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The Mosekone ("swamp-wife") is a type of troll in Scandinavian folklore. Primarily a Danish legend, she is often dressed in green and/or has green skin. It was said that when she brewed her delicious beer it caused the swamps and marshes to be misty.

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“Do they die? Blake saw a fairy’s funeral; but in Ireland we say they are immortal."

—W.B. Yeats

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In the 12th century a boy & girl appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk with green coloured skin, spoke an unknown language & only ate raw broad beans. The girl learnt English & said they came from St Martins land were green people live 🍀✌🏽🖤

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The Green Knight was a character featured in the classic poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.This knight came into Arthur’s hall and asked any one of his knights to trade blows.
Sir Gawain accepted this challenge and he was allowed to strike first. 1/2

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A powerful witch - the Lady of the Green Kirtle, is the villain of CS Lewis' The Silver Chair. A beautiful, seductive, serpent woman. She is associated with the colour green, and also silver - colours of fairy.

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In the late 1980s, instances of property damage in Lee County, South Carolina started getting attributed to the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp. Said to leave teeth & claw marks on the cars he attacks, he's described as seven feet tall with green scales & red eyes.

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Nacken in Norse mythology were male water spirits who played enchanted songs on the violin, luring women and children to drown in lakes . They are comparable to green skinned Wicked Jenny of English folklore.

art by Johnan Egerkrans

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This week is about all things green, so I'm going to tweet about the kappa, a from Kappas are small reptilian creatures about the size of a small child. They live in lakes and rivers waiting to attack unsuspecting passers-by.
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The movie is just the beginning: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is Hayao Miyazaki's manga masterpiece, a post-apocalyptic epic of fungi, insects, psychic empires, and ultimately, a bleak nihilistic look into the future of humanity if we do not learn.

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Scifi. I was a little girl when I first saw 2001, A Space Odyssey and there was a lot of it I didn't quite understand at the time. But the ending got me, and it still gets me every time.

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Psychedelically surreal in its own right, the film Barbarella is a trip and a half. Visually stunning and a plot that confused me so much I had to watch it again with my wife to make sure I hadn't imagined some of what I saw.
Havin' a groovy

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"My admiration for him is total. I consider him a great artist, as great as Picasso and Matisse" ( Federico Fellini)

Master graphic novel artist and major influencer of all things fantastic Moebius died 2012 in Paris

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King Herla and his men joined a great party at the court of the fae. When they tried to return home they found that 300 years had passed, & the men who tried to dismount turned to dust. Doomed to continue forever, Herla & his men ride still, as the Wild Hunt

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There are many reasons to have a potlatch, a feast focused on gift-giving and community. Birth, the elevation of new leaders or retirements, marriages: these are just a few reasons to celebrate. The tribes of the Pacific Northwest keep their traditions alive.

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It was a party like no other: at Ægir's hall by the sea, Loki drunkenly accused the goddesses of infidelity, the gods of cowardice and stupidity, and admitted to orchestrating Balder's death. The next day he remembered nothing: but the gods sure did.

🖼: B. Thorpe

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Ægir always brewed the best beer and threw the best parties under the sea, at least till the time when Loki got jealous, slew a servant, and insulted everyone present. 🖼 Emil Doepler

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WEREWOLF TRIALS The Gandillon were a French family who ravaged the area of Jura in wolf form. Pernette and Pierre (children) confessed to using ointments to transform into wolves. They were tried, hanged and burnt as werewolves in 1598

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