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Four wise old witches for today's theme, Elders.
Say hi to Ulfrún, Hotaru, Renard and Grizel.
🍂Their stories are featured in A Compendium Of Witches https://t.co/Q7pFguSlW5

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White horses have a connection with wisdom of old age and death in many cultures.

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In exchange for sex, the Cumaean Sibyl of Greek mythology extracted from Apollo a promise that she’ll live for as many years as grains of sand in her palm. He had the last laugh: she eventually grew so old she herself shrunk to the size of a grain of sand...

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They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity...
1905

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For this week's theme on :
Thors third challenge when he visited Utgard-loki was to wrestle the old nurse Elli. Who proceeded to bring down Thor!
Later it was revealed that Elli was indeed old age itself and not even the mighty Thor can win against ageing.

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Methuselah has become a synonymous for longlivity. According to the Bible, e.g Book of Genesis, Book of Enoch he lived 969 years. Some scholars believe his age is a mistranslation, while others believe it was used to describe the past of the Genesis.

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Baba Yaga by Bojana Dimitrovski

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Who’s ready for the new !! Goodluck !! Hope u like my work!!

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The tool of every
self-portrait
is the mirror
You see yourself in it
Turn it the other way
and you see the world

Agnes Varda

The Cape | Loretta Leigh

https://t.co/wfbHpiWwL3

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Ding dong, today took long! Here’s day 3, “bait.” Huldra’s are seductive forest creature in Scandinavian folklore. They are known to lure men into the forest to keep them as slaves, lovers, or worse..

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Grimm’s The Seven Ravens is a variation of The Wild Swans with another really wonderful heroine who rescues her brothers. In this tale, the 7 brothers have been transformed into ravens.

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Fun Facts about Hera!!!
1) Hera was as an independent goddess before the Greeks gave up trying to suppress her cults and married her off to Zeus, conquering both the land of Greece and a woman-centered religion.
Illustration from HanieMohd

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Long rumoured to possess magical properties in addition to being rare, in the time of King Louis the IX women were forbidden to wear diamonds, even queens, until courtesan Agnès Sorel broke the taboo centuries later.
Portrait by Jean Fouquet

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Africa: earth & water are represented by female goddesses. In Yoruba culture (Nigeria) ILE is the mother of Earth; Yemoja is goddess of water, her messengers being hippo and crocodile, and her daughter Aje, Goddess of Rivers Niger.

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"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a legend immortalized in the 1819 ballad by John Keats, based on a 15th century poem. It tells of a fairy woman who enchanted knights, who for years afterwards would wander in the wilderness, dazed and lovesick, in search of her.

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The Six Sillies is a Celtic Tale taken from Andrew Lang's Red Fairy Book originally published in 1890. Follow the link for the full story: https://t.co/l8q0g52E6t

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The Greek goddess and witch Circe was the daughter of the sun god Helios and the nymph Perse. She was able to transform men into pigs and in one version of myth she bore Odysseus a son who later accidentally killed him.

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Bold and beautiful, the Valkyries. From Old Norse ‘valkyrja’ (fallen+choose), ‘choosers of the fallen’, would bring the slain warriors to Fólkvangr and Valhalla.

Credit: 1). E. Doepler, 1905. 2). E.R. Hughes, ca.1900. 3). S. Sinding, 1910. 4). No credit

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A favourite girl is Gerda in
After her friend Kai disappears she travels the world on a visionary quest to save him, barefoot and alone. Hans Christian Andersen’s story has been acclaimed as perhaps the first feminist fairy tale. 🎨 Dulac

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Ever wondered about the tradition of turning the sod - tradition says turn a sod, leave it overnight and if in the morning it has been turned back then the fairies disapprove - D. MacManus, Middle Kingdom, The Faerie World of

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