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On the Isle of Man, water goblins are known as Glashtyn. Among that of various other quadrupeds, they are able to assume a horse form, known as kabyll-ushtey and are decidedly malevolent, known to grab calves and even teenage girls and tear them apart

🎨 Haapala

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Summer 1942, the rotting carcass of a sea serpent was found on a beach by two local council workers in my town. The strange creature was said to be 28ft long. The men were ordered by the Royal Navy (who use the waters) to destroy the creature...

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2022-09-04


There is peace in the swamp where the Copperhead sleeps,
Where the waters are stagnant, the white vapor creeps,
Where the musk of Magnolia hangs thick in the air,
And the lilies’ phylacteries broaden in prayer.
There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is death.

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Świcorz is a Polish folklore creature similar to will-o'-the-wisp. They appear on wetlands. Some light a path home for lost people but those who don’t thank for their help risk a great danger as świcorz is capable of burning people alive.

Art by Paulina Śliwa

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Will-o’-the-wisp, also known as Jack-o’-Lantern, by Arthur Hughes, c. 1872

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According to Eastern Slavic mythology, if millers appease Vodyanoy, the water spirit, it'll help them by bringing water to their mills during dry spells. If they offend Vodyanov, millers can cast bread and vodka into the stream to make amends 🐟

🎨Alt

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Swamp Witch by Dillon Samuelson.


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Shellycoat is a type of Brownie from Anglo-Scottish Borders folklore, that inhabits rivers and other water bodies. It's name, from the coat of shells it wears. It's relatively harmless unless humans trespass on it's territory


art: unknown

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Darklings,

Time to rendezvous with things that go bump in the bog again - another one will meet you tomorrow on

Share your tales and show your images of bogs, brooks and bights as well!

🎨 Lily Seika Jones "The Moirai" (2018)

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A man loved a mermaid who lived in the Irish Sea. He swam to her rock with a bundle of apples. She ate them and came to live with him. But he drowned and so the mermaid returned to the sea. She is still sometimes seen lamenting her lover - and the apples...

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2022-08-15

Thoreau on loving nearby swamps: 💚

‘When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place,--a sanctum sanctorum.’
—Henry David Thoreau


🎨 Humphries

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In Slavic Dziwozona, a swamp dwelling female demon was said to kidnap human babies & replace them with her own disfigured changelings. She’s described as an ugly, old woman with a hairy body.

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Lough Leane, Killarney. A warrior by the name of O'Donoghue is said to periodically emerge from the water on the back of a white horse. The ghostly pair manifest on 01 May every seven years, but alas, I do not know the year they are next due…

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Gustave Moreau’s Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1876, for Killed by Hercules as his second labour. The hydra lived in the Lake of Lerna which was also an entrance to the underworld.

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But the great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut.

Willa Cather


🎨Darice Machel

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Every year
the lilies
are so perfect
I can hardly believe
their lapped light crowding
the black,
mid-summer ponds.
–Mary Oliver, The Ponds.
🎨Cao Yong.

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prehistoric swamp by Rosemary Mayer - made with NightCafe Creator https://t.co/QXYoeA0im5 via
Why built, this causeway, the Fae?

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