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Mythical creatures
#monsters #mythology #folklore #creatures #fantasy #art #bestiary
The legend of the Huna people, tells of the #Puffin. One day, a girl was saved by puffins. Her father found out & offered canoes of riches to get her back. Until her mom offered old white hair & they agreed. Each put a white hair in its head, there to this day. #FolkloreThursday
Xōchipilli is the Aztec god of #art. The Flower Prince, patron of writing, painting, dance, and games, was married to Mayahuel, a human woman. #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
#Wolf #Myths and Folklore From Around the World by @ShanonSinn for #FolkloreThursday
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#folklorethursday The Greek goddess Iris, was a messenger of the gods before Hermes, a special envoy of Hera, and the personification of the rainbow. Iris was the daughter of a marine god Thaumas the wondrous, and a cloud goddess, Amber. #pantheon
in September of 1609 Henry Hudson and crew while exploring the Catskill Mts claimed to have come across a party of metallurgist gnomes who shared a drink ( which they called eldritch ale) that temporarily transformed some of the crew into Gnomes as well #FolkloreThursday
1st reveal of new characters in #ThePropagandaProjectBETA vol3!
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@FolkloreThurs The Greek muses were the quintessential embodiment of arts, from music to poetry and creativity, often depicted in vivid colours. Here is a painting entitled "The Muses Melpomene, Erato, and Polyhymnia" by Eustache Le Sueur. #FolkloreThursday #art
We picked 4 colourful illustrations from our favourite tales for this week's #folklorethursday > Jessie Willcox Smith 'Heidi', Dugald Stewart Walker 'The Nightingale', Virginia Frances Sterrett 'The Wild Boar', Harry Clarke 'The Garden of Paradise.' https://t.co/zBADHbInou ✨🌈
BLUE FAIRY Kindly saviour of wayward puppet Pinocchio 1883; human-sized, not diminutive, she has a mysterious history, appearing first as a spectre child with blue hair; re-imagined under water in A.I. (2001) below, an uncanny vision of discarded robot boy David #FolkloreThursday
First preview of my new map about legends & ghosts connected with the Brontes & Haworth moors. Ive also tried to convey the energy & feel of the landscape, hills & valleys. It is accurate for use as a map but only uses places that have existed for over 200 years
#FolkloreThursday
Keeper of the Rainbow..
Iris 1921 #ArthurRackham #FolkloreThursday #colour
In the Language of Flowers, Acanthus was said to represent art or artfulness in a bouquet.
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Red - the witch hue
Old Mother Redcap. Archetypal English folk witch, with a long history & many homes. Jacobean Londoners told tales of her. So did folks in 1800s Derbyshire. Pubs were named after her in Sheffield & Luton, til lately. Blackburn still has one.
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Diwata ✴
Diwata is the tagalog/Filipino version of a Nymph goddess in the Philippine Folklores, they invoke to request abundant crops, good health, and fortune. #artph #philippineart #filipinoart #philippinefolklore #mythology #digitalart #illustration #drawing #diwata
DARK FAE #FairyTaleTuesday
In Scottish #folklore the fairies of the Unseelie Court are the ugly, cruel fae that haunt the bad places of the world. The Queen of the Unseelie Court is Madb, the "Queen of Air & Darkness"-Her consort is known as the Erlking & may also be called Madoc
Yokais :3 Watercolor for Bumaga zine(traditional painting artbook).
#yokai #watercolors #watercolorpainting #folklore #art #ArtistOnTwitter
@EditionsKinaye Nouvelle critique sur The Storyteller : Dragons de Jorge Corona sur Babelio : "Quatre histoires de dragons où j'ai découvert un peu du folklore amérindien, britannique, russe et j..." https://t.co/KaX8dN3AC6 via @babelio