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Slavic are steeped in dark wild legends, and sorcery. To the Slavs they were more than entertainment; they were a way of life, providing a bond of the community’s values, beliefs and traditions.

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Favorite fairy tale from Poland: The Glass Mountain. Boy kills lynx, uses its claws to scale a glass mountain. Then tricks giant eagle into flying him to apple tree that heals his wounds. He slays the eagle and the blood restores life to the dead princes below.

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2020-09-02

East of the Sun, West of the Moon is my first and all-time favorite fairytale. It was the first one that caught my imagination. I remember listening to the cassette with a huge poster on the floor - me kneeling or lying on top of it and enjoying it!!!

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2020-09-01

In The Golden Key, Lena the shepherdess meets the lonesome knight in the ”pleasure garden” of the fairies. The jealous, wicked queen mutilates poor Lena but eventually gets turned into a cloud by 3 wyrd sisters and Lena gets healed. John Bauer illustrates.

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One of my favourite folktales is 'The Mermaid of Zennor'. It's a Cornish tale which tells about a mermaid who falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the parish. The couple disappears and are never seen on land again.

🎨John Reinhard Weguelin

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A favourite fairytale for me was “The White Snake” due to the boon of understanding & communicating with all animals. Further, animals help the servant-hero complete impossible trials to win the love of a princess & then live happily with her to a ripe old age

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2020-09-01

🌝#FairyTaleTuesday
Wednesday, is a FullMoon in the zodiac sign of Pisces:
“The Buried Moon”-is a ‘striking unusual tale,’-with few variants, often appearing more mythological than is common for fairy tales. The story: ’may be evidence of moon worship’:
🧚🏽‍♂️ 🧚🏽‍♀️ 🧚🏽‍♂️

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2020-09-01

In Norse mythology, jotuns are diverse and full of shapeshifters of the highest order: among the jotuns are Loki, the giant Hræsvelgr (who took the form of an eagle), and the unnamed builder of the gates of Asgard.

Art by the amazing Arthur Rackham

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2020-08-25

In the tale of Cuchulainn, the dread Morrigan terrorizes Cuchulainn in multiple forms: a heifer, an eel, a bird, a wolf, and a cranky old woman, to name a few.

Art by effix35 https://t.co/CCifLJndAE

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I was asked to paint last year by my daughter - had to include all the cutest animals I could fit in 😂

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2020-08-26

A curse! The Six Swans 🦢 : The brothers can only take their human forms for fifteen minutes every evening. And their sister is the only one who can save them.

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This Sarah Green both makes me want to live in the sea and has me incredibly curious about which came first: the or the woman?

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2020-08-26

Terrified of the twisting tempest outside I have withdrawn within warm wide windowed wadding and feel that today of all days is a good day for a sad tale . Here is the saddest of them all . Here is Gelert . Enjoy https://t.co/Mn8YyeRiLx

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2020-08-25

Selkies on film: The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) and Song of the Sea (2014). Two movies so enchanting it's hard not to feel the call to the water yourself.

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"The greedy old wizard Greedion, with a promise of a new land to burn, tricked me into shape shifting into the form of a dragonfly, but really, he sought my precious hoard of treasure."

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Song of the Sea, directed by , tells the story of 10 year-old Ben who discovers his mute sister, Saoirse, is a selkie who has to free faerie creatures from the Celtic goddess Macha.

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Beware the mara, who could invade your sleeping quarters and apply extreme pressure to your respiratory system by riding your chest, resulting in severe discomfort and nightmares, aptly enough. And sometimes she transformed into animal shape, too, usually a cat.

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10. is a mythical creature in The legend is well known throughout the The creature is described as a combination of and They are capable of transforming into either a huge black dog or a black boar
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8. is a creature. They live in a deep underwater realm named Encantados are most commonly viewed as a type of freshwater dolphin or sea snake that can into human form.
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