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🕸️ Our free fairy tale trials for families are back on Saturday with Anansi Spider, a cheeky character whose stories originate in Ghana and are central to Caribbean culture and folklore: https://t.co/rg8QeruDry

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2019-04-18

A MERMAID'S TAIL prevented her from consummating relationships with humans; artists suggestively erased her tail. Waterhouse’s siren has scales from her calves down; in 1896 Munch’s fishy tail starts at her knees & Magritte’s extends only to mid thigh

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Bunyip (Australia): An aboriginal legendary creature - a lake dweller; they are carnivorous, enjoying the flesh of women and children. Descriptions vary, sometimes it is described as having a duck's bill, one eye, resembling a crocodile, or being hirsute.

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'A rabbit that wishes for the moon' is a Thai idiom that has similar meaning with the English idiom 'cry for the moon.' It means wishing for something impossible. In Thai context, this idiom mostly refers to a poor man wishing for a woman that out of his reach.

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For Easter here's hare and spring related artwork! The first one, the white hare is from the archives. Here in Devon, there are quite a few stories of witches turning into hares. The second is my own personal folklore...

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First fresh green appearing on my silver birch tree and lots of movement glimpsed in the greenery - when you're never quite sure if it's a bird, insect or something else... https://t.co/A9xj9cj7Sl

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Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of spring, the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. Since C15th it has been adopted as a symbol of the Virgin Mary Img: Cicely Barker.

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Based on a poem by Russian author Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov & featuring 3 buckets of water: 'The Humpbacked Horse / Конёк-Горбуно́к / The Magic Pony' (1947) dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano.

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Neptune is the god of the He is typically portrayed as a bearded older man, but in this 19th-century painting, he appears as a youthful spirit, accompanied by sea creatures and other sea folk.

Neptune, Charles Napier Kennedy (1852–1898)

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2019-04-18

To celebrate the final stretch of the wildly successful new Folklore: Fall of the Spire funding campaign, I will be posting the work I've done over the next 36 hours as the campaign nears its end.
https://t.co/g5hxAlpKo6

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2019-04-18

That first coffee in the morning watching the sun rise and the birds getting their day started ☕ ☀

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2019-04-17

This week's theme is However you choose to celebrate, get your Easter themed folklore ready for Thursday! (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

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THE MERMAID'S MIRROR. Often seen as a sign of sin, or as representing the planet Venus; it also represents the mermaid's ability to see through the veil that separates the visible and spirit worlds, according to the folklore of mirrors ills C14-15th Bestiaries

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2019-04-17

Trying to start a thing where I draw a cute folklore/cryptid/myth beast every day. Here's the first baby, a kelpie!

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2019-04-16

The new art feels like the Russian lacquer folklore pieces I grew up with- and I ma here for this version of the planes walkers :-) It's not a thing I thought I'd ever see.

They're amazing this way.

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2019-04-16

We’re back! Hang out in your local pond with Kaitlin and LB to learn about the many variations of these Slavic water maidens!

Listen: https://t.co/YEAl3QF3mm

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2019-04-15