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8. The #LightningBird/#Impundulu/#Thekwane/#Izulu, is a #creature in #SouthAfrican #folklore. It is a human sized black and white bird, said to summon #thunder and #lightning with its #wings & #talons & is said to have an insatiable #appetite for #blood.
#FairyTaleTuesday 9/11
6. In #Roman #Mythology the #Caladrius was a #Snow #White #bird that would visit the homes of the #sick. The Caladrius was able to take the #sickness into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and #healing both itself and the sick person.
#FairyTaleTuesday 7/11
In #Egyptian #Mythology, #Set/#Seth/#Suetekh, was the #god of #war, #chaos and #storms, brother of #Osiris and #Horus the Elder, and husband to #goddess of the #air #Nephthys. His other consort was the goddess of #fertility #Tawaret.
#keepingClassicsalive
In #ArthurianLegend The Lady of the Lake is a name given to a #powerful and #mysterious #Faerie known by multiple names including #Niniane, #Viviane and #Nimue. She lived underwater, raised the #knight, #Lancelot, and gave the sword #Excalibur/#Caliburn to #KingArthur https://t.co/Xj8ICBfyMq
The pair sang beautiful #music as they went, that put all listeners throughout #Ireland asleep for three days and nights. #Caer married #Aengus and joined the #TuathaDéDannan as the #goddess of #dreams and #prophecy.
#keepingClassicsalive #CelticMythology 6/6
#Caer and the other girls were turned into #swans and #Aengus had to pick. He chose correctly and Aengus turned himself into a #swan and they flew away together, to the #BrúNaBóinne/#palace on the #River #Boyne near #Slane...
#keepingClassicsalive #CelticMythology 5/6
where she stood beside his bed and as he tried to reach for her, Caer would disappear. She also had another #talent, every other #Samhain she would turn #human, and after that, she would revert into a #swan until next Samhain...
#keepingClassicsalive #CelticMythology 3/6
3.3 She began a new affair with #Accolon of #Gaul. She stole #Excalibur from #KingArthur as he slept and created a forgery for him and gave the real one to #Accolon. She then placed the two of them in a #Faerie realm hoping Accolon would kill Arthur...
#FairyTaleTuesday 10/20