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The Heluo Zhi Yu, the mythical beast with curative power, who live in the rivers of China’s Tower River and has one head with ten bodies or tails like squid or octopus. It has the magical ability to gain flight and can transform into a bird.
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Benzaiten is the Japanese goddess of water and wisdom and her shrines are near water; A Shinto representation of Hindu goddess Saraswati, the personification of sacred water spoken about in Hindu texts and is associated with knowledge.
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In some versions of Persian folktales, Kardakann was a gentle soul and like other western unicorns it had ability to purify water simply by immersing it´s horn into a stream, lake or a pond. It could also change it´s shape at will.
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Unicorn-like creatures in Indian folk tales is rsya that looks like a water buffalo with horns on its forehead .Ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata even mentions human-like being called Rsyasrnga who also had a horn in his forehead.
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Pana-Vue slides of “Mother Goose Village” inside Rock City Gardens - Lookout Mountain, GA, home of many Mother Goose rhyme characters like Jack and Jill, cat and the fiddle, little Bo Peep, Peter Pumpkin.
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This charming image is from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen (1845) a fairy tale concerning the epic journey of a girl, Gerda, who must rescue her friend Kai from the Snow Queen's ice palace.
Gerda and the Reindeer - Edmund Dulac
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March covers of Murzilka ;
Cute vintage illustrations of spring on retro magazine covers in Soviet Union.
#sovietpostcards #FairyTaleTuesday

Nacken in Norse mythology were male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes . They are comparable to green skinned Wicked Jenny of English folklore.
#WyrdWednesday
art by Johnan Egerkrans

The Curupira are demonic fairies of Brazilian folklore, who resembles a dwarf with red hair. They prey on poachers and hunters who take more than they need and they create a high pitched whistling sound to drive its victim to madness.
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In Virgil's Aeneid, the river god Tiberinus appears to Aeneas in a dream to tell him his son is destined to found the great city of Alba. He will know place when he sees this omen: a spotless white sow with thirty white piglets. #MythologyMonday