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Renwick, 1733. A Cockatrice took up residence in the ruined church, but John Tallantine killed the creature using rowan tree branch.
Although some believe it can still be seen flying around the church at night.

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A malicious spirit from the desolated parts of the Flemish countryside, the Kludde is said to have the ability to generally take the form of a winged black dog with a blue flame flickering around its macabre visage.

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"Whatever up the mountain came,
I killed and gobbled it for game,
As Tazzelworm" (Scheffel)

Hatched from a black egg laid by a rooster, tazzelworms are half dragon, half cat creatures with poisonous fangs haunting the Alpine regions

🎨J. Saarenpää (2020)

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A dragon, a mythical creature breathing fire, having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, and a long tail. It appears in the folklore of many world cultures, considered both benevolent and malevolent according to region and belief system.
🖼Antonello Venditti

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The roc is a giant bird of prey, big enough to carry elephants in its talons, that appears in Middle Eastern tales, including those of Sinbad the Sailor. It could have been inspired by the Malagasy crowned eagle or the elephant bird, both now extinct.

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In Philippine legend, the Minokawa—a giant dragon-like bird with claws of steel & feathers sharp as swords—once swallowed the moon. Distracted by all the panicking humans, the Minokawa opened its beak, accidentally releasing the moon.

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GRIFFIN🦅🦁
..of Greek Mythology, a pig sized flying dinosaur, half eagle, half lion, that guarded the gold of thr kings, a very powerful, and majestic beast..#FairyTaleFlash

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PEGASUS🐴
..the immortal winged horse, which sprang from the neck of the beheaded Gorgon Medusa, and became the thunder-bolt bearer of Zeus, becoming an emblem of our ideals and accomplishments, flying from the mortal to the immortal realm..#FairyTaleFlash

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Currently in discussion to create a inspired exhibition, which is just fine by me.

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In order to win Gerd's hand in marriage, Frey sent his man-servant Skirnir to do his dirty work--wooing the fine jötunn lass on his behalf. By relying on multiple horrific threats of magic curses, Skirnir eventually convinced Gerd of Frey's affection. 🖼️Marussig

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in Jim Henson's Labyrinth our heroine is offered a peach 🍑. From Hades pomegranate to Rossetti's The Goblin Market... Accepting food from the Fae will tie you to their world
And here my own version of "As the world falls down" ↘️🎵 https://t.co/1D3drtGPKf

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There are dozens of various legends about the cursed ghost ship called the Flying Dutchman. In each, the protagonist somehow displeases either God himself or one of the spirits roaming the earth and sea, and is doomed to sail the oceans forever...
🖼️ Moira Risen

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"Bella, Bellarosea, darkness shall fall upon you.
Doom and gloom shall clothe and smother you.
Then I, the black thorn, shall pierce your feeble heart.
Not blood, but poison ivy, shall flow swift through your veins...


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2022-04-26

Lentil soup is a great motivator in Mediterranean folktales. In a a prince is cursed when he kicks over some soup 🍲

"Oh dearie me! As I have yearned seven years for lentil soup, so you may yearn for Anthousa the fair with the golden hair!"

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Refusing fairy food can often result in curses. a Devon ploughman once mended a fairy’s broken baking peel; cider was left in thanks, which the man happily drank.  His plough boy refused it as he was scared and was pinched black and blue by invisible hands.

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To the rich man's son he commanded, “Stay where thou art, and sit beneath the earth all thy days, so long as the sun is in the sky.”
And the rich man’s son instantly transformed into the first mole.

https://t.co/i9cfgE87eL

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“And maidens call it ‘love-in-idleness’...
The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid
Will make or man or woman madly dote
Upon the next live creature that it sees.”
So Oberon plans to enchant Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Act 2 Sc 1)

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Beautiful and alluring, the witchy, enchantress Morgan le Fay is both a healer and wise woman. In Arthurian legend she was, initially, a kind character and protector of King Arthur. As legends developed, so too did the unpredictable duality of her nature.

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There's a Tinguian story where a boy named Kanag, tired of being sent out to guard the rice everyday, transforms into a bird (of his own volition). He preferred to remain that way for a while, and carry messages given by the spirits to the people 1/3

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