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Death is near - but also a new beginning, Swamp People. 🐸🐍✨

„And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see,
    And her paddle I soon shall hear;
Long and loving our life shall be,
And I’ll hide the maid in a cypress tree,
    When the footstep of death is near.”

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2022-11-20

Peg Powler is the North East England equivalent of Jinny Greenteeth- a water hag who lurked in rivers and ponds ready to drown unsuspecting travellers and children

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2022-11-06

Fishermen toss this Slavic water spirit (vodyanoy) a pinch of tobacco and say~

‘Here’s your tobacco Lord Vodnik
Now give me a fish’

art by Elena Schweitzer

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2022-11-06

A group of children were playing near water when a beautiful horse trotted over. Excited, they attempted to ride the horse, but became stuck to its back.

The horse then submerged, taking the children with it into the deep.

🎨The Kelpie Pond - Jaime Whitbread

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2022-10-16

“From time to time strange cries as of lost and despairing wanderers sounded from across the mere. They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound” (MR James)

🎨Grottger

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2022-10-16

"Poor autumn
Dies in the whiteness and richness
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks glide
Above the tiny gentle green-haired water nymphs
Who have never loved" (Apollinaire)

🎨 Malmström

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2022-10-09

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,
There to be fretted by the drag and shove
At the tide's edge, I lie —

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay


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2022-09-26

Undine by Baron de la Motte Fouque (1811), about a water nymph that marries a man and gains a soul (& the weight of such feelings) only to be betrayed. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1909)
➡️🎧 My song "The Spirit of Water" https://t.co/3edntRZCKX

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2022-09-26

"The Buried Moon" is an Fairytale included by Folklorist J. Jacobs in "More English Fairytale" in which the a
Moon falls on a bog and is trapped by a falling tree so she stops rising. Here a haunting illustration for it drawn by Edmund Dulac (1916)

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2022-09-26

All sprouts shot up from the deep bottom. Everything living arose. A profusion of water lilies spread out as if it were a woven carpet, and lying on it was a sleeping woman, young and beautiful.


🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Elenore Abbott

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2022-09-25


Jenny Greenteeth or Ginny Greenteeth is a figure in Lancashire folklore is described as a nasty water hag with green, skin, long hair & sharp, teeth. Jenny hides beneath duckweed in ponds, she would try to drown folks dragging them into the water then eats them.

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2022-09-25

In the Solway Firth, a mermaid fell in love with a sailor whom she rescued when his ship ran aground. She slipped a gold ring on his finger and promised to return, but after many years, he died, alone.


: Arthur Rackham

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2022-09-25

According to East Slavic folk-beliefs, September 18 is the day to force Kumokha (the representation of deceases and fever) to go back into the woods.

Thin and pale, it’s said, she loves gazing at her reflection in water...



🌙Pete Martin

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2022-09-18

While most of the green-haired, red-capped and musically gifted merrows, the mermaids populating the waters around Ireland, appear benevolent, there are some in the English Channel that are anything but.

Those lure men to the water with their songs and eat them

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2022-09-18

Vintage menu art
from Cunard R.M.S. Aquitania, 1925
by A.K. MacDonald

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2022-09-12

There are many tales in of frog brides. In these stories, magical frogs take on human form with the goal of marrying a human man. They look just like regular women, only they tend to be quite frail and often don't have the strength to do many...

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2022-09-11

Want more Selki? Why not check the following:
1. Sarah Webb's 'One Spared to the Sea' ()
2. Bear Pettigrew's () 'On the Rocks'
3. 's 'The Girl from the Sea'
4. 's 'The Blue Salt Road'

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2022-09-11

He never asked why she always walked
By the shore, what she craved
Why she never cried when every wave
Crescendoed like an orchestra of bones.

The Otter Woman
by Mary O'Malley/art by Kate O’Hara

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2022-09-11


🖤🖤🖤

"It was believed that when a drop of selkie blood was shed in the sea, ships should seek shelter, for it would give rise to a mighty storm."

Lucy Cooper

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2022-09-11

However, one day the Hunter was visited by a stranger who commended his seal hunting and invited him to his Lord's hall. The Hunter excitedly followed the man but panicked when they rode over a cliff and plunged into the water.
🖼️ Song of the Sea by Tomm Moore

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2022-09-11