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My fav centaur is from Greek Chiron. A great healer, astrologer & respected oracle. Said to be the first centaur; highly revered as a teacher of mythological In his accidental death, he was spread among the  as the constellation Centaurus.

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A part of me will always wish that we can, like Hansel & Gretel, find houses made of gingerbread deep in the woods, if we search hard enough. ☺️🌲🍭


🎨By Vogel, Kubel, Mattotti, Vtorenko

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The German love of mysterious forests runs deep. So when Romanticism hit, the Grimms turned to Germany’s Black Forest for inspiration. Nearly 200 km of dense, pine forest made it a perfect setting for enchanted fairy tales. 💫🌲#FolkloreThursday
🎨 By Friedrich & Nielsen

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Limos, the goddess of famine, breathed into Erysichthon's mouth and cursed him with insatiable, inhuman hunger. Why? Because he cut down a dryad's tree. This killed the dryad. He ended up eating himself. The gods don't play.

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Creepy warning! The wendigo stalks East coast forests, including our own region. This was created with on Readi-Board.

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In Thailand there is an archetype, the Nang Mai, the Lady of the Woods. This spirit manifests in different trees, each with their own specific lore. Banana trees are Nang Tani, beautiful young women who manifest in full moonlight.

🖼: IBlacKIE-MaiDeNI

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Kodama are the spirits of old trees in deep forests in Japan. Sometimes seen as orbs of light or tiny vaguely human shapes, they are more often heard, as echoes that are just slightly oddly delayed art by
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The Celtic tree month of Hazel goes from 5 August to 1 Sep. Hazel is the tree of knowledge, wisdom & poetic inspiration, & its nuts bring prophetic power. It is good for magical wands & dowsing for water & ley lines, as it holds the secrets of the earth. Img: CB

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According to pagan lore,yew trees are sacred to Hecate, the Greek goddess of death,witchcraft, and necromancy. It's said that the yew purifies the dead as they arrive in Hades,also known as the underworld https://t.co/nrlkqNDNDD
🎨Maximilian Pirner,William Blake

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

(🎨R Sheppard)

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In Kodama are the spirits of trees. While they are attached to specific trees, they can also move freely through forests often appearing as glowing orbs of light. In some accounts they present as regular trees but with the ability to...

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In the Sumerian legend The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Cedar Forest is the glorious realm of the gods, guarded by the demigod Humbaba. Early versions of the legend place this forest in the mountains of Iran, while Babylonian retellings place it in Lebanon.

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Trees play an important part in In Shinto they are considered sacred and are believed to possess a spirit. While Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film is a fictitious character, it was no doubt inspired by the animistic beliefs of Japan.

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I am responsible for kitsune!Kazuha in art ASK(AU with folklore creatures)
The first small answer, the traveler asks Kazuha about his true form

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Meet Faye Summers, an epithet erased oc. She’s a university student with the epithet folklore. She’s a very kind and sweet person who loves the cottagecore aesthetic. second image by

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Diablo Danzante de Yare. Devil of Declarado por la Unesco Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad en 2.012, por by el Artista Plástico y Heráldico Victor M. Martinez. Óleo 70x50 cms. Apoyen el Arte y Artistas Nacionales.

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Here's Kiku Tanaka! Her Epithet is Yokai and it lets her give herself the traits of various kinds of well-known yokai found in Japanese folklore. She also can accidentally turn objects into yokai if she were to touch them with her bare hands, which is why she usually wears gloves

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And to celebrate the Return of my Blog, a post about a possible folklore influence on part of Tolkien's Return of the King. I give you 'The Fairy Flag and the Paths of the Dead'! https://t.co/WkIu9IkpQr (art by Inger Edelfeldt)

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