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The sea-hare. A princess uses her magic windows to challenge her suitors to a deadly game of hide-and-seek. A fox helps the hero to outwit her, by transforming him into a "sea-hare" and giving him to the unsuspecting princess.

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2019-05-24

Also very cool - this piece for the Storyteller, our hero class about inspiring and guiding others through folklore, history and fables

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2019-05-23

Names of the Celtic Otherworld:

Tír na Nóg (”The Land of Youth”)
Tír Tairngire ("Promised Land")
Tír fo Thuinn ("Land Under the Wave")
Mag Mell ("Plain of Delight")
Ildathach ("Multicoloured Place")
Emain Ablach (”Isle of Apple Trees”)

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2019-05-23

When you venture into the Bohemian forests, watch out for wood fairies--they may dance little boys to death. But they may show favor for girls, dancing for hours and then bestowing gifts, like a spindle-o-plenty or a basketful of golden birch leaves.

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2019-05-23

A Fairy Funeral, illustration from Goblin Tales of Lancashire 1883

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2019-05-23

It’s said that Fairies like to make their home
in Foxgloves.
Foxgloves were once called ‘folks’ glove’,
as the ‘good folk’ lived there.
The flowers follow the light, so it was thought
foxgloves swayed towards fairy folk passing by.

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2019-05-23

Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.

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2019-05-23

There’s much folklore around fossilized sea urchins, perfectly shaped and precious stones that they are.
In 1887 a round barrow on Dunstable Downs was excavated unearthing two skeletons, a woman and a child, surrounded by more than 100 fossilized sea urchins

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2019-05-23

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