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"But have a care
To make short stay
Where wields his sway,
The Great Lord Fish" (Walter de la Mare)

... or how to disenchant a fish-tailed lass cursed by a carless wizard in the realm of the Lord Fish

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2022-06-22

Originally these traditions were associated w/ the longest day (21 June when the veil is thinnest between the Huldufólk world & ours. To be safe, roll in dew, celebrate & watch for Huldufólk on both 21 & 24 June!
🎨 John Bauer

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2022-06-21

Fire salamanders were not only believed to be deadly poisonous but able to extinguish flames. Hence they were thrown into fires under the assumption the highly symbolic amphibian would put out the blaze and come out unscathed anyway.

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2022-06-20

Sedna is an Inuit deity who ends up in the ocean in many a legend and tale. Along the way, she loses her fingers, which turn into water animals and make their homes in her hair. She offers the ocean's bounty to angakoks who comb her hair 🐋


🎨 ALT

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2022-06-20

Darklings!

It's the customary time now to rendezvous with another creature from the swamps to meet you tomorrow for especially during

And don't forget to share your tales & images as well!

🎨 IrenHorrors

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2022-06-19


In a Chinese Legend there dwells a one-thousand-year-old White Snake Spirit in a lake. It practises Taoist magical arts and shapeshiftes into a young woman.
In some versions of the legend, it transforms into a goddess (Madam White Snake).

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2022-06-19

Today, on the first Thursday of Green Week, is the day when the Rusalki celebrate their Easter festival on the banks of the waters of some regions.

🎨 Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-06-17

"Even more he liked an old German song of Johannes Jeep about the clear sea and the voices of sirens, sweet murderers of men, which boggled Bloom a bit:

Von der Sirenen Listigkeit
Tun die Poeten dichten*" (Joyce "Ulysses")

🎨 Warwick Goble

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2022-06-16

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
art by Sebastian Giacobino

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2022-06-15

In Ukrainian folklore, Topelnik is a malicious spirit that lives in the water. It catches people by their legs and drags them all the way down to the bottom.



🎨 Emile Sultanov

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2022-06-15

A wise woman counselled the hunter's wife to summon her husband back when a nixie had drowned him in her pool: with a comb, a flute & a spinning wheel. A success, but the pond's waters rose, almost drowned them, were they not turned into toads

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2022-06-14

In Kunwinjku mythology, a yawkyawk is a mermaid-like spirit with hair of algae that floats to the water's surface 🪸

🎨 Gabriel Maralngurra

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2022-06-14



Swamp sisters are surrounded by snakes. 🐍 May I introduce you to Aida Wedo the female companion to Damballa? When they had to leave Africa, Aida travelled across the sky with a rainbow crown. Damballa went beneath the sea until they met again.

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2022-06-14

"O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind." (Yeats)

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2022-06-14

Today begins Rusalka week. In tradition this week was a week where no weaving could occur because the Rusalka were considered masters at it and would not be disrespected. Instead, people would go to the forests and leave offerings to the Rusalka

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2022-06-14

According to East Slavic beliefs, today rusalkas come out of water and become active in liminal spaces.

It’s said, the malicious maidens especially like pea fields – in Slavic folklore they are associated with the supernatural and witchcraft.


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2022-06-13

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More incredible artwork from Diana Mayo. Once again inspired by beautiful Ukrainian folk tales. Specifically St. John’s Eve.

The only night of the year that the fern flower blossoms.

Find more work by Diana here: https://t.co/lhUCHwV2YH

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2022-05-21

Day 1: Pocket Parks. "City retail and office plots, emptied by increased home-working, are now pocket parks lined with green walls, buzzing with bees."

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2022-03-07

This week is 💚

We love this image by of one of our favourite characters, The Singing Mermaid, embracing the fight against Climate Change.

There are ideas on how to get involved, and a link to download Lydia's poster, here: https://t.co/0GtT5U3adB

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2021-09-22