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@HodariNundu It looks a lot more friendly in the picture from the old Dinosaurs magazine that I knew growing up

"There is an 'even-tide' in the year - a season when the Sun withdraws his propitious light - when the winds arise, and the leaves fall, and nature around us seems to sink into decay."
Alison, Guardian, 11th Nov 1840
#FaustianFriday #Autumn 🍂🍄

🎨Paul Nash, "Swan Song" (c.1928)

#WyrdWednesday The surface of Venus is obscured from telescopes by thick swirling clouds which led some writers to suggest that the planets surface was covered in lush tropical swamps, thick forests, and perhaps even inhabited by #dinosaurs🦕

#FolkloreThursday The Lambton Worm from County Durham was caught by a nobleman's son fishing on a Sunday. It was thrown down a well and grew into a giant wyrm It was killed when the son returned from Crusading & fought it in a river so pieces chopped off its body were washed away

'The Oak and the Reed' illustration by J.J. Grandville from the 'Fables of La Fontaine', 1941.

@LadyLiminal1 I've read Redwall, a badger is definitely the one to choose in a fight

And a bonus one, can't miss out his depiction of Baba Yaga

#FolkloreThursday #InsectWeird #GothicBugs #InsectWeek21
The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the #fire and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥

The Tarasque was an unusual dragon from Provence, France, 'fatter than an ox with a lion’s face and head, a horse’s mane, its back as sharp as an axe, bristling and piercing scales, six feet with bear’s claws, a serpent’s tail, and a shell like a tortoise.' #FaustianFriday [1/4]

This #dragon illustration from Harley MS 3244 f.59, mid 13th Century England, has been said to be the earliest fully-fledged modern Western-style dragon. Before this they were depicted as giant serpents or wyrms. Anyone know of any earlier representations? #FaustianFriday