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Folk tales and Tall tales; short, surrealist films inspired by folklore and mythology; creative director @StephenGeoRae ; film @BardseaGrnFilms #BardCumberland
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The Red Lady of Woodland
an apparition I witnessed in the spring of 2019; a female ghost attributed to a woman of vanity or a woman killed in a fit of passion
folklore
@BardCumberland
#folklore
#ghoststory
#surrealism
#indiefilm
#lakedistrict
#cumbria
0
3
11
"Now, if you're sitting comfortably, I shall tell you why you must not be afraid to die"
#folkhorror
#horror
#comedy
The Lair of the White Worm, 1988
Dir. Ken Russell
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315
2K
"Now, if you're sitting comfortably, I shall tell you why you must not be afraid to die"
#folkhorror
#horror
#comedy
The Lair of the White Worm, 1988
Dir. Ken Russell
9
255
2K
When we decorate our homes with evergreens at the time of the Winter Solstice, kiss under the mistletoe, eat plum pudding, we are performing rites that originally formed part of Druid culture
#FolkloreSunday
art: Druids Cutting the Mistletoe, by Henri Paul Motte
9
172
787
Stunning animation for the
#FairytaleTuesday
weather theme
#hedgehogs
#animation
#film
Hedgehog in the Fog 1975
dir. Yuriy Norshteyn
3
84
487
4
113
466
Did someone say "Little Red Riding Hood?" 🐺
#FairyTaleTuesday
#horror
#film
The Company of Wolves, 1984
dir. Neil Jordan
8
108
437
Residents of a rural village fall under the influence of a demonic presence after a farmer unearths a mysterious deformed skull in a field
#horror
#folkhorror
#film
The Blood on Satan's Claw, 1971
dir. Piers Haggard
1
55
421
Taken from Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism. A young woman is turned into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer
#fairytaletuesday
#horror
#film
The White Reindeer, 1952
dir. Erik Blomberg
7
107
420
Did someone say werewolves? 🐺
#fairytaletuesday
#horror
#film
The Company of Wolves, 1984
dir. Neil Jordan
9
101
410
Merlin, driven mad with grief when his men were slaughtered in battle, finds refuge in the Caledonian Forest.
His loneliness is interrupted by visits from forest creatures and nature spirits, and thereafter he gains the gift of prophecy.
#wyrdwednesday
#merlin
art: Alan Lee
2
72
382
It's the
#SummerSolstice
so a perfect excuse to dance and be merry, and perhaps throw in the odd human sacrifice
#horror
#drama
#film
The Wicker Man 1973
dir. Robin Hardy
13
77
357
Bubo the mechanical owl of brass and iron, sent by the Gods of Olympus to aid Perseus on his quest
#FaustianFriday
#fantasy
#film
Clash of the Titans 1981
Dir. Desmond Davis
9
51
333
'Macbeth' was cursed from the beginning, a coven of witches objected to Shakespeare using real incantations, so they put a curse on the play
#FaustianFriday
#film
Macbeth, 1948
dir. Orson Welles
8
69
338
"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"
#31DaysOfHalloween
The VVitch, 2015
dir. Robert Eggers
2
66
299
In medieval Dutch, French and German fables, Reynard is a red fox, a trickster. His adventures involve deceiving other animals for his own advantage. His main enemy and victim across the cycle is his uncle, a wolf named Isengrim
#folklore
#fables
#foxoftheday
art: Stephen G. Rae
1
47
280
'Macbeth' was cursed from the beginning, a coven of witches objected to Shakespeare using real incantations, so they put a curse on the play
#WyrdWednesday
#film
Macbeth, 1948
dir. Orson Welles
2
43
247
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
The VVitch, 2015
dir. Robert Eggers
6
53
251
Some spring fever courtesy of
@FolkloreFilmFes
🦔🦔🦔
#WyrdWednesday
#animation
#drama
#fantasy
#film
#FilmTwitter
Hedgehog in the Fog 1975
dir. Yuriy Norshteyn
7
63
238
"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright"
#folkloresunday
#horror
#film
The Wolfman, 2010
dir. Joe Johnston
1
42
214
In Cumbrian
#folklore
, Belle Sheephead is a girl who finds her pet lamb killed by a fox. Rather than mourning it, she drinks it's blood. The next full moon she is transformed into a were-sheep!
#superstitionsat
#cumbria
2
38
200
taken from Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism. A young woman is turned into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer
#faustianfriday
#horror
#film
The White Reindeer, 1952
dir. Erik Blomberg
1
42
200
A man from Killin entered a Faerie Knowe (hill) and found inside, a vat of porridge. It was boiling so fiercely that a lump of porridge struck him in the eye. He saw faeries in that eye thereafter!
#FairyTaleTuesday
#Perthshire
0
40
187
It's
#Beltane
so a perfect excuse to dance and be merry, and perhaps throw in the odd human sacrifice?
#legendarywednesday
#horror
The Wicker Man, 1973
dir. Robin Hardy
4
52
187
In Scots Gaelic lore, faeries were regarded as either non-human nature spirits or as spirits of the dead. They would exist in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation; and a similar belief regarding elves in northern Europe
#folkloresunday
#scottishfolklore
art: Yuliya Litvinova
1
43
184
Did someone say "Little Red Riding Hood"? 🐺
#fairytaletuesday
#horror
#film
The Company of Wolves, 1984
dir. Neil Jordan
4
36
159
In medieval Dutch, French, German fables, Reynard is a red fox, a trickster. His adventures involve deceiving other animals for his own advantage, his main enemy and victim across the cycle is his uncle, a wolf named Isengrim
#folklore
#fables
#foxoftheday
1
33
153
"Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense [...] Faeries are resistant to all definitions"
~ Brian Froud
#FolkloreSunday
#BrianFroud
1
42
143
The winter season has been associated with numerous deities - Greek god of winter, Boreas; Norse god, Ullr; Celtic goddesses Cailleach & Beira. Over time, the old gods and goddesses of winter transformed into Old Man Winter/ Jack Frost.
#FairyTaleTuesday
art: Baklaher
1
38
146
Did someone say: "Little Red Riding Hood"? 🐺
#fairytales
#horror
#film
The Company of Wolves, 1984
dir. Neil Jordan
8
34
142
Some beautiful
#caturday
animation from Lotte Reiniger, courtesy
@FolkloreFilmFes
. Her exploration of the universe of fairy tales
#animation
#film
#FilmTwitter
Puss in Boots 1954
Dirs. Lotte Reiniger & Carl Koch
2
38
127
"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright"
#folkyfriday
#horror
#film
The Wolfman, 2010
dir. Joe Johnston
2
29
125
"The course of true love never did run smooth" ~ Lysander, Act 1 Scene 1
#folkloresunday
#shakespearesunday
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1935
dir. Max Reinhardt; William Dieterle
1
29
117
“A great rogue, having been buried, after his death sallied forth out of his grave by night [...] and returning to his tomb before daylight”
- William of Newburgh c.1300
#WorldDraculaDay
#horror
#vampires
#film
Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
2
27
110
"The course of true love never did run smooth" ~ Lysander
#folkyfriday
#fantasy
#film
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1935
dir. Max Reinhardt; William Dieterle
0
31
114
Taken from Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism, a young woman is turned into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer.
#WyrdWednesday
#horror
#folktale
#film
#filmtwitter
The White Reindeer, 1952
dir. Erik Blomberg.
1
22
103
Valkyrie (Old Norse Valkyrja : Chooser of the Slain).
In mythology, a group of maidens who served Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla
#folklorethursday
#fantasy
#film
Thor: Ragnarok 2017
dir. Taika Waititi
0
12
103
Taken from Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism. A young woman is turned into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer
#mythology
#horror
#film
The White Reindeer, 1952
dir. Erik Blomberg
0
24
107
The Big Underground Ball is a short film in which the King of the Forest gathers elves, sprites, and other assorted woodland spirits for a night of festivities
#fairytaletuesday
#animation
Bolshoy podzemnyy bal, 1987
dir. Stanislav Sokolov
1
28
106
There's a Westmorland tradition of carving Yew branches into unusual shapes and giving to friends as protection against the Six Evils - the six main medieval causes of illness and death, prevalent in winter
#folklorethursday
#cumbria
2
28
104
Häxan charts the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft, beginning in the Middle Ages through the 20th century
#wyrdwednesday
#horror
#fantasy
#film
Häxan 1922
Dir. Benjamin Christensen
0
21
102
On the subject of wolves 🐺
#FairyTaleTuesday
#horror
#film
The Company of Wolves, 1984
dir. Neil Jordan
1
38
103
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart
#fairytaletuesday
#fantasy
#film
Excalibur, 1981
dir. John Boorman
8
14
101
An early Disney cartoon: Persephone living in a beautiful garden of eternal spring. Dancing flowers and elves defend her when Pluto, God of the Underworld comes to take her away
#FolkloreSunday
#animation
#film
The Goddess of Spring, 1934
dir. Wilfred Jackdon
3
22
98
It's the
#AutumnEquinox
so a perfect excuse to dance and be merry, and perhaps throw in the odd human sacrifice?
#folkloresunday
#horror
#film
The Wicker Man, 1973
dir. Robin Hardy
3
21
101
It's
#Lammas
so a perfect excuse to dance and be merry, and perhaps throw in the odd human sacrifice?
#folklorethursday
#horror
The Wicker Man, 1973
dir. Robin Hardy
2
26
100
A poetic fantasy of Ukrainian folk tales
#film
#folklore
#filmtwitter
courtesy
@FolkloreFilmFes
The Eve of Ivan Kupala, 1968
dir. Yuri Ilyenko
1
19
96
In Scots Gealic folklore, the 'cait sìth' - faerie cat - a faerie that takes the shape of a black cat with a distinctive white spot on it's chest
there's also:
'lucha sìth' - faerie mouse
'cu sìth' - faerie dog
#mythologymonday
#cats
#faeries
1
23
99
Some
#M
élièsMonday magic, courtesy
@FolkloreFilmFes
The Merry Frolics of Satan is a comedic adaptation of the Faust legend
#silentfilm
#film
#filmtwitter
Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable 1906
dir. Georges Méliès
0
25
97
0
17
93
In Scots Gealic folklore, the 'cait sìth' - faerie cat - a faerie that takes the shape of a black cat with a distinctive white spot on it's chest
there's also: 'lucha sìth' - faerie mouse; 'cu sìth' - faerie dog
#WyrdWednesday
#cats
#illustration
Arthur Rackham
0
17
93
#FairytaleTuesday
Belle's father is sentenced to death for picking a rose from the Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place.
#fantasy
#film
#FilmTwitter
La Belle et la Bête 1946
dir. Jean Cocteau
1
15
89
Based on the epic poem Nibelungenlied, Siegfried travels to King Gunther's castle. On the way he kills a dragon, an evil dwarf king, gaining a magic helmet of invisibility and illusion
#fairytaletuesday
#fantasy
#film
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, 1924
dir. Fritz Lang
0
28
90
In this early Disney cartoon, Persephone is living in a beautiful garden of eternal spring. Dancing flowers and elves defend her when Pluto, God of the Underworld comes to take her away
#FairytaleTuesday
#animation
The Goddess of Spring, 1934
dir. Wilfred Jackdon
0
26
89
#FemaleFilmmakerFriday
: a handsome prince and a flying horse set out on a magical journey, befriending a witch, battling demons and falling in love with a princess
#fantasy
#silentfilm
#film
The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926
Dir. Lotte Reiniger
1
29
91
Some
#M
élièsMonday magic courtesy of
@FolkloreFilmFes
The Kingdom of the Fairies, adapted from La Biche au Bois, a 'fairy play' by the brothers Goignard in 1845.
#film
#silentfilm
#fairytales
#filmtwitter
Le Royaume des fées
dir. Georges Méliès 1903
1
38
89
#FairytaleTuesday
theme
#animals
A farmers wife on the Isle of Arran became very lethargic, and no amount of effort would wake her. Her husband watching one night witnessed
#faeries
enter her room, and turn her into a
#horse
that pulled their cart all night.
#AyrshireFolklore
0
26
88
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart
#fairytaletuesday
#kingarthur
Excalibur, 1981
dir. John Boorman
3
12
86
An Irish youth discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the spell of a Celtic goddess
#folklorethursday
#animation
#film
Song of the Sea, 2014
Dir. Tomm Moore
1
28
88
In Cumbrian folklore, the Green Knight and Sir Gawain lived in the Forest of Inglewood
#fairytaletuesday
#fantasy
#film
The Green Knight, 2021
dir. David Lowery
2
9
87
Brothers and Sisters on
#FairyTaleTuesday
, courtesy of
@FolkloreFilmFes
#FolkloreFamilies
#animation
#film
Sister Alenushka & Brother Ivanushka / Сестрица Алёнушка и братец Иванушка 1953
dir. Olga Khodataeva.
0
7
86
A Soviet animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid
#mythologymonday
#animation
Rusalochka, 1968
dir. Ivan Aksenchuk
1
26
83
An adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It's a beautiful film that resembles a ballet
#folkyfriday
#animation
#film
Send noci svatojánské, 1959
dir. Jiri Trnka
0
21
86
A Soviet animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid
#fairytale
#animation
#film
Rusalochka, 1968
dir. Ivan Aksenchuk
0
25
84
Some
#M
élièsMonday magic, courtesy
@FolkloreFilmFes
The Merry Frolics of Satan is a comedic adaptation of the Faust legend
#silentfilm
#film
#filmtwitter
Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable 1906
dir. Georges Méliès
0
32
81
In this early Disney cartoon, Persephone is living in a beautiful garden of eternal spring. Dancing flowers and elves defend her when Pluto, God of the Underworld comes to take her away
#FolkloreSunday
#animation
The Goddess of Spring, 1934
dir. Wilfred Jackdon
0
22
82
A rare book dealer is hired to find the last two copies of a text that holds the key to summoning the devil, and subsequently finds himself at the heart of paranormal events
#faustianfriday
#mystery
#film
The Ninth Gate, 1999
dir. Roman Polanski
1
10
75
Elf-hame caves, Dalry - on the Winter Solstice elves come riding out on horses the size of mice. Their long hair tied in knots of gold; their bows made of human ribs, arrow heads dipped in hemlock poison
#folkloresunday
#ayrshirefolklore
#art
: Elf Play by August Malmström
0
19
76
Let's spend the
#SummerSolstice
at our ancestral commune, the Hårga, in Sweden
#horror
#thriller
#film
Midsommar, 2019
dir. Ari Aster
2
13
78
Dark and sinister forces invade an archaeologist's home as he investigates a folk tale about an ancient oak tree on his land
#folkloresunday
#horror
#film
Starve Acre, 2023
Dir. Daniel Kokotajlo
2
17
78
A demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a good spirit who opposes him
#silentfilm
#horror
#fantasy
#film
#filmtwitter
The Red Spectre 1907
dir. Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca; courtesy
@MoviesSilently
0
21
72
The Icelandic medieval fantasy drama based on the fairytale The Juniper Tree collected by the Brothers Grimm, and starring Björk
#wyrdwednesday
#fantasy
The Juniper Tree, 1990
Dir. Nietzchka Keene
2
17
75
Based on a Basque folk tale 'The Smith and the Devil' as collected by Father Joxemiel Barandiaran. A blacksmith holds a demon in captivity, torturing it.
#horror
#fantasy
#folklore
#film
#filmtwitter
Errementari 2017
dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo
2
21
72
A Soviet animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 fairy tale The Little Mermaid
#fairytaletuesday
#animation
#film
Rusalochka, 1968
dir. Ivan Aksenchuk
2
18
69
0
22
75
British folk horror film set in 18th century England. Residents of a rural village fall under the influence of a demonic presence after a farmer unearths a mysterious deformed skull in a field
#horror
#folkhorror
#film
The Blood on Satan's Claw, 1971
dir. Piers Haggard
0
14
75
The Redcap is a malevolent, murderous goblin that inhabits ruined castles along the Anglo Scottish Borders. Redcap soaks his cap in the blood of his victims, giving it that distinctive crimson hue
#wyrdwednesday
#horror
#folklore
0
9
73
1959, Czech animator Jiri Trnka directed his own adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", entitled "Sen noci svatojánské"
#ShakepeareSunday
#animation
#film
0
23
73
Some
#M
élièsMonday magic courtesy of
@FolkloreFilmFes
The Kingdom of the Fairies, adapted from La Biche au Bois, a 'fairy play' by the brothers Goignard in 1845.
#film
#silentfilm
#fairytales
#filmtwitter
Le Royaume des fées
dir. Georges Méliès 1903
0
25
72
1959, Czech animator Jiri Trnka directed his own adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, entitled Sen noci svatojánské
#fairytaletuesday
#animation
#film
2
20
72
Police constable Ichabod Crane is sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman
#31daysofhalloween
#folkloreatnight
Sleepy Hollow 1999
Dir. Tim Burton
0
13
71
A
#FairytaleTuesday
Midsummer Nights Dream, courtesy
@FolkloreFilmFes
#puppets
#animation
#film
A Midsummer Nights Dream 1959 Dir. Jiří Trnka
1
22
72
The Icelandic medieval fantasy drama based on the fairytale 'The Juniper Tree' collected by the Brothers Grimm, and starring Björk
#fairytales
#fantasy
#film
The Juniper Tree, 1990
Dir. Nietzchka Keene
1
17
69
Meg Mucklebones, inspired by Jenny Greenteeth from folklore
Jenny is a 'river hag' living in pools of water, who drags children and the elderly into the water, to drown!
#faustianfriday
#fantasy
#film
Legend, 1985
dir. Ridley Scott
1
17
71
#FairytaleTuesday
theme of black dogs.
A 'shuck' in folklore, is a large black dog often foretelling death. A strike from it's paw leaves a wound that never heals.
#folklore
#film
#FilmTwitter
Stalker, 1979
dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
2
18
69
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart
#faustianfriday
#fantasy
#film
Excalibur, 1981
dir. John Boorman
5
5
68
In folklore, 'Macbeth' was cursed from the beginning - a coven of witches objected to Shakespeare using real incantations, so they put a curse on the play
#FolkloreSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
Macbeth, 1948
dir. Orson Welles
0
16
66
Meg Mucklebones, inspired by Jenny Greenteeth from folklore? She's a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water, to drown
#folklorethursday
#fantasy
#film
Legend, 1985
dir. Ridley Scott
#botd
2
18
70
In Gaelic lore, the Cat Sìth (Faerie Cat) is a faerie that takes the shape of a large black cat with a distinctive white spot on it's chest. Some suggests that it is not a faerie, but a witch that can transform into a cat nine times.
#FairyTaleTuesday
0
18
68
This
#WyrdWednesday
, courtesy of
@FolkloreFilmFes
A Grimm tale originally published in 1819, the life and times of a hedgehog/human hybrid named Hans
#fairytale
#film
Hans My Hedgehog 1987
dir. Steve Barron
1
16
69
Bubo the mechanical owl of brass and iron, sent by the Gods of Olympus to aid Perseus on his quest
#FairyTaleTuesday
#fantasy
#film
Clash of the Titans 1981
Dir. Desmond Davis
2
12
68
In Scottish folklore, dogs are believed to have the ability to see ghosts, witches, faeries and supernatural entities
#fairytaletuesday
#animation
#film
Isle of Dogs, 2018
dir. Wes Anderson
3
17
66
A handsome prince and a flying horse set out on a magical journey, befriending a witch, battling demons and falling in love with a princess
#mythologymonday
#animation
The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926
dir. Lotte Reiniger
1
18
65