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Sisyphus, king of Corinth, was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down when it nears the top, repeating this action for eternity.

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2020-02-03

Hello myth lovers! is back to host February's first Monday theme: Mountains, rock, and stone. Remember to use the hashtag for RTs!

Art: Hugues Taraval

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2020-02-02

Vättar were the Scandinavian creatures that typically lived under houses, and either brought misfortune or good luck, depending on how they were treated...and they hated having hot water poured on them! Illustrations by Johan Egerkrans. https://t.co/QCasu1iYBc

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2020-01-28

King James, in his 'Daemonologie', stated that the term 'faries' referred to demonic entities that prophesied to, consorted with, and transported the individuals they served; in medieval times, a witch who had a pact with an entity might receive these services.

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2020-01-27


After a devastatingly cold Winter sacrificed his plumage & gentle voice to collect a burning branch from the Great Sky Spirit, to save other animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
(#NativeAmerican)

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2020-01-21

Greek Goddess Dike or Dice represented human justice - her mother Themis ruled over divine justice. She lived on earth during the Golden and Silver ages but despairing of humanity, left and took up residence in the sky

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2020-01-20

Thanky you, myth lovers, for lots of divine weddings and marriages plus the odd this 😘

This is signing off ❤️

Join next week for your first fix of the week 😁

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2020-01-14

Pyramus and Thisbe were a pair of ill-fated lovers. The story is part of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Because of a family feud they were forbidden to wed or to see each other, so they whispered through a crack in the wall.

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2020-01-13


were called “Thor’s Helper” and were believed to drive off demons and guard homes if planted on roofs. The Romans called them “Beard of Jupiter” and planted them on roofs to guard against lightning.

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2020-01-14

SKILLYWIDDEN. The wonderful name of a caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in It is one of only a few captured fey that have ever been documented and is recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England 1865 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud

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2020-01-14

Tell the king the fair wrought house has fallen.
No shelter has Apollon, nor sacred laurel leaves.
The fountains are now silent; the voice is stilled.
It is finished.

or

A day will come when Phoibos shall return and stay forever.

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2020-01-06

The Wild Hunt is a motif in European folklore.The hunters may be elves,fairies or the dead,and the leader is associated with Odin.People encountering the Hunt might be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom
'Asgårdsreien'(1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo

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2019-12-16

when the Norse hunting god Ullr, comes out to play! The personification of everything including & (even riding his shield down mts, like a modern day Honoring him brings heavy powder to the mt. tops!

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2019-12-10

A strzyga is a usually female demon similar to a vampire in Slavic folklore. These creatures were believed to fly at night in a form of an owl and attack travelers and people who had wandered off into the woods, sucking out their blood and eating their insides.

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2019-12-09

Winter in meant appeasing the winter witch Grýla (now associated with Christmas) a personification & threat of winter, darkness & cold
https://t.co/XWypEdlIxn

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2019-12-09

The Micah Rood apple is named for a farmer who murdered a travelling salesman for his coin. Although he was acquitted of the crime, the tree that the merchant died against began to grow blood-stained fruit so that the world would know the crime.

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2019-12-02

From Fatima Ronquillo’s “Mythologies” exhibition: Athena with owl, Narcissist (w/ self-portrait) Hebe & eagle, Hermes. Ronquillo (b. 1976) seeks to create worlds in her paintings where art history meets imagined characters from mythology, literature, theatre

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2019-12-02

In Inuit mythology an ijiraq is a sort of shape shifter who kidnaps children and hides them away and abandons them. The inuksugaq (or inukshuk) of stone allow these children to find their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go.#GothicAdvent

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2019-12-02

I finished the draft of yesterday so have a look at the flat colour version of the cover!!!
Arja of came up with the design and did the inking & her partner did the colours and lighting effects (not shown here).

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2019-11-25

Gwyn ap Nudd ruler of Annwn the Welsh Underworld escorted the souls of the dead there, accompanied by supernatural hounds, the Cŵn Annwn. The howling of the dogs foretold death to anyone who heard. They hunted lost souls in autumn & winter...

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2019-11-25