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- Alwilda was an imprisoned Viking Princess who escaped from a tower and became a pirate queen. Dressed as a man, Alwilda was a successful and feared pirate, but she could not escape her fate. https://t.co/ePbcJOrKDD

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2022-09-15

In Finistère, damp straw was burned in boats' holds to drive out the spirits of robbers who hid there. But as the spirits could make themselves tiny, the smoke had to fill every crack...

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2022-09-15

Gráinne Ní Mháille, the Irish Pirate Queen, reportedly cut her hair off when her father refused her request to sail with him because he thought her long hair would get caught on the ropes.

🖼️ for "Rebel Girls"

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2022-09-15

Darklings!

While sends you off to sea, arrr, it's back to school with topic for tomorrow - Looking forward to read your book reports! https://t.co/dWwfvTb5ai

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2022-09-15


In Native American folklore the Spider Woman/Grandmother Spider is a wise, old woman who guides people to wisdom and knowledge, often as a powerful teacher and helper. Legend says she thought the world into existence.
🎨Jo Jayson.

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2022-09-08

🌊THE LEGEND OF MERMAID TEARS🌊
A story from San Juans for that explains why iridescent rainbows of glass wash up on the windswept beaches of the Pacific.

https://t.co/1wLqI7H0n2

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2022-09-08

In Scottish folklore a Glaistig is a spirit or fae.Taking the form of a green woman a Glaistig is ambiguous, sometimes benevolent and protective, sometimes dangerous as she lures men to their deaths. She is also linked to various Green Lady hauntings in Scotland

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2022-09-01

Merlin used the same arts and techniques he used on Mount Killaraus to install the Giant’s Dance on their new site. The Dance was a fitting and enduring monument as King Aurelius intended, proving “the victory of art over strength” https://t.co/CnR0SEPKWS

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2022-09-01

Undines, essence & spirit manifestation of waves in water were said to dwell in streams, waterfalls, ponds, marshes, rivers, lakes & the ocean. Most lived as water nymphs but some acquired souls, married & birthed children.

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2022-08-26

✨Deva and Gryphon/Fairy and Griffon
Gustave Moreau, 1876

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2022-08-26

A mermaid and a man married. As she was dying, she asked to be returned to the sea. But the husband thought to save her soul and buried her by the church door. The sea-folk brought a tidal wave to drown the town. And so, the mermaid returned to the water...

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2022-08-25

Some scholars thought the sirens were soul-birds who conveyed the souls of the dead to the Isle of the Blessed...

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2022-08-25

Today's theme is ... creatures of and
Check out our hashtag day themes every week: https://t.co/tLBw9JsgkU

And read our guide on where to find folklore here:
https://t.co/cssMbUqmB0

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2022-08-25

Scylla & Charybdis (Greek mythology). Two monsters dwelling on either side of the Strait of Messina, Scylla represented the dangers of the rocky shore, Charybdis represented a deadly whirlpool. 

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2022-08-25

The September's edition of is out now

It includes the monthly article on Cumbrian folklore by

This month, dwarves in Cumbrian folklore
https://t.co/0oJPFRmk9V


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2022-08-25


GRIFFIN🦅
..of Greek Mythology, a magnificent creature, with a lion's body, and a bird's head, usually that of an eagle, that guarded the gold and other treasured possessions of kings, a very powerful and majestic beast..

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2022-08-25

Today’s pairing of book with an item on display in “From Book to Movie” Exhibit is: Robin Hood (1917) by Paul Creswick & illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (Lois Lenski Collection)

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2022-08-19

Today we are celebrating the birthday of author Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle) our ✨THURSDAY THEME✨ is MAGIC IN LITERATURE✨Tag us for retweets✨

We will also be hanging out with the FABULOUS
for “hobbies, sports and recreation"✨

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2022-08-18

An early collection of fairy tales was described as "impossible to read without vomiting even on an empty stomach.”
The stories included... Cinderella. What was going on? , author of The Fairy Tellers, explains:
https://t.co/agFqVtUT6D

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2022-08-12


The xana is a fairy from Asturian mythology that lives in fountains. They are all female with long curly golden hair and lithe builds. Their beauty belies an ugly inside; they are vain, cruel, and greedy enough to exhibit hoarding behavior similar to dragons.

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2022-08-11