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Happy #FolkloreThursday This year I had the pleasure of meeting a faun, Mr. Tumnus! @FolkloreThurs #Narnia #faun #MrTumnus #characterdesign
#illustration #karumina https://t.co/O7A7en46ju
The Tikbalang is shapeshifter, miscreant, & tobacco aficionado in Philippine folklore. It has the body of a man, head & hooves of a horse, & strangely long limbs. Tikbalang misleads victims deep into the wilds, but wearing your shirt inside out can repel it.
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Want your own magically endowed artistically inclined mini human? Try
Paracelsus's Homunculus Recipe:
Put human 'seed' in a sealed flask on low heat for 40 days. Feed the growth treated blood for 40 weeks.(1/2)(For a basilisk replace seed w/ menstrual blood)
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Pukwudgies have grayskin sharpquills,poisoned arrows,& are able to teleport,create fire,& morph into porcupines.They're able to control the souls of the humans they've killed.Perhaps creepiest of all,residents of Massachusetts still report Pukwudgie encounters. #FolkloreThursday
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VALKYRIES are supernatural women from Norse mythology
Fascinating people associated with Odin, war and swan maidens
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Keukegen: a rare, reclusive creature that lives in damp & forgotten corners of Japanese homes. Its doglike & stubby form is covered in dirty matted black hair. The keukegen's mere presence in a house causes those living around it to get sick.
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Announcing this week's #FolkloreThursday theme... folklore of magical creatures — bring on your trolls, giants and fairies this Thursday! [Img: John Bauer]
Tomoe Gozen was a female samurai warrior. She was a remarkable archer & a swordswoman worth a thousand men, performing more deeds of valor than any other warrior during the Genpei War. Unbroken horses obeyed her. She's known for her beheading of great swordsmen. #FolkloreThursday
Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy's gone a #hunting,
He'll never get this rabbit's skin,
To wrap the baby bunting in.
This nursery rhyme dates to 1784 but is believed to have been part of an earlier oral tradition. [ Note Rabbits hunting in the Rackham illustration] #folklorethursday
Julie d'Aubigny, famed fencer & opera singer. She roamed France, teaching fencing and winning fights, & broke the Paris ban on duels thrice in one night, when she fought & defeated three noblemen at once after they took issue with her kissing a woman at a ball.
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Arawn is the King of the Otherworld in Welsh Mythology, encountered in the First Branch of the Mabinogion by the hero Pwyll when both were hunting. Pwyll finds himself in Annwn, the realm of Arawn & meets the Otherworld King’s hounds (white dogs with red ears)
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For #folklorethursday- sport and leisure on the island of Hopeless, Maine part one. Adventures with pets and local fauna. (art self and @Nimue_B )
Veles & Perun, the Slavic god of thunder, always battled: representing chaos & order. The myth was cyclical, repeating each year. The death of Veles was never permanent; he would reform himself as a serpent who shed its old skin to be reborn in a new body. #FolkloreThursday
Veles is a Slavic god of nature, dragons, cattle & the underworld. His tree is the willow. After the advent of Christianity, he was split into several characters & identified with the Devil. His more benevolent sides were transformed to several Christian saints. #FolkloreThursday
Fun Facts about Hera!!!
1) Hera was as an independent goddess before the Greeks gave up trying to suppress her cults and married her off to Zeus, conquering both the land of Greece and a woman-centered religion. #FolkloreThursday
Illustration from HanieMohd
Damballah, oldest of the Haitian loa. A serpent with 7000 coils, Damballah shaped the earth & brings the rain. He's wise, but doesn't speak human tongues, & so communicates through whistling. Don't smoke near his altars.
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HUGINN & MUNINN
Odin's spirit ravens. Fly out each day to gather info for him. Commonly called Thought & Memory, they translate more effectively to Spirit/Soul (from hugr) & Mind (from munr). Insinuating Odin used astral projections?
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