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- In Slavic mythology Bolotnik is the master of marshes. Bolotnik likes to attract people to their death and he makes it easy because marshes are very deceptive.
🎨Vladimir Arzhevitina - Read more: https://t.co/HWwvzkd53X

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2021-11-14

'Echo and Narcissus' by John William Waterhouse (1903) illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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2021-11-14

The Girl of the Red Swamp — according to local legend near Mazyr in Gomel Region, Belarus, rusalka that looks like girl 11-12 years old with eyes the colour of muddy water. Drawing by Eugene Kot
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2021-11-07

In the Finnish folklore swamps were believed to contain valuable treasures. Will-o'-the-wisps were believed to be seen in location of these treasures. People believed that the elf guarding the treasure was using the Will-o'-the-wisp to polish the valuables.

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2021-11-07

In the Finnish folklore bogholes were believed to be the gates to the netherworld. They were guarded by the elves who many times were described as pretty maidens. The guardian could also be a spirit of a dead person which could be conjured up with the right words.

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2021-11-07

According to the Wabanaki folklore, a female ghost which goes by the name M-ska-gwe-demoos, used to live in the swamps and would cry sadly. She mainly used to scare children away from wandering around the swamps. It was advisable not to follow her voice.

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2021-11-07

The swamps are an attractive option for those who wish to avoid traversing the mountain range, but it is full of dangers, and many end up becoming part of the dangers once they fail. 1 hour sketch for

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2021-11-05

The Hydrogon, a giant late surviving Lurdusaur in the hollow earth and indeed the largest of its kind growing up to 20-23 meters long, an enormous semiaquatic herbivore 2nd only to the sauropods in its habitat and biome, inhabiting swamps, wetlands, mangroves and even kelpforests

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2021-11-04

"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Two villages were drowned in the Red and the Black Bog of the Rhön Mountains for their sins. At night, one can see the village girls dance as will-o'-the-wisp on the moor

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2021-10-31

In Komi mythology, Vakul is the water deity.

A fisherman once hurt an eye of a big pike and was taken by Vakul under the water – that pike was Vakul’s son, so the deity took the poor fisherman’s eye and implanted it into his son’s eye socket.

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2021-10-31


All the infections that the sun sucks up
From fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His hear me
And yet I needs must curse. —The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

🎨Edmund Dulac

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2021-10-31

10月が終わるので企画の名前を変えます。31日目まで続けます。
二十四日目は九千坊！
October will end from tomorrow, so I will change the name of this project.
This will continue until the 31st day.
Day 24:kusenbo

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2021-10-31

Tomorrow's day theme is "will-o'-the-wisp", a mysterious light that appears to night travellers, especially over moors and swamps. Broadening out, I will feature your poetry/short prose/artworks about beckoning lights.

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2021-10-29

Oh nice, we can get the Platinum outfits in the Sinnoh remake during launch. I like Dawn and her pink boots/wellies best of all, they'd be useful for muddy swamps.

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2021-10-27

Two mermaids, Pethra and Marina~
Umibozu, a cursed being made up entirely of water 👀

Aaand technically Lure I suppose, though she's more based on living in swamps, but there's bunch of water there so totally counts~

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2021-10-26

N11: What if?
- Bro! ~
- Bro~

Sooooo fast art. What if they both become half-trolls? I made Toby half aaargh and half a broken king of the swamps.


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2021-10-26


“Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds—
His path was rugged and sore,
Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds,
Through many a fen where the serpent feeds,
And man never trod before. “
by Thomas Moore

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2021-10-24

Originating in ancient English folklore and later all over Europe & North America, a 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' is a ghost-like light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Art from:
Hermann Hendrich, 1823.
Arnold Böcklin, 1882.

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