# art oc originalcharacter lesbians

George Wilson cover art for Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery (1973).In one story a driver picks up a hitchhiker one night. Blind to danger, he drives recklessly, and ends up in a swamp. That’s where daddy’s little pet lives: a yeti.

2 15
2021-07-11

Grendel and his mother lived in a marsh near the mead hall of king Hrothgar.

'Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell.'

🎨J. R. Skelton

12 72
2021-07-04

Some Muddy Waters for

Mississippi Delta Blues

https://t.co/sKVeWSMgoD

(🖼 Lake of Dismal Swamp, North Carolina Archives)

3 24
2021-06-27

It's always a bad idea to be in the bayou at night alone, but if you see a dancing light, don't follow it into the swamps if ever you want to come out again: this is Le Feu Follet, the Cajun Fairy, a commonly malicious spirit dedicated to getting souls lost.

11 43
2021-06-20

The bunyip is a fearsome creature from Australia said to dwell in lonely marshes, billabongs and creeks, where you can sometimes hear it's terrifying roar bellowing out on dark nights.

🎨 by H J Ford from Andrew Lang's 'The Brown Fairy Book', 1932

33 132
2021-06-20



Rusałki by Witold Pruszkowski 🌿

8 35
2021-06-20

In Slavic mythology, Vodyanoy's a male water spirit
which appears as a naked old man with frog-like face, greenish beard, and long hair, his body covered in algae and muck, often covered in fish scales. When angered he breaks dams and drowns people and animals. 🐍

12 44
2021-06-20

Bagiennik are water demons in Slavic mythology who sprayed people with their nasty nose oils as a prank and kin to the bathhouse spirit Bannik. They were subject to Wąda, lady of the lakes and the shallow streams, also known as the Queen of the Underwater Lawns.🐍

13 48
2021-06-14

Mister Newt & his underwater friends 💚🐾

🎨 Illustration by Margaret Tarrant

8 54
2021-06-13

The Ninka Nanka is a dragon located in the swamps of the River Gambia. It is said that when children get too confident and feel they can disobey their parents and go into the swamp they will be taken by the Ninki Nanka

8 34
2021-06-07

Not really a fixture in Grimm's, swamps are considered symbols of confusion, fetid miasmas where unseen roots, 'quicksands' & sucking mud can drag you under & suffocation quickly ensues. One translation of "The Water of Life" features swamp water as a deadly potion.

3 11
2021-06-07