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Dragon's nature has been described as dual. Both medicine & poison, loyal & deceitful. This reflects, says Martin Shaw, human nature. Do we store personal treasures & gifts in our dark caves, or do we distribute them around the world? Are we a hoarder or a gifter?#FaustianFriday
Draugen is a huge, seaweed covered monster in Norwegian folklore, that was thought to be the ghost of a drowned fisherman. Draugen often appeared during storms, trying to drag the fishermen under water and drown them.
#FaustianFriday
“The Sea Monster”
Theodor Kittelsen (1881)
"My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know." 🖤 Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
#31DaysOfHalloween #FaustianFriday
🎨 The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse.
The Ethiopian Crocotta/ Leucrotta is a hybridized were-animal that can mimic human voices to lure their prey. If the creature looks at you three times then it will root you to the spot.
🖼: @arvalis
#SuperstitionSat #31DaysOfHalloween #FaustianFriday
The waters around Hopeless Maine are cursed with monstrous sealife, angry tides and dramatic rocks, which tend to prove fatal. #FaustianFriday
We visit @prof_elemental's extremely haunted attic for #FaustianFriday (I expect it's cursed as well, and a bit messy)
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"My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
Full sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last."—Goethe
The Erlkonig by Schubert
#31DaysOfHalloween
🎨Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Moritz von Schwind, Albert Sterner
https://t.co/4hUbyDoYlA via @YouTube
In Britain, the distinction between fairies and ghosts is ambiguous. When King Arthur stole a cauldron from Fairyland, he also confronted the ghosts of Welsh folk heroes. Likewise, sometimes a fairy king leads the Wild Hunt, but other times it's Arthur's ghost. #FaustianFriday
Ghost said to priest:
'In life, love gnawed my skin
To this white bone;
What love did then, love does now:
Gnaws me through.'
-Sylvia Plath- #FaustianFriday
#FaustianFriday Stumbled upon the Pirates with their links with the Templars.
Edward Blackbeard Teach who got his nickname from having a thick black beard & his fearsome appearance.
He apparently tied lit fuses under his hat to intimidate his enemies even more #PirateLoreWeek https://t.co/ZHAQgKBnqP
On a grim prison hulk on the Thames the beautiful song of a unseen nightingale was a herald of a death, sometimes one of release, sometimes one of violent revenge...
from Wonder tales of the Thames and Estuary by R Hallmann.
Art self for the same book
#FaustianFriday
"All night I heard along the coast
The sea her grief outpour;
And with the dawn arose a ghost
To haunt the furrowed shore.
And when from out the gray mist rolled
The sun above the town,
A shipwrecked sailor came and told
Of how the ship went down." F.D. Sherman 🖤#FaustianFriday
”The hero observed that swamp-thing from hell,
the tarn-hag in all her terrible strength,
then heaved his war-sword and swung his arm:
the decorated blade came down ringing
and singing on her head.”
—Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf 🖼 J. R. Skelton #FaustianFriday
Back in the old days, those lived on Fugloy (the easternmost island in the Faroe Islands), encountered sea trolls (or "beach trolls" as they called them) several times.
Unlike other trolls, the beach trolls were covered in seaweed and pebbles.
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Scylla is a sea monster from Greek mythology featured most famously in the Odyssey, where she kills 6 of Odysseus's men. The witch Circe transformed her out of jealousy into a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads on long necks with 3 rows of shark-like teeth each. #FaustianFriday
'Watson and the Shark' by John S. Copley, 1778 #FaustianFriday
This also happens to be a fantastic idea for necromancers in @Wizards_DnD! We would love if Bards could get this spell as well and command their army of undead as they play their instruments (the concentration element)! We need more Necromancer Bards! #faustianfriday #DnD
“Remember death.[...] There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.”
― Dan Brown, Origin #FaustianFriday
(Art: Death and the Maiden, George Clark Stanton)