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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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2020-12-08

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

🌹Pandora's Box 2. John William Waterhouse 🌹

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2020-12-02

- Bengal Folktales: The Origin of Rubies - Under the influence! https://t.co/xAHdhOUWhI

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2020-12-01

Vila are Slavic nymphs who dance through the air and revel through the night. They are gifted in magic, and will curse anyone who seeks to harm them; but if you leave them offerings of food and wine, they will heal you or enchant you to be beautiful ⭐💖🌷

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Since ancient times, Mugwort (artemisa) has been used as a magical protective herb. It's 1 of 9 herbs invoked by Pagan Anglo-Saxons in the Nine Herb Charm.
Gathered on St. John's Eve, it was worn for protection against disease & misfortune. 🌿

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The Diamonds & Toads. Where a magical crone bestows jewels &roses to fall from the mouth of a kind daughter when she speaks. When the favored daughter tries to find the same luck, she is cursed by her own cruelty, to have toads &vipers fall from hers!

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In "The Emperor's New Clothes" people were under the curse of pride. Two con artists claimed to clothe the Emperor in garments "so rare only superior beings could see them". No one except a young child dared admit the Emperor was actually naked.

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In Greek Lamia is by Hera, wife of her lover Zeus. In chimeric form she is destined to slither under the cover of night, searching for children to devour, or stalking by light of day, unwitting young men to seduce.
🎨JWWaterhouse

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2020-12-01

“Maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness.’ The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
Thus Oberon uses Heartsease to enchant Titania in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 2 Sc1)

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In the of the SAN people of Namibia a creature called the Nandi or Nandibear features. It’s Werekind and believed to be part hyena. It also features in Ends of the Earth, the second in the Changeling Saga.

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2020-11-25