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Lauren McMenemy<p>What's your favourite fae? We asked our speakers this burning question. And for Khaya Maseko, it's the Tokoloshe, a "very naughty but industrious and skilled" South African creature. </p><p>Join us as we talk about the fae on 6 April. Tix via www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-occult-the-fae-tickets-853585686767</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fairies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fae</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fairystories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fairystories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/writingevents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingevents</span></a></p>
Northumbrian Stories<p>Folktales for IWD</p><p>3/</p><p>The Northumbrian tale, 'The Howdie of Elsdon', is the story of Margaret, a healer and midwife known in old dialect as a howdie.</p><p>Margaret is the finest howdie in Northumberland, but the story begins when she is an old woman, retired from midwifery. However, a knock on the door one night summons her to a final, strange case.</p><p>Blindfolded and taken on horseback to the aid of a young woman in labour, Margaret finds herself in a grand mansion she's never seen before. </p><p>She delivers the baby safely, but is given one final task: the family of the house are all born with a condition of the eyes, and the baby must have an ointment rubbed on his eyelids. However, Margaret is told she mustn't let the ointment touch her own eyes. </p><p>When she accidentally rubs her own eye with ointment-covered fingers, Margaret finds that through that eye, the fine house is only an illusion. She is in a mossy cave, and the baby and his mother have the strange but beautiful features of the fairy folk. Frightened, she makes her excuses and leaves - although the grateful fairies pay her with enough gold and silver to keep her comfortably through old age.</p><p>(An epilogue tells how Margaret later lost her fairy sight, but that'll have to wait for another time.)</p><p>I love this tale because the protagonist is an older woman, with no romantic interest. There are other versions involving a male doctor, but I prefer the old midwife!</p><p><a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/Northumberland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Northumberland</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/FairyStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairyStories</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/IWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWD</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>folklore</span></a></span></p>
Northumbrian Stories<p>Folktales for IWD</p><p>2/</p><p>The tale of Young Tam Lin is maybe the most famous of the Border Ballads, but the protagonist isn't Tam Lin, it's the young woman, Jennet (or Janet), and it's a classic story if you want a female hero.</p><p>In the story, Jennet, the daughter of a local laird strays to the fairy well at Carter Haugh, despite the warnings to stay away. There she meets Tam Lin, the fairy guardian of the well, and, over the course of a summer, the two fall in love. By the autumn, Jennet is pregnant with Tam Lin's child, and she despairs, because she cannot wed a fairy.</p><p>But then he reveals that he isn't a true fairy, but a changeling child, and Jennet can save him from the grasp of the fairy folk through her love. </p><p>Although the fairy queen turns Tam Lin into various terrifying creatures - and finally into a fiery coal that burns her hands - Jennet holds fast and breaks the spell. By throwing the burning coal into the well, she hides Tam Lin from the fairies' view, and they are forced to leave him to the mortal world, and to Jennet.</p><p><a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/ScottishBorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScottishBorders</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/BorderBallads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorderBallads</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/FairyStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FairyStories</span></a> <a href="https://thefolklore.cafe/tags/TamLin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TamLin</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>folklore</span></a></span></p>
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