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Fantasy author has used both sides of Cúchulain’s character to create his multi-layered teenage hero, Max MacDaniels, the “Hound of Rowan”.
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2019-07-05

Some believe that cats' pupils wax and wane with the moon. [Edward Bawden, 'Cat and an Orchid', pencil and watercolour]

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2019-07-05

When a cat's fur snaps with electricity, bad weather is on its way. [Andy Warhol, 'Sam', 1954.]

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2019-07-05

The World Turtle is a theme that recurs in Hindu and Chinese mythology, but also appears in the folklore of the Iroquois in North America. It supposes that the entire world is supported on the back of an enormous turtle. 🐢

Art: John Clowder Akupara

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2019-07-04

A dolphin rescues Arion, a poet accosted by hostile sailors who was forced to leap into the sea to save himself. The dolphin perished after the journey but was given a burial and monument and was placed in the heavens among the constellations.

N.C. Wyeth, 1938

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2019-07-04

Rather love this 1875 series of illustrations 'An Elf-Fairy Romance' showing the courtship around a mushroom, the kiss (aww..) and the fairy running away leaving the elf heartbroken (sob!). Illustrations by Richard Doyle from 'In Fairyland'

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2019-07-04

Sadhbh, Fionn mac Cumhaill's wife turned into doe for 3 yrs for refusing love of a dark druid until his serving man told her that if she set foot in the dún (fort/castle) of the Fianna of Ireland, the druid would no longer have any power over her! 📷: Sloegenie.

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2019-07-04

In Japanese folklore the minogame is a turtle believed to live up to 10,000 years. It's tail is made out of seaweed & algae & it features in the famous legend of Urashima Taro. It is depicted here with rabbits dancing beneath the moon.

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2019-07-04

The old form of Capricorn, the goatfish, is taken from Pricus, father of the sea goats in Greek mythology.

Sea goats could reason, speak and travel in time. If they spent too long on land, they became ordinary, non sapient goats 1/2

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2019-06-28

The constellation Cassiopeia (my favorite growing up) holds the story from of the vain queen who was thrown into the sky for thinking she was more beautiful than the sea nymphs, or as my mother told me: for looking in the mirror too often...

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2019-06-27

According to Slavic Zorya is a magnificent star goddess. Guardian of the 'Doomsday Hound' & servant to the Sun God (Dazbog). She is represented by 2 the Morning & Evening Star. Responsible for opening & closing the gates to the Sun's Palace.

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The faces of the Pleiades, the 7 daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Pursued by Orion, Zeus transformed them into doves, then When Orion himself was killed, he was turned into a constellation himself and placed behind them
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Image Harley MS 647

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Boshin (Civil) War between Tokugawa Shogunate & Imperial faction ended 1869. Shogun forces surrendered. British & French Imperial rivalry - supported different sides & featured in such (romanticised) depictions as 1880 painting.

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13th century Turkish folklore:
–What do they do with the old moons Hodja?
–They cut them in pieces to make stars.

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2019-06-27

It's again! Which means I'm late, oops. There's another house fairy in this lot, my favourite mythical creature! The fact that they appear in folklore all over the world suggests to me that there's some truth in the idea.

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2019-06-27

✨💖✨An old English charm to discover who you would marry...
Count seven stars on seven consecutive nights, and the first person to shake your hand on the eighth day will be your future wife or husband!

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In Finland, the Northern Lights are called "revontulet" or "fox fires". One old folktale tells of an Arctic fox running and scampering in the far north, throwing fire coloured lights up into the dark sky by sweeping frozen snow crystals upwards with his tail.

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Tanabata is a star festival meaning ‘evening of the 7th.’ It marks the annual meeting on 7th July of the celestial star-crossed lovers, Orihime & Hikoboshi, who, according to Japanese legend, live on opposite sides of the Milky Way & are forbidden from meeting.

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2019-06-27

For this week’s theme of the skies and the stars, here’s a little moon-gazey dragon from the depths of the northern Welsh forests.

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