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The legend of Saint George features a Dragon that devastates a city. To keep the dragon satiated, the king decreed a daily raffle to offer a random youth to be a sacrifice to the dragon.
🖼️Ksenia Kaverina
#FairyTaleTuesday
The Holly King and Oak King fight for control during Midsummer and Midwinter! At the height of his power, the Holly King will be defeated and the world will return once more to sunny days and greenery!
🖼️@JoyAndNoelle (Print available on Etsy)
#folkloresunday #Yule
If one heard a pitiful “meow”
Something evil would happen soon.
Everybody knew he hunted men
But didn’t care for mice.
🖼️ Mia H (@gardenkeyart)
📜 "The Yule Cat" by Johannes ur Kotlum
#folklorethursday #gothicadvent #ofdarkandmacabre #31daysofhaunting #yuletide
In some endings to the King Arthur legend, after the battle of Camlann/Salisbury Plain, nine fairy queens appear to take Arthur to Avalon where he will sleep until his homeland needs him again.
🖼️Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone
📔Lancelot of the Lake, 1966 #mythologymonday
"High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
Jenny would dance with her ghosts..."
- Jenny of Oldstones and Duncan Targaryen, Prince of Dragonflies as mentioned in A Storm of Swords by G.R.R.Martin
🖼️ Jessi Ochse
#BookWormSat #GameofThrones #HotD #bookchatweekly
Disney’s Frozen originally portrays the Snow Queen as a woman frightened by her power. But as the film goes on and she learns to control her abilities and it becomes clear that she has a good heart.
#FairyTaleTuesday #Frozen #Disney
Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen barely appears in the story despite being the titular character. Her motives are unclear and left ambiguous leaving us wondering if she was good or bad
#FairyTaleTuesday #SnowQueen
🖼️Polina Yakovleva
Our latest episode covers the Mid-Autumn Festival and the story of Chang'e and Hou Yi! Come join us as we talk about moon faces, mooncake festivals, modern adaptations of this legends, and elixirs of life!
#MidAutumn #Moon #podcasts #legends #China #OvertheMoon #Moongoddess https://t.co/IdB6LwYxrk
For Book Recommendations on Chinese Legends around Chang'e, Hou Yi & the Jade Rabbit:
@exrpan's "An Arrow to the Moon"
@SuelynnTan's "Daughter of the Moon Goddess"
@sl_huang's "Burning Roses"
G. Z. Schmidt's "The Dreamweavers"
#bookchatweekly #legends #Lunar #youngadult #booktwt