The Leanan Sidhe - Deadly Danger to Musicians, Artists & Poets. Don’t be Seduced by the Fairy Lover!

In this Snippet of Folklore I tell you the Faerie Folklore of the Leanan Sidhe, a beautiful fairy temptress, a danger to Artists, Musicians and Poets, and also about possibly the most famous Leanan Sidhe of them all... her vengeance was all encompassing! ******************** 0:00 Introduction Leanan Sidhe 0:41 Leanan Sidhe the Fairy 1:25 WB Yeats on the Leanan Sidhe 2:35 The Temptress of Artists, Poets, Writers & Musicians 3:22 The Tuatha de Danaan 4:44 A Deadly Muse 5:44 Aine the Leanan Sidhe of Munster. Her Revenge Upon Those Eho Murdered Her Brother 10:02 Closing Thoughts Attributions - Art, photography, writing : As always the main artist images used are by my husband, artist and illustrator Marc Potts If you love crafting faerie things you can buy printable downloads of his artwork and more at the Etsy shop You can find more of his work at ... he is also on Facebook and Instagram My work can be found on ... I am also on Facebook and Instagram, I sculpt, craft photograph and write ******************** Art & photography courtesy of Wikimedia Commons : Photos - Stephen O’Dowd, Dylan More, Art - Waterhouse, Walter Crane, Sophie Anderson, Alessandro Allori, Goble, Rheam, Jacob Van Oost, Gabriel Metsu, Netscher Caspar, Crane, HJ Ford ******************** Film Still Images with thanks to Elizabeth Jane Baldry and The Chagford Filmmaking Group, and the actors and creatives The Chateau de Comper for the Shared Legends Project Brian Skilton photography Teresa Snow photography ******************** Research from Folklorists : Katherine Briggs, Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, Evans Wentz, Jane Wilde ******************** Images and videos from Pixabay : photos - Enrique Meseguer, JPlenio, Stefan Keller, Aqe, Confreak, Susan Mielke video - Eros Edicoes ******************** Music attribution : Frost Waltz by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: Artist: Impromptu in Blue by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: Artist: