Dagonet the Fool is an eccentric warrior of King Arthur. Depending on the source, he is depicted as either an incompetent coward, a dangerous madman, or King Arthur's official jester - who was knighted for his courage, and who plays tricks on the king's enemies.

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In some Welsh legends, the little fairies eat poisonous mushrooms and a "fairy butter" found in the crevices of limestone rocks. Fey illusions make the food's appearance and taste more appetizing. More charmingly, fairy gloves are made from foxglove flowers.

Where other heroes use swords, spears, or arrows, Herakles uses his massive club, made from the wood of an olive tree and used in many of his feats, such as killing the servants of Geryon and letting the Queen of Lydia pretend to be him. #FairyTaleTuesday

In Japanese folklore be sure you follow the appropriate protocols when building your home: if a pillar is placed upside down, the spirit of the dead tree, the sakabashira, will manifest as a luck-stealing poltergeist, moaning and causing misery. #FairytaleTuesday

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Yggdrasil, the famed Nordic world tree, means "Ygg's horse," or similarly, "Gallow Horse." This is because Odin hung himself from Yggdrasil for nine days in order to achieve wisdom, coming to him in the form of the runes. #FairytaleTuesday

In #JapaneseFolklore 'The Cat Witch of Okazaki' is a tale about three travellers who stopped at a temple on their way home from a pilgrimage. They found a kind old lady called Osan living there who invited them to spend the night. While there, they witnessed something very... #FairyTaleTuesday 1/4

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#FairyTaleTuesday: `The symbolic plant of the Equinox in Druidry is the trefoil or shamrock, which is also customarily worn on St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March – almost at the time of the Spring Equinox. Usually associated with St Patrick in fact the shamrock is probably the national emblem of Ireland because of its earlier Druidic associations, and it is seen by some authorities as a survival of the trignetra, a Christianised wheel or sun symbol.`
Source: https://druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-festivals/spring-equinox-alban-eilir

#FairyTaleTuesday: `There are several ancient Neolithic monuments aligned to the Spring equinox, the most famous of which has been called "cairn T" at Loughcrew Megalithic complex. It features some of the most beautiful primitve rock art in Ireland, and during the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, the sun lights these designs up through a portal for almost an hour, shaped by the stones of the passage.`
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/spring-equinox

#FairyTaleTuesday: `The day and night, the light and the dark side of the year are in equal balance at the Spring equinox, neither stronger than the other. It is easy to imagine wonder-workers standing in sacred places during this liminal time.`
Source: https://emeraldisle.ie/spring-equinox

Every May 1 until Judgement Day, the Welsh hero Gwythyr battles Gwyn ap Nudd (king of the dead) for Creiddylad (Gwythyr's kidnapped fiancée). As May 1 is the first day of the Celtic summer, many scholars interpret this as a conflict between summer and winter.

#FairyTaleTuesday: `The Spring equinox was a very important time for the people of ancient Ireland, heralding as it did the end of the dark season with all of its dangers and want, and signalling the dawn of a new year of plenty.`
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#FairyTaleTuesday: In 1980 Irish-American researcher Martin Brennan discovered that Cairn T in Carnbane East is directed to receive the beams of the rising sun on the spring and autumnal equinox - the light shining down the passage and illuminating the art on the backstone.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loughcrew

Ostara is a modern tradition, born of the 19th century when nationalism latched onto the notion ancient Germanic peoples may have had a spring equinox festival. Neopagans and heathens have expanded on this in style. #FairyTaleTuesday

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Fifteen days after the spring equinox, families in China head to the family tombs with brooms, incense, and stories of their ancestors. Qingming is Tomb-Sweeping Day, a day of family reverence and reflection each spring honoring the ancestors. #FairyTaleTuesday

At the spring equinox, Teotihuacán swells with visitors, coming to seek the old Aztec gods for health and vitality. This is an attempt to honor indigenous ancestors and their astronomical prowess: many buildings line up with the equinox exactly. #FairytaleTuesday

The Iranian New Year begins at the Spring Equinox, called Nowruz. It celebrates the defeat of winter by forces of light and has been celebrated for at least 2500 years historically. #FairyTaleTuesday

The Farmer and the Tanuki is a Japanese folktale that ends with a rabbit drowning a tanuki in a lake. This seems very cruel but it's actually done to avenge the terrible murder of a farmer's wife. #FairyTaleTuesday 'Rabbit Setting Fire on the Firewood Carried by Tanuki' - Yamada Ho_gyoku, 1835. 1/2

#FairyTaleTuesday: `It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
Eochaid, son of Erc, was king of the Firbolgs at that time, and messengers came to him at Teamhair, and told him there was a new race of people come into Ireland, but whether from the earth or the skies or on the wind was not known, and that they had settled themselves at Magh Rein.
They thought there would be wonder on Eochaid when he heard that news; but there was no wonder on him, for a dream had come to him in the night, and when he asked his Druids the meaning of the dream, it is what they said, that it would not be long till there would be a strong enemy coming against him.
Then King Eochaid took counsel with his chief advisers, and it is what they agreed, to send a good champion of their own to see the strangers and to speak with them. So they chose out Sreng, that was a great fighting man, and he rose up and took his strong red-brown shield, and his two thick-handled spears, and his sword, and his head-covering, and his thick iron club, and he set out from Teamhair, and went on towards the place the strangers were, at Magh Rein.` #Celtic
Source: Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Gregory - Project Gutenberg eBook
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