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Áine is an Irish goddess of many things! Of summer, wealth & sovereignty, & so is associated with midsummer and the She is also the goddess of love & fertility, & has command over crops/animals & so associated with agriculture. 🎨OlivosARTstudio 🌞

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2022-02-04

In the Grimm fairy tale "Seven Ravens," a girl searches for her seven brothers. She goes to the Sun for help, but he is boiling hot and devours children. Then the Moon, but he is also a cruel child-eater. Fortunately, the stars are benevolent, and help her quest.

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2022-02-04

Sköll and Hati are the offspring of the wolf,Fenrir, and the giant, Iarnvidia. In Norse mythology,Hati and Skoll are the two wolves that chase the Moon and the Sun, until the day they catch them and plunge the world into darkness during Ragnarök

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2022-02-04

Legends of pig-faced women speak of ladies with human bodies & the face of a pig; a result of 🐷 If the husband, having claim to how others see her, tells her that choice is hers alone, the is broken. 🪄 Her face returns to a human form.

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2022-01-29

Morana is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature. She is an ancient goddess associated with winter's death, rebirth and dreams.

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2022-01-29

An urban legend for The Goatman 🐐 - essentially a faun-like being is said to live in some Maryland woods in America and be responsible for disappearing dogs…
🖼 Faun whistling to a blackbird, Arnold Böcklin, c.1864.

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2022-01-29

Hel (Old Norse: [ˈhel]) is a female being in Norse mythology who is said to preside over an underworld realm of the same name, where she receives a portion of the dead.

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2022-01-28

Sorlds collide in the fictional city of Newford, the setting of Charles de Lindt's series of urban fantasy novels where old and new world meet. Inspired by Celtic and indigenous folklore with a digital spin, Newford is home to all sorts of people and creatures.

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2022-01-28

The area around Manchester Cathedral is said to be haunted by the demon-dog Black Shuck, whose appearance is an omen of death or portends a deathly curse. The legend exists elsewhere in the U.K., but usually in the countryside: its survival in the city is striking

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Doppelgänger is German for “double walker.” [aka alter ego] In myths, they are a paranormal phenomenon of a ghost or double of a living person; mostly portrayed as a harbinger of bad luck or an evil twin. [see &

Art by AnotherWanderer

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2022-01-28

I'm Axel, spooky traditional artist, monster enthusiast, weird goth uncle. 🏳️‍⚧️
Wielding ink and paint, I love to illustrate stories, working on a Faustian novel.

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2022-01-25

For The gathering of "food" for the founders day feast on the island of

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2022-01-22



Artemis (2/2)

Artemis as the Moon Goddess was honored by round cakes called amphiphontes (“shining all around”), in which dadia were stuck („little torches).
That may be the origin of the modern „birthday cake“.

🖼Artémis by Auguste Donnay, 1897,

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2022-01-21

In Flemish tales porridge with garlic seems to have special powers. A servant who could shapeshift into a horse was chased away by serving him this delicacy. Also chased away were devils working on farms. They took good luck with them and the farm was doomed.

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2022-01-21


Ambrosia and nectar, sacred food and drink of the gods in Greek mythology, were said to bring eternal youth, long life and immortality. They were served to the gods of Mount Olympus by the Hebe the divine cupbearer.
🎨 Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun.

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2022-01-21

Early birthday gift for of her character Aiden being horridly manipulated by the Faustian piece of crap behind him whose name is Imago that I made the mistake of bringing into this world. C:

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2022-01-17

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

The Scholar Queen,
is with you for the next firey two hours of

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2022-01-15

In Ancient Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet: Pliny the Elder believed Tiresias invented augury, a form of divination which read the omens of birds. In a necromantic ceremony, Odysseus summons Tiresias, offering him blood, and seeking his prophecy.

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2022-01-15

The Queen on Old Twelfth Night (17 Jan) was often a child. She would knock on the trunk of the oldest tree in the orchard & ask the fertility spirit within, known as the Apple Tree Man, “to awake”. She then placed cider-soaked bread in its branches.

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