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The swan was said to protect children's' souls and to guide them to the Otherworld...

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In a Latvian fairy tale, Bulbulis the Bird, three princes set out on a quest for the magical bird Bulbulis, but only the youngest succeeds. Seething with envy and jealousy, the older brothers cast the youngest into the sea and take the bird for themselves.

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The Morrígan is an Irish goddess who can transform into a raven or crow. She is known for leading people into battle.

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In Slavic mythology Stratim is the mother of all birds in the world. She is an assistant of the god of wind, Stribog. Just one movement of her wing may create a huge wave in the sea. Also, her screams can cause storms.

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The goddess Juno, queen of the Roman gods and sister-consort of Zeus, rides her chariot pulled through the skies by her sacred bird, the peacock.

as shown here by Sebastiano del Piombo at Villa Farnesina

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“There stood a great high hedge, covered with red & fragrant roses. At the very top a single pure white flower shone like a star. The King plucked it & put it on Elisa's breast. She awoke, with peace & happiness in her heart.” The Wild Swans 🦢

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European settlers in N.America believed hummingbirds were a cross between insects & birds & that the 'flying jewels' died in autumn after sticking their beaks into tree trunks, but were resurrected in the Spring
🎨 Kevin Sloan

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2023-04-04

GM 🧜🏼‍♀️🦪

“A shy girl who wants to play with pearls in fairytales...” — Fantasy collection

🔗 in bio

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Hi, Kato

A shy girl who wants to play with pearls in fairytales...🧜🏼‍♀️🦪

🏷️ BNow 0.1 Eth 1/1
🔗 in bio, Fantasy collection on FND

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There was an Emperor who kept a nightingale in his palace for its song. But, he lost interest, when gifted a bejeweled mechanical bird, that eventually broke. When the Emperor fell ill, the true nightingale sang so beautifully that Death let the Emperor live.

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As [the nightingale] sang, the phantoms grew pale, and still more pale, and the blood flowed quicker and quicker through the Emperor's feeble body. Even Death listened, and said, "Go on, little nightingale, go on!"--Hans Christian Andersen, "The Nightingale"

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We’ve got our Vaila, we’ve got our Seoras, now we just need to photoshop them together and make our teaser poster!

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We're named after the old ballad about scavenger birds planning to eat a knight's corpse. We love ravens, from Odin's pair to the Celtic god Bran, the North American trickster deity to those that 'gronk' in our chimney! https://t.co/OSAPftlDmN

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Still not very well today but I did manage one new thread. I thought I'd also re-share this old thread that has a small collection of my tweets about birds in for today's Also here are some birds in prints by Utagawa Hiroshige. https://t.co/pwQ2fjZHy1

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- “I have spent most of my life in the woods, among the flowers, listening for hours to the birds. 🐦

I have learned many lessons, and the greatest of them all is to know how much power there is in little things.”

~ Norse God Frey https://t.co/rnf82pXBTN

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In the Princess and the Raven, the raven helps a king who lost his way in the woods in exchange for his daughter.
The king tries to fool the raven with substitutes, but he knows only a princess who will choose to drink out of a golden cup will break his curse.

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Gruvia Week Day 4: Delirium

“This house is filled with memories we made together. So I told myself he would come back one day, for sure…”

Maybe he did…or was that another delirious dream?

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The six brothers in 'The Six Swans' rely on their sister, the princess, to save them from a curse & restore them to their human form. She succeeds, but does not have time to fully complete her task & as a result the youngest brother keeps one swan's wing.

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ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen, swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into swan form. At night she regains her human form. 📷 Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress. She played Odette over 4,000 times

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