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"The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal."


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Hello lovelies! Tweet your favourite fables, fairytales, quotes and illustrations with the hashtag and we will retweat on Fridays 🦄💖










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491 - Darkrai
Type: Dark

Folklore has it that on moonless nights, this Pokémon will make people see horrific nightmares.

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Working folklore creatures into cc. Might redo the werewolf later (thinking maybe a cryptic version..?)

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Hello everybody! My name is Anna and I love painting with inspiration from and other good stuff



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thank you for the artshare!
I'm Zoe and I'm a digital artist who loves everything myth, magic, and folklore related.

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Thank you for the small artist support!
I'm Zoe and I'm a digital artist who loves everything myth, magic, and folklore related!

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In Scottish and Irish legends, Selkies are mythological beings (the tales tend to centre around females) that changed from seal to human form by shedding their skin. My absolute favourite embodiment of this myth has to be Song of the Sea 💙

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Gwyllion are a type of Welsh mountain fairy. They are described as hag-like creatures who cause unsuspecting travellers to become lost whilst travelling through the mountainous regions. Pulling a knife out of the pocket was a method of banishing the Gwyllion

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Mad as a Hatter a term used in 1800's England, when factories used mercury in the production of felt,to weigh the hat down. Factory workers exposed too often to the metal developed mercury poisoning, which induced a type of dementia, or “mad hatter,' symptom.

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Ittanmomen is a long sheet of cloth that flies through the air and strangles people, jatai is an animate murderous kimono sash that slithers like a snake, and kosodenote is two ghostly hands that come out of the sleeves of a dead prostitute's kimono

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Today’s prompt was about clothing! The Merrow was a type of mermaid in Irish folklore who would travel between land and sea using a red cap, in a similar way to selkies wearing a seal coat.

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Forced to enter the Underworld, as she passed through each of its terrible gates Ishtar was forced to remove another layer of clothes. Through all the gates she went, meant to be humbled, but all it did was make the goddess more indignant.

🖼: Roomyana

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- Strange Folklore: The Mystery of Concealed Footwear https://t.co/uL47c4vYlV

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"The Mitten" is a Ukrainian folktale about a lost mitten and the various forest creatures who decide to make it their home. In some tellings the mitten bursts, but in others the animals leave and the owner recovers his lost garment.

Art by Evgenii Rachev

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In Britain, since at least late 19thC, it was thought to be bad luck to mend clothes whilst they were still being worn. What form the ill fortune would take varied from being cursed never to be rich to having evil thought/spoken of the unlucky one

🎨 AJ Murray

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Spanish colonial forms of my folklore OCs, the Heat Haze Boy and the Monsoon Girl!

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In the tale 'The Red Shoes', a poor girl is adopted by a rich lady who burns her original handmade red shoes, which symbolize the girl’s creativity & freedom. She then buys a new pair of luxurious but deadly red shoes that make her dance uncontrollably.

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Thank you all folk for creating such a rich weft of clothes-lore this is donning a risky green gown+heading off to see the fae~magical will return to share more of your tweets at 1pm GMT pic:Midsummer Nights Dream Arthur Rackham 1908

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