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A little thread about Ireland's kick-ass legendary heroine, Macha!
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‘Three Characters of the Play
The Villain, The Heroine, The Hero’

Achille Greco marionettes
Palermo, Sicily
📷 Harry B. Lachman (1886-1975)

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A dhampir (dhampyre, dhamphir, dhampyr) is the child of a vampire and human, as told in Balkan folklore.

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Grace Darling assured her status as a real life & folk heroine in 1838, when she rowed out to rescue survivors from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast. She inspired countless street ballads, fiction, even figurines, and many requests for locks of her hair

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In Norse mythology, Hel is ruler of the underworld. Alongside the crucial job of judging the dead, she also had a vital and terrifying role to play in the endtimes legend of Ragnarok, leading an army of the dead in a ship made from the fingernails of corpses.

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theme of - two Cumbrian called Tarquin & Isir lived on a diet of human flesh. A practice which lost its appeal when Sir Lancelot slew Tarquin in battle https://t.co/dR79xhRH82

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Maid Marian, the love interest of Robin Hood, was also described as his equal in combat in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Francis James Child, 1888). They battled (in disguise) for an hour until Robin invited the feisty heroine to join his band

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Cú Chulainn, Irish hero of the Rúraíocht/Ulster Cycle.

Nearing death, he wanted to die on his feet fighting his enemies. He tied himself to a large stone, usually identified as Cloghafarmore (Stone of the Big Man) in Co. Louth.


https://t.co/robZsFlQ8g

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Momotaro is a hero of Japanese folklore. He was found by a childless couple, inside a peach, floating down a river. He grew up and embarked on a quest, defeating a band of demons with the help of a talking dog, a monkey and a pheasant.

Image: Wikipedia commons.

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A dhampir (dhampyre, dhamphir, dhampyr) is the child of a vampire and human, as told in Balkan folklore.

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A dhampir (dhampyre, dhamphir, dhampyr) is the child of a vampire and human, as told in Balkan folklore.

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Alexander the Great features in literature & folklore across Europe & Asia: in the Christian West he was one of the Nine Worthies (1); & in stories he faces monsters (2); searches for the Water of Life (Persia) (3) & conquers the air (15c Flanders) (4)

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The Knights of Blaník

There are many legends connected with the Czech mountain Blaník, some of them originate in Celtic times like The Knights of Blaník. The knights sleep inside the mountain waiting for the Czech nation to be in a bad/oppressive situation.

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Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, was the only female ruler of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom (911 - 918) after her husband’s death. The daughter of Alfred the Great, she was a diplomat as well as a military leader, scoring several decisive victories over the Vikings.

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Fanart for 's Webtoon, Fox Fires!
I just discovered this beautiful story last night about Finnish folklore and the origin of fox fires/auroras, and I BLAZED through the entire thing in a day.

(This doesn't actually happen in the story, just a fan theory I've seen.)

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The real seed of the series Hilda came from me wanting to do something that drew on Scandinavian folklore. I wanted a character who was very positive & who would get caught up in adventures as a result of her own curiosity, empathy or sense of responsibility.
- Luke Pearson

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changing it up with loosely based on the of King Nuada. Chosen to save the world from the who are trying to rid the world of everything they deem unnatural.

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An escape plan comes together for our heroes in this week's update!

https://t.co/be9iGJgW0J

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