Who’ll reveal to our waking ken
The forms that swim & the shapes that creep
Under the waters of sleep?
& I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in
On the length & the breadth of the marvellous marshes of Glynn.–Sidney Lanier, MarshesOfGlynn

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He who finds the fire-flower of the fern at exactly midnight on Summer Solstice Eve will be bestowed with secret gifts of magick, opened to clairvoyance and all magical creatures would come know him. 🐍
Fern Flower by PerlaMarina on Deviantart 🐍

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She's a dream dragon that often shifts from visage to visage while visiting dreams through interpretation by the dreamer, though this is her base form. Often found sleeping in cool swamps during the day.

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Meet Kikimora from the local swamps🍄
You will love this girl. She has a cheerful disposition. And there's one more feature - she has lively hair. And sometimes they don't get along together. Also... this lady doesn't shave her legs

My new collection will be about her...

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A Pokemon who can be found in swamps and other wetlands. In nature, it sleeps burying itself in the ground at the water's edge.

     

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June 20, 1922: Spain's King Alfonso XIII begins a four-day visit to the rural, isolated Las Hurdes region, much of it on horseback and on foot because the regions lacks roads. He is so shocked by the poverty and disease there that he orders swamps drained and new schools built.

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Sedna is an Inuit deity who ends up in the ocean in many a legend and tale. Along the way, she loses her fingers, which turn into water animals and make their homes in her hair. She offers the ocean's bounty to angakoks who comb her hair 🐋


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“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water…”

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In the Clash of theTitans, movie, Calibos was reportedly a son of the Goddess Thetis. Calibos angered Zeus who transformed him into a satyr. The former prince was forced to live away from humanity, in swamps and marshes.

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According to the mother stork, all children want to have a new brother or sister. All of the boys who mocked the storks will not get a new sibling. One of the unborn babies in the pool is already dead. That baby will be delivered to the very bad boy's house. 2/2

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Darklings!

It's the customary time now to rendezvous with another creature from the swamps to meet you tomorrow for especially during

And don't forget to share your tales & images as well!

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In a Chinese Legend there dwells a one-thousand-year-old White Snake Spirit in a lake. It practises Taoist magical arts and shapeshiftes into a young woman.
In some versions of the legend, it transforms into a goddess (Madam White Snake).

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The Sea Mither is an Orcadian summer spirit that fights an eternal war for control of the seas against her nemesis, Teran, a powerful winter spirit!

It's during the summer months she is at the height of her powers & can warm the sea & calm the wind...

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Yuki in the swamps of mist in his fox form.

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Swamp sisters are surrounded by snakes. 🐍 May I introduce you to Aida Wedo the female companion to Damballa? When they had to leave Africa, Aida travelled across the sky with a rainbow crown. Damballa went beneath the sea until they met again.

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It’s not easy being green.

—Kermit The Frog
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I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea
- Walt Whitman



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"Dawn.... Soon all the birds are telling each other their dreams.... Why did I ever leave this place? I want to walk here forever. I want to struggle with the alligators.... I want to be alive and grow and rise up."
-Alan Moore & Stephen Bissette, Swamp Thing

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