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The Dobhar-chú is the father of all otters in Ireland & considered ‘King of the Lakes’. His name means ‘water hound’. The Dobhar-chú is fearsome & not to be trifled with as he is known to kill both people & animals & drink their blood.
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🪸 A seafaring fairy for
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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Thus spoke Raven, “I know the fish in the dreams of the chief's daughter. She dreams of a big, beautiful fish called salmon that lives faraway. The Haida are my friends. I will fly far and swift and bring back salmon.”
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In the folklore of Tobago, the sea dwelling mer-people are male. But beautiful fairy maids with one foot and one deer's hoof, live in rivers and under the bridges, in pools, near waterwheels and waterfalls...

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In the Grimm tale, "The Water of Life" a dwarf helps the hero obtain the life-saving liquid to save his father, the King.

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The ISLAND OF AVALON
a legendary island where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made & later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
Avalon is also associated w/ mystical practices & Morgan le Fay.

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Sina was famous around the South Seas for her beauty. The King of Fij heard of her beauty and decided he had to meet the beautiful one. By magic, he transformed into an eel and swam to her island home.

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A sultry to all. Not quite a fairytale but a lovely children's story...

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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cites a watering hole as:

a pool where animals drink, or in human terms, a favourite pub or bar.

The latter looks more appealing today.



🎨Willy Pogany

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His daughter it is who keeps poor Odysseus pining there, and who seeks continually with her soft and coaxing words to beguile him into forgetting Ithaka

~ Homer



Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus, by Gerard de Lairesse

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“The Ceffyl Dŵr or water horse is a superstition common...to all the Celtic race...An evil spirit, who...would induce the unwary stranger to mount him and soaring over river and mountain would suddenly melt into...mist and precipitate his rider to destruction”

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Once in Romania, if a funeral procession passed by, all containers of water would be covered, since the soul, being hydrotropic, might fall into one and drown...

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'... they loved the River, and often swam in it ... they took a boat and went down to the Gladden Fields, where there were great beds of iris and flowering reeds ...' Fellowship of the Ring. 🎨 WilliWeissfuss https://t.co/SxwpZFy8AC

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The tale "Julnar of the Sea" tells of a Persian king who falls in love with a new concubine, described as having a face like the moon & long black tresses. The concubine, Julnar, reveals she's a mermaid princess from an underwater kingdom.

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lady from fairytale

(not bts related art hhh)

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"The Six Swans" 🦢
From the Bros. Grimm collection.
🎨 by Ethel Franklin Betts, ca 1909

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“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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