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If ever you've been walking in Japan and a sudden sharp pain in your leg sent you reeling to the ground, you've been struck by a smooth criminal: the Sickle Weasels called Kamaitachi move in threes and strike, never fatal but always quick.

🖼: M. Meyer

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Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. Aaah, the perfect day to be at sea!

The Little Mermaid

🎨Santos

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2021-09-07

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.
"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

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Sadhbh, Fionn mac Cumhaill's wife turned into doe for refusing druid's love! Told if she set foot in the fort of the Fianna he wouldn't have any power over her! Lived happily as human until Fionn away! Turned back to a doe, Fionn never found her again!

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Often short stories set in verse tell the best tales, and truest love stories.
The Dog
The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state that the dog is full of love.
I've also found, by actual test,
A wet dog is the lovingest.
—Ogden Nash

🎨Germaine Bouret

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2021-09-07

In the Palestinian tale "How the Fox Got Back His Tail," the fox Abu l'Hssein steals goat milk from an old woman, so she chops off his tail. He completes a series of tasks so goats will give him milk, which he gives to the woman in exchange for his tail.

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Inés Vázquez's "Aldara. A lenda do cervo branco" is a comic book inspired by an ancient and well-known Galician legend about Aldara, a nobleman's daughter who turned into a white doe because of a curse.

If you want to know the legend, just go to down 👇 https://t.co/xAVseUrgNP

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A tiny winging her way into my She demand her own little piece of magic.

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The Roc is a monsterous bird that can lift elephants into the sky & makes several appearances in the 1,001 Arabian Nights.


🎨 Art by Edward Julius Detmold
Plate from "The Arabian Nights," 'The Roc Which Fed It's Young On Elephants.'

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2021-09-01

The Flying Trunk
A young man squanders his inheritance. A friend sends him a trunk. Having nothing to pack, he gets into the trunk himself. The trunk is enchanted and carries him to the land of the Turks. He uses the trunk to visit the sultan's daughter.

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“All that is left is your wife, the princess and we cannot divide her. The only fair way is to have half each. Taking his sword he swung as if to cut her in half - The story of the Son of Malik ut Tujjar https://t.co/EFF7NtJRp9

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The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor

A famous sailor named Sinbad tells the stories of his Homeric travels to a poor porter. The tales include shipwrecks, ferocious beasts, the Old Man of the Sea, and other dangers.

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'The wind whipped the door shut. There were all about me, some with jagged teeth, others with green tinged skin, and many—even a plethora—with yellow eyes...'

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by Jeremiah Morelli

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An elephant is but a snack to the Roc, the terrifying bird of prey that appears in the Thousand and One Nights and tales of Ibn Battuta. Terrorizing Sinbad on his legendary voyages, this enormous bird is thought to be an evolution of the Garuda.

🖼: GENZOMAN

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Once the Sultan had got his daughter back he kept her out of sight in a guarded tower surrounded by a magnificent garden so that no one else could steal her away again - The Tale of Fair Brow https://t.co/VPbyWtCmdm

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Merlin and Nimue re-imagined as Hopeless Maine characters.

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