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- Celtic Mythology: Mixing Animals, Birds, Humans and Gods - https://t.co/fSpKQR4oQY

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2. In the hunter came across the bathing naked in the Knowing he had seen her naked, Diana turned Actaeon into a stag and had his own 50 greyhounds rip him apart. 3/4

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1. In watched as the 50 danced by the He took a liking to who ran from him to the far ends of the earth. The Delphin tracked her down and persuaded her to marry Poseidon and become queen of the sea. 2/4

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Chickcharnies live in pine forests on the island of Andros, If you meet one and are polite they will help you, but if you are rude they will twist your head off. They are suggested to be based on giant extinct barn owls

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In the Swedish tale ‘The boy who was never afraid’, Nisse travels through the Hulta forest to rescue his family’s cow, Lily, which was taken by trolls. Thanks to his kindness, he befriends a nymph, a dog, & a bear that help him defeat the trolls. 🎨John Bauer

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💜Thank you for all your fab "Damsels in Charge" tweets today!💜
SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

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"Open it when you get home" - Helen Jacobs for the story 'The Old Woman Who Looks After the Weather' in "Paths in Storyland", 1938

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Charles Folkard for "The Princess and the Goblin"

story: https://t.co/YxnVv15S03

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The Goblin Ball from Labyrinth. Sharing again for

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Warrior Women for
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🎨"Brünnhilde" Arthur Rackham, 1910
🎨"Valkyrien" Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1864

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- Welsh Folktales: The Maiden of the Green Forest https://t.co/lRZ1dcLJ2J

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From Brunhild of Norse mythology to Ripley from Alien to Princess Leia, we love stories of women taking charge of their own destiny. Another favorite example from a film inspired by Japanese folklore and mythology is San from Princess Mononoke.

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The Death of Koschei the Deathless. Marya Morevna, the beautiful warrior princess, captured the dangerous Koschei and held him in a dungeon. Artwork by Boris Zvorykin c. 1925.

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🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️Who says Mermaids can not be Plump, Curvy and Beautiful ? These Beauties are by, Russian Artist Victor Nizovtsev, b.1965🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🦋

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Bolitnitsa, Slavic mistress of swamp and tundra, may look like a maiden sitting on a lily pad, but her long hair hides a pair of goose feet, and her calls for help are merely a lure. She pounces on stray wanderers and drags them to the bottom of the marsh.

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Finally there are quite a few gods who are creatures of the sea for
-Greek sea god
- Sea Nymph
- Sea Titan
-Born of the sea https://t.co/EvcJp97u1R
-Norse sea god
-Norse sea god 5/5

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The from are sea creatures in the shape of a gorgeous Children would sea the Kelpie and try and ride it, they would get stuck and the sea horse would run into the water and drown them. 4/5

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Warwick Goble's illustration, "She was the Queen of them all," for Charles Kingsley's masterpiece, The Water Babies from 1908. The book was extremely popular in England for many decades!

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Isabel Lilian Gloag, 'The Kiss of the Enchantress, or The Knight and the Mermaid', watercolor, 1890.

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