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@ricardojuchem @BelgianBoolean Hi! It's #PixelFriday, i'm Cristian (abueloretrowave) and i love pixelart.
Hope you enjoy my art 😊🙏
It’s very bad luck to kill an albatross... #FolkloreThursday #albatross #Coleridge
Forest trolls are the friendly sort, sharing magic herbs with travelers they meet in the #forest. One often hears them singing as one hikes in #Norway and #scandinavia - They especially love singing in the shower, er... waterfall. (John Bauer) #folkloreThursday #folklore #trolls
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is the folklore of seas and water. The obvious thing would be to tell you something about #Poseidon, but I'll give the honour to his wife Amphitrite instead.
But I will mention his male lovers Pelops and Nerites in honour of #PrideMonth
Sirens and mermaids. Mermaids are a sort of sea nymph with a fish tail who save sailors; but for the Greeks, Sirens were bird-like, um, beauties, who lured them to their doom. Below are from the Bestiary of Anne Walshe (https://t.co/SXENjc1UMk) #mermaids #folklorethursday
Who would be a river-fairy in the Tweed? Cruel fishermen believed these creatures affected a day's fishing and so would salt their nets and throw salt into the water in order to blind them. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday #poorfairies Artist: Warwick Goble -public domain
In Cornwall it was once said, that a white hare would appear before a storm, on the docks and wharves. @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday #cornwall
Image: Public Domain
In France it was believed certain sailors could control Wind. They did this via a ring, worn on the little finger of the right hand. However if they spent more than 3 months on a single voyage, or stayed ashore for more than 3 days, they would die @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
#PlagueDoctor #GraphicNovel "The Plague and Doctor Caim": Where does the name "Caim" come from?
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#Macabre #Gothic #Demon #Demonology #MedievalTwitter #IlluminatedManuscript #IndieComics #ComicBook #Illustration #FolkloreThursday #Crowdfunding #CrowdFund
In the Iliad, Poseidon drives a chariot drawn by "brazen-hoofed horses over the sea's surface."
Apollonius said the horses of Poseidon emerged from the sea & galloped across the Libyan sands.
Part horse / part fish: HIPPOCAMPUS.
#FolkloreThursday #GreekMythology
From Elves and Fairies (1916), illustrated by #IdaRentoulOuthwaite, reprinted in Women Illustrators of the #GoldenAge. #illustration #fairies #folklorethursday
#FolkloreThursday - Mermaids or Sirens are part human/part fish. They appear in the #Greek adventure novel THE ODYSSEY (8th century BC). Famously re-imagined by Andersen, Lovecraft, Disney... and David Bruckner for a segment of the excellent 2012 #horror anthology movie "V/H/S"
A Scandinavian tale for #FolkloreThursday: Maiden Swanwhite and Maiden Foxtail features a mermaid who rules over all who drown in the sea. https://t.co/0gDA74ykQh Image: Illustration by Walter Satterlee from Elfin Land
The hippocampus (also the name for a coiled part of the human brain--thank psych. degree ) are part horse/ part fish seas creatures credited w/ pulling Neptune's chariot & perhaps also providing transport for common merfolk.
#FolkloreThursday
Illustrations: Ari Berk
Shamans are said to travel into the depths of the ocean to appease Sedna, Inuit goddess of the sea, mother of seals, otters and whales, to ensure good hunting. Frequently they attempt and gain favour by brushing her hair #FolkloreThursday
In Ireland, the Aos Sí were also seen at sea in tiny boats. The Folklorist Lady Gregory was told by a fisherman from Galway "The fairies are in the sea as well as on the land. That is well-known by those that are out fishing by the coast" #FolkloreThursday Image: J. A FITZGERALD
Gloson: The Swedish Ghost #Pig That Will Cleave You in Half by #TommyKuusela for #FolkloreThursday (Img: © Robin Kuusela) #Sweden https://t.co/cV9KiIvJgc
Fishermen in Hokkaido once carried scythes to defend themselves when the sky turned red, which warns of the giant red octopus Akkorokamui who can swallow a ship in a single gulp #folklorethursday art by @matthewmeyerart
Round-up of mermaidy books for #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/yXmKAO5pvY