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Narcissus is a beautiful young man who rejects all admirers,
until one day, he sees his own reflection in a pool and instantly
falls in love. Narcissus dies gazing at his own reflection,
heartbroken that his love cannot be returned.


Waterhouse

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2022-10-25


The classic vampire is quite different from most modern vampires; they were mindless beasts who ran on all fours and turned into swarms of moths. They do have some modern vampires traits though, like sucking blood and being weak to silver and holy symbols.

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2022-10-24

In human eyes (and most mammals’ & birds’) the iris controls the size of the pupil & the amount of light reaching the retina. Eye colour is defined by the iris. It is named thus after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, who served as a messenger of the gods.

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2022-10-24

According to a Persian scientist ابو علی حسین بن عبدالله بن سینا (Avicenna), your soul can affect other people’s bodies the same way it affects yours.

For example, a malevolent glare of your eyes can cause curses and deceases.




🌙Lera Whoami

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2022-10-24

September's mythological coloring page was Wolpertinger! I cannot resist a bunny shaped monster lol. Took inspiration on their coloration from the black grouse which have really epic plumage

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2022-10-18

Athena turning Arachne into a spider was done out of pity: she had not meant for Arachne to hang herself after the goddess destroyed her flawless tapestry and loom, better than her own. Many, however, take this as a curse.

🖼: G. Dore

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2022-10-18

Anansi Stories became the Old Brer Rabbit Stories.

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2022-10-17

In Tsuchigumo (earth spider) is a gigantic spider It is believed that long-lived spiders can gain supernatural powers and become yokai whereupon they grow to enormous sizes. They live in forests or mountain caves...

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2022-10-17

Uttu, the Mesopotamian goddess of weaving, taught mortal women to weave, ushering in a new era in which humans less often froze to death or burned in the sun. Her name means woven in Sumerian & resembles the Akkadian word for spider, ettūtu.

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2022-10-17

The best way to sow stars is in the company of two gargantuan bull-rams.


by Valera Lutfullina

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2022-10-04



In the 1800s Pennsylvanians tied red scarves onto mannequins to scare crows away from their crops. They named their new type of scarecrow, “Bogeyman.”
- Old Pennsylvania Folklore.

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2022-10-03

Irish peat fae, Ballybogs are strange looking creatures with disproportioned bodies. They appear to have been dipped in mud & prefer to keep to themselves in their mud holes. They are known to prank unsuspecting human travelers & lead them astray from the path.

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2022-10-03

A Cherokee earth diver creation myth tells how Dayunsi the water beetle dived below the sea to the sea floor and grabbed a lump of soft mud and returned to the surface. On the surface, the mud swelled expanding into an island called land https://t.co/YpGXhB3ppp

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2022-10-03

If you ever wake up to find muddy little footprints around your bedroom, it might be because you've had a visit from a known as makuragaeshi (pillow flipper), which isn't always a good thing. More info in the thread below.
🎨Sophie Lupas
https://t.co/wvE7zFIz9s

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2022-10-03

“I dream of rivers with a hundred mouths and mountains where the leaves turn over like silver fire. Take me there, Dionysus”
- Euripides, from ‘Bakkhai

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2022-09-27

Waterhouse painted 'Sleep & his half brother Death' in 1874, after his two younger brothers died from T.B. The figures are based on the Greek myth of Hypnos (sleep) & Thanatos (death) Sleep holds poppies in his hand to show that he is dreaming.

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2022-09-27

In Galician folklore, Pedro Chosco is an old man with a half-closed eye. He puts children to sleep with gentle caresses, although it prefers to seduce girls (especially maids)....

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2022-09-27

Nightmares are more than just the horrors that fill our dreams: the mare is a Germano-Slavic haunt that terrorizes dreams and could cause sleep paralysis in addition to terror.

🖼️: H. Fuseli

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2022-09-27


We forget just how powerful Hypnos is, but one of the Orphic hymns gives a good idea, calling him:

Sleep [Hypnos], king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sov'reign of all sustain'd by mother Earth;

Art: Balthasar Beschey

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2022-09-26