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Legend has it that Jenny Greenteeth, a water-witcher, was an old woman who skulked under the weeds or willows overhanging the water, ready to drag in any unsuspecting child that ventured too close to the water’s brink with her long arms.
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2020-10-02

It’s Loretober! Day 1: God or Goddess. I picked MVP Hermes!
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- Haida Tales: Raven and the Coming of the Salmon https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R

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In Irish Mythology 'The Children of Lír' are transformed into four swans by their stepmother Aoife, only regaining their human form in extreme old age. Pic: by John Duncan

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Ukko is the Finnish and Estonian god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder. His name means male grandparent, grandfather, old man in Finnish.

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Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle that takes him to a palace under the sea where Princess Otohime entertains him for a few days. She gifts him a box he must not open. When home he learns he was gone for 100 years. Saddened, he opens the box & becomes a very old man

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'My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head

For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,
And lusty life away she leaps
As there had been none such'

by Lord Thomas Vaux

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Proverb: "For an old man to marry is like wanting to harvest in wintertime"

by Ernest Aris

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"#Old Jimmy Spray" (c.1806-1888) c.1860-70. "..the only thing of interest about him [!].. that he was taken from the Workshouse as a that he was bought from the !

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Perhaps the moral of the Japanese legend of Princess Kaguya is that living forever won't be worth it without one's love - it's why immortal moon-woman Kaguya avoids marrying on Earth, and why the Emperor, who so loved her, ultimately refuses to be made one alone.#FolkloreThursday

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To discover how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries. Then shake it. The number of cherries that fall will be the number of years left...

🎨Tomikichiro Tokuriki

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In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed, ferocious old woman. She can be both benefactor & villain. She is also regarded as a Mother Earth figure and guardian of the forest.

🎨Xenia Berezovsky

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2020-10-01

Beneath the sea lies Ryūgū-jō (竜宮城), realm of the Japanese dragon kami Ryūjin (龍神). Its four gardens corresponds with the four seasons regardless of the season above the waves, and there is always plenty. Humans do not age here, and time passes differently.

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Sazae Oni are Yokai turban snails who can shapeshift. One story tells of a Sazae Oni who bit off the testicles of pirates and demanded that in exchange for their balls they give her all their treasures which they complied. Art

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The sea is as densely populated with fairies as any place on earth. These water sprites control the weather and the water, raise storms, and have the power to cause shipwreck, or keep a ship safe.

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2020-09-24

The Solway Firth is reported to be haunted by a phantom ship that appears immediately before a wreck is to occur. The ship is said to be crewed by the ghosts of a bridal party who are visible on deck and were the victims of a wreck years before.

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2020-09-24

It has been theorized that mermaid legends may have in part been based on dugongs: gentle sea mammals with expressive eyes who, perhaps, prompted sailors, long at sea and lonely as salt, to, ahem, fantasize about beautiful women arising from the sea.

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The Soucouyant is a shapeshifting Caribbean folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman by day. By night, she strips off her wrinkled skin and puts it in a mortar. In her true form, as a fireball she flies across the dark sky in search of a victim.

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Thank you for accompanying us on the high seas. It is time for to sail off into the sunset, but the lovely will be back after the break with more fabulous lore. Have a great week!
Img: The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer

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