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#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🔥

#SwampSunday The bunyip is a fearsome creature from Australia said to dwell in lonely marshes, billabongs and creeks, where you can sometimes hear it's terrifying roar bellowing out on dark nights.

🎨 by H J Ford from Andrew Lang's 'The Brown Fairy Book', 1932

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

"The Big Beast of Lochawe [Scotland]
This animal (Beathach mòr Loch Odha) had twelve legs and was to be heard in winter time breaking the ice. Some say it was like a horse, others, like a large eel."
#FairytaleTuesday

@HEStrategy

One of the odder encounters took place on Lough Dubh in the early 1960s, when a monster allegedly tried to clamber out of the lake and attack a schoolmaster and his son whilst out fishing. It was described as cow-sized with short legs, a horn on its nose and covered in bristles.

Two #MarchHare books #FolkloreThursday

'Fleet' by @JaneBurn11, an epic poem of enchantment & familiar drama of longing, banishment, abuse, survival & love & 'Hares in The Moonlight', a tale in the spirit of Alan Garner & Susan Cooper by @EvergreenSister

https://t.co/GljRcY8vjU

@MoseleyRecFair I went so far as to glue the pages about mothman in a book I had together as the illustration unnerved me so much

The Bregdi is a #monster from the seas around Shetland which wraps its long fins around ships and pulls them down into the depths. However, it can be scared off by the touch of steel or by throwing an amber bead at it #FolkloreThursday

Art & info from: https://t.co/BiwXf01pNn