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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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2022-05-03

🖤"No picture he’d ever taken of the Seelie or Unseelie had ever shown anything more than vague shapes & shadows. He prayed that the screen would show her face. If it was just a haze, & proved that an enchantment had been slipped into his heart, he would suffer."

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2022-04-26

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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2022-04-26

"...And when they came quite up to the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar."

- Hansel and Gretel,
The Brothers Grimm
🎨 by Arthur Rackham

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2022-04-20

💦 Tears turned to pearls & rolled along pale cheeks before meeting the ocean seafoam with a soft splash. The maiden had lost everything at the hands of the hunter. She now sat on the beach and mourned the loss of her spotted seal coat...her home...her freedom...

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2022-04-06

According to Welsh legend and tradition there was a magical water horse and water bull living in or around the lake known as Llyn Cowlyd, as well as ancient owl. https://t.co/0lcAWKmhK8

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2022-04-05


BAMBI🦌
.. chosen as the next prince of the forest, like his father. After the death of his mother, he learns about friendship, love, and how to survive alone, and protect his loved ones..
"..child and happy mother.."
Sonnet 8

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2022-04-05


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

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2022-04-05

"This is such a pretty flower," said the woman. She kissed its lovely red petals, and just as she kissed it the flower flew open, in the middle of it sat a tiny girl. She was no taller than your thumb. So she was called Thumbelina.


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2022-03-22


BANSHEE
..of Celtic Mythology, a sign of death, the word "Banshee"deriving from "Bean Si",..the fairy woman, appear, generally as an a screeching female or old woman( but also as a hare, or a hooded crow) appearing in the night..#StPatricksDay

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2022-03-15


GREEN🇮🇪💚
..symbolic colour of Celtic folklore, most favoured by the fairies, and flourishing vegetation, the fairies as spirits of fertility and abundance..
Titania.."in wanton green.." 🧚
A Midsummer Night's Dream

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2022-03-15


LEPRECHAUN🇮🇪
...according to legend, fairies pay the leprechaun for their work with golden coins which the "little people" collect in large pots..the famous "pots of gold" at the end of the rainbow

7 13
2022-03-15

The Roc/Rukh is a monsterous bird that can lift elephants into the sky & makes several appearances in the 1,001 Arabian Nights.
Art by Edward Julius Detmold
Plate from The Arabian Nights, 'The Roc Which Fed Its Young On Elephants.'

5 15
2022-03-09

High in the tower the music and singing floated up to the Sultan’s daughter. Hearing it took her mind back to her husband and the times he would sing to her. She knew this could only be her Fair Brow and became excited https://t.co/VPbyWtCmdm

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2022-03-09

Ayakashi in Japanese literally means, "strange phenomenon of the sea," and is a term used for yokai who appear in the liminal spaces between the surface of the sea/ocean and the air.


https://t.co/uTHQR30wit

10 31
2022-02-23

Nykur - a water horse.

Nykurs are cruel creatures. They present themselves as tame, friendly 🐴, but anyone who mounts them will find themselves sticking to it’s back. The nykur then gallops off into the 🌊, plunging its rider into the 💦 and drowning them.

6 8
2022-02-22

This week's prompt: 2/20-2/26
Share your Twitter that feature a
✨WATER CREATURE✨
✨Mermaid✨Kappa✨Rusalka✨Kraken✨Selkie✨Siren✨Lukwata & More!
Use &we'll RT

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2022-02-21

She heard giggling and sniggering all around her. She walked past the place where her brothers turned to stone. Mocking laughter echoed all around her. In that laughter she heard her brothers voices calling.
https://t.co/4VGyVi6OKY

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2022-02-16

In the Vǫlsunga saga, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, awakens the cursed Valkyrie, Brynhild, and falls in love with her.

It all ends in betrayal and tragedy.

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2022-02-09