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In Filipino folklore, there are lots of monsters, called aswang. The wakwak is one such creature, which can split itself in half at the torso so the top half can enter your home. They feed off humans and fetuses.

(art by Prof. Geller)

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2020-04-22

“No can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again


Nicolas Peña

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2020-04-22

Chudo Yudo, the Slavic version of a multi-headed Found in like 'Storm-Bogatyr, Ivan the Cow's Son.' This ferocious beast can assume human-like forms & has the ability to grow missing heads! Some say Chudo-Yudo is a descendent of Baba Yaga.

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2020-04-22

It's and this is my favorite, underappreciated fanart of my take on Ursula from the Little Mermaid, but kawaii.

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2020-04-21

UNICORNS in for
🎨"Woman with Unicorn" Artist unknown, 1510
🎨"Unicorn" Maerten de Vos, 1572

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While I love rainbows 🌈 and sparkles ✨ as much as anyone, let's not forget Unicorns are also majestic creatures of every enchanted wood! 🌲🌲
Today lets celebrate them to help us remember how much more fun life can be when we let a little magic into it. ✨

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YUTA is strongly inspired by fairytales (you can guess by which one :3), so that's my little tribute to

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Cpt Aubrey’s adventurous world of fighting sail . With added dragons. What if the Napoleonic Wars were fought on land, sea & with draconic air forces: 's “Temeraire” series tells an immensely readable story of rather loveable dragons & their friends

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It's my birthday AND it's ✨ The theme is fairytale creatures, so here are some of my goblins, a mermaid, and a tiny dragon

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... by commissioning Shakespeare to write _A Midsummer Night's Dream_. Upon Dream's invitation, Auberon of Dom-Daniel, Titania and their faerie companions visit this earth for the last time to watch the Bard's company perform the play for the first time. 🧚🏻 2/3

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Pegasus the immortal winged horse in Greek mythology who sprang from the neck of the beheaded Medusa. Tamed by Bellerophon who rode his magnificent steed into battle against the fire-breathing monster the Chimera.
🎨Polina Bivsheva

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In the Wawel terrorized Krakow during the reign of King Krakus. He demanded meals of live cattle, thus depleting farms. Krakus' sons tricked him by feeding him calf skins stuffed with smoldering sulfur, which caused his fiery death.

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Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker, 1923.

A little late post for but these are just too irresistible.

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We are starting the process of making a black and white silent film treatment of The Blind Fisherman (The Prelude to the Hopeless, Maine Story)

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from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam"

by Rene Bull (1872-1942, Irish-born, of English/French parents)

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Dísir play a deity-like role associated with fate and perhaps protection in the Norse world. Swedish band have commemorated them in a great ballad, describing how they float among the mist, so shimmering and cold. https://t.co/CuTf0VFbIc

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Cinderella and her fairy godmother

by Ambrose Dudley (1867-1951, English)

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✨ Wish Granters! ✨
Fiddlehead Fern --this plant puts forth a wonderful seed at midnight known as a 'Wish Seed!'
It was to be carefully collected and gave the power to discover hidden treasures.
🎇 🎇 🎇

"Awakening" from my Shimmirians art series.

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