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Midwinter Celebrations: #Yule, #Saturnalia, and #Christmas Folklore by @RuthBinney https://t.co/nXzvxpFXD1
Overlooking Mexico City, the Iztaccíhuatl (The Sleeping Woman) and the Popocatépetl (The Smoking Peak), two mountains, a princess and warrior, stand for eternity.
He guards her, kneeling in pain, for she killed herself thinking him lost in battle.
#FolkloreThursday
Cailleach – the dark mother is a #Celtic goddess of winter, appearing as an old one-eyed hag with a magical hammer. She creates mountains, brings storms, and protects wild animals such as deer and wolves.
#FolkloreThursday
The dahu is a mythical mountain goat-like creature from French lore, with legs shorter on one side to better climb the steep rock face. It’s the object of a lot of pranks, from convincing children of its existence to sending gullible people to hunt it down. #FolkloreThursday
Many know Dwalin from the Hobbit, but there was also Dvalinn, a ruler of the Norse dwarves who taught them the writing of runes. His daughters were among the Norns and he helped to forge Brisingamen, Freya's necklace. #FolkloreThursday #thehobbit #dwalin
If you sleep on Cadair Idris (Idris's Chair') you will wake to find yourself a poet or a madman - if you wake at all. The lord of the Otherworld hunts there with red-eared hounds. The crater lake is not only bottomless but the home of a dragon. #FolkloreThursday #WorldMountainDay
For years after its first reported sighting in 1920, scientists have tried to prove the existence of this 2-3m long amphibian known as the Trinity Alps Giant Salamander, but none have succeeded
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#FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs #cryptidsforthecurious
Manfred on the Jungfrau by Ford Madox Brown depicts Manfred's torment as he contemplates suicide. Based on Byron's dramatic poem, Manfred’s unnamed guilt is generally thought to reference Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister Augusta Leigh #FolkloreThursday #mountains
Heidi..
#GustafTenggren 1923 #FolkloreThursday #WorldMountainDay
Mind the trolls and be polite to the folk you may meet while exploring the mountains. @folklorethursday #FolkloreThursday #kidlitart #hikingadventures #folklore #lakedistrict #dartmoor
#FolkloreThursday According to folklorist Wirt Sikes the gwyllion are female fairies of frightful aspect who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains and lead travellers astray. They are more akin to hags or witches.
#art by Todd Lockwood
This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is folklore of #mountains, #hills and rocky places for #WorldMountainDay
So here’s a little dragon from the rock-strewn slopes of Tryfan - one of the higher & wilder places in Wales.
#WilliamBlake, visionary #poet, painter & printmaker, was born in #Soho #London on 28th November 1757. He first published his poems as illuminated plates. #Artlovers #art #symbolism #arte #FolkloreThursday
#WriteAnime D27: RELICTION dives into the local folklore of the Erician (North American) First People who live in a reservation just north of Arroyo. Truth be told, I'm still researching and developing it. Incidentally, if anyone can recommend sources on Native American myths.... https://t.co/Pi57S6HhOC
Mythological creatures! 🐉🧙♂️
The Wendigo is a creature native to the folklore of the Native American Algonquin tribe. It’s said to be a creature that used to be a man who was possessed by an evil spirit ravenous for the taste of human flesh.
Interesting, huh?
#mythological
@SwigMama Reminds me of the Akhlut from Yup'ik folklore: an orca, wolf hybrid that transforms and roams the wintry north when food is scarce.
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@SammyWardDraws is tabling at BAM on 7 December. She is a freelance illustrator/comics creator obsessed with folklore. She created Scavengers, a mini adventure comic delving in fantasy and Norse mythology. Check out Sammy’s work and come and buy some @KomediaBath #SmallPress