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Un encargo muy que acabo de terminar par aun museo.
¿Alguien sabe quién es esta señora?
Pista 1: Tiene siete piernas.
Pista 2: la conoce desollá.

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similar to a Brownie, a Hob-thross appears in Cumbrian folklore. One, nicknamed Tawney Boy lived with a family at Overthwaite. Hob-thross will do a great deal of work for a family if treated well.

art: Spiderwick Chronicles

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Yacatecuhtli is the Aztec god of commerce & business travelers. His symbol is a bundle of sticks. To honor him, merchants would travel with sticks. At night they'd tie them together & sprinkle them with blood from their ears. This guaranteed success in sales.

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Many fairy tales feature babies that appear in unexpected places. In the Japanese fairy tale Momotarō, an old couple finds a baby boy inside a giant peach.

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In Chinook mythology, the first humans hatched from eggs laid by the thunderbird T'soona on the mountain Kaheese. Some versions say a giantess broke some & was punished for it. Others say the giantess just rolled them down the mountain, where they hatched.

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In a Flemish tale a fisherman stumbles upon six newborn, abandoned swans. He takes them with him and they change into skulls. He returns the skulls to where he found them and they transform back into swans. The man had only bad luck since that day.

🎨Nunques

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Meng Po, the goddess of forgetfulness in Chinese myth, resides in Diyu, the realm of the dead. When a soul is ready to be reincarnated, she serves them the Five-Flavored Tea of Forgetfulness, which erases memories of their previous life & lets them begin anew.

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The Chinese zodiac Year of the Tiger transitions from the Ox on February 1st. This year is a water tiger, bringing good fortune in relationships and family life.🐅


▫️Ashley Chaw

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Midwives are often said to have frequently been accused of witchcraft. There is actually only one verified case of an English woman coming before the courts on witchcraft related accusations. Here’s an article I wrote on the matter for https://t.co/xm5w058AHs

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Celsia, a Roman governor's wife, is said to have had 9 daughters after drinking from a magical spring in (#Galicia). Since the girls were Christians, they were martyred.
One of them, Santa Liberata or Santa Librada, is venerated for favoring childbirth.

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In the Finnish Mythology the air goddess Ilmatar comes down to primal waters, when a bird lands on her knee and lays six eggs. When the eggs become too hot, she moves her leg, causing the eggs to crash into the water and form the earth, moon, stars, and sun.

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In Slavic mythology, in the beginning, there was darkness, inhabited by Rod, and an egg that contained Svarog. The egg opened, and Svarog climbed out; the dust from the eggshell formed the sacred tree which rose to separate the heavens from the sea and the land.

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The is one of the birth flowers of January. Blooming through the frozen earth early in the new year, it is a symbol of rebirth, renewal & hope, as its arrival in the depths of winter means other flowers will soon follow. Image: Cicely Mary Barker.

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Eos, is the Goddess of Dawn and patron of new beginnings in Greek Mythology.

She was the sister of Helios and Selene. She had wings, and a deep passion for adventure.

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...birth, rebirth & resurrection feature prominently in the stories from my selection of five fave characters of the Mabinogion for

A YEAR & A DAY : https://t.co/CB5gGQj9Yh

new life, birth, beginnings &

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Momotarō was born from a giant peach, found floating down a river by a childless woman washing clothes. She & her husband discovered him while trying to open the peach to eat it, which prompted the child to explain he'd been bestowed by the gods to be their son.

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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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Munag Sumala had a forbidden love affair with the water god Lakandanum. Munag Sumala's father, Apung Sinukuan (god of the sun, war, and death) slew her in a rage. She died at the peak of the Sun's fury, which coincides with the Catholic Biernes Santu. 2/4

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Bayung Danum is the traditional Kapampangan celebration of a new year at the start of planting season. It is believed to commemorate the resurrection of Munag Sumala, the red naga goddess of the Dawn, into the crocodile river god Apung Iru. 1/4

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