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Capricious French and Swiss Elves The Lutins think of endless to tease and torment; whether in the guise of horses throwing their riders into a ditch, making seashells temporarily become gold or even appearing as giant spiders
🎨by Godo

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2019-12-05

Overlooking Mexico City, the Iztaccíhuatl (The Sleeping Woman) and the Popocatépetl (The Smoking Peak), two mountains, a princess and warrior, stand for eternity.
He guards her, kneeling in pain, for she killed herself thinking him lost in battle.

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2019-11-28

Cailleach – the dark mother is a goddess of winter, appearing as an old one-eyed hag with a magical hammer. She creates mountains, brings storms, and protects wild animals such as deer and wolves.

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2019-11-28

The dahu is a mythical mountain goat-like creature from French lore, with legs shorter on one side to better climb the steep rock face. It’s the object of a lot of pranks, from convincing children of its existence to sending gullible people to hunt it down.

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2019-11-28

Many know Dwalin from the Hobbit, but there was also Dvalinn, a ruler of the Norse dwarves who taught them the writing of runes. His daughters were among the Norns and he helped to forge Brisingamen, Freya's necklace.

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2019-11-28

If you sleep on Cadair Idris (Idris's Chair') you will wake to find yourself a poet or a madman - if you wake at all. The lord of the Otherworld hunts there with red-eared hounds. The crater lake is not only bottomless but the home of a dragon.

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For years after its first reported sighting in 1920, scientists have tried to prove the existence of this 2-3m long amphibian known as the Trinity Alps Giant Salamander, but none have succeeded

https://t.co/DHMKKzwbT2

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2019-11-28

Manfred on the Jungfrau by Ford Madox Brown depicts Manfred's torment as he contemplates suicide. Based on Byron's dramatic poem, Manfred’s unnamed guilt is generally thought to reference Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh

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Mind the trolls and be polite to the folk you may meet while exploring the mountains. y

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2019-11-28

According to folklorist Wirt Sikes the gwyllion are female fairies of frightful aspect who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains and lead travellers astray. They are more akin to hags or witches.
by Todd Lockwood

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2019-11-28

This week's theme is folklore of and rocky places for
So here’s a little dragon from the rock-strewn slopes of Tryfan - one of the higher & wilder places in Wales.

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2019-11-28

visionary painter & printmaker, was born in on 28th November 1757. He first published his poems as illuminated plates.

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2019-11-28

Tokoloshes are a creature from Zulu mythology that inhabit South Africa. These creatures attack you in your sleep and are said to be a part of the reason while many people in the Zulu culture used to sleep with their beds raised off the floor.#FolkloreThursday

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2019-11-21

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“Trnka, the very name conjures up childhood and poetry.” ~ Jean Cocteau

Jiří Trnka

clip of "Arcangel Gabriel and Mother Goose" https://t.co/eurNO5UOVu

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2019-11-22


In Ozark folklore, it is believed that mushrooms must be gathered when the moon is full or they may become poisonous!
by me!

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2019-11-22

Boa Marigold can have snakes of fire instead of hair just like Salamander the snake god of fire. (3/3)

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2019-11-21

Reminiscent of Medusa, Boa Hancock can turn to stone anyone looking at her with sexual desire. Boa Sandersonia can turn her hair into snakes to look like the eight-headed snake in Japanese folklore. (2/3)

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2019-11-21

As a child my mother took me to the cinema to see The Secret of Roan Inish, the first time I saw a movie before reading the book, about the Irish and Orcadian of selkies. I often think it was that fantastical film that begot my love of folklore.

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2019-11-22