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The Alkha is a Siberian monster, an enormous dragon-like creature responsible for causing eclipses by trying to eat the sun and moon: look closely & you can see its bite marks on the latter. It also enjoys snacking on human hair. #FairyTaleTuesday
Link to🎨https://t.co/WlK30040uJ

Have to mention Franz Sedlacek this
#wyrdwednesday

The hippocampus (also the name for a coiled part of the human brain--thanks psych. degree ) are part horse/part fish sea creatures credited with pulling Neptune's chariot & perhaps also providing transport for common merfolk.
Illustrations: Ari Berk
#FairyTaleTuesday

It is prudent to tickle a newborn's nose with pepper as soon as possible—for babies aren't safe from the fairies until after their first sneeze.
#FolkloreThursday
Art: Brian Froud

The protection their innocence engendered was thought to extend to the whole ship, so sailors thought it good luck to travel with children.
#FolkloreThursday
Vladimir Kush's Departure of the Winged Ship

For #FairytaleTuesday ❤️some illustrations by Fortescue Brickdale, Virginia Frances Sterrett, and Kay Nielsen

Hera is believed to have been an independent goddess before the Greeks gave up trying to suppress her cults and instead made her wife to Zeus, conquering both the land of Greece and a woman-centered religion. #MythologyMonday
Illustration from HanieMohd

@CaseyKimberly You are the best

"I kept quite still and said nothing. For a full hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lay down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening;-- just as I have done, night after night..."

Thank you for the nightmares, Mr. Poe. #WyrdWednesday

The unanswered riddle featured in Alice in Wonderland & The Last Unicorn:

How is a raven like a writing desk?

#FairyTaleTuesday
Illustration: John James Audubon

Did anyone else come up with their own solution?