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List of all the fairies in the world! DM me for sources, research & if you want your art removed Racists will be blocked https://ko-fi.com/fairyencyclopedia?ref=onboarding_email_founderwelcome

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · Nov 25

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6h

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Loki's giant wolf son Fenrir has 2 sons, Skoll & Hati, who are prophesied to consume the sun & the moon during Ragnarok. Skoll & Hati's mother has no name & is only described as a giantess of the Ironwood. She's mentioned in the Völuspá and Gylfaginning.

2 large gray wolves stand behind a woman with long red hair wearing a fur cape, red tunic, brown leggings & short brown boots. She holds a knife in 1 hand & a staff in the other.

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Art credit- Hugh Thompson
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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Jack the Giant Killer for instance appears in many English folktales, slaying giants. And Wade's Causeway, a Roman road, or possibly a Neolithic structure, in North Yorkshire, England, was said to have been made by a giant named Wade. My short this Friday will be about topic as well.

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Giants appear in mythology all across European mythology. These giants are often linked to ancient ruins & earthworks that they were said to have made. According to some, Stonehenge was originally brought from Africa to Ireland by giants. There’s even an earthwork of a giant in Dorset, England.

A black haired & bearded giant dressed in red lays dead on the grass. A young man in white tights, a black tunic & a black hat points a sword at the giant

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to be the Mothman's cousin but in reality I'll probably be a sentient pile of sweaters

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1d

More Halloween costume ideas:
- sentient pile of sweaters
- sexy old tree stump
- living embodiment of darkness
- Mothman's cousin Terry
- person who enjoys soup

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Art credit- Joan Llopis Doménech
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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 1d

Ghillie Dhu (dark haired boy) is solitary male fairy in Scottish folklore. He's a guardian of the forests & kind to children.

A blue skinned boy with darker blue swirling tattoos & long dark hair stands in a birch forest holding a staff with a robin perched on it & wearing a cloak of moss, grass skirt & bark shin guards

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 2d

I love this. It reminds me of a tree on the street where I grew up

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Geryon was a three-bodied, four-winged giant who lived on the island of Erytheia. Hercules stole 1 of Geryon's red cows & slew both him & his two-headed guard dog Orthus.

Heracles and three-bodied Geryon, Athenian black-figure vase C6th B.C., Musée du Louvre

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 4d

In #JapaneseFolklore there is often strange advice given about how to escape from #yokai. For today's #MythologyMonday I've put a few examples together in this thread.
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Giant black figures with huge eyes look out of the water as a ship is tossed on the waves.

Ghostly figures in a boat at sea holding wooden barrels.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Here is my YouTube short on Germakoçi- youtube.com/shorts/yHYJ0...

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 4d

Germakoçi is a dark furred, red eyed biped from the mythology of the Laz people in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey & the west coast of Georgia. They’re 9 feet tall, eat both humans and their own kind and have eerie howls.

A black furred biped with pointed ears & red eyes, labeled Germakoçi

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 5d

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 5d

Gerðr (enclosure) is a jotunn associated with gardens, fertile earth & enclosures necessary to protect crops in Norse mythology. Gerðr is the daughter of Gymir & Aurboða & the wife of Freyr.

Skyrnir and Gerda - Illustration by Harry George Theaker for Children's Stories from the Northern Legends by M. Dorothy Belgrave and Hilda Hart, 1920

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 5d

Protect yourself.
Protect others if you're able.
Protect all creatures, great and small.
Protect your heart from heart pirates.
Protect mossy forests and the darkness, living and dead, that dwells within.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6d

I love the level of detail in this piece

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6d

Is that a Cicely Mary Barker illustration?

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6d

Cannibal Bigfoot in Türkiye & Georgia?!
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Cannibal Bigfoot in Türkiye & Georgia?! #cryptids #mythology

YouTube video by Fairy Encyclopedia

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6d

Art by Wioletta Szczepańska
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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 6d

The mysterious Geniti Glinne fought alongside Cú Chulainn in Irish mythology. The name might mean "Damsels of the Glen," so they are probably some type of female nature spirits.

A white woman with long brown hair wearing a long, flowy, sleeveless white dress stands in front of a green pond with a forest behind her

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t forget to take care of yourself.
Don’t forget to rest.
Don’t forget to read banned books.
Don’t forget to dream.
Don’t forget to let the forest enter your body and mind until you are entangled with mossy gloom.

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