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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

I'm also on Twitter & YouTube, so check them out if you want more fairy lore in your life!
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Gausu māte (Prosperity mother) is 1 of the māte, female spirits/ goddesses, of Latvian mythology.

A blonde, white woman wearing a red cap, a red & white Slavic folk dress & a green cape with red tassels that attached to the dress' wrists so that the woman holds hsr arms up, spreading out the cape behind her. A bundle of wheat stands in front of her

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

Gaueko is the lord of darkness & a spirit of the night in Basque mythology. He can appear as a cow or as a gust of wind. He can be friendly and helpful but he can also be malevolent.

A ghostly brown cow with yellow eyes & a black mane

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

Yeah he looks dangerous. He reminds of the Yule cat but less murderous.

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Gatto mammone is the king of the cats & the the cat demon of Italian folklore. He appears in the fairytale Il Gatto Mammone where he lives in a castle with fairies. He rewarded a hard working girl & punished her lazy stepsister by putting a donkey tail on her forehead.

Black & white drawing of a massive cat walking down a street

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Respect to those who got here first.

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

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Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Indigenous mythology is fascinating. I have 2 videos about Indigenous mythology on my channel & my upcoming Halloween video features a lot of amazing Indigenous myths.
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NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day. n.pr/47nGDK8

Highlighting Indigenous stories from across NPR's network

NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

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

Art comes from "Shirdon"- The Narts webcomic by Sylvan Migdal. This comic is 18+ but its 1 of the only places you can read about the Narts online. Whenever I get my hands on the actual Narts Saga, I will let y'all know. The Narts stories are really fascinating.
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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 3d

Gatag is a Nart, the mythic heroes/ gods/ spirits from the mythology of the North Caucasus. Gatag is an evil water spirit who fathers the shapeshifter Shirdon.

Panel from "Shirdon"- The Narts webcomic by Sylvan Migdal. It shows a tan skinned man with long brown hair & beard wearing a gold circlet & sticking out of a river in front of a light skinned woman with a long blonde braid wearing a white dress with a blue- gray overdress holding a bucket

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

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Gata Carogna is a monstrous red cat, who attack children to steal their souls from Lombardy, Italy.

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

Ancient Nephilim or Bigfoot in Ireland?!
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Ancient Nephilim or Bigfoot in Ireland?! #cryptids #mythology

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

Odin versus Fenrir by Arthur Rackham, 1911
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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 5d

Garmr (to howl) is a dog or wolf associated with the underworld from Norse mythology. He's mentioned in the Völuspá:
Now Garm howls wildly
Before Gnipa Cave.
Chains will snap
And the wolf will run.

A giant brown wolf with pure white eyes snarls at a viking on a horse charging him with a spear

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 6d

Mark my words.
One of these days, we're going to regret not planting a hedge of enchanted brambles around our homes to keep the ghost goats at bay.

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Gargaphia is a naiad. Not much else is known about her. Naiads are the nymphs of rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains & springs in Greco- Roman myth.

Detail of the Naiad Gargathia from a painting depicting the death of the hunter Actaeon. The nymph sits upon the rocks of her spring.

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 7d

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 7d

He threw 2 stones now called Pierres du Niton (Neptune's stones).

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 7d

Once he drained a river by drinking from it. Another time, he got thirsty but could not drink from the Rhône, because it was too narrow, so he started to dig with his hands, to widen it & all the earth piled up & became Mount Salève. This also created Lake Geneva.

fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 7d

Gargantua also appears in Swiss mythology & may or not be the same person as yesterday's Gargantua. In Switzerland, he's associated with a variation of land formations. He was a massive giant. Once when he washed his feet in the lake of Omène, it was renamed Black Lake for all the dirt from his feet

Mount Salève with a view of Lake Geneva.
© Benoit Kornmann

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