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EssAeEm

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Connoisseur of the weird and wondrous, especially folklore, animation, theme parks and puppets. I also run @GIFS_of_Puppets.

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EssAeEm, to art
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One of my favorite museums is The Ringling Museum of Art in Florida. This photo shows one of the fountains in the museum's central courtyard, which displays recreations of notable statues from the Classical, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical periods.

EssAeEm, to 13thFloor
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Chaneques are child-sized beings that act as protectors of the forest in indigenous Mexican mythology. They are known for being mischievous and frequently play tricks on those that enter their domain, such as leading people astray or hiding their belongings. #MythologyMonday

📷: Gabo Romay

#Mythology #Folklore #Chaneques #Mexico #MexicanFolklore #MexicanMythology

EssAeEm, to folklore
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There are no shortage of eerie tales about Virginia’s Old House Woods. Some claim to have seen ghostly pirates searching for their buried treasure there while others have encountered a group of skeleton knights wearing suits of armor roaming the forest.

📷: Taylor Wright

EssAeEm, to folklore
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Located on the Scottish island of Fetlar, the Haltadans is a circle of standing stones that folklore claims were once trows (Shetland's fairy folk). The story goes that they were still dancing in a circle when the sun rose one morning and turned them to stone. #MythologyMonday

📷: Martin Bennie

#Folklore #Folktale #Scotland #Shetland #Fetlar #StandingStones #Trows #Fairies #ScotishFolklore

EssAeEm, to folklore
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Happy ! The hākuturi are birdlike guardians of the forest from Māori mythology. When Rātā cut down a sacred tree to build a canoe without performing the appropriate rites, the hākuturi not only re-erected the tree but put all of its discarded wood chips back in place.

📷: Daniel Hopper

EssAeEm, to 13thFloor
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In a Native American tale, a group of women pondered how to dispose of Snapping Turtle after trapping him. Because their captive acted most afraid when the option of drowning him was brought up, the women threw him into a lake, allowing the turtle trickster to swim to freedom. #MythologyMonday

📷: J Yeo

#Mythology #Folklore #Folktale #SnappingTurtle #Turtle #Trickster #NativeAmericanFolklore

EssAeEm, to WaltDisneyWorld
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Walking around Fantasyland feels like stepping into a fairy tale. There’s magic around every corner.

EssAeEm, to folklore
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Ferdinand Magellan encountered what he claimed was a race of giants during his voyage around South America. Legends of these "Patagonian Giants" made their way back to Europe and were even referenced on early maps of the New World, such as this one from 1562.

EssAeEm, to folklore
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Using a garter to mark the boliaun plant that a Leprechaun revealed his pot of gold was buried under, Tom Fitzpatrick ran off to get a spade. While the Leprechaun promised he wouldn't remove the garter, every boliaun in the field sported an identical garter by the time Tom returned.

EssAeEm, to folklore
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According to Danish folklore, a troll blacksmith once lived inside one of the hills on the lands of Nyegaard. Anyone who left some iron (plus a shilling for payment) next to the hill overnight would find a finished product waiting for them the next morning.

📷: Jonny Gios

EssAeEm, to folklore
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A legend from Cumbria claims that a man named John Tallentire once slayed a cockatrice in the village of Renwick. As a reward for ridding them of that rooster-headed monster, the local church exempted him and his descendants from ever having to tithe again.

EssAeEm, to 13thFloor
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Poliʻahu is a goddess of snow in Hawaiian mythology. Pele, goddess of fire and volcanoes, once challenged her to a sled race while in disguise, but the competition escalated into an all-out battle of fire versus ice, ending with Poliʻahu as the winner.

📷: Jessica Fadel

EssAeEm, to folklore
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In many places around the wold, the job of collecting baby teeth and leaving money for the child in return is not done by The Tooth Fairy but by mice, including La Petite Souris in France and El Ratoncito Pérez in Spain and some regions of Latin America.

📷: Alexander Crawley

EssAeEm, to folklore
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According to a folktale from British Columbia's Haida People, there was once a pair of wolves that would swim out into the sea to hunt whales until one day when they were unable to find their way home through the fog. Lost at sea, they transformed into orcas. #FairyTaleTuesday

📷 : Honza Reznik

#Folklore #NativeAmericanFolklore #Mythology #Wolves #Orcas #Haida #BritishColumbia #Canada

EssAeEm, to folklore
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According to Japanese folklore, shapeshifting frog women known as kaeru nyōbō could take on human form in order to marry human men. Descriptions of these "frog brides" identified them as being noticeably shorter and more fragile than the average woman.

📷: Jeffrey SU

EssAeEm, to 13thFloor
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Long ago, the goddess Pele traveled across the ocean in her canoe to search for a suitable home where her fire and lava would be safe from the waters of her sister and rival Nāmaka the sea goddess, ultimately settling inside Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.

📷 : Cedric Letsch

EssAeEm, to folklore
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Olentzero is the Christmas gift giver in the Basque regions of France and Spain. The earliest stories about him say that he was the last of the jentilak, a race of giants said to have built the region’s megalithic monuments. #FairyTaleTuesday

📷: Ordiziako Jakintza Ikastola

#Christmas #Folklore #Olentzero #Giant #Basque #BasqueFolklore

EssAeEm, to folklore
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According to Vietnamese folklore, the Jade Emperor was so impressed by the courage demonstrated by Toad when he traveled all the way to Heaven in order to plead for rain to end a drought that he bestowed the title of “Uncle of Heaven” upon the amphibian. #MythologyMonday

📷: John Cameron

#Folklore #Folktale #Mythology #Vietnam #VietnameseFolklore #Toad #JadeEmperor #Heaven @mythologymonday

EssAeEm, to 13thFloor
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According to Greek myth, a young Epimenides of Cnossos once fell asleep in the sacred Cave of Zeus inside Crete’s Mount Ida. After awakening, he discovered that 57 years had passed as he slept. The experience was said to have given him the gift of prophecy.

🎨: Guillaume Rouille

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EssAeEm, to random
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Can you guess what it is?

EssAeEm, to folklore
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According to Wirt Sikes' book "British Goblins," there was a belief in South Wales that the fairies had control over the weather on Fridays, which they would typically choose to be the exact opposite of whatever the weather had been for the rest of the week.

📷 : Reza Shayestehpour

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