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Tom Cherry • Bedfordshire, UK Textile artist inspired by folklore, myth, magic and the macabre ✨🌞 https://xphaiea.bigcartel.com/

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 1d

𝗚𝗪𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗬 𝗥𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗡 is a monstrous spirit from Welsh folklore that is seen as an omen of death, similar to a banshee. She is believed to resemble a hideous shrieking hag with leathery wings and skeletal appearance.

#gwrachyrhibin #welshfolklore #goblincore #horrordolls #halloween

Photo of a handmade art doll of a creepy ghoulish character with winged ears, purplish skin, vibrant ginger hair and wild bulging red/yellow eyes

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks so much! 😁

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 1d

GLAISTIG

The Glaistig is a Scottish supernatural character, sometimes believed to be the ghost of a noblewoman. Also referred to as The Green Lady, she is often seen mournfully walking through crumbling castles and her approach is heralded by the sound of her hooves.

#glaistig #scottishfolklore

Art doll of a 'glaistig' a supernatural goat-like woman

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 3d

Sid found some amanitas!

#amanita #amanitamuscaria #borderterrier #dogs #woodlandwalk

Photo of a border terrier with a small amanita muscaria in the foreground

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 5d

Blackthorn

#artdolls #goblincore #witchsky

Photo of a gnarled goblinesque creature holding sloes and sitting on a mouldy post

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 5d

Afternoon walk

Photo of the sun setting over a ploughed field

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eldrtchmn @eldrtchmn.bsky.social · Sep 3

got new craftpaper stickers ✨

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 7d

Crazy that the second #Malazan book #DeadhouseGates was written 3minutes down the road from my childhood home 🤯

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 8d

Some new Folkloric Frights are on the way...

#goblincore #britishfolklore #artdolls #artsky

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 10d

today's mood:

Photo shows a crazed looking vintage goat toy

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks Matthew! 💜

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 10d

𝗔𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗜

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Water fairies that dwell in freshwater ponds or lakes, Asrai are said to swim to the surface to bathe in the moonlight once every hundred years.

#creepycute #goblincore #halloween #dolls

Handmade art doll of an ASRAI (water fairy) in pink and blue colours.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! 💜

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 14d

𝗝𝗘𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝘄’ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗡 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗧𝗛 is a Glaswegian ghoul - believed to have prowled around Glasgow Green in the early 1800's on 'beetle feet', is said to have captured badly behaved children and then devoured them with the frenzied gnashing of her iron teeth.

#scottishfolklore #31daysofhalloween #horrordolls

Photo of a handmade textile art doll, in green and purple colours, ragged and creepy!

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 15d

𝗙𝗔𝗗 𝗙𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗡 is the personification of the 'yellow plague' or ' yellow pestilence' that devastated Wales in the 540s, said to be a hideous hag with yellowed hair and teeth who was enveloped in a poisonous miasma.

#britishfolklore #welshfolklore #goblincore #witchsky #31daysofhalloween

Art doll of Fad Felen the personification of the 'yellow plague'

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 16d

Another patch from 2018, this one is based on a woodcut of a man extracting a toadstone

#britishfolklore #toadstone #witchsky

Handmade felt patch depicting a woodcut style man extracting a toadstone

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 17d

Looks amazing!

XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 17d

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch from 2018

#britishfolklore #mummifiedcat #protectioncharms #witchsky

Machine embroidered mummified cat patch made with felt

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18d

Hello Tuesday.
Dust cover for Brian Wildsmith’s Blue Bird.

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XPHAIEA @xphaiea.bsky.social · 19d

Spotted in the window of an antique shop #whoisshe

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 19d

Roots of Entanglement, 2016, by Esther Sarto

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19d

Goodnight.
🖼️ From In Berkshire Fields, Walter King Stone, 1920.

Large owl perched on the stump of a tree in forest setting at night, illustration.

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 20d

Remarkable German biologist, philosopher and artist Ernst Haeckel

Phaeodaria from Kunstformen der Natur
(Art Forms of Nature), c.1899 - 1901)

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 26d

Hahakigami (broom spirits) are a type of #yokai that occur once a broom has reached a very old age and is transformed into (or possessed by) a spirit, known as tsukumogami. Because brooms were used in ritual purifications, they can become powerful magical charms.
#MythologyMonday
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Illustration of a broom that appears to be sweeping by itself.

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