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'Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?

I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day...'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨Warwick Goble

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2021-07-20

In 12th c England, a maiden was accused of by Joshua Linnet. He bound her up & threw her in Blakemere Pool. The woman turned into a & vowed revenge. Linnet's corpse was later found floating in Blakemere Pool, shredded by her sharp claws.

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2021-07-20

Kelpies are shapeshifting water spirits who lure people into lakes & drown them. The Scottish folktale "The Kelpie & the Ten Children" is a cautionary tale of children lured onto a beautiful horse's back, only for the horse to jump into a lake.

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2021-07-20


According to the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid, the “Sirenum Scopuli” were three small rocky islands where the dangerous of Greek lived and lured sailors to their deaths with their bewitching singing.
🎨Gustav Wertheimer

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2021-07-20

It's been one of those 's again! I'm completely losing track of time, am I too late for with my witch drawing?
Please tell me to stop browsing the twitter verse and go and do something more useful instead.

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2021-07-14

Though Ceridwen is called a white witch she is prone to very human reactions, seeking revenge on Gwydion for accidentally ingesting the only drop of her magic brew to help her son. After consuming Gwydion, she gave rebirth to him as Taliesin.

🖼: Y. Leitch

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2021-07-14

It's a rainy
Perfect for stay at home and listen to the faeries...

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2021-07-13

Witches in Japan are most commonly accused of utilizing foxes to do their bidding. Of these the most common category is the tsukimono-suji, who come from hereditary lines that work with foxes. These can help or harm others, and families are wealthy.

🖼: J. Todd

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2021-07-13

Rapunzel letting down her hair for the jailer witch to climb up into the prison tower, and Snow White being offered a poison apple by the wicked Queen who's disguised as a hag
by Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970, Swedish > American)

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'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes...'
Macbeth, Act I, Scene iv
Pic from internet

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2021-07-13

'...What cares a witch for a hangman’s noose?
They buried them deep, but they wouldn’t lie still,
For cats and witches are hard to kill;
They swore they shouldn’t and wouldn’t die, —
Books said they did, but they lie! they lie!'
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

🎨Parsons

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2021-07-13

The Witch is the mistress of disguise, the caster of spells, living in liminal spaces. In tales, as a bringer of change, she draws us closer to our true nature by breaking the conventional & stirring life into stasis. “She scares the life into us.”

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Witches could fly. Even trainee bank managers could fly. From How the Goose Learned to Fly Read on
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2021-07-13

❄️🤍❄️Jadis 'The White Witch' from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, had the power to create ice and snow, and ruled over the land of Narnia by conjuring the Hundred Years Winter.

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2021-07-13

The rowan is known as witchentree or witch-wood, as it was believed to ward off witches’ spells, especially if planted near a front door. Rowan crosses bound in red thread (the best colour to fend off magic) were also hung above doorways to keep witches away.

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Orcavella was a horrible, child-eating hag who ravaged the Kingdom of Galicia for 176 years.
When she decided to die, she forced a shepherd to build a tomb (a for her in the vicinity of Cape Fisterra. Then she buried him alive with her.

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2021-07-13

Some Dustcats in the library, from Hopeless, Maine for

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2021-07-07