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This #FolkloreThursday we're remembering all of the myth story books that captured our imaginations as kids! #Bookabees offers a whole collection of world myth books, more than enough to get the next group of little ones just excited! #bookstagram #childrensbooks
And the folklore prints are now UP! Head over to https://t.co/0NRVrVzq0G and grab a preorder! All preorders will be fulfilled at the end of February! <3
#folklore #preorder #prints #folkart #illustration
#Ireland is full of myths about women of bravery & powerful goddesses! Here's my thread on a few of them! 📷goddess Ériu at @UisneachFire, Co #Westmeath. 🎨The Morrigan by Ameluria. #FolkloreThursday ♀️ https://t.co/hibf9UWAB0
Looking at the slain Medusa would turn you to stone unless viewed safely through her reflection...
The Baleful Head 1887 #PerseusandAndromeda #EdwardBurneJones #FolkloreThursday #myths
Born in poverty, Emma Hamilton clawed her way from prostitution to invent classical ‘Attitudes’. Aristocratic audiences had to guess which #mythical character she portrayed. As Nelson’s mistress she became the world’s first media superstar #FolkloreThursday
("Bacchante"🎨Romney)
Pan & Psyche by Edward Burne-Jones.
Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds & fertility. Part man, part goat, his name gives us the word ‘Panic’.
Psyche, who earned the love of Eros, gives her name to the soul or mind and the term ‘Psychology.’
#FolkloreThursday #myths
@icedcitruss Hey you can call me Haru. I'm a vet assistant. Drawing and playing video games are my favourite things to do. I love doing drawing folklores, armors, robots and aliens.
Among the challenges set to the Norse gods by the devious giant Utgard was a wrestling match between Thor and some old lady - whom he could not beat. In fact, he was wrestling Elli, the avatar of Old Age herself, whom even the strongest god can’t out-wrestle...#FolkloreThursday
BIRD GODS (1898) by Charles DeKay (G W Edwards #illustrations)
Recent #GreatGardenBirdWatch @Natures_Voice reminded me of this #book about #birds & the gods they represented in #myths from around the world!
@FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday #mythology
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Aztec goddess Coatlicue was magically impregnated when hit by a ball of hummingbird feathers & her son Huitzilopochtli took the form of a hummingbird to guide the Aztecs to the Valley of Mexico. Fallen Aztec warriors were said to be reincarnated as hummingbirds #FolkloreThursday
The Witch (1882) - painted on a tambourine - by Luis Ricardo Falero (Spain, 1851–1896). #Bat #folklorethursday
In old #Scottish lore Bride, the Princess of Summer, is enslaved by the Cailleach, hag goddess of winter. Bride is given snowdrops by kindly Father Winter, which she shows to the hag, who is enraged as they mean her reign is coming to an end. #FolkloreThursday Img: Cicely Barker
#FolkloreThursday The Fates were a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a group of 3 mythological goddesses.They were often depicted as weavers of a tapestry dictating the destinies of humans.The witches in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' resemble the Fates
KUBIKAJIRI (首かじり) head-eating ghost or ghoul of Japanese folklore rumoured to lurk in graveyards #FolkloreThursday #FolkloreGetsEvil
Now that my shifter book is with my beta readers I need to figure out what to work on next 🙈
Do I:
A) Go back to my book about a princess and her dragon with enemies to lovers
B) Finish my mermaid book with a love triangle
C) Start my Irish folklore inspired witch/faerie book
#FolkloreGetsEvil A changeling is a human-like creature found in folklore throughout Europe.A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies. One belief is that trolls wanted to give their children a human upbringing
@DeePeeArts Hello! My name is Ashe. I'm an L.A.-based illustrator, currently working on an original comic and doing freelance gigs in between. Sometimes I animate things too. Follow if you like Russian folklore, 80s music references and anime vampires. ~🦇
Sam Henry -Irish folklorist believed #mermaids were fallen angels. He wrote about a Dunluce mermaid with whom a Rathlin islander fell in love. The mermaid's tail was hidden and the couple married. But the mermaid discovered it and returned to the wild Atlantic #FairyTaleTuesday
In Irish folklore the Selkie woman could only shed her skin once every 7 years to become human and dance under the moon. This limitation was held to be due to the fact that the Selkie housed a condemned soul or may have been a fallen angel
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Melissa Schaschwary