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"They made her a grave, too cold & damp
For a soul so warm & true;
And she's gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp,
Where, all night long, by a firefly lamp,
She paddles her white canoe."
Thomas Moore | The Lake of Dismal Swamp

🖼️1930s Art Deco Print, Wyeth inspired?

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2021-06-06

‘The silence of death hangs over the marshes of Essex: the death of ships, the death of sailors, the death of time’

Art self for Essex ghost tales.

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2021-06-06

Not really a fixture in Grimm's, swamps are considered symbols of confusion, fetid miasmas where unseen roots, 'quicksands' & sucking mud can drag you under & suffocation quickly ensues. One translation of "The Water of Life" features swamp water as a deadly potion.

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2021-06-07

The Ninka Nanka is a dragon located in the swamps of the River Gambia. It is said that when children get too confident and feel they can disobey their parents and go into the swamp they will be taken by the Ninki Nanka

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2021-06-07

Thank you, dear swamp sisters and brothers, for our very first 🖤
It exceeded all our expectations and we hope you enjoyed the session as much as we did!

See you next Sunday!
Stay spooky and swampy!

🌾 Egret in the Shadows Painting, Michael Humphries🌾

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2021-06-07

Mister Newt & his underwater friends 💚🐾

🎨 Illustration by Margaret Tarrant

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2021-06-13

A will-o'-the-wisp is a ghost light seen at night, especially near bogs, swamps or marshes. The phenomenon, also known as jack-o'-lantern & hinkypunk, is said to purposely mislead travellers by resembling a flickering lamp or lantern. 🕯️

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2021-06-13

Bagiennik are water demons in Slavic mythology who sprayed people with their nasty nose oils as a prank and kin to the bathhouse spirit Bannik. They were subject to Wąda, lady of the lakes and the shallow streams, also known as the Queen of the Underwater Lawns.🐍

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2021-06-14

In Slavic mythology, Vodyanoy's a male water spirit
which appears as a naked old man with frog-like face, greenish beard, and long hair, his body covered in algae and muck, often covered in fish scales. When angered he breaks dams and drowns people and animals. 🐍

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2021-06-20



Rusałki by Witold Pruszkowski 🌿

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2021-06-20

It's always a bad idea to be in the bayou at night alone, but if you see a dancing light, don't follow it into the swamps if ever you want to come out again: this is Le Feu Follet, the Cajun Fairy, a commonly malicious spirit dedicated to getting souls lost.

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2021-06-20

Some Muddy Waters for

Mississippi Delta Blues

https://t.co/sKVeWSMgoD

(🖼 Lake of Dismal Swamp, North Carolina Archives)

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2021-06-27

In folklore of Rügen, the brown dwarfs are tiny, handsome men dressed in brown. They bite, they scratch, they turn into owls and lure people into marshes.

is thirsty for your stories of marshes, swamps and other waterbodies! 🌾🦇

We RT throughout the day.

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2021-06-27

“Is it a world in the making
that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being
It is burning
Suppose it were to appear
A bleeding rosary at the window
a sun setting on the marshlands”

is thirsty for your tales of waterbodies!

We RT throughout the day🐍

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2021-07-04

Grendel and his mother lived in a marsh near the mead hall of king Hrothgar.

'Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend
Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild
Marshes, and made his home in a hell.'

🎨J. R. Skelton

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2021-07-04

George Wilson cover art for Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery (1973).In one story a driver picks up a hitchhiker one night. Blind to danger, he drives recklessly, and ends up in a swamp. That’s where daddy’s little pet lives: a yeti.

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2021-07-11

Kostroma, the goddess of fertility. After discovering that her husband, Kupala, is her brother, she jumped into the forest lake (in other legends into the river Ra). After her death, she became a mavka (or rusalka). 🐍
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2021-07-11


In Philippine folklore, the Berberoka suck water from swamps or lakes to reveal plentiful fish and lure human victims – who are then drowned and eaten. There's one way to scare the creatures away, though: they have a morbid fear of crabs...

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