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The Mock Turtle's Song by
Lewis Carroll

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2020-12-09

The Nicole are water spirits on Brittany’s north coast; fairly benign but mischievous, they tangle fishing nets and loosen anchor cables.
Conversely, the south coast was once noted for a most malevolent mermaid who crushed children against rocks for mere sport.

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2020-12-08

Hans Christian Andersen's, "The Little Mermaid," illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The colours are sublime. The initiation of females into the world of men whilst their father is absent is what this story symbolises.

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In the Hans Christian Andersen story, the Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince and is willing to give up her life in the sea in order to gain a human soul, become human, and be with him


Art by Kata Kiss

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2020-12-08

In Welsh folklore, the Gwragedd Annwn are beautiful female fairies who live beneath lakes and rivers. Also known as Lake Maidens.

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2020-12-08

Jörmungandr is the biggest underwater snake in the world. He is also very mean.

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Greek myth had several classes of water spirits: Naiads are fresh bodies of water, Oceanids represent saltwater, and Nereids represent the Mediterranean, to say nothing of sea and river gods. Despite this any nymph can appear in other waters

🖼: J.W. Waterhouse

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2020-12-08

Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own monster myth. The loch's name means 'loch of the snakes/ serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm, a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore.
🎨 unknown

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Undines are a category of beings associated with water,1st named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph, with adaptations like Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the Undine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

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The Mermaid

A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.

-William Butler Yeats

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One of my favourite Cornish folktales is The Mermaid of Zennor. A mermaid falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the Parish. One day he decides to live with her, they disappear and are never seen again on dry land. 🌊🧜‍♀️

🎨John Reinhard Weguelin

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2020-12-08

The theme of this weeks is River creatures so I thought I would give you one of the best . Sit back and enjoy the Terrible tale of The Afanc .
Time between times storytelling The Afanc told by Owen Staton https://t.co/A5onJwT0mH

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2020-12-08

"In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby.
A water-baby? There are no such things.
How do you know that? Have you been there to see? If you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none."

-The Waterbabies

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2020-12-08

The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico is a short about the friendship between a young girl, a hunchback & the eponymous snow goose. A modern of love, loss & courage & the ennobling power of redemption & love. The 3rd picture is by Peter Scott.

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2020-12-08

Kelpies are shapeshifting water spirits who lure people into lakes & drown them. The Scottish folktale "The Kelpie & the Ten Children" is a cautionary tale of children lured onto a beautiful horse's back, only for the horse to jump into a lake.

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Bloody Bones is a water demon haunting deep ponds, oceans & old marl pits which often became filled with water to form ponds where it dragged children into the depths. Children were told to "keep away from the marl-pit or bloody bones will have you."

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2020-12-07

Hola gente, les comparto mi coloreo de Lucy con el traje de Happy (fairy tail) espero les guste uwu

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2020-12-05

Hi, I never really thought of printing it but maybe I will. Here's another one that did actually make it into the book published by

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