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In this week's episode, we talk about the 5 types of fairies, The Mermaid of Zennor, , the Lizard Peninsula and more! Listen here: https://t.co/FqoX7ocm5n

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2023-03-21

The Mermaid of Zennor is one of Cornwall's most enduring folktales. Lured to an ancient church by a male chorister's voice, she took him away to live with her beneath the waves.

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2023-01-24

"The Mermaid of Zennor" by John Reinhard Weguelin, illustrates the medieval legend of a mermaid who lived at Pendour Cove, Cornwall. The young man is Matthew Trewhell, a chorister who followed her into the depths and whose voice can still be heard at Pendour Cove.

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2022-11-21

John Reinhard Weguelin RWS ROI, 1849 – 1927, English painter and illustrator; The Mermaid of Zennor

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2022-11-12

The Mermaid of Zennor (1900), by John Reinhard Weguelin

Inspired by medieval legend of a mermaid who lived at Pendour Cove, near Zennor, Cornwall. The young man is Matthew Trewhell, a chorister of St. Senara's church in Zennor, with whose voice the mermaid was besotted.

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2022-08-31

Way down west in Zennor, handsome young chorister Matthew Trewhell attracted the local mermaid. Eschewing a life of soil, toil and tin, he joined her beneath the waves. Some say they still hear him sing when bathing in nearby Pendour Cove.

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2022-07-19

The path to Zennor from my sketchbook.

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2022-07-02

The Mermaid of Zennor by John Reinhard Weguelin was inspired by a Medieval legend of a mermaid who lived at Pendour Cove, near Zennor, Cornwall.
Legend tells a man fell in love with the her, followed her beneath the waves, never to be seen again.


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2022-06-13

By Cornwall folklore, a mermaid used to frequent the village of Zennor, where she was famed for her singing. Everyone assumed she was just a human woman, until one day sailors accidentally hit her underwater house with an anchor and she surfaced to ask them to move.#Folklore

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2022-02-23

A far happier tale involves the Mermaid of Zennor in Dressed as an elegant lady, she visited Zennor church, where she became entranced by chorister Matthew Trewhella's fine singing voice. Revealing her secret, she invited Matthew to join her in a life beneath the waves

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2022-02-22

In the Cornish tale The Mermaid of Zennor a mysterious lady visits a church where she enchants everyone with her voice. She falls in love with the best singer. They disappear. The lady was a mermaid and it's thought that the couple lived happily ever after.

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2022-02-08


A cool ass frost giant by Conor Nolan.

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2022-02-08


Looks like a Cimmerian to me. Somebody gonna die.

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2022-02-06


Been a long ass time since I saw some Dark One art. Remember Animal Mystic?

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2022-01-28


I am not sure where any of Crabral's paintings were originally published. Actually I don't know a damn thing about the artist.

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2022-01-23

with some appropriately-dressed action.

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2022-01-23



Funny story: Azpiri is a name I tend to include on random wizard names tables. Or some bastardization of it.

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2022-01-23



Wayne Reynolds, the Larry Elmore of Pathfinder? Love this piece. His art in general is very cool. Not sure why he got so much hate.

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2022-01-19