The Forest King, inspired by the nuckelavee from Orcadian folklore.

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A sneak peek at my 2nd Preta!
Pretas are hungry ghosts from Indian folklore.

I'll be releasing it on Tezos in a while. As soon as I figure out how to mint on objkt lol

My gallery: https://t.co/L8nevlNSfZ

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Gothic literature, haunting pictures of the 19th century, and Japanese Yokai: discover the influences in designing the enemies of Resident Evil Village from literature and folklore.

Article on Surreal and Creepy: https://t.co/CMf5lKb9um

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PUSS IN BOOTS also known as the 'robber kitten' is the most renowned animal outlaw and trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & The Blue Fairy Book, 1889. Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten, 1887

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Working on some creature/character dev for a this is a Pooka, or Púca, from folklore. A shape changing rabbit/man with wings.

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🔥🔥🔥 Legends in Mexican Folklore. 🔥🔥🔥

Available now on ; https://t.co/YC7OSYiADA

Enjoy. 💎💎💎

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Catching up on sleep, food and my non-nft friends after a crazy week at . I didn’t make any new art this past week. So here’s an older piece - Nicnevin, the Daughter of the Devine & the Queen of Fairies. Inspired by the tales from Scottish folklore. Available on

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Pieces based on UK myth and folklore.

🌳Ancient Yews in Graveyards
🐶Arawn, Welsh king of the Otherworld
⚔️Gogmagog the Giant
🔥Boudica, Queen of the Iceni

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Within Welsh folklore...Friday is quite a prominent day to have encounters or sightings of fairies.

However, many Welsh cunning folk and folk magical practitioners claimed to work in tandem with fairies and they said the days they walked with them was Tuesdays or Thursdays.

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In my personal head-canon pokemon are actually yokai. But that's a story for later.

In reality pokemon were inspired by dozens of different things, including mythology and folklore. In this YouTube video I look at five of the more obvious ones.

watch: https://t.co/SaCv2RQ0Ns

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Happy Halloween 🎃
A rushed illustration for the spooky day - an old style I used to work in back when I was obsessed with Edward Gorey and subconsciously inspired by Scandinavian folklore.

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📢 It's been a long time in the making - but we're so excited to launch our new title - Tamlin!

reimagines classical folk ballad 'Tam Lin' through a colourful and queer lens, creating room for queer love & queer hero in Scottish folklore.

https://t.co/hSFH5YLbn5

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🎃HALLOWZINE VENDOR SPOTLIGHT🎃

marlowe lune () is an illustrator and printmaker who makes work inspired by historical aesthetics, queer narratives and folklore. They run the Merry Blackbird Postcard Society, a patreon-hosted love letter to traditional mail.💜

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Day 25: Dark Sea 🐙 For this prompt I went with my illustrated of Chudo-Yudo! A beast of the seas in Slavic folklore. I'll have this illustration and many others available at the end of this month. Please let me know if one of these paintings interests you ❤#mabsdrawlloweenclub

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Draugr are the reanimated remains of Nordic graves and palaces, driven by greed and a lust for bloodshed. With the power to shapeshift and relying on deception, they are the stuff of terror in Scandinavian sagas and folklore.

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Netflix's recent surge in Folklore/Mythology content includes "Trese" which follows warrior-shaman, Alexandra Trese as she joins the Manila police to solve supernatural crimes. The spirits and creatures in the show are vibrant creatures from Filipino folklore.

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So-Sorree is based off of Ittan-Momen, a real life youkai from Japanese folklore.

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Los Angeles-based comics start-up is launching the first Filipino-American comic book series focusing on Philippine mythology and folklore. https://t.co/IrqsvqeyQm

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A bit late to the monster girl party, but hey at least I made a manananggal from Filipino folklore. Happy Spooktober, everyone!

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