The Mythariumさんのイラストまとめ

What’s Mjollnir’s one flaw?

The handle is too short. (Loki turned into a gadfly & stung the blacksmith in the eye while it was being forged.)

Loki got his mouth sewn shut for it.
So... even?

#FolkloreThursday #Avengers 📷Ellysiumn @DeviantArt

The Japanese believe the cause of earthquakes is the giant catfish Namazu. He lives beneath Japan, wiggling his tail & causing earthquakes in the human world. #folklore #bigfish

In the Iliad, Poseidon drives a chariot drawn by "brazen-hoofed horses over the sea's surface."

Apollonius said the horses of Poseidon emerged from the sea & galloped across the Libyan sands.

Part horse / part fish: HIPPOCAMPUS.

#FolkloreThursday #GreekMythology

In #Japanese #Mythology, Izanami was the primordial goddess of the earth who died in childbirth. Her lover Izanagi went to rescue her from the Underworld.

But she liked it there & tried to seal him away w/ her. Now she reigns as goddess of darkness.

#folklorethursday

Names of the Celtic Otherworld:

Tír na Nóg (”The Land of Youth”)
Tír Tairngire ("Promised Land")
Tír fo Thuinn ("Land Under the Wave")
Mag Mell ("Plain of Delight")
Ildathach ("Multicoloured Place")
Emain Ablach (”Isle of Apple Trees”)

#folklorethursday #mythology #fairies

BIRTHDAY CANDLES

The first candles on cakes ware by the Greeks. They offered moon-shaped cakes to Artemis as tribute. To symbolize her moonly radiance, they lit candles on them so they'd glow.

📷 Michael-C-Hayes @deviantart #happybday #FolkloreThursday #ancientgreece

KELPIE

An evil water monster. It could be an old or young man, but preferred the form of a black/gray horse with sparkling eyes.

Would take riders into the loch, devouring all but the entrails.

📷 porcelianDoll @Deviantart #folklorethursday #celticmyth #scottishfolklore

CHANGELING

The fairy child left behind in place of the stolen human child. Putting it in a fire would cause it to jump up the chimney, thus returning the human child.

Best be sure it's a changeling.

📷 Enmi @deviantart #folklorethursday #mythicalcreatures #celticmythology

A European fable about South America. A Spanish priest wrote that in 1602 that he'd seen the shining jewel in its forehead. He and many others attempted to capture it, to no avail.

That is its only description.

📷 Leewiart #mysteriouscreatures #Folklorethursday #southamerica

NEUGLE

Fearsome water-horse from Scalloway. It had a green mane & weird wheel tail. Appearing saddled on the beach, tempting riders who'd be taken into the sea. Sometimes fatal... sometimes just for a good drenching.

#Scottishlegends #folklore #mermay