Wise Owlさんのイラストまとめ

Hayao Miyazaki's graphic novel, JOURNEY OF SHUNA ,1983 was inspired by a Tibetan folktale, "The Prince who became a Dog". In the story, Shuna leaves a hostile land and travels to the land of long lost species and god men to save his land .
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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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The Nure-Onna is a vampiric snake-like Yokai found in Japanese folklore ,described as a 300 meter long snake with the head of a woman with long, black flowing hair. She is violent to those who disturbs her while she is washing her hair.
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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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Cockaigne, the medieval peasant’s dream. Cheese rains from the sky, wine flows in the streams. A widespread idea of Utopia in the 12th century Europe, who today would not like to live where geese roast themselves & roofs were made of bacon?
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March covers of Murzilka ;
Cute vintage illustrations of spring on retro magazine covers in Soviet Union.
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