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Need a fix for writer's block? Try the singing apple of Chéry and Fair-star. Anyone who possesses this fragrant apple is turned, magically, into a writer of poetry and prose. [🍎: Deborah Griscom Passmore, USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection]

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2019-09-06

Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland before 1603 featured two Unicorns wearing golden chains and crowns. The Unicorn was and still is the national animal of Scotland and a very distinctive Scottish symbol.

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2019-09-05

‘Devils, Demons, and Dangerous Creatures of the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum’ https://t.co/k5Y4yh87B2

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"Bocanje" - the ancient roots of traditional female tattoing among women in the Balkans.
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In English folklore as a candle burned the patterns made by the running wax were thought to foretell the future. Long strips of melted wax were interpreted as coffins and believed to be an omen of death.

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2019-09-05

(and a bit ) drawing of my , Fiona Cuhlainn. Bringing her up because I hope to place her into the universe as soon as I can!

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2019-08-30

Speaking of scary Inuit monsters, there is a wonderful, slightly scary, kids book, called The Shadows That Rush Past -A Collection fo Frightening Inuit Folktales" by Rachel A. Qitsualik, which folks might enjoy. It includes the giant NANURLUK (polar bear). https://t.co/hxwHWlvIko

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2019-08-30

More of a force than a mythological creature, in Irish mythology, hungry grass/féar gortach is a patch of cursed grass! Also known as fairy grass, anyone walking on it is doomed to perpetual & insatiable hunger! Not known if this dates to 1840s famine or older!

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In Japanese myth, a KIRIN is a unicorn who punishes the wicked with its horn. It also protects the just & grants them good luck,

Art: Matthew Meyer

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2019-08-30

In Japanese folklore, Kanazuchibō is an odd-looking yōkai which appears in some of the earliest picture scrolls. It is depicted in a number of ways but most often it is a goblin like creature with long, flowing hair, big buggy eyes, and a beak-like mouth.

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2019-08-30

Armenian holds a rare account of women being turned into werewolves as a consequence of deadly sin for a period of seven years. She wanders only at night, condemned to eat children, by day returning to her human form...

Art: LadyFiszi @ deviantart

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2019-08-29

The Gwyllion are evil fairies who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains, they torment and lead night-travellers astray. Image- Brian Froud

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2019-08-29

A conjunct Mars & Venus in Virgo, on 30 Aug. 6:37 am EDT, 11:37 am BST, 20:37 Aust. A as it is the 2nd new moon in a month, & a being very close to the earth. The magical energy of the new moon will be ramped up. Img: Waterhouse

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2019-08-29

In Japanese folklore, a Nure-onna is a spirit which resembles a reptilious creature with the head of a woman and the body of a snake. She is typically spotted on a shore, washing her hair. She sometimes chokes you to death with her long snake body.

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Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds & fertility. Part man, part goat, his name gives us the word ‘Panic’.
Psyche, a beautiful mortal who earned the love of Eros, gives her name to the soul or mind & its study:‘Psychology’.


(Pan & Psyche 🎨Burne-Jones

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2019-08-29

Vodník is the Czech/Slovak version of vodyanoy, a male water spirit. Vodník looks more humanlike, wears clothes, and can survive outside water with his clothes wet. He tricks people, then steals their souls and keeps them underwater in teacups.
Art: Josef Lada

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Who are your favourite "real" witches - either self identifying or named as such by others, from history to the present. (Image: A Witch on Pegasus by Clara Siewert)

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