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'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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2021-04-02

'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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2021-04-02

'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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2021-04-02

More images from Vladimir Konashevich of the horror story for children about the attack of the household items. And the eventual meet-up with the scary crocodile. Don't forget to maintain your hygiene!

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2021-04-02

On the street, the boy meets a crocodile who gets angry at him, for being so dirty, that the boy runs back home to wash. Many artists have drawn Moydodyr, here are images by Vladimir Konashevich from 1939 and the previous was by Yuri Uzbyakov from 1950's

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2021-04-02

Two mermaids (Havfruen) by Danish painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann from 1863 and 1873
The Examiner apparently described the mermaid's face on the left as 'dark with the grief of womanhood made monstrous and cast adrift from all sypathies by which a woman lives'

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2021-03-27

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” (Anais Nin)

🖼️ Edvard Munch "The Mermaid" 1896

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Miroslav Vasa - Illustrations from The Bugaboos Or Little Natural History Of The Spooks, Ghosts And Phantoms, 1961
Source: https://t.co/KjvMtsfge1

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2021-03-27

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

Nekromantheon - Thrash Metal 🇧🇻
Album - Visions of Trismegistos (2021)

HELLS HEADBANGERS & Indie Recordings

1.The Visions of Trismegistos
https://t.co/u94xurlVx4 Rulers of Fate
3.Faustian Rites
4.Neptune Descent
5.Scorched Death
6.Dead Temples
7.Thanatos
8.Zealot Reign

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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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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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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