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Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

—Molly Ringle

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2022-03-04

Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

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2022-03-01

“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

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2022-02-28

"As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. . . My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors." ― R.A. Salvatore, Exile
Art by Kristina Carroll

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2022-02-26

Fenrir (the Wolf) is the oldest of three terrible children of Loki. Fenrir is huge, strong, terrifying, and his upper jaw touches heaven when yawning. Only war god Tyr is brave enough to feed the wolf. More: https://t.co/OJktfv3bUj


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2022-02-24

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

—Maurice Sendak

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2022-02-23

Be careful and watch your steps when you enter the realms of Jötunheimr, the home of the fearful Norse giants. You might think twice before undertaking a journey to these dark forests and mountain peaks. More: https://t.co/Mq6JNBYHLC

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2022-02-23