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My current WIP is this illustration of a trope in Palestinian folktales. You often have the main characters climb a palm tree to sleep in for the night where they can be safe from wild animals... and djinn. :D

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2022-04-13

Hello I'm just getting started in illustration, mostly narrating Palestinian folktales when I'm not doing studies.

https://t.co/lPIY11T0hS

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2022-04-12

The Wechuge haunt the Northern parts of Arkelon, luring travelers away from their groups to eat them. It is a cannibalistic and malevolent spirit. Folktales say that the creature can only be killed when thrown in a campfire overnight.

Art by the amazing

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2022-04-12

Sunshine for a Monday morning!
Detail from “Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky”

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2022-04-11

This is based off a lil folktale I found while doing some read for my class. Reminds me a lot of Crabominable.

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2022-04-11

In a a monk manages to bring the statue of Kichijōten (goddess of beauty) to life by fondling it. They marry. The union is dissolved with a shocking twist after the monk cheats on his heavenly wife.


Quote: Japanese Tales, R. Tyler, ed.

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2022-04-10

Cartoonist Em Niwa weaves a beautiful story based on a folktale about the Japanese word for "fox" - "kitsune."

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2022-04-07

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2022-04-06

It’s about time I made a character sheet for Peder. This is an older character from my Norwegian folktale novel that’s still in development. But maybe soon… 👀

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2022-04-05

(1/2) In an the magistrate's wife is summoned in her dream to assist an elven birth. While there, she furtively dabs her right eye with a magic ointment which allows her to see through that eye.

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2022-04-02

(1/2) In are the perennial fools, always outwitted and often viciously abused by clever farmhands. Surprisingly good-natured and gullible, they are more the underdogs dogs than the villains.


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2022-04-01

In Italian folklore Befana is an old soot-covered woman or witch who delivers gifts to Italian children on Epiphany Eve (6th January
If the child has been bad she might leave them a lump of coal!
Art: Laura Tempest Zacroff

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2022-03-30

I'm still obsessed with folktales, so thought i'd add another one to the series. This one is based on the Chinese story 'Li Chi Slays a Serpent'. Here's Li Chi on the hunt for the beast, guided by the spirits of the serpent's past victims.

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2022-03-25

Lopunny

For this Pokémon, I knew what I wanted, but not why. I had those clouds that you sometimes see in representations of myths and folktale in mind... and I just ran with it. From there I jumped to martial arts and things just came together.

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2022-03-24

It's "World Folktales and Fables Week!" Celebrate with Luli Gray's version of the Aesop's Fable ANT AND GRASSHOPPER from . Grasshopper's music turns out to be as valuable as Ant's bean-counting in this fable for our "get more stuff" culture: https://t.co/sXo3ucnZBf

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2022-03-22

"In the dawn times, the greatest tree, at the wood's black heart, served as perch for a great masked Crow."

It's World Folktales and Fables Week, so buckle up for some DAILY LORE!

🦉 More: https://t.co/R08gJFtWZi 🦉

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2022-03-22

Water-fairy based on folktale stories

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2022-03-17

Many more fairy illustrations to come!
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2022-03-16

🐺 Les Piggies | Folktale mystery horror bout a young fox girl conspiring against The Big Bad Wolf as she works for him in a restaurant of a colorful cast serving food to their pig customers https://t.co/azckTDdkov

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2022-03-16