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An old Polish tale tells of a she cat crying at a river bank as her kittens were drowning. A willow tree at the river’s edge swept its long branches into the water & rescued them. Now at springtime the willow sprouts tiny furry buds where once the kittens clung.

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2022-07-28

Choctaw tale: Opossum bragged endlessly about his lovely bushy tail. Fed-up, Trickster Raccoon told Opossum his tail would be far prettier with stripes. If Opossum wrapped bark in bands around his tail & put it in the fire, he'd get stripes like Raccoon's...
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2022-07-28

The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who have been turned into swans. Their brave sister, Lisa saves them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She cannot speak a word until she's done or her brothers will die.

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2022-07-28


In Hebridean folklore, the Sithchean, or fairies, are a magical race of small humanoid creatures that dwell in knolls & places of importance like Fairy glen. Evidence of the Sithchean can be found throughout the Hebrides

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2022-07-22

- Art degree coming out! Behind (on the back of the canvas) the famous Nightmare by Henry Fuseli in 1781 is the portrait of a woman on the reverse - obviously a society beauty but with terrifying, demonic hands.

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2022-07-21


"But you can't feel small
once you start to wonder
all those trees so tall
were once tiny seeds
that stood against
the strongest winds
and kept thriving
shade or sheen"
GROW🎵https://t.co/I69ms4x13y
There is always time to Grow

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2022-07-21

“A brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash’d all to pieces.”
Miranda, The Tempest, Act 1, Sc 2

Image: John William Waterhouse, 1916

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2022-07-21

- God Ukko in beliefs of Native Finns & the Sami people ca. 2,400 BC. Ukko was driving his sky chariot sending thunderstorms, frost, snow, hail, wind, rain, sunshine, with ax, lightning, a magical hammer, a flaming sword. https://t.co/9hzbk8d5J8

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2022-07-14

“So mickle was this storm that the men said it was the work of enchantment” (Heimskringla V)

Scottish weather wizards raise a storm off the Hebrides and send King Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1263) and fleet on his way back to Norway

🎨 Waterhouse

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2022-07-14

Never urinate in a fairy ring! If you do, your body will be covered with pustules, and you’ll be urinating blood for weeks.

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2022-07-14

A Flemish folktale says that a captain jumped into the sea when his ship was attacked without caring for his crew. When he died he roamed the sea for a thousand years as punishment. He was only seen when it was stormy. With good weather he hid in the dunes.

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In Hungarian folklore, sárkány is a blind dragon that carries around hail clouds on its back.

They dwell in mountains and forests, and snack on everything they can catch (even humans).

It’s said, sárkány can swallow the Sun.



🌙Attila Gallik

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2022-07-14

I know that the seven small stars on the tarot card the star don’t represent them.

But when I drew this I saw the Pleiades, telling us when to sow and reap, when winter is nigh and when the veil between worlds is thin

Seven bright sisters in our night sky

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2022-07-08

The Cow Jumped over the Moon. In UK & European folk lore, the Milky Way was a soul road & one's guardian for the journey was a cow. Rustic funeral processions often included a cow ostensibly as a gift to clergy but also for the soul's safe passage.

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2022-07-07

"... and a star to steer her by" (John Masefield)

A more recent sailors' superstition has it that a tattoo of a compass rose or the North Star helps to guide you safe an sound back home again

🎨 Aivazovsky (1849)

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2022-07-07

Another famous wolf in is Fenrir, one of the children of Loki in Norse stories. Odin attempted to tame the wolf, but could not. He imprisoned Fenrir with enchanted rope. It's said in Ragnarök, Fenrir will kill Odin.

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2022-07-01

- Belenus was the mighty Gaulish God of light.
"Great and powerful Belenus
You are known by many names.
You are the light over the crops in the fields,
the heat that warms the earth,
the hope that springs eternal,
the bringer of life..." https://t.co/akjEFiJIR3

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2022-07-01

Lilith began life as a vague reference to owls or owl spirits in Mesopotamia, inhabiting the sacred tree of Inanna. Later fused with baby-eating Lamashtu, Jewish theology created modern Lilith in the 8th century as Adam's rebellious first wife.

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2022-06-30

Christianity has some disagreement about where demons come from. While most cite fallen angels, others point to a Jewish source suggesting Cain slept with Lilith, thus creating the Lilim, which is either wicked humans or demons.

🖼: LeGrebe

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