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The Victorian tradition of sending Vinegar cards to your most hated, complete with insulting caricature and rhyme
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2019-02-14

This would probably be an appropriate day to mention that and I became a couple, and I moved here to marry her (smartest thing i have ever done) in no small part becuse we co-created Hopeless, Maine. It is a labour of love in more than one way...

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2019-02-14

Happy Valentines Day My Peeps!

Hope you all enjoy a lovely day with your significant other. And to my fellow bachelors and bachelorettes on this day. Let's just hope it ends quick....

Love you all!

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2019-02-14

Oh those cherubs! Sewing up broken hearts, hot air ballooning! There wasn’t much they wouldn’t do to convey the message. The arrival of the Penny Black stamp in 1840 meant greetings were available to all.

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2019-02-14

In Manx Folklore the Glashtyn were aquatic equine creatures that ranged from benevolent farm helpers to skirt-clinging nuisances to sinister presences that pulled passers-by to a watery grave. Such water-horses are common across the world.

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2019-02-07

One of the many fauns I've drawn while thinking about creature designs on my blog, Arcana. They will no doubt provide more inspiration in the future! ✨

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2019-02-08

In Norse myth, at the end of the world the gods--Odin, Thor, Loki and the others--as well as all humans, will die. Evil triumphs over good, and the world will be engulfed in water. Ragnarok by soys.

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2019-02-07

Anansi is a cheeky character whose many stories originate in Ghana, and are central to Caribbean culture and folklore.

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2019-02-08

Angels (from Greek 'angelos,' meaning messenger) are, according to Christian tradition, genderless & incorporeal emissaries of God. In early-Christina Slavic lore, they took on the form of larks to spread God's will. Hence, larks were always feed & respected.

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2019-02-07

Dewi Sri: Pre-Hindu & Islamic Javanese goddess of rice & fertility, who had dominion over prosperity & famine. She was a princess who was poisoned & died only for different plants to spring from different parts of her body. The rice paddy snake is her herald.

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2019-02-07

It's and Mandy the Monster Hunter must face the nightmarish Spindly Man. The childrens' fear & belief have made Him flesh, and now he enacts his story. Children are vanishing, and his story continues to spread.

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2019-02-07

In Norse Mythology Heimdallr, son of Odin & 9 mothers, is the guardian of the Rainbow Bridge Bifrost, connecting Asgard (home of the Gods) with Midgard (home of Man).

With Superhuman sight he can see grass grow & he can hear wool grow on the backs of sheep

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2019-02-07

In old lore Bride, the Princess of Summer, is enslaved by the Cailleach, hag goddess of winter. Bride is given snowdrops by kindly Father Winter, which she shows to the hag, who is enraged to see her reign is coming to an end.
Illust: Cicely Barker

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2019-02-07

The Choice Between Virtue and Vice - Veronese, from the Frick Collection.
At a crossroads, Hercules encountered Vice and Virtue. A moral lesson is enscribed on the entablature at upper left: [HO]NOR ET VIRTUS/[P]OST MORTE FLORET (Honor and Virtue Flourish after Death).

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2019-02-05

I may have been reading too many faerie stories lately

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2019-02-01

One of my favourite traditional tales is Maud and the Dragon or The Dragon of Mordiford. Legend has it that in a small English community a girl, Maud, found and raised a baby dragon. Sadly, it regressed to its beastly nature...

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2019-01-31