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The wonderful has become a vulnerable species due to habitat loss and hunting for its scales and meat. In African and Chinese traditional medicine, pangolins are believed to cure a plethora of illnesses.

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2018-03-29

"The striped hyena is believed to confer magic powers, and his flesh, hair, and teeth are objects of contention."

ref: Popular Science Monthly, March 1885

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2018-03-29

Mother West Wind "Why" Stories (1920) by Thornton W. Burgess, fables based on folklore explaining why animals have certain traits. Moral: Old Mother Nature knows best. Burgess was a conservationist who wanted to inspire children to revere wildlife.

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2018-03-29

This week's theme is wildlife and folklore! Share your nature related folklore on Thursday! (Artist: Richard Doyle.)

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2018-03-28

The legendary Mermen sometimes recorded in the Islands of the Marsh have an ill reputation.

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2018-03-23

Dylan decided to turn the three into seagulls so that they could spend the day with their father on land, and the night at sea with him. Img: 'Farmer and gulls at the coast' by Kyffin Williams https://t.co/MZnNKPRPAV (thread 6/7)

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2018-03-22

Dylan was repentant once he saw how sad their father was, but it was too late to release them back to the land. They were the property of the sea now. Img: Llanbadrig' by Kyffin Williams (thread 5/7) https://t.co/7E3xHXQf5g

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2018-03-22

When lost in the forest, birds may show you the way. Then again, they may eat all your bread crumbs and then you'll really be in trouble. I'd especially watch out for that white bird... [Adrienne Segur, Dunno, Rackham]

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2018-03-22

One crow means bad luck, but two means good. Three brings health, and four signals money. But five herald sickness, & a murder of six crows means death is near.

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2018-03-22

Travellers who had fallen asleep in the open were in danger of being "torn to pieces by these ferocious birds". - Francis de Castelnau on Andean Condors

ref: "Reptiles and Birds" by Louis Figuier (1870).

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2018-03-22

Stikini, heart-hungry owl-creature in Seminole lore. By day a human, at night it vomits up its soul & organs, hides them in a tree, changes into its true form, & takes off to hunt, feeding on human hearts, which it plucks out by reaching down sleepers' throats.

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2018-03-22

Witches going to their Sabbath [aka, The Departure of the Witches or The Vision of Faust] (1878) by Luis Ricardo Falero (Spain, 1851–1896).

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2018-03-22

Late wallpaper designed by Walter Crane:
Swan & Rush & Iris, 1875, (royalty)
Iris & Kingfisher, 1877, (abundance)
Fig & Peacock, c.1895,
(fertility)
Cockatoo & Pomegranate, 1899, (pairing of a comical bird with the sacred fruit of the Underworld)

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2018-03-22

This week's theme is the folklore of Share your favourite bird-lore with us on Thursday! (Artist: W Heath Robinson)

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2018-03-21

Telling the bees ritual - when someone dies ‘a member of the household… is told to visit the hives, and rattling a chain of small keys tap on the hive and whisper three times: Little brownies, little brownies, your mistress is dead.”
https://t.co/WbohQCL6Ax

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2018-03-15

Whenever I think of fortune, I think of the trickster Leprechaun. Legend has it, they find buried gold coins & store them in a pot; hidden at the end of a rainbow. If a human catches one, they grant 3 wishes. But be careful, they will use your greed against you!

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2018-03-15

Grootslang is a monster created by God as fusion of an elephant and a snake. When he saw how dangerous it was, he separated it in the two different creatures. One survived and people believe it is hiding in the cave Richtersveld in South Africa. Art by Jocarra.

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2018-03-15

'Spring's Flowery Cloak' by Margaret Winifred Tarrant, one of hundreds of Tarrant illustrations we have via our exclusive representation of the Medici Society archive

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2018-03-15

if you have pleased one of the fairy folk & they wish to reward you with fairy gold, make haste for it will vanish with the last rays of sunset & you will never find its location again. (illstr: John Bauer)

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2018-03-15