According to folklore, fairies love dancing and fairy dances are known as a primary way in which humans are lured into Fairyland. Fairy music and dancing is so bewitching that any mortals who participate, will completely lose their sense of time and place.

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For #MythologyMonday In Welsh myths there are numerous stories of the Tylwyth Teg or fairy folk ecstatically dancing in moonlit meadows. If one were to chance upon them and step into their ring, they would be compelled to dance, often disappearing into the fairy realm. 1/2

When you are stuck in the middle of a fairy ring & need rescuing in time for #MythologyMonday !

The Tarantella, a 15th century Italian dance, was said to be a remedy for tarantism (an uncontrollable urge to dance) caused by the bite of a tarantula or wolf spider.🕷

art by Pierrot Fabris (1776)
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After 130 children were lured away by the Pied Piper's music, three disabled children survived to tell the tale. It's said one was lame so could not keep up, the second was deaf and did not hear the music, while the third was blind so couldn't see where to go.

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'Dancing Frogs Under Full Moon' - Tokuriki Tomikichiro, ca. 1950s.
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In Anatolian lore, djinns are believed to have a predilection for music, dancing, and merrimaking. Many Ottoman miniatures feature them playing musical instruments and dancing 🎻
🎨15c, Siyahqalam school
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Ariadne holds the thread used to aid Theseus. As a token of her love, she offered him the string so he could successfully navigate the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. #MythologyMonday

🎨Kevin Convery (2008)

Reconstruction of the Athena Parthenos.
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🍇Anna Pavlova as a Bacchante
by John Lavery

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The ancient Mayan death god, Cizin (also known as Ah Puch) was said to torment the dead by burning their lips with hot coals, then dousing them with ice water whenever they complained, resuming burning them if they shivered with cold, repeatedly. #Mythology #Mythology Monday

and the news is out! This week we're heading back over to the UK for the mischievous Spriggans!

Keep an eye out for these scoundrels on Friday!

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Edric the Wild chanced upon seven dancing maids. He abducted the most beautiful and she agreed to be his bride on condition he never reproach her with her sisters. They lived happily until the day came when he did just that. She vanished never to be seen again. #MythologyMonday

#DYK in 1935, in Ireland, it was made illegal to #dance at home, in halls & at crossroads!

Source of information: Steps of Freedom: The Story of Irish Dance on RTÉ. 📷Children Dancing at the Crossroads (1835). Trevor Thomas Fowler  ©NUI Galway #IrishHistory #MythologyMonday

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#MythologyMonday The DANZA DO ABELLÓN ('bumblebee dance') or simply O ABELLÓN is said to have been a funeral rite still performed in the early 20th century in some Galician regions. Those attending a wake held hands and circled the corpse while imitating the buzzing of a drone.

If, on a dark night in Japan, you see a parade of strange beings singing and dancing, don't be tempted to join in. It's most likely hyakki yagyo, the night parade of 100 demons, and as tempting as it might be, you really don't want to be part it.
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'...[A]rms interlocked as though they were dancing in a circle around the interior of the tomb.'

'Tomb of The Dancers' by Tribe of The Peucetians

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