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scroll painting
19th century
scenes depicting green male figure being venerated by different devotees, including a woman in green garment, all against red backgrounds
Is it Yamraj? Or Tree deity?
Every region has folklore & related art of storytelling via painting

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2021-06-19

Sistersong by . I love myth retellings and can't wait to see how this one will play with British folklore. I read a bit before work and it was beautiful!
Also what an amazingly gorgeous cover.

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2021-06-19

Hi, I'm Colin, a Canadian in the UK. I write, illustrate, and publish & games inspired by folklore and designed to be easy to run
PDF:
https://t.co/I3jqvPILqa
https://t.co/aMiKojf79c
Print:
https://t.co/fXKHzrfO5m (UK)
https://t.co/GNlvwESPm3 (US)

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2021-06-19

Who wants to hear the story of the goddess Gerðar?

If you are free Friday the 25th June, join me at 7:30pm for my free storytelling event.

Topic: and of the

https://t.co/4XexRYCCRy

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2021-06-18

There are also tales of Kamikiri taking forms other than insects and possibly even being kitsune (foxes) in disguise.

🎨1. Matthew Meyer
2. 'Kamikiri' from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi
3. 'Hair-cutting Mysterious Tale' - Utagawa Yoshifuji, 1868.
2/2

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2021-06-18

Call it my love of foreign mythology/folklore, but the idea of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands celebrating Easter with stories about flying church bells going to visit the Pope in Rome, then coming back to their respective villages full of candy and toys has always sent me

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2021-06-18

Hi! I’m Rick, Mexican illustrator and a sucker for magic, folklore and horns!
are really good illustrators and I admire their work!
Here is some of mine

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2021-06-18

(Ban Jumonji SR/UR) Hot springs and folklore

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2021-06-18

The Korean tale of Princess Bari tells the story of a girl abandoned by her parents after birth. She took a journey into hell to collect life-saving flowers and became a shamanic goddess, turning her unlucky birth story into powerful one.

A birthday thread for

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2021-06-18



The fertility tree (1265)
A tree with dozens of penises hanging from it. A crowd of women waits for them to fall and two of them are clearly fighting over one in particular

Fresco. Massa Marittima 🇮🇹

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2021-06-18

The Mazzamurello or Mazzamuriello is a whimsical fantasy creature of the Italian fairy-folk tradition, that scares bad people but is generous with good ones. This Italian goblin is known under different names in the various parts of Italy.

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2021-06-17

In Javanese lore, the afterbirth was set adrift at night to please the crocodiles, as it was believed to be their sibling. Crocodiles were thought to be the ancestors of the people and so a "twin" was returned to them...

🎨De Morgan

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2021-06-17

A 'chime child' is a baby born as the clock strikes 3, 6, 9 or 12. They might be unlucky in life but they will have the gift to see things others cannot.

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2021-06-17

Vielen Dank dafür! ☺️❤️
I'm Valetta. This will be my very first Dokomi and I'm super excited! My art is mostly fantasy and folklore😊I will have lots of prints and smaller goodies like acryl charms, sticker, sticker books and other things at my booth :D

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2021-06-17

Happy 6th birthday, Folklore Thursday! Russian miniature painting of 'The Sea King's Daughter'. "Sadko set his gusli on his lap and plucked a merry tune. Soon all the fish swam in graceful figures. The seafloor crawlers cavorted. The maidens leaped and spun."

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2021-06-17



6 years of fun "dedicated to gathering, sharing & preserving folklore from around the world"

my 2018 & needs an update!
https://t.co/k1M5zSzVJa

Old Canadian Postcard & Alphonse Mucha

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2021-06-17

Happy Birthday ! Midwives of London in 1554 were instructed ‘a mydwyfe shall not use or exercise any witchecrafte, charmes, sorcerye, invocations or praiers other than suche as be allowable and may stand with the lawes and ordinances of the Catholic Churche’

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2021-06-17

tp262 Birth of Yggdrasil acrylic and oil on paper 22x14 inches.

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2021-06-17

A human-like changeling may display intelligence far beyond their apparent years, as well as possess uncanny insight. A common way such a being could identify itself is through displaying unusual behaviour when it thinks it's alone…

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2021-06-17

In Celtic folklore, the birch tree known as ‘The Lady of the Woods’, is the 1st tree of the Ogham, the Celtic tree alphabet. It symbolises promise, light, new beginnings & birth. Babies cradles were often made of it, drawing on the symbolism of new beginnings.

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2021-06-17