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The Pascagoula River in Mississippi is known as The Singing River. For hundreds of years the Choctaw and locals have experienced and attempted to describe the eerily beautiful sound seemingly rising from the water.

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In Scotland Water Wraiths are spirits thought to preside over the waters of highlands and lowlands. They often take the form of skinny, old women with scowling features who dress in green. They try to lure unsuspecting travelers to their death by drowning .

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KAPPA. Vampiric Japanese river imp & Trickster Yōkai. Likes human blood & entrails. A kind of humanoid turtle with a carapace, webbed feet & knee claws. The only thing Kappas enjoy more than a tasty child is a cucumber!
Image 3 Kappa statue at Fukuoka

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Mefiti, goddess of the volcano and River Melfa in Italy - this image of Riitta and I on a dry river bed enacting her

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The Lady of the Lake is a name or a title used by several associated with the legend of She lived in a casde beneath a lake surrounding the mystical She raised after and gave Arthur the magical sword
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The Marabbecca is a creature invented by Sicilian parents to warn their children against playing too close to wells. The Marabbecca will snatch the nearest child, pull them down into the well, & drown them.

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The answer to this week's on

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Lord of the Dead, Cavalcade The Mysterious Origins of the & Its Many Faces in Pop Culture 🦌🐎⚔️☠️ Pocket history of the myth & new relevance in pop novels & video games https://t.co/5Guauhb5ZL

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3. The from the by . She is the cool and collected ancient beauty who rules with immense power and she one of my favourite mythological favourite characters from all of the books.
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2. Gwyn Ap Nudd is a figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~ J M Barrie ~

🎨 Susan B Pearse

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Long ago, folk believed faeries were invisible, except to cats; a cat sat staring at nothing was watching fairies. When a cat sat on a mother's lap, its purring was the sound of it spinning sleep, so that stealthy wee folk could abduct her child
🎨Isabel Watkins

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It's important to point if you are talking about a dog, child, cow. Otherwise the fairy that shares its name may turn up and replace it. The Good folk do not like being accidentally summoned by their names. Art: Arthur Rackham

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According to Ojibwe  Memegwaans is a mini humanoid who is terrified of adult humans; disappearing if they see one. However, they have a love for human children. Helping any child who is upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives.

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This is about ! In cornish, welsh and devon folklore, the Knocker would tap on the walls of mines and warn of or cause cave-ins. Bluecaps, in Northern folklore, appeared as flames and served a similar purpose.

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Leannán Sidhe (fairy mistress) is a fae spirit that seeks the love of human men. If they refuse her, she is their slave. If they are seduced, they are hers. She often takes young poets for lovers. She provides inspiration to these artists.

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“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” —William Butler Yeats 🧚🏻‍♀️

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✨🍀✨Four-leaved clovers are widely reputed to bring good luck - but carrying one also protects against enchantments and bestows the ability to see Faeries!

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To the Ancient Aztecs, Chaneques were tiny humanoid creatures, protecting nature. Attacking intruders with fright, so the soul would leave the body! If the victim didn't recover their soul in a specific ritual, they would die & the soul would be forever trapped!

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In certain parts of Ireland it is considered bad luck to disturb a Fairy Bower or a so called 'Sceach Gheal', usually a Hawthorn, where Fairies are supposed to congregate.

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