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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!
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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
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"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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Ashrays, (Water Lovers), are translucent water creatures that are often mistaken for sea ghosts. They can be either gender & are only under water. They're completely nocturnal. If captured & exposed to sunlight ashrays melt and only a puddle of water remains.
The art of John Anster Fitzgerald (English, 1819–1906) - (a) The Artist's Dream (b) Dreams (c) The Captive Robin and (d) The Fairies Banquet. "Fairy Fitzgerald". The Victorians were fascinated with magical subjects - perhaps esp. fairies and the supernatural. #FairytaleTuesday
It's impossible to fall out of love with John Reinhard Weguelin's mermaid art! 🧜♀️💙
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Meet our fairy! No, not Anna Christina! 😆 This is the #fairy from our #Audiobook Chris the Caterpillar! Her name is Butterfly! She helps #plants and #flowers to grow! 🧚
Listen to a sample here https://t.co/YqFrtwc4Cg 💫
#artwork #illustration #art #characterdesign #fairytale
The akugyo (悪魚) has the head and arms of a woman and breathes fire, a malevolent Japanese mermaid who ensnares the ships of sailors in rocks and then breaks the ship, devouring them. Japanese lords have tried to take her down, and failed. #FairyTaleTuesday
🖼: @Sabnock_
I dreamt you were a siren
And you sang your strange songs to me
I felt a strange kind of magic
And dived into your deep black sea.
- John F Porter
#FairyTaleTuesday #Mermaids #Art
Artist is Kata Kiss
The Fideal - an evil water spirit or fuath - was said to haunt Loch na Fideil near Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands. The embodiment of entangling bog grasses and weeds, it would tempt passers-by and drag them to the bottom of the loch. #FairyTaleTuesday