When folklore and legend were a very real part of every day life for the ordinary common folk, spirits were thought to be everywhere. For our ancestors, household, land, forest, and water spirits, were manifest. Volklore :-) #Folklore #Tradlife #whiteculture https://t.co/H1jvDErDIG — Volkish Folklorist (@CarolynEmerick) July 19, 2017 A great canon of lore built up around these "Wee Folk" (who were often not actually very little). Mythologists have tended to study the pantheons of great gods and goddesses whose adventures were chronicled in epic legend. The average person, however, interacted with the smaller, more local spirits who surrounded their home, land, and wilderness. Lore surrounding these Wee Folk also survived as living folklore for centuries after Europe’s widespread conversion…