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Vodyanoy is part old man, part frog. He has red eyes, fish scales and tail and is covered in algae. He travels the river by log. He is known to drown people and damage dams. It’s important to make sacrifices to him if you’re near water. 1/2

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In it is believed that lakes and ponds are inhabited by guardian kami (gods). These kami vary but often take the form of dragons, catfish, giant snakes or eels. There are stories of these water gods interacting positively with humans, such as...

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2021-09-26

"A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise."

💀 Deborah Blake 🐍 Wickedly Magical 💀
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2021-09-26

Hydra -a serpentine water monster in Greek 
and Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid

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2021-09-19

"The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn." 🖤 Mary MacLane

(I love that quote, full of Magic 😸✨)

🎨 Witch and the fox by Morgane Velten 🍃

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2021-09-13

and here is the will o the wisp again. Foxfire, fairy lights, jack o lantern. Only marsh gas...or it it? Liable to be encountered in boggy oak woodland, once common, rarely seen anymore. Why not? Is it simply down to increased irrigation? https://t.co/T5zJaNtwJn

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2021-09-13

Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.


Barbara Hurd

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2021-09-12

Wetlands have long been associated with lurking monsters, but in LoK it is a place of healing and reconciliation. The swamp is considered to be a place of immense spiritual connections through the Banyan-grove tree which connects the swamp to the rest of the world.

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2021-08-15



The Blue Men of The Minch, are described as mermaid-like, strong in physique with green hair & beards! These creatures lurk the sea between mainland Scotland & The Outer Hebrides luring sailors with poetry to their deaths; while brewing a storm!
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2021-08-15

Don’t listen to their siren song or touch their silky hair, the lovely rusulki haunt the waterways to lure you into their loving arms. Once tangled in their tresses, they will pull you into the watery depths, laughing as you drown.

🎨Witold Pruszkowski, 1877
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2021-08-08

People of Martul (#Galicia) is said to have thrown the body of a huge 🐍 into the "Pozo do Piago", a deep, dark pond in the Miño river. The monster had eaten their animals and harvests, so they killed it. But the ground where the dead snake was dragged became barren.

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2021-08-02

“…For the antebellum South, the swamp began as a region of both danger and great promise—the inspiration for ambitious plans and ultimately a source of frustration for such luminaries as William Byrd II and George Washington…”. “Shadow and Shelter”

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2021-08-01

Artist Michael Zulli—from a never-published issue of DC Comics' Swamp Thing (1990-1991)

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2021-07-25

In Japan, kawauso are river otters, and like many other animals it is believed that once they reach old age they can develop supernatural powers and become They are renowned shape-shifters and can accurately mimic sounds, using this ability to play...

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Around Lough Neagh, lies an ancient dwelling place of the fairies. Boatmen hear them travelling at night from island to island, in the sound of soft music, and see them in the track of the moonbeams...

🎨Giuliano

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2021-07-18

They made her a grave, too cold and damp
For a soul so warm and true;
And she’s gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,
Where, all night long, by a fire-fly lamp,
She paddles her white canoe.

Thomas Moore

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2021-07-11


In Philippine folklore, the Berberoka suck water from swamps or lakes to reveal plentiful fish and lure human victims – who are then drowned and eaten. There's one way to scare the creatures away, though: they have a morbid fear of crabs...

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2021-07-11

Kostroma, the goddess of fertility. After discovering that her husband, Kupala, is her brother, she jumped into the forest lake (in other legends into the river Ra). After her death, she became a mavka (or rusalka). 🐍
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