Folk Lore Collection (page 15)

Dragon Hunt Series - 3
The knight seeks out the dragon in his lair and, aided only by his two faithful hounds, engages the dragon in fight

Dragon Hunt Series - 2
The knight kneels in a chapel, praying to the Virgin Mary for strength and courage in his forthcoming fight with the evil monster

Dragon Hunt Series - 1
The knight arrives, hoping to slay the fearful dragon which is terrorising the country

Previewing a Lover
A Spanish girl breaks a raw egg into a glass of water on St Johns Eve : the shape it makes tells her what kind of lover she will have

Norwegian Clover
Three little Norwegian girls carry four-leaved clovers to wish you Godt Nytaar !

Folklore / Salamander
Salamanders amid the flames

Holyrood Chapel
A RUINED ABBEY (the Chapel, Holyrood, Edinburgh)

Counting Daisy Petals
COUNTING DAISY PETALS He loves me, he loves me not

Centaur and Rabbit
A young Centaur catches a rabbit and shows it proudly to the cupid riding on his back

Mores Utopia
The imaginary island of UTOPIA, as described by Sir Thomas More

Meeting the Rubezahl
Two Bohemian (Czech) children, gathering firewood, encounter the Rubezahl - a mysterious wild man who haunts the mountains

Frog Prince (Goble)
The princess is delighted when the frog retrieves her golden ball, and runs off with it, forgetting about the promises she made to the frog

Little Red Man
LE PETIT HOMME ROUGE The little red man or devil, traditionally associated (by his enemies) with Napoleon, depicted treating him like a son

Female Centaur & Thyrsus
A centauress gallops with a friend who holds a thyrsus (an ornamental staff), which - with the branch she holds - suggests that they are taking part in Dionysian revelry

Folklore / Hydra
Herakles must slay the Hydra of Nemea, whose nine heads are self- renewing : his nephew Iolaus has the answer - cauterise the necks as soon as severed

FUNG HWANG
The magic bird FUNG HWANG (variously spelt) - equivalent to the Phoenix of western folklore, though not identical

A Butterfly Fairy
A butterfly fairy

Monsters Embrace
Love-bite ? or is he drinking her blood ? The line between demon lover and vampire is a narrow one

Sea Serpent Rears Up
An ugly winged serpent of the sea rears up to confront a startled sailor who lets go the ships wheel in fright

Stork / Baby / Jugend 1902
Two storks deliver one baby between them

Stork / Baby / Noah`s Ark
A stork brings a baby in a basket

Kelpie Scares Man / Anon
A water kelpie appears in the water taking a passing gentleman by surprise - Kelpies generally frequent Scottish waters and often appear in human or equine form

A Small Dragon
The queen is terrified by a small dragon - illustration to Mme d Aulnoys tale The frog and the lion-fairy

King on Dragon
The king, riding a dragon, rescues the queen from monsters - illustration to Mme d Aulnoys tale, The frog and the lion-fairy

Dragon (Munster)
Dragons - one with two heads, the other with three - reported by travellers in Asia

Dragon (De Bry)
Flying dragons were among the weird creatures reported from the New World by Vespucci and other explorers

Dragon (Kircher)
A two-legged non-flying dragon, perceived as an animal species rather than an otherworldly monster

Monsters of Guatemala
Monsters reported by early travellers in Guatemala

Monsters of Brazil
Monsters reported by the Portuguese explorers in Brazil

Monsters of Asia - a giraffe and a camel, but also a unicorn, a cocodrille, a salamander and a hairy man that could be a yeti

Indian Monsters
Monstrous creatures reported by travellers in India, from beyond the Ganges River - some with dogs heads, some with one eye, some with heads below their shoulders &c

Elves Reposing
Reposing

Fairies Abduct Wife
Fairies abduct a farmers wife (from the Irish myth " The Fairy Nurse" )

Flying Demons
A menacing swarm of flying demons

Dwarfs / Underground Work
A team of dwarf miners, the " underground workers" in action

Dragon & Empress
A dragon carries off an Empress (From the Serbian myth " Nine Pea-Hens and Golden Apples" )

Satan and Chaos
SATAN at the court of CHAOS

Dores Dante Demon
The winged demon in his icy lair

Ellies Fairy Wings
One moonlight night the fairies came flying in at the window, and brought Ellie such a pretty pair of wings

Child-Eating Ogre
An ogre who eats children who misbehave

Norwegian Giant
A NORWEGIAN GIANT Little Fred and the giant beggar

Folklore / Green Men
Green men of English traditional folk customs, dressed for a masquerade

Demon and Couple
The Devil frightens a countryman and his wife

Protective Chinese Dog
Despite its monstrous appearance, this dog is a kindly creature which protects peoples homes from thieves and robbers

L a F Maury
LOUIS FERDINAND ALFRED MAURY French antiquarian, scholar, noted for books on dreams and folklore

Fairies & Sleeping Girl
A little girl sleeps soundly while all about, the night fairies dance about her bed

End of Atlantis
The end of Atlantis - a single vessel escapes the catastrophe

Devon Footprints - Iln 1
Unexplained footprints which appeared overnight in the Devon snow

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