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Oh, also! Another one of my faves:

The Flock, by

https://t.co/LE58YGWMfO

Which featured this cutie

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Painting of Helios (as Personification of Midday,c. 1765), Greek God and personification of the Sun by Neoclassical German painter Anton Raphael Mengs. He was the son of the Titans Hyperion&Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the dawn).#FolkloreThursday

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Easter Bonnets originated during the late 19th Century with the tradition of Easter parades. It represented the tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year, the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption.

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Celtic mythology features numerous magical cauldrons—Brân’s cauldron restores life, Cerridwen’s grants poetic inspiration & the Cauldron of Plenty magically replenishes with food or drink. All are likely precursors of the Holy Grail.

🖼 Waterhouse/Rossetti

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TWS is a love letter to everything I'm obsessed with: Classic and Gothic Horror, folklore, mythology, anime, and stories that center on Platonic relationships.

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German occult lore and folklore are rich with NHE tales and poltergeist (a German word after all) accounts.

And there’s the 1928 ‘lodge demon’ of the Fraternitas Saturni (see below, 1928 drawing). Quite Lam, grey alien like:)

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A fiery dragon hath bynne often seene to flye between these hills in the night, whereby it is supposed ther is a great treasure hydd in each hill, and the dragon is the trusty treasurer and sure keeper thereof.

[Cadbury Castle & Dolbury Hill]

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Albanian folklore: when the winged Drangue battles the demon serpent Kuçedra a return of the watery and chthonian world of death will occur, accomplishing the cosmic rebirth of all being. Heavy thunderstorms & rains will be the result of their battle.

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16 : Good Evening guys! This is Mizuchi or Water Spirit, Mizuchi is japanese legendary sea-serpent. 🐲🐉🌊💧🌧️

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A Germanic legend states will-o'-the-wisp are the souls of unbaptized children; to free them, one need only throw a handful of consecrated ground at the fiery orbs of light.
Art: Hermann Hendrich

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The Sun - prime symbol of Life, universally associated with divinity, from Ra to Inti, Apollo to Amaterasu. Ascribed with supreme power, wisdom, and goodness, solar gods protect and guide. In the Sun is the center of our personality and rules Leo.

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The Ankh - Egyptian symbol of life. Commonly seen in hieroglyphics, art, and statuary, this elegant object signifies the power of Life as it flows from one form to the next, passing through death to rebirth, an endless, joyful process of change and renewal.

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Good day, This is Crystal of back for another 90 minutes of folklore fun. A hat tip to for hosting before our break. What lore do you have about light, life, and renewal? We'd love to hear it! Use the hashtag and send a tweet! (Rackham)

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I've been waiting for this In keeping with today's theme, I bring the Slavic god Yarilo (sort of my namesake), whose name in Ukrainian means Spring. He's also the deity of fire, fertility and the ferocity of life, wears flower crowns and rides a white horse.

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UNICORN LOVE The was white with hooves of silver & graceful horn of pearl. His eyes circled by this sad and beautiful darkness were so sorrowful, gentle, & nobly tragic that they KILLED ALL OTHER EMOTIONS EXCEPT LOVE
E.H.White. 🎨Domenchio; Longhi

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German Easter card with spring-flower fairy, lamb, and chicks.
https://t.co/TqpK1xfKrA

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'The Riders of the Sidhe (1911) by John Duncan (1866-1945). Fab painting.

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In Far Eastern folklore, the Moon Rabbit or Moon Hare is said to mix the elixir of immortality with a mortar and pestle. It's easy to see how the phases of the Moon came to be associated with renewal of life, but rabbits?

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