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Urashima Tarō rescues a turtle that takes him to a palace under the sea where Princess Otohime entertains him for a few days. She gifts him a box he must not open. When home he learns he was gone for 100 years. Saddened, he opens the box & becomes a very old man

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2020-10-01

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮✨ Reposting last year’s art with Chang'e (the Moon Goddess) and her Jade Rabbit companion - one of the folklore about the origins of the festival. Really wanted to draw something new but have to prioritise non-personal wor… https://t.co/qchTpiaCyd

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2020-10-01

'My lusts they do me leave,
My fancies all be fled,
And tract of time begins to weave
Grey hairs upon my head

For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch,
And lusty life away she leaps
As there had been none such'

by Lord Thomas Vaux

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2020-10-01

THE WILD HUNT was reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve. In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of of the restless dead ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises

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2020-10-01


Proverb: "For an old man to marry is like wanting to harvest in wintertime"

by Ernest Aris

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2020-10-01

"#Old Jimmy Spray" (c.1806-1888) c.1860-70. "..the only thing of interest about him [!].. that he was taken from the Workshouse as a that he was bought from the !

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2020-10-01

Perhaps the moral of the Japanese legend of Princess Kaguya is that living forever won't be worth it without one's love - it's why immortal moon-woman Kaguya avoids marrying on Earth, and why the Emperor, who so loved her, ultimately refuses to be made one alone.#FolkloreThursday

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2020-10-01

To discover how many years you will live, run around a tree full of ripe cherries. Then shake it. The number of cherries that fall will be the number of years left...

🎨Tomikichiro Tokuriki

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2020-10-01


In Slavic folklore, Baba Yaga is a supernatural being who appears as a deformed, ferocious old woman. She can be both benefactor & villain. She is also regarded as a Mother Earth figure and guardian of the forest.

🎨Xenia Berezovsky

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2020-10-01

"be careful that Cuca catches you get it from here take it from there"
An "Cuca" fursona!!! Cuca is a crocodile with from my culture, the brazilian Folklore
Everyone can make a cuca, if u wanna learn more, just search "cuca folklore brazil"!!!!!

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2020-09-30

I was tagged by to point out 3 recurring themes in my work so:
-Creepy forests
-Folklore/Historical characters/settings
-Witches

I’m gonna tag uhh and

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2020-09-30

Made his world and languages. He took inspiration of various european folklore regarding "elfs"(which would be more akin to what we now call gnomes and fairies) and just WILDLY reimagined them to fit what he wanted to convey in his stories. But now every body of work

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2020-09-29

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🌸Seren Morgan Jones - MABINOGION [rhan 1]🌸

Portreadau o gymeriadau y a chwedlau Cymru wedi’u ail-ddychmygu 🔮

Paintings that re-imagine the femmes of the Mabinogi and Welsh folklore🔮

🎥https://t.co/y7dpNG2tIY

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2020-09-29

The Horrible Folk comics feature monologues from a choir of desperate voices concerning tradition, the orthography of ruins, moonlit secrets, crafty women, their curses, and the beast at night.

And you can get them now: https://t.co/JNnJ2e5goW

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2020-09-29

Oni! I love Yokai and all things Japanese Folklore, but Oni are by far the coolest. Red, green, or blue skin, tusks and horns. They’re depicted as vicious and ruthless, but I like to write them a bit more “humanlike”

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2020-09-28