Cindy Gail Princeさんのイラストまとめ

#FolkloreThursday The Soucouyant is a shapeshifting Caribbean folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman by day. By night, she strips off her wrinkled skin and puts it in a mortar. In her true form, as a fireball she flies across the dark sky in search of a victim.

#FolkloreThursday The Inuit share a tale of a wicked mermaid named Qalupalik that had green skin and long, pointy fingernails. The tales say she lured children to the water’s edge by singing beautiful songs in hopes of kidnapping innocent youngsters.

#FolkloreThursday The Slavic believed that the Vodyanoy was born from the spirit of an unbaptised man who committed suicide, and thusis terrified of holy waters. As a result, people believed they could protect themselves from his evil ways by blessing any watering holes.

#FolkloreThursday In Aztec mythology, Tlaloc was the lord of the third sun which was destroyed ... The rain that was beneficial to the land was burnished with jade crystals and likely represented the type of rain that would make a bountiful harvest.

#folklorethursday The Inuit Taqriaqsuit are also known as the shadow people. They live like we do in a world like our own. Their world, however, is beyond our perception. They are almost never seen, but sometimes when conditions are right the Taqriaqsuit can be heard.

#folklorethursday Sint-Holo is the great horned serpent of Choctaw and Chickasaw folklore. Although
serpent is dangerous and may drag people to a watery death, it is also a powerful spirit guide that appears to certain people during fasting and bestows spiritual gifts upon them.

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The Pascagoula River in Mississippi is known as The Singing River. For hundreds of years the Choctaw and locals have experienced and attempted to describe the eerily beautiful sound seemingly rising from the water.

@FolkloreThurs Popobawa is a Swahili name which translates literally as "bat-wing" (from Swahili popo, "bat", and bawa, "wing"). This name is said to have originated as a description of the dark shadow cast by the spirit when it attacks at night:

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#FunFactFriday If the radius of a pizza is Z and its thickness is A, then its volume is PI*Z*Z*A