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In Thailand there is an archetype, the Nang Mai, the Lady of the Woods. This spirit manifests in different trees, each with their own specific lore. Banana trees are Nang Tani, beautiful young women who manifest in full moonlight.

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Kodama are the spirits of old trees in deep forests in Japan. Sometimes seen as orbs of light or tiny vaguely human shapes, they are more often heard, as echoes that are just slightly oddly delayed art by
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The Celtic tree month of Hazel goes from 5 August to 1 Sep. Hazel is the tree of knowledge, wisdom & poetic inspiration, & its nuts bring prophetic power. It is good for magical wands & dowsing for water & ley lines, as it holds the secrets of the earth. Img: CB

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According to pagan lore,yew trees are sacred to Hecate, the Greek goddess of death,witchcraft, and necromancy. It's said that the yew purifies the dead as they arrive in Hades,also known as the underworld https://t.co/nrlkqNDNDD
🎨Maximilian Pirner,William Blake

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

(🎨R Sheppard)

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In Kodama are the spirits of trees. While they are attached to specific trees, they can also move freely through forests often appearing as glowing orbs of light. In some accounts they present as regular trees but with the ability to...

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In the Sumerian legend The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Cedar Forest is the glorious realm of the gods, guarded by the demigod Humbaba. Early versions of the legend place this forest in the mountains of Iran, while Babylonian retellings place it in Lebanon.

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The water bull, called tarbh usige in Scottish Gaelic, is a mythological creature, resident of the moorland lochs.

Capable of shape-shifting into a human, it's more amiable than the water horse, but still fearful.



Art by SantosArt (DA)

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"Witches...believed to have the power...to don the bodies of certain animals, notably hares...Such, according to local superstition, are easily distinguishable by their size & colour, which approaches jet black." - Folklore of the North-West Highlands

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Animal tales are perhaps the oldest of all folktales. They are part myth, part fable, and part fairy tales. Talking animals appear in many European folktales. For example, “The Three Little Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood”.

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The bishop-fish is a 16th century sea monster apparently taken to the King of Poland who meant to keep it. When a group of Catholic bishops saw it pleading to be free they obliged. The bishop fish made the sign of the cross and escaped back into the sea…

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Foxglove gets its name from the legend that the Fae gave the fox the blossoms to pad its feet so it would be a more silent hunter.

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‘Airy mouse, airy mouse, fly over my head,
And you shall have a crust of bread,
And when I brew and when I bake,
You shall have a piece of my wedding cake.’

A song for children to sing to protect themselves from the bad luck that bats might bring. 🦇 1/2

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Good morning friends, thank you for a fabulous and furry first hour, this is rushing in (late as usual) to share your animal lore for the next hour! (illustration The White Rabbit by John Tenniel from Alice in Wonderland)

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Stag God. The symbol and reverence of the stag amongst the Anglo-Saxons is a tradition that is very likely to be rooted in the most ancient of Germanic culture and religion.

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Horse skulls have a prominent feature in folklore, as a good luck charm, preventing witchcraft and fae folk from causing mischief as well as a guide of the boundary between the living and the dead.

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In Germany it was said that mice were created by witches who fashioned them from scraps of cloth.

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