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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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Actaeon was out hunting and accidentally saw Artemis bathing. She turned him into a stag and he was ripped apart by his own hounds.




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A dragon is a mythical creature breathing fire & having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, & a long tail. It appears in the of many world cultures & considered both benevolent & malevolent according to region & belief system.
Img Antonello Venditti

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♥ my name is rei ✡️
♡ koumeP & syokoP!!
♥ individuals, 142’s, eldritch loreteller 💕
♡ completed syoko’s album 11/12/18
♥ began early 2016
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Ossian conjures up the spirits on the banks of the River Lorca - Károly Kisfaludy

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Mis is the original wild woman of Irish mytholog. Overcome with grief upon finding her father’s body, she licked his battle wounds, much like an animal, to try to heal him. When it failed, she rose into the air like a bird and flew away. (Img: Rackham)

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What a wild session, I’m leaving you with this illustration from Arthur Rackham. Wild things have a place and deserve their space! This is Crystal of signing off. The amazing will be joining as your last host at 6:30 BST!

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There is a 'Wild Woman of the Woods' named Tsonoqua. A giant cannibal covered in hair, who targets naughty children. Emitting an eerie whistle before snatching kids in a pack basket. Tsonoqua stories inspired the famous witch from the Hansel & Gretel

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Thinking his lover Iseult has betrayed him, Sir Tristan withdraws to the forests of Cornwall for months, naked, raving, and mad. When he’s finally brought back by King Mark, he’s unrecognizable—except by Iseult’s little dog.

Art: Edward Burne-Jones

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'Schneewittchen' – The German Snow White Tale by the Brothers Grimm is our tale this week! A darker version with woods and seven little men. Read the illustrated story now on our blog: https://t.co/EbyvtrmLnf
Illustration by A. H. Watson.

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Circe, a goddess & sorceress, who transforms many of Odysseus’s crew into swine. A symbol of women’s magical hold over men’s baser instincts.
"So she enticed & won our battle-hardened spirits over..."

(🖊️Homer 🎨Waterhouse)

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They don't get much wilder than the Red Cap, beings who hang out in ruins along the border between England and Scotland. The name comes from their tendency to dip their cap in their victim's blood... https://t.co/NfFHuQo4D5 [Image by Eugene Smith]

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Wild Man astride a dragon pulled by a pegasus.
Illustration of a pageant sleigh from a winter parade held in 1640-41, Nuremberg. From the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, Bavaria (112pp late 16c-mid 17c) [Held in Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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Moss People,Wild folk,a type of fairy with intimate connection to trees &forests. Able to send plague with one hand & with the other heal those with it. Would sometimes emerge from trees & show humans herbs to use for illness.
'Moss Maiden' by Kettle Quill

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In European folklore, a werewolf is a human who can shapeshift into a wolf either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction and especially on the night of a full moon.
Art: Jean Michel Brisset

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This week’s theme is “wild places”. In Wales there is a simple rule: the wilder the place, the wilder the dragon. Here are a few of my dragons from the wildest corners of Wales.
Have a lovely Thursday. 🐉

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