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“Rowan tree & red thread make witches tine their speed”- an ancient #Scottish rhyme. Known also as witchentree & witchwood, the Rowan was planted by homes to protect them from harm, & by churches in #Wales to watch over & protect the dead.
Image: Cicely Barker #FolkloreThursday
Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao! Hsi Wu from Jackie Chan Adventures for tbt. #tbt #FolkloreThursday #fantasyart
For the ancient Mexicans, the moon was actually a jar containing pulque, a traditional thick and white alcoholic beverage. The phases of the moon indicated how much pulque was left on the jar. #folklorethursday (Art by David Alvarez)
Sazae (turban shell sea snail): a delicacy in Japan. Sazae Oni is a shape-shifting supernatural seductress who boards&beds a ship-full of men, then robs them of their testicles. For gold one can buy his jewels. Testicles are called kin-tama: "golden balls" in JP #FolkloreThursday
16th century dining, included placing live birds in a pie as a form of entremet. Hoping they'd fly out singing when the pie was cut. "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, 4 & 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing." #Folklorethursday
In China, a nine-tailed dog ran into heaven & stole grains from the celestial supply. Although divine guards cut off eight of his tails during his escape, seeds stuck on the dog's last tail. He brought them to humans, so they could grow food for the first time.
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The sweetness of life, the sorrow of death in the folklore of berries
#FlowerFairies #CicelyMaryBarker #FolkloreThursday
Cereza character Bachelorettes in game #Artworks WIP
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#redlips #gamedev #madewithunity #indiegame #patreon #gameart
Old Vs New
I know the new one looks awful too but whatever.
2013 Vs 2018 versions
The original picture was from Sonic X
Loretta Belongs to me.
#FolkloreThursday 'Snegorochka'. the story of a girl made of snow who comes alive, only to melt when she goes near fire. In some parts of Russia, folk still mark transition from winter to spring by the traditional burning of a straw doll on a bonfire, to dispel Winter.
In Swedish/European ghost story The Hooded Congregation (or Christmas Service of the Dead) a girl comes to church too early & finds it full of corpses holding mass.They're not happy she's come.Sometimes they rip her to pieces,sometimes dead grandma warns her off #FolkloreThursday
According to #Legend, the Wendigo is a haunting monster amid the wood; depicted as a gaunt giant with bloody lips, emitting the odor of decay. The embodiment of gluttony & greed: its never satisfied after killing & constantly searches for new victims to consume. #Folklorethursday
In 17th century, the cockatrice legend was exaggerated: the snake was said to be generated from an egg laid by a cock&hatched by a serpent. In addition to the weasel, another 1 of its enemies was the roster:if the basilisk heard it crow, it would shortly die 2/2 #FolkloreThursday
Cockatrice is a small serpent, possibly the Egyptian cobra, known as a basilikos &credited with powers of destroying all animal& plant life by its mere look or breath. Only the weasel, which secreted a venom deadly to the cockatrice, was safe from its powers 1/2 #FolkloreThursday
Shesha, king of Nagas &a divine, cosmic serpent. Depicted as a multi-headed cobra that holds all the planets under its hoods&lays them on a sea of milk. When it coiled forward, time moved& creation began. When it coils backwards, the universe will cease to exist #FolkloreThursday
Oldest recorded Cinderella? The Chinese Cinderella is 2,200 years old—with a tiny lost embroidered slipper. Ye Xian's fairy godmother/protector is a magical fish: https://t.co/rg4KSCwyfq #FolkloreThursday
Mr #Tumnus today...I was a bit speedier seeing as though the sun has got his hat on...Enjoy your day, people! #narnia #faun #art #FolkloreThursday
The Beast of Bodmin Moor is a large phantom cat. After mauled livestock & closure of a zoo in Plymouth prompted sightings of this panther-like creature upon the moors and a government investigation revealed nothing, a large cat skull was found on the moors...
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Beast of Gévaudan. Between 1764 and 1767, there were a series of reported attacks by what was described as “beasts with huge teeth and massive tails”. The victims’ throats were torn out and it resulted to over a hundred deaths.
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A Zburator is a Romanian Dragon that is nocturnal and hunts in packs for other dragons. It said that it has a tail of a fire and the head of a wolf. It name literally means "flyer." #folklorethursday