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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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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.
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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