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‘British Folklore: False Idols’ was a university project that tasked me to look deep into British folklore and create a zine based off this.
I chose the Falkirk Kelpies after finding ‘The Kelpie’; a poem by Nick Baker. My illustrations are based off the cautionary first half of the poem:
‘Scottish folklore often tells
Of cruel kelpies casting spells,
Down in deep, dark lochs they dwell,
Beware their wicked ways!
Weary traveller I inform,
These sprites adopt a horse's form,
On country walks it is the norm
To see them gently graze.
Folk alone in lonely lanes
Gladly take the horse's reins,
Innocence the creature feigns
Then takes the rider down
To the loch-side so remote;
The rider who the Kelpie caught
Is murdered now without a thought;
In icy loch they drown.’
-Nick Baker, 2010
I chose the Falkirk Kelpies after finding ‘The Kelpie’; a poem by Nick Baker. My illustrations are based off the cautionary first half of the poem:
‘Scottish folklore often tells
Of cruel kelpies casting spells,
Down in deep, dark lochs they dwell,
Beware their wicked ways!
Weary traveller I inform,
These sprites adopt a horse's form,
On country walks it is the norm
To see them gently graze.
Folk alone in lonely lanes
Gladly take the horse's reins,
Innocence the creature feigns
Then takes the rider down
To the loch-side so remote;
The rider who the Kelpie caught
Is murdered now without a thought;
In icy loch they drown.’
-Nick Baker, 2010
Illustrated Zine