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"Tír na nÓg is depicted as an island paradise and supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. It is described as a beautiful place (a forested wilderness or flowery meadow), but it is usually hostile to human visitors."

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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a story of a girl who enters another world, where she meets strange creatures, or messengers who speak nonsense while guiding her through this realm.

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A Fairy Ring by Walter Jenks Morgan, (British, 1847-1924, watercolour.) If you're fortunate enough to find a faery ring in nature, beware, as it's a portal out of this world to the realm of fairies!

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Locked doors have always been compelling in fairy tales, & finding an old key even more so. Themes of curiosity abound in Bluebeard, & in modern fairy tales, like The Secret Garden. ☺️🗝📚💫

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In Roman and Etruscan mythology, Mania was the goddess of the dead. She ruled the underworld alongside her partner Mantus. She was the mother of ghosts, the undead, and other spirits of the night, as well as the Lares and the Manes.

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The Raven played many roles in different mythologies (Norse, Celtic, Greek...), throughout the ages. This black-feathered bird was seen as a messenger between the worlds, capable of balancing Light and Dark, Life and Death 🖤.


🖼️ Raven Study by Michael Pape ©

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In LotR Legolas sings the ballad of the Elven-maid Nimrodel,who lived near the eponymous river and falls close to Lothlórien.She disappeared and her mourning lover Amroth cast himself into the sea. Her voice is still echoed in Nimrodel's water music.

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“Let us be happy,” said the old lady to little mermaid, “and dart and spring about during the three hundred years that we have to live, which is really quite long enough; after that we can rest ourselves all the better.”

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"The Big Beast of Lochawe [Scotland]
This animal (Beathach mòr Loch Odha) had twelve legs and was to be heard in winter time breaking the ice. Some say it was like a horse, others, like a large eel."

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Kataw are merfolk from Philippine lore, and they rule over the Bantay Tubig (water guardians). They can disguise themselves as fishermen, and some stories say that they can control tides and change water into ice

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The berberoka of Philippine mythology are water creatures who enjoy eating humans. They lure humans by draining a river or pond so that the fish lie on the dry bed, and then release the water when humans go to pick the fish up.

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I retold The Little Mermaid for to help children learn English.

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Siyokoy/syokoy are male sea creatures said to drown people and eat them. Unlike other water spirits/ water guardians, the syokoy are more beast-like and terrifying in appearance.

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7. In the is a giant that would wrap its large around the and pull them to the bottom of the devouring the drowning as the ships sank to the sea bed.
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5. In was a of the and leader of the 50 Her son was to be but to die She did all she could to him; that son was
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4. In a is an with the head and upper body of a and the of a Mermaids appear in the folklore of many and in some they and in others they with them
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