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#BookWormSat
For on one side lay Scylla and on the other divine Charybdis terribly sucked down the salt water of the sea. Verily whenever she belched it forth, like a cauldron on a great fire she would seethe and bubble in utter turmoil.
-The Odyssey

🎨Italian fresco, 1575

#FairyTaleTuesday
Rannamaari was a sea monster that once haunted the people of the Maldives. Once a month, a girl would be chained to a rock, & be eaten by Rannamaari to appease his wrath.

#SuperstitionSat
In Transylvania, the weather on a day you pick will predict your future. This is according to a myth of old lady Dochia who journeyed to take her sheep up in the mountains at first sight of spring. When she started her journey, she had nine coats on. 1/3

#WyrdWednesday
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool.

This minstrel appears to also be a Musketeer!

🎨The Wandering Minstrel - Rob Alexander

#FairyTaleTuesday
Greek god Pan pursuing Naiad Syrinx (water nymph), before her Naiad friends transformed her into reeds by the river, after her request for help. Pan later made pan pipes out of the reeds that he played, so that Syrinx would always be with him.

Coffee table made of layered glass, made to look like the depths of the ocean. Created by Christopher Duff of Duffy London. Beautiful and unique!

#FairyTaleTuesday
Snow White, abstract art

#FairyTaleTuesday
The Swedish Huldra, is a beautiful, wild, troll-like female known for living in the woods. She has the tail of a cow which she will often hide behind her back when meeting with a human. She is also rumored to be one of Adam and Eve's hidden children.

#FairyTaleTuesday
Queen of Elphame is the elfin queen of Faerie, or Fairyland, mentioned in Scottish witch trials.

🎨Prince Arthur and the Fairy Queen . (c. 1788) By Henry Fuseli.

#MythologyMonday
Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda in Greek mythology, although her putative father was Tyndareus. A twin sister of Clytemnestra, she was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the known world.

🎨Clytemnestra (left), Helen (right)