Land of Lore Films
@LandofLoreFilms
Folk tales and Tall tales; short, surrealist films inspired by folklore and mythology. Creative director: Stephen G. Rae @BardCumberland; film @BardseaGrnFilms
Arriving 29th July 2025; available in print and ebook; online or can be ordered at your local bookstore: Folklore of the Lake District by Stephen G. Rae ghost stories, folk tales, nature lore, dialect, verse #book #ebook #folklore #lakedistrict
STRANGE BARGAIN (1949). #FilmNoir #BOTD Michael Chapin. Later, he also appeared (uncredited) with his younger brother Billy, in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955).
Bursting with fairytale motifs from spring, summer, autumn, winter, and eighty years of human life; seven dramatic human life stories of love, desire, obsession and passion #FolkloreSunday #film Kytice, 2000 dir. F. A. Brabec
Although Ents come from Tolkien's Middle-earth, they are similar to the tree deities of folklore - Oak Man, Dryad, Leshy - the forest guardians 'ent' is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for 'giant' #Tolkien #AlanLee #folklore art: Treebeard by Alan Lee
Merlin, driven mad with grief when his men were slaughtered in battle, finds refuge in the Caledonian Forest. His loneliness interrupted by visits from forest creatures and nature spirits, and he thereafter gains the gift of prophecy. #merlin #alanlee #druidry art: Alan Lee
Lakeland #caturday lore 😺 Bjorn the headless ghost walks the lakeland fells with a sack of cats folklore @BardCumberland film @LandofLoreFilms #folklore #vikings #lakedistrict
The Searchers (1956), directed by John Ford Twin Peaks (1990-91), created by David Lynch & Mark Frost
It's a "Blood Feast" on #caturday as a wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of cats #horror #slasher #film La noche de los mil gatos/ Blood Feast/ Night of 1000 Cats, 1972 dir. René Cardona Jr.
🎬 @LandofLoreFilms is the telling of folklore and ghost stories through the medium of short film folklore @BardCumberland youtube.com/@LandofLore #folklore #ghosts #ghoststories #comedy #indiefilm #folkhorror
📣 arriving 29 July 2025; available in print and ebook; online or can be ordered at your local bookstore: "Folklore of the Lake District" ghost stories, folk tales, nature lore, dialect, verse bardofcumberland.com/folklore #bookologythursday #lakedistrict
I missed #InternationalFairyDay yesterday, so here's my belated contribution 🧚♂️🧚♀️ The 17th century Church burial records of Lamplugh reveal four people were frighted to death by fairies; one was led into a pond by Will o' Wisp; another died in a dual using frying pan and…
Adriaen Collaert's engravings of 1583 depict personifications of Aristotle’s classical elements: Air - birds, insects and angels Fire - phoenix and salamander Earth - life and death; land creatures Water - bounty of the mighty sea
The Four Elements are a series of four oil paintings by the Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1566 Air - represented by birds Fire - burning wood and cannons Earth - land animals Water - marine creatures
Based on the 14th century, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; who, in local folklore, lived in Inglewood Forest. "Red is the color of lust. But green is what lust leaves behind, in heart, in womb" #folklore #fantasy #film The Green Knight, 2021 dir. David Lowery
Cartoons didn't invent this gag (Danger Ahead 1926)