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#FairyTaleTuesday I retold The Little Mermaid for @CompassELT to help children learn English.
Siyokoy/syokoy are male sea creatures said to drown people and eat them. Unlike other water spirits/ water guardians, the syokoy are more beast-like and terrifying in appearance. #FairyTaleTuesday
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Natalie, a Mexican-American illustrator based in New England. I create colorful illustrations with soft romantic vibes and fairytale whimsy. I'm currently looking for work.
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💌: natalie@nanelsonart.com
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10. In the #OldTestament, #Leviathan appears as a #multiheaded #SeaSerpent that is killed by #God and given as #food to the #Hebrews in the wilderness.
#FairyTaleTuesday 11/11
7. In #Norse #Mythology, the #Kraken is a giant #Octopus that would wrap its large #tentacles around the #ships and pull them to the bottom of the #sea, devouring the drowning #sailors as the ships sank to the sea bed.
#FairyTaleTuesday 8/11
5. In #GreekMythology, #Thetis was a #goddess of the #sea and leader of the 50 #Nereids. Her son was #destined to be #famous but to die #young. She did all she could to #protect him; that son was #Achilles.
She is presented amazingly by @MillerMadeline
#FairyTaleTuesday 6/11
3. In #GreekMythology, #Sirens were half bird, half woman creatures who lived by the #water. They lured #sailors into crashing their ships into jagged rocks with their beautiful #song.
They are NOT #MERMAIDS!
#FairyTaleTuesday 4/11
2. In #Scottish and #Celtic #Mythology, #Kelpies were #supernatural #horses of the empty #lakes and dark #lochs. They came to the surface, lured #children onto their back before returning to the #depths and drowning them. Occasionally they took #human form.
#FairyTaleTuesday 3/11
Dagon was a Phoenician fertility god of sea and farms, who brought storms and bounty. Appearing as a merman, he fascinated the author H.P. Lovecraft, who turned him into a monstrous Old One, a god of the sea that predated mankind on Earth and served the stars. #FairyTaleTuesday
A couple of old illustrations inspired in #FairyTales. Would they work well as #NFT? Would people be interested in this kind of #illustration? have to test it.
Hi #PortfolioDay!
I’m Looona, a #2Dartist based in Germany who loves to create digital and traditional #illustration and #characterdesign inspired by many things like animation, nature, fashion & fairytales. 🌸
✉ looonalou@icloud.com
🌸🐇 all links below
Water is no impediment to Djinni, who can be found in shadows and caves beneath the waves and come up to trick and taunt sailors of any kind. Tales speak of bandit djinn who steal from sailors or else sink their ships, but also djinn who save them. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼: S2Ari
Utopiec was a dangerous Slavic water demon born of the soul of a drowned man or a miscarried foetus.
They had a green, slimy, mud-covered skin and they liked to pull people under water to drown them.
Art by Paweł Zych
#FairytaleTuesday
"And no one has a right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps ever will do."
-The Waterbabies
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#FairyTaleTuesday Mermaids by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, 19th century
#FairyTaleTuesday - Haida Tales: Raven and the Coming of the Salmon https://t.co/sg3G3SV79R
Haliya also helps protect the last moon from being eaten by the dragon.
artwork: godfreyescota on tumblr
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Bakunawa is a Philippine serpentine sea dragon that tried to devour the seven moons before. But before it could eat the last moon, people tried to make loud noise in hopes of frightening the dragon, and it worked.
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