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Could you love, or lust after, a fairy? Goodwin Wharton, an English nobleman and politician, did. During the late 1600s, assisted by his cunning-woman lover, he repeatedly tried to arrange nocturnal meetings with the Fairy Queen.



(Picture of his brother).

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2019-05-23

Tuatha de Danann, was the magical race of ancient Ireland. They were god-like creatures with supernatural abilities, worshiped during the pre-Christian era. Later, as Christianity took roots, the Tuatha de Danann persisted in folklore as either Saints or Fae.

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2019-05-23

✨🍄✨Fairy Rings, circles of toadstools that appear in fields, are said to be where the Fae dance. If you run 9 times around one at the full moon you will hear their music & singing - but beware, if you run widdershins (anticlockwise) you will be lost forever!

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2019-05-23

When I was younger I ADORED Kappa, they were my favourite yōkai of Japanese folklore, so decided to draw one again after not drawing one in years.

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2019-05-23

Hello, I'm RAH, I majored in animation and am currently a children's book illustrator. I also draw comics and really like vikings & folklore. I work in a wide range of mediums, but graphite is my jam!
https://t.co/MtWM630EBb
https://t.co/3F2q4NQPKB
https://t.co/tdOoKOn6fu

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2019-05-23

Boto Cor-de-rosa (Pink Boto) - a enchanted Boto that transforms in to a man that seduces and impregnates women (he is always with a hat, because the only remain of the animal form is that hole in the head)

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2019-05-22

Ipupiara - He is like a sea monster basically

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2019-05-22

Concept art for Night on Bald Mountain by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen. The nightmare-inducing Fantasia segment was based on Mussorgsky's tone poem and inspired by slavic the god Czernobog is summoned forth by a dark ritual on St. John's Eve.

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2019-05-21

21 May. Keep best cowslip blooms for divination:
Make a ball of flower-heads tied with wool & play ‘Tell Me True’ tossing the ball to this chant:
“Tisty-tosty tell me true, Who shall I be married to?
Tisty-tosty cowslip ball, At my sweetheart’s name you’ll fall.”

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2019-05-21

I'm a day late posting but here's a Selkie for my weekly updates and to contribute to Mermay. Gonna go read up on the folklore a little more.

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2019-05-21

This week LB and Kaitlin talk about twins in pop culture and folklore! 

Listen: https://t.co/gyqW4XtV4z

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2019-05-21

RIPPED TO SHREDS obliterate all with the HM-2 machine that is "魔經 - Demon Scriptures," a new EP that incorporates Chinese horror & folklore tales with blistering musicianship that is nothing short of blood curling.

https://t.co/BSix0FZc7W

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2019-05-20

Shinsou for an amino challege I did! The theme was so I immediately jumped at the chance to draw him with cat ears and tail hahaha

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2019-05-19

The Death of Orpheus (1893) by Jean Delville. In the divine poet & musician Orpheus was torn to pieces by frenzied followers of Dionysus. His head & lyre then floated down a river & out to sea, still singing mournful songs.

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2019-05-19

We rly wish people would notice more of our mecha & Filipino folklore creatures concept artworks and komiks.
We started in 2015 thinking it would be something cool bc it's something new. Turns out it's not because it's mecha lol

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2019-05-18

Sunday's episode is all about... Twins! Join us this week as we learn things about twins throughout folklore!

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2019-05-18