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“…beheading, cutting out the heart and sometimes the liver as well, and burning the cut out organs or the entire corpse. Quite often a combination of these methods was used” Patrick Johnson on the ways to destroy vampires known in Romania ⬇️🦇


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by Eugene Grasset, for La Belle Jardinière, calendar, 1896.

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Lilies, symbolic of new life and a popular choice of floral decoration at Easter. Legend says white lilies sprang up in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus wept in the last hours before he was betrayed by Judas.

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- A Devon folktale tells pixies put their small ones at night into the blown tulips to be cradled by the winds.

A woman visited her garden & found the tiny ones asleep in the flowers. She planted more tulips & fairies gave the flowers lovely bright colors.🌷

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“Igraine”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

I made a defiant Igraine, an emotion born from being used by will of men.
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"The River Fairies"
Anya Lauchlan

Vintage illustration from book of fairytales.

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“Branwen”
©️Bridget & John Original2023

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1) Branwen’s story is the most tragic story in all of the Mabinogion.
She is the Welsh /Irish Goddess of Spring, love and beauty.

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‘The Beguiling of Merlin’ by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898).

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- In Irish and Scottish tales, Manannán mac Lir is a god of sea, ocean, weather, and healing. He's a merchant mariner or a brave sailor with celestial navigational skills - never disoriented or lost at sea.
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It's (Sea Sprites in Flight, John Anster Fitzgerald)

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An Irish youth discovers that his mute sister is a selkie who must find her voice and free supernatural creatures from the spell of a Celtic goddess



Song of the Sea, 2014
Dir. Tomm Moore

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- Legend tells that the underwater city of Ys was one of Europe's most beautiful places. It was home to Dahut, a wicked princess. When the waves submerged the city, Dahut became a water spirit doomed to swim the lonely seas for eternity. https://t.co/mycq1rhH7K

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Danu ..She was the mother godess of Irish mythology. The Tuatha De Danann were her divine children. They ruled Ireland before the Milesians. Monks wring Irish the Irish sagas from the 5th century down played her role as a godess.

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In Greek, Parthenos is the title given to goddesses who are virgins, for that is the word's literal meaning. Athena is the most famous Parthenos, after which her temple was named in Athens; Artemis and Hestia are others.

🖼️: R. Smythe

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I didn't plan for this piece to be a one off but bills need paying. I'll put him in his frame later and post pics. Sad to have to part with Mr Thoughtful Fox...🦊

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🌿💜🌿It's said a dream of violets foretells a change for the better in the dreamer's life.

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Common brazilian sayings about sunshowers:

"Sol e chuva, casamento de viúva"
(Sun and rain, widow's wedding)

"Chuva e sol, casamento de espanhol"
(Rain and Sun, spaniard's wedding)

In the northeast region, sunshowers can also be called a "Fox wedding"

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