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"Are you afraid of poison?" asked the old woman. "Look, I'll cut the apple in two"... Snow-White longed for the beautiful apple, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating part of it she could no longer resist ..


🎨Angela Barrett

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2022-07-26


"Alice in the pool of tears", by Ada Leonora Bowley (1866-1943, English)

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2022-07-20

I'm doing some serious editing of The Tinderbox and then submitting it to magazines. Wish me luck!

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2022-07-20

“… some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” (Poe)

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2022-07-20

It's hot out, so let's cool off w/
✨WATER THEME✨in
from around the world in
✨& Water Creatures✨
✨Mermaids✨Selkies✨Kraken✨
Magic Fish & MORE
"The Lure of the North," Arthur Wardle, 1912

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2022-07-20

Les Oceanides, by Gustave Dore, (1860). Oceanids mourn the suffering Prometheus.

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2022-07-20

In Lewis' Narnia, merfolk mirror human society, even going hawking with little hunting fish. While humans often live in valleys and monsters lurk in mountains, merfolk live in the underwater "mountains" (the shallows) and monsters lurk in "valleys" (the depths).

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2022-07-20

The is a water spirit in folklore, known as the each-uisce (anglicized as aughisky or ech-ushkya) in and cabyll-ushtey on the This supernatural water horse found in the… https://t.co/gMK1ILUkJe

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2022-07-20

In Slavic Chudo Yudo is a multi-headed dragon who is tasked with being guardian of the of Life & Death. The enchanted waters of death can restore a body in ANY condition & the enchanted waters of life can resurrect the dead!

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2022-07-20

Some watery, fairy-tale magic for your day by Warwick Goble —one of the best illustrators, to my mind, from the “Golden Age” 🌊✨

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2022-07-20

This is the kind of cave-fleeing that leads directly to being turned into a mermaid. I can feel it.


by Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-20

- In ancient Slavic beliefs, the water spirit Vodyanoi is a demon, who jealously guards his waters & punishes those who disrespect it. The guilty ones can be drowned or mutilated. He likes to make fun of those who approach his domain. https://t.co/dVLH3mhglm

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2022-07-19

Indian's holiest of rivers is the daughter of the Himalayas, the Ganges flowing from those mountains both physically and mythically: Ganga is the daughter of Himavat, whose kingdom rests at the tops of those mountains, who blesses India with water each year.

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2022-07-19

The Mermaid Wife is a story from the Shetland islands about a man who stumbled upon a group of merfolk. When they saw the man approach, they threw on their clothes & transformed into seal-like creatures. But, the man was able to grab one outfit!
🖼️ Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-19



The Little Water Sprite is an enchanting tale written by the author of Krabat, Otfried Preussler. The adventures of a young water gnome are vividly described.

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2022-07-19

The Dobhar-chú is the father of all otters in Ireland & considered ‘King of the Lakes’. His name means ‘water hound’. The Dobhar-chú is fearsome & not to be trifled with as he is known to kill both people & animals & drink their blood.
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2022-07-19

🪸 A seafaring fairy for
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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2022-07-19

Thus spoke Raven, “I know the fish in the dreams of the chief's daughter. She dreams of a big, beautiful fish called salmon that lives faraway. The Haida are my friends. I will fly far and swift and bring back salmon.”
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2022-07-19

In the folklore of Tobago, the sea dwelling mer-people are male. But beautiful fairy maids with one foot and one deer's hoof, live in rivers and under the bridges, in pools, near waterwheels and waterfalls...

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2022-07-19