It’s Faerie Friday! Post your fae folk!Yumboes are two-foot-tall, silvery-white spirits from the folklore of the Wolof and Lebou people in Senegal, often called "good people". They resemble European fairies, live underground, and dance in the moonlight. (+3)
It’s Faerie Friday! Post your fae folk!Mimi (or mimih) spirits are slender, fairy-like beings from the Indigenous Australian folklore of Arnhem Land and northern Australia. Stories describe them as extremely thin, deeply connected to rock escarpments, and gentle yet mischievous. (4)
It’s Faerie Friday! Post your fae folk!And yeah, I’m stretching the definition of fae a bit in this one to include more folklore entities. But this is one of my favorites and I’ve been wanting to talk about it. Hyakki Yagyō (百鬼夜行) is the "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons," a famous... See More » (3)
It’s Faerie Friday! Post your fae folk!So it’s technically Saturday here, whatever. Close enough. Agloolik is a benevolent spirit in Inuit mythology that lives beneath the sea ice. As a guardian of seals, the spirit aids hunters and fishermen who show respect. By offering prayers, humans... See More » (3)
It’s Faerie Friday! Post your fae folk!In Celtic and Scottish folklore, "fairy cattle" (or crodh sith) refer to supernatural livestock associated with the Good Folk. These magical beasts take a few different forms: Red Deer: In the Scottish Highlands, communities famously called red deer... See More » (3)
It’s Faerie Friday! But that doesn’t mean it can’t also be Tiddy Tuesday!Tiddy Mun is a small, grey-robed, elderly spirit from East Anglian folklore who protected the wetlands, controlling local mist and water levels. Often associated with the call of the peewit, this figure was believed to bring misfortune when the fens... See More » (3)
