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Cipactli is a crocodile-like creature whose dead body was used to shape the sky and the earth. (Source: The Fifth Sun: Aztec gods, Aztec World by Burr Cartwright Brundage). #FairyTaleTuesday
"The Soldier and the Vampire" tells of a serviceman who visits home and finds an undead warlock stealing blood from civilians. (Source: Russian Folk-Tales by W. R. S. Ralston). #FairyTaleTuesday
Art: "Ryott, Bloody Warlock" from Legends of the Cryptids wiki.
"The Magic Brocade" is a Chinese tale about a man who travels across lands of ice and fire to the fairy world to regain his mother's handiwork. (Source: Folk and Fairy Tales of Far-Off Lands by Eric & Nancy Protter) #FairyTaleTuesday
"A Calabash of Poi" tells of a goddess, Pele, visiting a rich and poor family while disguised. She curses the former and blesses the latter. (Source: In the Path of the Trade Winds: Legends of Hawaii by Cora Wells Thorpe). #FairyTaleTuesday
Art by Mark Fredrickson, (2020)
"Molly Whuppie" is a tale about a lassie who rescues herself and her sisters from a murderous giant and then goes back to rob him! (Source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs). #LegendaryWednesday
Art by Errol le Cain
Fatima is a true warrior; she yells at her captors, kills the man who tried to rape her, and leads men into battles and raids! (Source: The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman: The Arabic Epic of Dhat al-Himma by Melanie Magidow). #FairyTaleTuesday
Art by Jason Porath
"Long Meg" is the story of a witch and her daughters and their meeting with a mysterious fiddler during Summer Solstice (Source: Taffy Thomas' Cumbrian Folk Tales). #FairyTaleTuesday
Image: Tiffany Turrill's "Long Meg and Her Daughters"
Source: https://t.co/3xiLXoQdQk
"Li Chi and the Serpent" is a Chinese tale of a girl who fights a monster to help her family and community. (Source: In Search of the Supernatural: The Written Record by Gan Bao, Kenneth J. DeWoskin & James Irving Crump, 1996). #FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay
"Yuki-Onna" is about a guy whose life is upended by the titular snow woman. Tale's from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. #FairyTaleTuesday