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Baba Yaga, ubiquitous in Slavic folklore, is famous for living in a house which stands on chicken legs (sometimes two, sometimes four, sometimes just the one). She flies through the air in a mortar and pestle and sweeps away her tracks with a broom. Her teeth are made of iron.
The windigo: A beast of American folklore, a beast reminiscent of a deer, it wanders about eating people.
A short comic based off of Irish Folklore. Also a bit of a peak into Saffrens past. #PurlwinkandSaffren #Halloween #Halloween2022 #Samhain
In Ireland if death was near, lots of bread was brought into the house so that evil spirits would be drawn away to eat and let the soul of the dying leave in peace...
#FolkloreThursday #Gothtober @FolkloreThurs
Due to a difficult sofa🙄 today's blog will be combined with tomorrow's.
Meanwhile here are some WIPs that will hopefully be for sale soon. These are a quite a bit larger than others I've done.
#MHHSBD #FolkloreThursday #ShopQuirkyHour #WIP
Aka Manto haunts Japanese bathrooms, offering colored paper to those without. The color indicates how they will kill you: red by slashing, blue by draining you of blood. The name means "red jacket." #FolkloreThursday #HalloweenSpooktacular
🖼: @matthewmeyerart
In some parts of Anatolia, it's believed that the newly dead walk for seven days. Day wander around the crowd at their own funeral, asking "Who died?" 💀
#FolkloreThursday #31daysofhaunting
#ofdarkandmacabre
🎨Wladimir Petroff
Old Irish lore : when leaving a wake always say " nothing follow me home" before you get to your home. A grieving family can be open to demons who see grief as a doorway and attach themselves to people leaving the wake.....#IrishTwitter #Ireland #folklorethursday #horror
The Cheval Gauvin is an evil horse that haunts eastern France & the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. According to legend, it is a harbinger of death found in forests & cemeteries, killing those who ride it by drowning or tossing them off into chasms.
#FolkloreThursday #Gothtober
Νereids worshipping the Moon by Moritz Von Schwind (1804-1871)
#moritzvonschwind #art #painting #oilpainting #nereids #greekmythology #mythology #folkloreart
Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Bird With Golden Flowers Original Painting Mythology Folklore Magic Victorian Gothic Fantasy Romanticism Fairytale Myth Inspired Surreal Art https://t.co/I6wQXg9TXG
@ace_of_dragons thank you for the artshare!!
I'm a digital artist that loves everything myth magic and folklore related
@TwistedFaeArt thank you for the artshare!
I'm a digital artist that loves everything myth magic and folklore related!
Mythology Series #11-The Heinzelmännchen, house gnomes of German folklore. Have done the work of Cologne's citizens at night so they may be lazy, until one of them wanted to spot a gnome, and made it slip and fall. The gnomes got angry and left the citizens to work for themselves
Artwork made with Procreate. The Barghest was from Northern English folklore. He was a monstrous black dog believed to be a warning of misfortune and death.
In Scandinavian folklore, a troll cat is a cat made by a witch from bones, sticks, wool, hair, nails, metal scraped off a church bell and graveyard soil. It was believed that the troll cat gained life in a magic ritual where blood was sacrificed.
#FairyTaleTuesday
Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: #Comets Original #Painting Mythology #Folklore #Magic #Victorian #Gothic Fae #Fantasy #Romanticism Fairytale Myth Inspired #Bizarre #Surreal #Ink #Art https://t.co/fqJeLlwCvG