” (From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe) 🎨W Pierce

For good luck, you should always leave the first and last blackberries for the fairies 🧚 #FairyTaleTuesday

"The underworld, the earth womb, is the perilous land of the dead through which the deceased must pass, either to be judged and arrive at a chthonic realm, or to pass through to a new and higher existence." #FairyTaleTuesday