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Breton fisherfolk believed when someone died at sea, gulls and curlews would beat their wings against the dead one's windows...

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2022-07-31

A Flemish tale says that a man who drowned in a swamp could often be heard screaming. It was said that he sometimes called out for help. In other tales people who drowned in swamps were said to pull others into the water.

🎨Head of a Drowned Man - Théodore Géricault

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2022-07-31

Bolotnik is a spirit master of the swamp in Eastern Slavic mythology that is said to lure individuals to the bottom of the swamp. In some stories, they will provide gifts; tricking someone to stay in the swamp without even realizing it.

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2022-07-27



Mami Wata is a water spirit that is revered in Africa (and the Americas). A large snake frequently accompanies her as a divine symbol, wrapping itself around her. 🐍 She is believed to be a woman with the ability to transform into any form of her choice.

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2022-07-24

Thirsty for a cool drink on this Consider then to seek out Mímisbrunnr/Mímir's well, guarded by Mímir, located beneath the world tree Yggdrasil.
The water of the well contains ancient wisdom. Odin himself sacrificed one of his eyes in exchange for a drink.

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2022-07-24

“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek."
―Mark Richard, Fishboy

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2022-07-17

Uncegila was a mighty water snake in Native American (Lakota) mythology. She polluted rivers and subsequently flooded the land with salt water so nothing could grow. According to myth twins that hit the only fragile spot on her body eventually killed her.

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2022-07-17



Adonis painted by a running brook,
And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
Which seem to move and wanton with her breath
Even as the waving sedges play wi' th' wind.
–The Taming Of The Shrew.
Prologue, 2.

🎨Walter Crane

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2022-07-17

Sharing a bit of old CDC stuff for

🍄The Rot Prince has ruled over the Bleakwood for countless mortal lifetimes. Some say it was once a creature of flesh and bone, but all that now remains is a mildew-blackened heart at its core.

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2022-07-11

“Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
...
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea" (Matthew Arnold)

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2022-07-10

“All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease!”

– William Shakespeare



Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban dancing on the island shore from The Tempest. Art by Johann Heinrich Ramberg

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2022-07-10

The Honey Island Swamp Monster, aka the "Cajun Sasquatch," is an ape cryptid said to inhabit Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp. Honey Swamp is the Swamp Monster in the teen monster fashion doll franchise Monster High. However, she's less ape and more southern belle.

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2022-07-10

is the legendary 4-toed southernmost cousin of Bigfoot. There have been sightings of this across South Florida - mainly in the stretching down to the Florida Keys - for more than a century

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2022-07-03

Mélusine is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.

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And forever and forever,
As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes;
The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear
As the symbol of love in heaven,
And its wavering image here.
— H W Longfellow.

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2022-07-03

“… in Wendsyssel… in the north of Jutland… There is still a great bog there. It may well be called the Wild Bog, and one can easily imagine how desolate and dreary it was among all these swamps and pools a thousand years ago.” (Andersen)

🎨 W. Heath Robinson

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2022-06-27


Who’ll reveal to our waking ken
The forms that swim & the shapes that creep
Under the waters of sleep?
& I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in
On the length & the breadth of the marvellous marshes of Glynn.–Sidney Lanier, MarshesOfGlynn

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2022-06-26

He who finds the fire-flower of the fern at exactly midnight on Summer Solstice Eve will be bestowed with secret gifts of magick, opened to clairvoyance and all magical creatures would come know him. 🐍
Fern Flower by PerlaMarina on Deviantart 🐍

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