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“All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease!”

– William Shakespeare



Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban dancing on the island shore from The Tempest. Art by Johann Heinrich Ramberg

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The Honey Island Swamp Monster, aka the "Cajun Sasquatch," is an ape cryptid said to inhabit Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp. Honey Swamp is the Swamp Monster in the teen monster fashion doll franchise Monster High. However, she's less ape and more southern belle.

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2022-07-10

is the legendary 4-toed southernmost cousin of Bigfoot. There have been sightings of this across South Florida - mainly in the stretching down to the Florida Keys - for more than a century

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2022-07-03

Mélusine is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two tails, or both.

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And forever and forever,
As long as the river flows,
As long as the heart has passions,
As long as life has woes;
The moon and its broken reflection
And its shadows shall appear
As the symbol of love in heaven,
And its wavering image here.
— H W Longfellow.

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2022-07-03

“… in Wendsyssel… in the north of Jutland… There is still a great bog there. It may well be called the Wild Bog, and one can easily imagine how desolate and dreary it was among all these swamps and pools a thousand years ago.” (Andersen)

🎨 W. Heath Robinson

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2022-06-27


Who’ll reveal to our waking ken
The forms that swim & the shapes that creep
Under the waters of sleep?
& I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in
On the length & the breadth of the marvellous marshes of Glynn.–Sidney Lanier, MarshesOfGlynn

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He who finds the fire-flower of the fern at exactly midnight on Summer Solstice Eve will be bestowed with secret gifts of magick, opened to clairvoyance and all magical creatures would come know him. 🐍
Fern Flower by PerlaMarina on Deviantart 🐍

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2022-06-26

Sedna is an Inuit deity who ends up in the ocean in many a legend and tale. Along the way, she loses her fingers, which turn into water animals and make their homes in her hair. She offers the ocean's bounty to angakoks who comb her hair 🐋


🎨 ALT

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2022-06-20



“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water…”

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2022-06-19

In the Clash of theTitans, movie, Calibos was reportedly a son of the Goddess Thetis. Calibos angered Zeus who transformed him into a satyr. The former prince was forced to live away from humanity, in swamps and marshes.

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According to the mother stork, all children want to have a new brother or sister. All of the boys who mocked the storks will not get a new sibling. One of the unborn babies in the pool is already dead. That baby will be delivered to the very bad boy's house. 2/2

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In Karelian folklore, Paha was evicted from the sky for interfering with the God’s work, and allowed to take only as much space as the end of a stake would take. So he put it into a swamp.
And from that hole all the snakes, frogs and otherworldly critters came out.

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2022-06-19

Darklings!

It's the customary time now to rendezvous with another creature from the swamps to meet you tomorrow for especially during

And don't forget to share your tales & images as well!

🎨 IrenHorrors

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2022-06-19

It’s not easy being green.

—Kermit The Frog
art by

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2022-06-13

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea
- Walt Whitman



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2022-06-12

"Dawn.... Soon all the birds are telling each other their dreams.... Why did I ever leave this place? I want to walk here forever. I want to struggle with the alligators.... I want to be alive and grow and rise up."
-Alan Moore & Stephen Bissette, Swamp Thing

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2022-06-12

"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Happy Birthday,

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1908) https://t.co/sodigLboVa

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