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I love my two legendary fakemon ❤️💙. Their folklore is full of love too...

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2020-06-26

Banshee (fairy, ghost, disembodied spirit, she can appear in many of the forms) supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore and her scream is believed to be an omen of death. 💀

(my new + previous take on this creature from 2018)

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Round 4-

A serpent that grows 2 heads for every 1 lost vs a 100 headed dragon that fervently guards the golden apple tree. Both slain by Hercules. Who would win?

Like for Hydra (Left) RT for Ladon (Right)

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2020-06-26


Ancient Sailors of old, used a handy tool to help measure precisely how high or low a star was in the sky: their fingers!🙌🏻

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2020-06-25

After the hostile giant, Thiazi, gets burned to death in eagle-form for his kidnapping of Idunn, Odin carves the eyes out of his bird-corpse and places them in the sky as stars in part of the plea bargain intended to placate Thiazi’s enraged daughter, Skadi.

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2020-06-25

A story from Sierra Leone says God sent Bat to the moon with a package containing darkness

Bat got hungry + put the box down to search for food. Curious animals opened it and set the dark free

To this day, Bat flies back and forth trying to recapture the night

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2020-06-25

The sun used to live among the San of the Kalahari as a man, unusual only in that when he lifted his arms bright light escaped his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky to drive out the prior darkness of the world.
Brian Froud Illustration

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2020-06-25

- Do NOT point! At stars, that is. According to legend stars might be gods looking down on you, and to point would anger them and bad luck was sure to ensue. Below is a 1660 celestial map. Just so you know where not to point!

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"The most powerful magicians, too, as Simon Magus, Apollonius of Tyana, Pasetes, Iamblichus, and Odo de Stellis, can force them to...build castles in the air."

Entry on "demon" in The New American Cyclopædia (1868)

Image: The Chernabog in Disney's Fantasia

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2020-06-25

Excited to announce my paper, 'Analysing the monstrous mermaid revived to ward off coronavirus' at CORONAGOTHIC: Cultures of the Pandemic’: an online conference by , 10am BST Tues 30 June. Free to register https://t.co/goM3qst4VI

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2020-06-25

Yey, it's done! The pontianak, MY & ID's folklore monster, in form

完全に終わりました！マレーシアとインドネシアの伝統な化け物「ポンティアナク」といます

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2020-06-25

FENRIR the most infamous of the many in Norse mythology. He’s the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is ultimately Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin and destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok

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The constellation Ophiuchus represents Asclepius, the healer of Greek myth & son of Apollo. Ophiuchus is called the Serpent Bearer as Asclepius healed a snake, earning the gratitude of Athena. She gave him the means to resurrect the dead (image: Sidney Hall)

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is one of the twelve visible in the Northern Hemisphere and known as the 'dark constellation' due to its few stars.

In Hera placed the crab there after it was slain by Hercules.

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Globus Aerostaticus and Promethius Constellation the folklore and mythology of the stars.

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Without the Sun, where would we be? In the Sun rules the sign of Leo, which falls between ~July 23 and August 23, and governs matters of ego, independence, joy, creativity, the Father, men in general, confidence, how and where we seek achievement.

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and in opposite seasons, so that both of them can never be seen in the sky at the same time. 2/2

Johann Bayer's Uranometria (courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Library)

Scorpius as depicted in Urania's Mirror (1825)

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