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Nothing like spending your Bachlorette Party dressed in a cute outfit, destroying things on GTA and taking selfies the whole time! Drew the gal that @lucahjin was playing as while she was streaming
The Lady of the Lake plays a pivotal role in Arthurian legend.
She gives King Arthur his sword Excalibur, raises Lancelot in her magical kingdom, and bewitches Merlin the wizard into teaching her some magic - which she then uses to imprison him in a tower.
#FolkloreThursday
In modern times, their appearances are even further confused when the original Sirens get mixed up with what we know as a siren today, which is a combination of European mermaids and Greek Sirens. #FolkloreThursday #Mermaid #Siren
#Achilles epitomizes #epic #heroism, as does this magnicificent fresco representation. #Hubris #greekmythology #Troy #TrojanWar #Hector #Prium #war #Greece #FolkloreThursday #Iliad 🏛️
Triumph of Achilles, Franz Matsch, 1892, Achilleion, Corfu.
In a well that still flows close to #Killala, Co #Mayo, beside the sea, local legend tells that St Patrick baptised in a single day 12,000 converts & in presence of the crowds, raised to life a dead woman whom he also baptised! #FolkloreThursday
Slavic folk belief says that the world organises itself according to an oppositional yet complementary duality represented by Belobog ("White God") and Chernobog ("Black God"). These represent the often seen religious theme of light and dark (art by Vasylina) #FolkloreThursday
Boss and Loretto are hard at work... Thank you for your patience 🙇♀️🙇♂️🍸
While Zesty was doing the four unicorns of the apocalypse, I was doing an Okapi/Japanese Serow mix!
#Unicorn #FolkloreThursday #digitalart
Always loves when #FolkloreThursday comes around! For today, it's my finished #selkie! #folklore #Celtic #mythology #watercolour
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme couldn't make me happier, given that I'm illustrating #aCompendiumOfWitches! So have some badass wise women from all over Europe!
You can read more about the project at https://t.co/IqGSuha4aR 🌿
@FolkloreThurs
#FolkloreThursday Come and see me, @barquing and @HooklandGuide at @London_Geekfest this Sunday. We'll be talking about folklore and the joy to be found in the dark. https://t.co/GCpnmxUOZF
Hagstones have a natural hole and can be found on many beaches. Hung in homes to keep away witches or hags, and in stables to stop witches riding horses to exhausted death at night. Look through the stone to see other worlds, spirits and to see through glamours #folklorethursday
My favorite #Witch in #Folklore is the Russian #Fairytale Baba Yaga! Living deep amid the forest in a turning chicken-leg hut; fortified by watching skulls. Known to help strays, she gets around on a flying pestle &mortar; using a broom to sweep away her tracks. #FolkloreThursday
I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs. I make them look like pigs. ~Louise Gluck, Circe [Waterhouse, Sorceress, Circe Summoning Ulysses, Circe Invidiosa (poisoning the waters); Evelyn De Morgan, Love Potion) #FolkloreThursday #Witches #Poetry @FolkloreThurs
WITCHES. A sexualised witch used by Pears Soap, 1899-1900 juxtaposed with a fairy tale witch from Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book, 1894, a crone figure with large nose, warts or moles. These would be seen as witch marks made by the devil in witch craft trials #FolkloreThursday
'Haint blue' bottle trees, popular in the US south, are said to trap evil spirits at night which the rising sun then destroys. Originally an African tradition, this folk magic is thought to come from Arabian traders' tales of Jinn imprisoned in bottles (lamps?) #FolkloreThursday
Nicnevin is the Scottish Witch Goddess of Samhain or is the Queen of fairies, she is mostly associated with Scotland's witch trials where the suspect would often name her as the one who inducted them into witchcraft. #FolkloreThursday
Seidr is a form of Norse magic and shamanism concerned with discerning the course of fate and working within its structure to bring about change, which was done by symbolically weaving new events into being. #FolkloreThursday
Tylwyth Teg.
A fairy dragon for the #FolkloreThursday family.
Living in the darkest forests, and believed to be harbingers of good fortune, these tiny Welsh Dragons emerge into the evening sunlight for just a few hours each midsummer, before returning to their shadowy homes.