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@davepperlmutter My debut, Little White Hands on the left, and the sequel, Faeland's Champion (coming out early 2023) on the right.
Hans My Hedgehog is a German fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm. In it, a childless farmer wishes he had a child, even a hedgehog. He comes home to find that his wife has given birth to a baby boy that is a hedgehog from the waist up. They name him Hans. #FairytaleTuesday https://t.co/85pDAfMtYP
In Slavic mythology, Vodyanoy is a male water spirit. He appears as a naked old man with a frog-like face, greenish beard, & long hair, with his body covered in algae & muck and black fish scales. He usually rides along his river on a half-sunken log. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/HsjCcgwAQs
Boudica was a queen of the Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. Roman sources claim she poisoned herself, although there is no actual evidence of her fate. She is considered a British folk hero #folklorethursday https://t.co/5W0Sbb6TKL
Selkies are beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. They are found in folktales from the Northern Isles of Scotland.
Female selkies are often trapped into relationships with humans by someone stealing & hiding their sealskin.
#mythologymonday https://t.co/iysTT1vSfl
Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to guide them. They have been depicted as entities, horses, deer, dogs, & birds. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/cHHFWoPlDD
In Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx that divided the worlds of the living and the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/cHHFWoPlDD
A kelpie is a shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lakes in Scottish folklore. It is usually described as a horse-like creature, able to adopt human form. Sometimes the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human.
#Fairytales #legends #myths #folklore #fantasy https://t.co/ZRYfOdZjXy
Two of the best dragons and griffins ever put to screen came from the same man - stop-motion master, @Ray_Harryhausen
Here, a dragon fights a cyclops in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and a griffin fights a centaur in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad.
#FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/ONQPonRMxa
Fenrir, the giant wolf. His breaking of his bonds signals the arrival of Ragnarok. He is so large that when he opens his mouth his upper jaw touches the sky & his lower jaw touches the earth. During the great battle he kills Odin by swallowing him whole #FairytaleTuesday #Norse