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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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Gerda & the Reindeer, Edmund Dulac, 1911. The talking reindeer helps Gerda in her quest to find her friend Kai, who is being held captive by the Snow Queen. She rides on the reindeer to the far north, finds the Snow Queen’s palace & rescues Kai (Andersen tale)

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The flying horse, Fledge, was once a tired cab horse. He was called to a new destiny in

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The hippocampus (also the name for a coiled part of the human brain--thanks psych. degree ) are part horse/part fish sea creatures credited with pulling Neptune's chariot & perhaps also providing transport for common merfolk.
Illustrations: Ari Berk

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Elen of the Ways, Celtic antlered goddess, as the divine Protectress of the Pathways, she is the guardian of our earthly journeys, both physical and spiritual. She also cared for the migration routes used by animals, especially deer and particularly reindeer.

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Pegasus is the immortal winged horse in Greek mythology who sprang from the neck of the beheaded Medusa. Tamed by Bellerophon who rode his magnificent steed into battle against the fire-breathing monster the Chimera.
🎨Polina Bivsheva

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A three days' journey in a moment done;
And always, at the rising of the sun,
About the wilds they hunt with spear and horn,
On spleenful unicorn.

—John Keats
art by Maerten de Vos (1572)

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The cow Auðhumla.

The primordial frost jötunn Ymir, fed from her milk, and over the course of three days she licked away the salty rime rocks and revealed Búri, grandfather of the gods and brothers Odin, Vili and Vé.

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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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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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In Italian folklore Befana is an old soot-covered woman or witch who delivers gifts to Italian children on Epiphany Eve (6th January
If the child has been bad she might leave them a lump of coal!
Art: Laura Tempest Zacroff

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HC Andersen's Snow Queen held an evil magick over certain individuals, somehow incorporating the Devil's distorted mirror into their vision, and making them misjudge goodness and beauty.

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Why has the witch inspired such fascination and fear in equal measure for centuries? She embodies the shadow side of our wisest selves, she rides the seasons, she sees and knows, she does what must be done, melding past and future with what exists here and now.

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'The Mastermaid cuts the lad’s finger and lets three drops of blood fall. She piles up all the old rags and rubbish and drops them into the cauldron, fills a box with powdered gold...and off she goes wi’t king’s son.' https://t.co/mpz7vuqfwX

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The Pakistani “churail” dwells in all places abandoned or unpopulated - mountains, in graveyards, or under trees. The witch has backwards-pointing feet, and may take the form of a beautiful woman to lure men to their deaths.

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Sometimes positively connotated, other times identified with witches, the MEIGAS are well known characters in Galician lore. The word "meiga" may come from Latin MEDICA (since they are women who know the secrets of healing) or perhaps from MAGICA (magic woman).

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The tale of a shape-shifting magical lady, told more delicately by than by
https://t.co/unZhDAZefD
“My lord,” she said, “give thanks thereby,
For with these words you’ve said, wherein
You made me your own sovereign,
My destiny is overcome.”

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Which came first, the language or the lore?
German witches transform themselves into butterflies in order to steal cream.
In German, the word for 'cream' is 'schmetten' and the word for 'butterfly' is 'schmetterling'.

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A tiny toad makes a tremendous familiar! This one was created with watercolor and ink on Readi-Board.

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Mother Gothel is a witch with a wonderful garden full of medicinal plants. But when a man takes some of the Rapunzel plant from her garden for his pregnant wife, she is furious and demands that she get the unborn child in return.

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