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🌊🧜♀️🌊A Mermaid from the river Mersey was said to swim through a subterranean passage to Rostherne Mere, where an ancient church bell had been lost in the waters. She would ring it to welcome in the dawn on Easter Sunday, before sitting upon it to sing.
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The Pascagoula River in Mississippi is known as The Singing River. For hundreds of years the Choctaw and locals have experienced and attempted to describe the eerily beautiful sound seemingly rising from the water.
In Scotland Water Wraiths are spirits thought to preside over the waters of highlands and lowlands. They often take the form of skinny, old women with scowling features who dress in green. They try to lure unsuspecting travelers to their death by drowning .
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KAPPA. Vampiric Japanese river imp & Trickster Yōkai. Likes human blood & entrails. A kind of humanoid turtle with a carapace, webbed feet & knee claws. The only thing Kappas enjoy more than a tasty child is a cucumber!
Image 3 Kappa statue at Fukuoka #FolkloreThursday
Mefiti, goddess of the volcano and River Melfa in Italy - this image of Riitta and I on a dry river bed enacting her #FolkloreThursday
The Lady of the Lake is a name or a title used by several #Faeries associated with the legend of #KingArthur. She lived in a casde beneath a lake surrounding the mystical #Avalon. She raised #Lancelot after and gave Arthur the magical sword #Excalibur.
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The Marabbecca is a creature invented by Sicilian parents to warn their children against playing too close to wells. The Marabbecca will snatch the nearest child, pull them down into the well, & drown them. #FolkloreThursday
Chibis of some of the FoMT bachelorettes. C:
#StoryofSeasonsFriendsofMineralTown #ArtistOnTwitter
Gen 1 healers non-healer alt banner when IS?
Fast blue infantry mage Lucius (we have like none), Master Knight Lachesis (axe cav cus they're so rare), Swordmaster Wrys (for the memes), and Florete Mist (sword cav) with proper adaptive damage like Crusher.
The answer to this week's #riddle on #FolkloreThursday:
Straw-berry
Fastest off the mark:
1. @LauraFUnderhill 🥉🏆
2. @merryme300 🥈🏆
Well done! https://t.co/NzlESSOKJs
Lord of the Dead, #Fairy Cavalcade #Psychopomp: The Mysterious Origins of the #WildHunt & Its Many Faces in Pop Culture 🦌🐎⚔️☠️ Pocket history of the myth & new relevance in pop novels & video games #FolkloreThursday #CassandraClare #GwynapNudd #HornedGod https://t.co/5Guauhb5ZL
3. The #SeelieQueen from the @ShadowhunterBks by @cassieclare. She is the cool and collected ancient beauty who rules #Faerie with immense power and she one of my favourite mythological favourite characters from all of the books.
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2. Gwyn Ap Nudd is a #Welsh #mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh #Otherworld, #Annwn, and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, it's laugh broke into a thousand pieces, they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
~ J M Barrie ~ #FolkloreThursday #Art #fairies
🎨 Susan B Pearse
Long ago, folk believed faeries were invisible, except to cats; a cat sat staring at nothing was watching fairies. When a cat sat on a mother's lap, its purring was the sound of it spinning sleep, so that stealthy wee folk could abduct her child
#FolkloreThursday 🎨Isabel Watkins
It's important to point if you are talking about a dog, child, cow. Otherwise the fairy that shares its name may turn up and replace it. The Good folk do not like being accidentally summoned by their names. Art: Arthur Rackham #FolkloreThursday
According to Ojibwe #lore, Memegwaans is a mini humanoid who is terrified of adult humans; disappearing if they see one. However, they have a love for human children. Helping any child who is upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives. #FolkloreThursday
This #FolkloreThursday is about #Fairies ! In cornish, welsh and devon folklore, the Knocker would tap on the walls of mines and warn of or cause cave-ins. Bluecaps, in Northern folklore, appeared as flames and served a similar purpose.
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Leannán Sidhe (fairy mistress) is a fae spirit that seeks the love of human men. If they refuse her, she is their slave. If they are seduced, they are hers. She often takes young poets for lovers. She provides inspiration to these artists. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday