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In Poland the drowning and burning of Marzanna in the spring has been taken on as an important festival of neo-paganism. Photos of the Marzanna doll and stage re-enactments https://t.co/JfRejGAJYy and stage design

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2021-03-26

Winslow Homer was the oil painter of the women of Cullercoats and beyond in late Victorian times . Incredibly prolific. Very good at wind. And tackle https://t.co/HRdgqlBOy5

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2021-03-26

The life for ordinary people working in the fishing industries was far from Romantic but it was a good living. Cold, salting, cutting, gutting the herring. My husband's families were these actual women, photographed for tourism, painted working for the lifeboats.

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2021-03-26

Mermaids were a feature of Victorian advertising, advertising hair products and enticing gentlemen to leave everyday life and enjoy themselves.

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2021-03-26

There is a mermaid in the Mermaid's Pool in the Peak District who will grant immortality on anyone who sees her bathing. She only appears at midnight on Easter Day...

🎨Zatzka

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2021-03-26

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.” (T.S. Eliot)

Join us tomorrow on with your tales and images of

"Merfolk & Siren Songs"

We RT after 2 pm GMT

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2021-03-25

Haetae 해태 in Korea is a mythical beast that prevents fire disaster. It's body is muscular and shaped like a lion and has a horn on its forehead. It has a bell in its neck and the body is covered with sharp scales. It lives in the frontier areas of Manchuria.

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2021-03-19


Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Now, that is what I call a "hard to say no" invitation...
Black Phillip from The VVitch (2015)
Pic by s-sublime on Deviantart

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2021-03-19

Croak! The old man of the pond is only seen at night, but Bilibin managed to capture a Vodyanoy one evening in his skazka style. His toadness is blamed for drownings if no corpse is found. Appease - tobacco/salt. Marriage photo by Soviet child Victor Korolkov

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2021-03-19

In Greek myth Pegasus is the immortal, wild, winged horse who sprang from the neck of the beheaded Medusa & had the power to create water streams wherever he struck his hoof. Tamed by Bellerophon who rode his steed into battle against the fire-breathing Chimera.

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2021-03-19

Most most often shown as women, kitsune are both male and female and are known as the most prolific demon lovers of Japan. Their children are famously powerful, such as Abe no Seimei, and while fiercely loyal, kitsune are seen as flighty as a fox.

🖼: IrenHorrors

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2021-03-12


Emily just wanted to be loved...when she met Victor she thought he would mend her broken heart but he did something better: he gave her the chance to avenge her own death and punish the wicked man who caused it

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2021-03-12

From the 1st century AD, a lamia was a female night demon who haunted & then devoured her victims. By the middle ages she was portrayed as a serpent who shapeshifted into a woman. In Waterhouse’s painting she is seen with snake skin still warm, seducing her prey.

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2021-03-12

My favourite Cornish tale is that of The Mermaid of Zennor. A mysterious woman who never seems to age enchants everyone with her voice. She falls in love with Mathey Trewella, the best singer of the Parish. They were never seen again on dry land. 🧜‍♀️💙

🎨Weguelin

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2021-03-05

Plants of Death in Walter Crane’s Floral Garden. “Kingcups drink belladonna”, the image suggesting an unwitting victim of a beautiful poisoner, while the queen has “nightshade upon her”. Her poisoned cloak bears the dark moon - the of poisons.

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2021-02-26

Plant-women transformations of Daphne and Syrinx as they fled from their sexual aggressors highlights the benevolent capacity of botany, the interchangeable nature of plants and the female body and the theme of male entitlement

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2021-02-26

Alchemilla mollis (lady’s mantle) has cup-like leaves for catching beautiful beads of dew. Alchemists saw magic in the plant, and the dew. It is said they used the drops to turn base metals into gold – hence the name Alchemilla, after the practice of alchemy.

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2021-02-26

Gashadokuro are giant rattling skeletons wandering in the dead of night, often on old battlegrounds. Their teeth chatter & bones rattle. If you unluckily encounter one they'll likely crush you or bite off your head.

🎨Matthew Meyer, https://t.co/xobtRY1SJl

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2021-02-19

'Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining
We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each
other ...' T.S. Eliot. https://t.co/UnelJVsdkk

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2021-02-19

The skeleton cosmonaut. The skeleton diver. Two images by Bradley Wright and Tobias Roetsch. The suit goes on giving the appearance of life when its human is only bones.

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2021-02-19