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Moses with horns! Scene from Walters manuscript - 1250

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- A man could be exceptionally horrible creature - a werewolf. People believed in transformation into an animal & this shape-shifting phenomenon is known in legends of the world. Legendary warriors had the ability to turn into wolves...
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The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen is a tale about eleven princes who are turned into swans. Their sister, Lisa must save them by spinning nettles into thread to make eleven coats. She must not speak a word until she is done or her brothers will die.

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2022-11-15

In some tales by Galician writer Álvaro Cunqueiro, the souls of the deceased turn into ravens and they even retain some characteristics that they had whey they were human (for example, a lame human will be a lame raven).

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- Norse Dwarf Fafnir was a cunning, greedy, evil creature. He killed his father, stole the magical Andvaranaut ring, and turned into a dragon so he could guard the treasure, but fate caught up with him and he was punished for his crimes. https://t.co/A4qI2a4Z4A

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“This rich man is a cheat and liar! To his son, he commanded, “Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky.” And the rich man’s son transformed into the first mole. https://t.co/i9cfgE8F4j

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In Brothers Grimm tale "The Seven Ravens" a father’s angry wish transforms his 7 sons into ravens; their sister learns from the stars they're locked inside a glass mountain, sacrifices her finger to unlock its door, frees them from the curse
🎨Jana Heidersdorf

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“Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
- Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince.

🎨Emily Winfield Martin.

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Sadhbh, Fionn mac Cumhaill's wife turned into doe for refusing druid's love! Told if she set foot in the fort of the Fianna he wouldn't have any power over her! Lived happily as human until Fionn away! Turned back to a doe, Fionn never found her again!

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"Little Mangy One" is a Lebanese folktale about three goat brothers named Siksik, Mikmik, & Jureybon. The first two get devoured by a hyena, but Jureybon gores the hyena with his horns & cuts open his belly to free his brothers.

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Legendary warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill met sisters Aine & Milucra. MiIlucra was infatuated by Fionn but he loved Aine. Aine had disliked grey-haired men. So Milucra enchanted a lake to turn the hair of swimmers grey and lured Fionn to it. His hair turned white!

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2022-11-09

Snakes for hair is more common than Medusa and her Gorgon sisters: Tadodaho of Iroquois lore had snakes from everywhere that sprouted hair, a sign of his wickedness.

🖼: J. Hartmann

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Bakezōri are a type of tsukumogami. They look normal sandles with arms and feet and one eye. They like scaring people.

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It's and I've got a fractured fairytale for you, IT'S NOT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by ,, the new addition to the series https://t.co/gbXuSRuynN

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2022-11-09

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

🎨 Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)

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2022-11-08

A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left.


art: Eric Edwards

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The stray sod is an odd walking plant that grows on the graves of unbaptized children. They wander around mindlessly and anyone who steps on them are cursed with a confusion that will make them lost unless they turn their clothes inside out.

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