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I'm Ell! I draw beasts + folklore stuff, and I'm currently working on a webcomic due for launch in the next month or so about the inherent magic behind words, mental health & communication! 🌊💕

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2019-05-25

'The Moon's Revenge'
(1987- Joan Aiken - Alan Lee)

of and fame, always mystifies me with his watercoloring magic.

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2019-05-25

I made an original interpretation of Jack Frost! Mythology/folklore is among my favorite things to art because everyone has their own spin on it ❄️💙✨

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2019-05-24

Puce: a colour favored by Marie Antoinette & popular in the late 18thc/ early 19thc. Puce is French for flea; the colour is described as resembling congealed blood or a flea after it’s been crushed on white linen— a familiar shade in its heyday.

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2019-05-24

To see the simply pluck Thyme from the hillside where they live. Then smear the herb into the lids of the eye. There is also an ancient ritual of wearing an amulet with thyme twigs, allowing one to see the magical other-world of the fairies.#FolkloreThursday

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2019-05-24

This week's theme is '"underwater'. Hope you like this selection of mercreatures, fish, jellyfish, giant squid and, of course, nessie!

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2019-05-23

YEATS endorses the as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886)

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

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2019-05-24

There are various types of nymphs: Naiades (of the fresh-water), Oreiades (of the mountains), Dryads (of trees), Meliai (of ash-trees), Okeanides (of rivers, springs, and clouds), Nereides (of the sea) and the Lampades (of the underworld) among many others.

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2019-05-24

The won't just use folklore and mythology as set pieces, there will be a mythology constructed for the world at large to make it more real.
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2019-05-24

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