#FolkloreSunday# A tongue in cheek illustration by Charles Addams featuring television's favorite fiendish family recoiling from a scene in 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane' (1962) a harrowing exploration of the darkest depths of sibling rivalry.

#FolkloreSunday# #StainedGlassSunday# Image of St. Francis of Assisi, St Martin Church, Leicester. Designed by Aidan McRae Thomson. 'When Francis preached love to the birds They listened, fluttered, throttled up Into the blue like a flock of words'. (Seamus Heaney 1913-2013)

#FolkloreSunday# What would summer be without storms? Many believed that the best place to hide from a storm was beneath an Oak but in Sussex there is an old rhyme: 'Beware of the oak, it draws the stroke. Avoid the ash, it courts the flash. Creep under a thorn, it can save you from harm.' (art Maxim Vorbiev 1842)

#FolkloreSunday# #StandingStoneSunday# The BBC are doing a reconstruction of how Stonehenge was made but will they mention the giants who carried the stones from Africa to Ireland & Merlin for working out transportation with a bit of heavy lifting from Old Nick? (photo Bahalya)

Celebrating 'creativity' today on #FolkloreSunday#, so here's my: "Folklore of Scotland" The "Beast of the Lowering Horn" was a curious animal with unicorn-like features, found on the Isle of Skye more: art: Stephen G. Rae

In caves below Culzean Castle, at the edge of the Firth of Clyde, Fairies gather every Summer Solstice, to plan acts of mischief for the rest of the year! more in: "Folklore of Scotland" #folkloresunday# #Scotland#