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#SwampSunday
“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.”
Guy de Maıppassant
🖼 by Joseph Feely
The ceffyl dŵr is a Welsh fairy horse that inhabits mountain pools and waterfalls. In south Wales, it is often benevolent, but in north Wales it is not. It likes to get travelers to ride it, fly into the air, and then become mist, so the riders fall to their deaths #SwampSunday
-"Drude" is a kind of witch in German folklore associated with dreams.
Drude were said to participate in the Wild Hunt and were considered a particular class of demon in Alfonso de Spina's hierarchy.
🎨"Nachtmahr"(Night-mare) by Johann Heinrich(1802)
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#folklore
If you need a daily dose of #folklore, I recommend these hashtags:
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FaustianFriday #SuperstitionSat #SwampSunday
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#JapaneseFolklore #yokai #ukiyoe
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Christmas has not found this swamp. There are no angels, no Father Noel, only unseen creatures and dank air. Only the lost visit this place.
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'Lake Kawaguchi' from the series 'Ten Views of Mount Fuji' - Yoshida Hiroshi, 1926.
#SwampSunday #ukiyoe #Japan
The Honey Island Swamp monster, also known as the Cajun Sasquatch, is an ape-like humanoid cryptid creature, similar to descriptions of Bigfoot, purported to inhabit the Honey Island Swamp in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. #SwampSunday
#SwampSunday - The Greek monster Hydra is a fearsome multi-headed dragon that inhabited swamps of Lerna.
It symbolizes the difficulties in the fight against evil: as soon as one of its heads is cut off, a new one immediately grows. More - https://t.co/b7U98grLLR
🎨Gustave Moreau
The Swamp Kikimora is generally described as being very short, 80cm tall. She looks like a very thin, ugly old woman, with long, disheveled shaggy black or gray hair. She may be hunchbacked, and have a long hooked nose, webbed fingers, and a slightly greenish tinge. #SwampSunday
One of the most well-known #yokai in #JapaneseFolklore is the kappa, a cucumber-loving water goblin that lives in rivers and lakes throughout Japan. This yokai has been known to grab passers-by and drag them to a watery death.
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Many Ulverston locals will avoid the "eerie" woods at Plumpton, and lurking in the water of the flooded iron mines nearby, lives Jenny Greenteeth, a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water to drown them
#swampsunday #folklore #cumbria
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"The Story of Conn-eda"/"The Golden Apples of Lough Erne". Conn-eda goes on a quest to find 3 golden apples, a black steed & a supernatural hound from a city underneath Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh (ruled by king of Fir Bolg) 🎨Katharine Pyle ©Lough Erne Resort #Ireland #SwampSunday
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“Yea,rotten with a hundred years of death,
Sprang into fire:and at the base we found
On either hand,as far as eye could see,
A great black swamp and of an evil smell,
Part black,part whitened with the bones of men”
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Holy Grail
#SwampSunday - In Slavic mythology Bolotnik is the master of marshes. Bolotnik likes to attract people to their death and he makes it easy because marshes are very deceptive.
🎨Vladimir Arzhevitina - Read more: https://t.co/HWwvzkd53X
'Echo and Narcissus' by John William Waterhouse (1903) illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
#SwampSunday #preraphaelite
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The Girl of the Red Swamp — according to local legend near Mazyr in Gomel Region, Belarus, rusalka that looks like girl 11-12 years old with eyes the colour of muddy water. Drawing by Eugene Kot
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