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Vodyanoy is part old man, part frog. He has red eyes, fish scales and tail and is covered in algae. He travels the river by log. He is known to drown people and damage dams. It’s important to make sacrifices to him if you’re near water. 1/2 #SwampSunday
Alcyone and Ceyx were happily married, but got a little carried away in sometimes calling each other Zeus and Hera. Zeus was furious about this and when Ceyx was travelling across the sea to consult an oracle, as one did… 1/3 #MythologyMonday
“The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book. #MermaidMonday
Think these are also from Silvester and Peter’s Happy Hour Stories.
For anyone in stormy seas -
Amelia Jane Murray - A Fairy Waving Her Magic Wand Across a Stormy Sea, C19th.
Landscape with Grave, Coffin and Owl, Caspar David Friedrich, 1830s. 🦉 #OwlishMonday
Last bats from me (I think) of #InternationalBatWeekend from Joris Hoefnagel, C16th. 🦇 🦇 🦇
Little Brother and Little Sister is a Brothers Grimm tale about two children who are forced to flee their wicked witch of a stepmother. They run, are tired and thirsty, but every spring they come to is bewitched by their stepmother…1/4 #FairyTaleTuesday