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Flower Fairies are tiny creatures (the biggest is only 20cm tall) that live in the tree tops, marshes, forest floor, wayside and gardens.

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📷’The Lilac Fairy’ from Cicely Mary Barker's The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies.

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2022-06-17

This print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1882) is titled 'Midair Collision' and depicts two tengu (half-bird half-human with noses colliding. The left tengu carries a letter box of the Edo era and the other carries a bag of the new postal system...

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2022-06-16

Ancient Greeks believed we all have a predetermined destiny.
The three Moirai, or Fates represented the cycle of life - birth, life, and death. The Moirai appeared within three days of someone's birth to decide their fate. More: https://t.co/GCvG8vYCPj

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Welsh Arthurian hero Culhwch was born in the wilderness as his mother was insane, living as a wild animal. A stampeding herd of pigs shocked the woman back to sanity and caused her to give birth. She christened her son "Culhwch" ("pig run") to honor the event.

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It is said that the alojas, water fairies of Catalan folklore who sometimes take the shape of dippers, will marry good-hearted men. They'll leave if their nature is exposed, but still will never fail to secretly arrive each night to comb their children's hair.#FolkloreThursday

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Ayakashi in Japanese literally means, "strange phenomenon of the sea," and is a term used for yokai who appear in the liminal spaces between the surface of the sea/ocean and the air.

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2022-06-10

Peony seed necklaces were used to protect children being kidnapped by fairies, although with the limited fairy contact today this practice is rarely used.
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🎨 Elizabeth Myakisheva

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2022-06-10

The devilfish in Egyptian waters, cartoon, Punch, 1888

Recently, I am fascinated with political/satirical and also astonished at the recurrence of🐙 as visual tools for it.
This shows John Bull, the personification of the 🇬🇧, spreading over.

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2022-06-09

⛈️🐈‍⬛⛈️Ship's Cats were always well cared for as it was said they could raise storms using magic held in their tails!

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“He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font reappearing
From the raindrops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!" (Scott "Coronach")

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Sailors believed a shark was able to scent a victim, and would follow a ship for miles, in which a dead body lay...

🎨Winslow Homer

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Fergus mac Leda had magical water boots and explored the rivers of Ireland. He met such a scary river horse that his face stuck in an expression of horror. Only a king with no blemishes could rule Ireland so he slayed the horse and his face became serene again.

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Ukiyoe prints often depicted in scenes from and/or kabuki plays. This one by Nansuitei Yoshiyuki (1863) depicts actors Fujikawa Tomokichi III (right) as the spirit of a monster serpent, and Onoe Tamizo II (left) as Yurugi Saemon.

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2022-06-09


In Norse myths, Aegir was a sea giant he and his giant wife Ran lived in a eloquent hall beneath the ocean and are seen as the divine powers of the ocean. Aegir formed close ties with the Norse pantheon and was famous for hosting many lavish feasts for them.

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2022-06-02


Cetus was a large sea monster sent by the Greek god Poseidon to devour princess, Andromeda, to punish her mother Cassiopeia for bragging that her daughter’s was prettier than the sea goddess. Cetus was killed by demigod Perseus who later on married Andromeda

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Áine, the Queen of the Fairies in Irish mythology, is the goddess of love, fertility, the sun, and Summer. The summer solstice and the days leading up to midsummer are her sacred days. Rites were performed in her honour as recently as 1879.
🎨Julia Cellini.

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