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The new moon in Aquarius on Jan 31st, a rare 'black moon' is a chance to start with a clean slate & heralding the Year of the Water Tiger. Big changes, new adventures, breaking out of old patterns & comfort zones are the themes. Break those old chains. Shake it up! #LunarNewYear
Alkanost is a mythological creature on Slavic folklore with the head, chest of a beautiful woman and body of a bird. Beautiful but dangerous, she would sing mesmerizing songs and men would forget everything on earth and follow her til they died. 🦉
#WyrdWednesday
Kallikantzaros are malevolent Christmas Goblins in Eastern Europe spending the year underground trying to saw the World tree & destroy Earth. But when the 12 days of Christmas comes around, they surface, refocusing their energy on terrorizing the mortal world. #WyrdWednesday 🐍
Deda Mraz known as "Father Frost" in eastern European folklore, Zima (Winter) is believed to be his wife. From November - March, he's so powerful, that even the Sun is shy of Him as he "paints" wonderful ornaments on glass, freezes ponds & rivers with icy frost. #FairyTaleTuesday
Slavic mythology: Biali Zimni Ludzie (White Cold People) - demons that personify illness. Varying size, living in forests, swamps & are bad omens, climbing onto the face & entering sleeping victim’s body through the mouth/nostrils infecting people with illnesses. 🐍
#SwampSunday
"A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise."
💀 Deborah Blake 🐍 Wickedly Magical 💀
#SwampSunday #SlavicFolklore 🐍
Goodnight and sweet dream journeys lovelies ☁️
"What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting for me here. My home."
🐍 Charles de Lint 🐍
Kostroma, the goddess of fertility. After discovering that her husband, Kupala, is her brother, she jumped into the forest lake (in other legends into the river Ra). After her death, she became a mavka (or rusalka). 🐍
#SwampSunday #SlavicMythology 🐍
In Slavic mythology, Vodyanoy's a male water spirit
which appears as a naked old man with frog-like face, greenish beard, and long hair, his body covered in algae and muck, often covered in fish scales. When angered he breaks dams and drowns people and animals. 🐍
#SwampSunday