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sharpedgedfool · 2 months

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gave him A BEAST!!

#i love the M&S olympic horse-riding its so funny #oriontag #wip #fae au

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ghost-bxrd · 2 months

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Hello I too am here for fae!dick it's getting me through the workweek

One of the Other things I am VERY intrigued by is Too Many Teeth. It feels a little Uncanny Valley to me. Because you see it, you know it's Wrong, but you're not entirely sure why, and even if you could explain it, who is going to believe you?

Dick has too many teeth? OK well how many teeth SHOULD he have? Maybe there are a lot of people out here knowing how many teeth one should have, but are people cracking open their mouths and letting you count them? Maybe his wisdom teeth came in weird. You don't know.

Anyway I don't know if this is in line with any folklore but Dick stealing people's teeth? Like if he whacks someone in the face and a tooth comes out, does he pick it up, dust it off, and stick it in his gums? You had your chance, it's his tooth now? It's not just Too Many Teeth, it's a collection of teeth.

Hehehe okay, some more lore time!

So line in the sand is: there is no line.

There’s no rule to the other beings. The fae creatures I grew up with did not follow any logic. They changed a bit with every retelling of the stories and every time you thought you caught a glimpse of them through the stained glass of the kitchen window they’d have some other feature you’d never heard of or seen before.

So when I say too many teeth I imagine anything from “teeth that look crammed into a human mouth” to “several rows of teeth like a shark’s” depending on what you expect to see and what the other being feels like looking to others on this fine day.

On this note, it would not be too far fetched to imagine Dick would collect teeth like a giggling magpie, only to adorn himself with them or shove them in his own gums when he feels like it.

You know, being a vigilante has the added benefit of being allowed to knock out criminals’ teeth every other night anyway. ✨

Uncanny valley indeed 🌙

#fae dick grayson #lore time #pagan folklore #faerie #the other things #the ones in the moors #the things with eyes from the water #the horse with sharp teeth #the boy giggling in the reeds #dick grayson #Nightwing #Robin #ghost talks #I love talking about this lore #looking back on it the stories we got told as children were pretty fucked up #but we loved them so much #we went looking for the other beings #batfamily

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kekkuda · 1 year

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intruder at the faerie circle

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feyspeaker · 2 years

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the faerie king's steed

#horse #unicorn #horses #fantasy art #faerie #fairy #celtic mythology #fantasy horse #watercolor #fey #fae

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thephooka · 6 months

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White Noise has updated!

Read it here! | WN on Patreon | @hiveworks

No prizes for guessing who the subject of this week's Q&A is.

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locusfandomtime · 5 months

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I’ve been thinking lately about how the mlp fandom had “creepypasta” (or just generally weird and evil) versions of all the characters and had an extended universe where they were all fucked up but still friends and I think that’s so funny and I think the hermitcraft fandom should do that too.

Skulk/vex Cub, Geminislay, dungeon master Tango, vex Scar, Ren the King, demon Impulse, jungle Bdubs, Zedeath/evil scientist Zedaph, eldritch horror Keralis, fucked up watcher Grian, Beetlejhost, etc should all come together and torment people as best friends forever.

#thinking about what the versions for other hermits not mentioned here would be #stress: fae/potion maker. doc: s9/end of s8. etho: shade-e-es boss just for the vibes.#xb + hypno: similar to etho being horse head farms for the vibes maybe with hypnotist hypno and f+d xb #beef: that weird soul collecting thing he had going on in the magnus archives au / butcher / s8 alien #jevin: s8 green. cleo: s9 medusa. xisuma: maybe just default doomguy? iskall: assassin?? pearl: weirdass moon powers?#locus fandom time #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitblr #everyone not mentioned i got nothing #not a helsmit thing. just the most messed up canon/fanon version of each hermit

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fairycloth · 11 months

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Fairies on a journey~

#fairies #fairy #fairycore #horse #kidlitillustration #kidlitart #kidlit #childrens illustration #fantasy #fae #magical #original characters #my art #original art

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goldiloxnpaintedhands · 6 months

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the-fae-folk · 1 year

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What do you know about kelpies? And other creaturea like them?

The sheer amount of information there is about Kelpies has filled entire books, and to include in the discussion all the other variants of water dwelling beings who drown their victims would be a scholarly pursuit that would last lifetimes.

However, I shall attempt to give you a place to begin with.

Kelpies are a kind of water spirit that in Scottish Folklore was thought to inhabit lochs. Loch was a word which meant lake or sea-inlet in Scottish Gaelic, though some lochs could also be referred to as firths, fjords, estuaries, straits, or bays depending on the exact nature of the body of water. These lochs, when they were connected to the sea, could be saltwater or freshwater.

These water creatures are traditionally described as being a kind of horse, which is often black. There was one particular story involving the equine spirit from the River Spey in Scottland who had a white coat and would lure victims on its back with its song. Another version, this time from Aberdeeneshire, a council area in Scottland, depicted the Kelpie as having a mane of serpents.

However in many stories Kelpies are thought to have the power of transformation. They can often take the form of humans in order to complete tasks or lure in victims. One such story depicts a kelpie in the guise of an old, wrinkled, grey haired man who is sitting on the edge of a dyke and mending his trousers. A knock on the head from a knowledgeable passerby caused it to return to its horse shape and flee into the water. Other stories depict the kelpie as taking the form of a rough and shaggy man. A folktale from Barra, an island in the Outer Hebrides in Scottland, actually depicts the Kelpie transforming into a young and handsome man in order to woo a human girl into being his wife. Amusingly, this doesn't work quite as intended when the girl recognizes it as a kelpie and removes its silver necklace which turns out to actually be its bridle. Trapped in its equine form the kelpie is taken to the home of the girl and put to work for a year for her father. At the end of the year, she returns the silver bridle and asks if it would prefer human form or horse form, to which the kelpie asks whether she would consent to be its bride if it took the form of a man permanently, she agrees and they are married.

Very few stories of the Kelpies actually depict them as women, though one rather notable one set in Ross and Cromarty in Scottland mentions a tall woman in green, with a rather disagreeable expression and a somewhat "withered" body, who jumped out of a stream to drown a man and a boy.

A common way to detect a transformed Kelpie was to look for something that gave away its true nature, such as having water weeds in its hair.

As mentioned before, there are some items that are associated with Kelpies in Folklore, the most notable of which is its tack (saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, and harnesses). Stories involve Kelpies who are captured with a halter stamped with the sign of the cross and put to work pulling heavy millstones or other hard manual labor, something which the Kelpies were notoriously unhappy about. One example is a tale in which the Laird of Morphie forced a captured Kelpie to help build his castle, and upon its release it cursed the family with a rhyme.

"Sair back and sair banes Drivin' the Laird o' Morphies's stanes, The Laird o' Morphie'll never thrive As lang's the kelpy is alive"

(Sore back and sore bones Driving the Lord of Morphie's stones, The Lord of Morphie will never thrive As long as the kelpie is alive)

Other Kelpies were said to already appear with bridle and saddles while in horse form, appearing ready to ride, but upon having a person seated in the saddle they would then dive to the bottom of the nearest body of water and proceed to drown and eat their victim. Some stories depict Kelpies who already possess a bridle who can be exorcised or trapped by removing it. My favorite bit of folklore from these types of stories involves a bridle removed from a Kelpie that has the power to transform anyone else into a pony or horse if it is brandished at them.

On pages LXXXV-LXXXVI of the introduction of "The Popular Tales of The West Highlands", as orally collected and translated from Gaelic by J. F. Campbell , I found that Campbell had gone into an overview of exactly how prominent horses seemed to be in these Gaelic tales. Not only are they plentiful in the tales as ordinary but loyal steeds, there are accounts of people being transformed into horses, horses that have magical abilities or attributes to them, horses which appear as the object of riddles, horses that are given as rewards or prizes, heroes who can take the form of a horse, people who can appear as horses and then turn into men, a horse which in one tale is (oddly) to be hanged as a thief, and horses who can grant wishes. Campbell noted that tales of the Water Horses especially seemed to depict them as being some degraded god, the tales of Kelpies describing them as some kind of river or water god reduced to a bogle (A Northumbrian and Scots term for a category of ghosts or creatures that are known to lure humans to death, unsettle them, or haunt areas) or fuath (a class of malevolent spirits in Scottish Highland Folklore).

Now it is time to look at some of the other beings who are closely related to or similar to the Kelpies. First of these is the Water Horse. Originally this term was used to describe Kelpies themselves, and later expanded to be a general nickname for all kinds of lake monsters and the occasional sea monster. Additionally the term Water Bull has also been used for either Kelpies or Water Horses. Interestingly there are those who attempt to specify the terms Kelpies and Water Horses as referring to beings who dwell in either still water as in lochs, or moving and turbulent water as in rivers and waterfalls. At other times the terms are counted as being synonymous, which causes no end of confusion. Water Bulls, on the other hand, not only is used to refer to the other two groups, but also has a history of referring to an actual bull like creature who can mate with ordinary cattle yet still possesses the amphibious and shapeshifting abilities of the kelpie, as well as being generally considered less dangerous.

A similar horse-like creature is the Nuckelavee, a demon from Orcadian Folklore that cannot abide freshwater but instead lives in the sea and takes on a rather hellish form when coming on land. It is sometimes described as being similar to a centaur, except that it has two heads (one on the man's body and one on the horse's), no skin, a single giant eye that burns like flame, and a mouth that exudes toxic vapors. It was generally considered to be responsible for drought and epidemics as its breath was thought to wilt crops and sicken livestock among other things.

More common to the large varieties of myths and folklore of the Germanic Peoples, are the Nixie, Nixy, Nix, Näcken, Nicor, Nøkk, Nøkken, Nixe, Nikker, Nekker, Nøkke, Nykk, Näck, Nykur, Näkki, Näkk, Nicor, Neck, or Nicker. Under this variety of names they are all depicted as some kind of water spirit, usually with shapeshifting abilities. Sometimes depicted as dragons or worms, other times as female river mermaids, a horse-like creature called the Bäckahästen and another called the Ceffyl Dŵr.

The Nordic näcken, näkki, nøkk were male water spirits who played magical music from violins which could lure in children, men, or women who they could then drown in lakes and streams. There are some stories that depict these spirits falling in love with humans and living with them, but usually they end with the water creature returning to its own home. The German Nix and Nixe are types of river merman and mermaid that lure men to drown, often conflated with the more bird-like Greek Siren.

Of course, not all depictions of water horse spirits and creatures are dangerous beings. The Nuggle, of Shetland Folklore, is a male creature who is nocturnal and more prone to mischief and pranks than actual harm.

There are also countless water spirits of various kinds who don't have horse-like forms or any specific tie to the Kelpie other than the fact that they drown people for a variety of reasons. A good example is the Slavic Vodyanoy, depicted as a naked old man with frog-like features, green beard and hair, webbed hands, burning eyes, and with algae and muck covering his body along with black fish scales.

#kelpies #water horse #scottish folklore #germanic folklore #gaelic folklore #fae #faeries #otherfolk

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starboy-squeakers · 25 days

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Again not a dungeon meshi reader/watcher but every time I hear about that laois guy I get reminded of how my system had/has a hyperfixation on dragons so intense that we got that big fancy dragonology book and we treated it like the damn dragon Bible for like years

Now, obviously, we understand that there's different interpretations on mythical creatures, and no one interpretation on a dragon is necessarily gospel, but that multiple interpretations on the classic tale of beasts of scale and fire are completely valid and to be expected!

however if you call an Eastern dragon a coatl I'm going to come to your house and slaughter your family

#THEY'RE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT #yes they have similarities but coatls have WINGS typically and dont usually have other limbs. they're more serpentine birds #meanwhile Eastern dragons (Chinese depictions for example) don't typically have wings and are more lizard-like #like Mushu !!!!!!!! Mushu is an Eastern dragon #and then there's drakes and wyrms. which are entirely different bc they can't really fly #drakes are more like draconic horses or dogs. no wings but four limbs and a tail with a reptilian appearance #wyrms are more serpentine with no limbs and no wings. though i think some interpretations of wyrms give them like.. two forelimbs #then there's wyverns. wyverns have two legs and two wings instead of the typical eight limbs (four limbs two wings)#(i also perosnally hold true to the interpretation of wyverns with poisonous stingers for tails but that's just me cause i think its cool)#..... how much of this is just me talking abiut dragons #explodes.#oh yeah and obv there's the HTTYD interpretations which i adore! they're interesting #the designs are so fascinating and from what ive seen seem to have some science behind them #and arent just the typical western style of dragons. which nothing wrong with the western style it's a classic ofc #but it's still fun to see some variation!!#and ofc there's WOF #which holds true to Western dragons in simple anatomy but has its own variations and of course its own lore #then there's. fuck i forget the name but it's a fantasy story based in China i believe #i loved it so much it was so cool #anyways it had a dragon character named Seryu. I love Seryu. he my favorite #anyways i liked the interpretation of dragons there bc iirc it held true to ummmmm some Chinese mythology involving dragons #cause Eastern mythology of drahons is . so much diffetent than Western #Western dragons are commonly very monstrous creatures‚ usually very animalistic #they tend to embody the Christian concept of greed/gluttony hence why they're so typically monstrous/villainous #which i find interesting but i wont get into that #meanwhile. i wanna say Eastern dragon legends more revolve around the idea of a dragon as more of a godly/fae-type creature?#that's probably a poor comparison but that's how i interpreted it. agian im probahly wronf about all of this #im some weirdo rambling about dragons on the internet. dont trust me explicitly #i need to get more dragon mythology books #HELP I REACHED THE TAG LIMIT I DIDNT THINK THAT WAS POSSIBLE GOOD LORD OKAY I'LL SHUT UP NOW

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blairstales · 11 months

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Nessie was a Water Horse 🐴🌊

In a previous post, I mentioned how Morag (now described as a plesiosaur) was once very mermaid-like, but Nessie actually had a switch as well. Originally, Nessie was a water horse.

“No sooner had the weary, unsuspecting victim seated himself in the saddle than away darted the horse with more than the speed of the hurricane, and plunged into the deepest part of Loch Ness, and the rider was never more seen. For long had kelpie carried on this cruel game, bringing sorrow to many a household.” Notes on the folk-lore of the north-east of Scotland by Walter Gregor (1881)

In one story, a man named MacGrigor decide to try and take on the water-horse.

“The meeting took place in the solitary pass of Slochd-Muichd, between Strathspey and Inverness. The kelpy looked as innocent as usual, and was considerably startled when MacGrigor, sword in hand, struck him a blow on the nose. The weapon cut through the bridle, and the bit, falling to the ground, was instantly picked up by MacGrigor.” Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs by James Murray Mackinlay (1893)

Knowing not to press his luck, MacGrigor ran for his life, ignoring the arguments of the water horse at his heels. When the water horse used magic to stop him from being able to enter his home, MacGrigor called his wife to the window, who promptly caught the stolen bit he tossed her.

The water horse was unable to enter the home due to it being protected by rowan, so MacGrigor was able to use it as blackmail to not be killed. The water horse left with many rude words.

As time went on, there were sightings of the monster over and over again with the description in newspapers constantly changing, until the moment a water horse became a plesiosaur. In 1933, George Spicer and his wife described a creature they saw run across the road in front of their vehicle.

The creature they described had a long neck, no limbs, and was close to a dragon or prehistoric animal.

In 1934, Arthur Grant was riding his motorcycle at night when he had a sighting of his own. He described it as a mix of a seal and a plesiosaur.

Illustration of the alleged sighting of Loch Ness monster by Arthur Grant in January 1934.

From then on, Nessie being a plesiosaur was pretty much set-in-stone, including for the famous “surgeon’s photograph” which is widely agreed to be an impressive hoax.

The “surgeon’s photograph” (1934)

One of the forms that water horses are said to take is somewhat similar of a shape in terms of silhouettes, so perhaps that helped urge this change.

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Historic Recordings

(link) Nancy Currie understands the water horse to be the same thing as the Loch Ness monster.

(link) Gaelic. In this song the composer describes the Loch Ness Monster, after having seen it.

(link) loch ness monster kids song

(link) Loch ness monster skipping song

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fairymint · 20 days

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Got sidetracked lookin at family tree shit again, lookin for themes and shit.

Hell of a lot of fucking Water. Salt water, to be specific. Brown side of the family were hungarian-hunnic royalty that boated the fuck into scotland. Both sides of the family ended up founding salt lake city, by carving the salt lake into the fucking city.

Lots of horse themes. the huns were so successful because of constant horseback, scottland's national animal is the unicorn and has kelpies, and salt lake city itself is in the middle of horse habitat. Even seahorses tie into lore.

royalty. both of these family lines are chronically fucking king, avoiding death and empire collapse by moving into and marrying even more fucking royalty. it only stops in the states because mormons. the mormonism only stopped because of art. at any rate, all of these people were chronic bullies who ran when that didn't work. 'kiss my ass' ranchers who refused to farm until they drove themselves back into another different desert. The royalty is what ties into the history and fairy tales- the horses became mythical because royals owned them. The royals are so because they keep the fairy tales alive- to prove themselves royal, special, original. These people were desperate to stay connected to themselves, and god. Oral tradition over tributes and sacrifices, they were the ones who always demanded sacrifice, to them. Felix's parent(s) would have broken the cycle; they're just kind of romantic americans (though less literal and more symbolic, in the case of pokemon.)

Pokemon wise, I've got extrapolations from this for Felix; Talonflame and Rapidash, because of the Galarian clans. Lapras, Primarina, Dragalge, Horsea, Glastier/Spectrier, and any water types such as vaporeon. Water/Fairy the most. Anything saltwater works, though (including water types simply based on saltwater creatures in variation) An Actual Reason to associate with arceus lore-wise! nomadic....horse.....god people....he's son of those in pokemon-

#worldbuilding.#felix ???.#long post.#water fairy type. horse adjacent. god horse adjacent #arceus→galarian rapidash→???#felix fae.

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nixsmis · 9 months

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June's Monthly Pinup for my Patreon, featuring my OC, Frostwhisper! in her kelpie form, which i've never gotten to draw before ^_^ my patrons got to see it about a month ago, and now i share it with you all! basically i do two polls during the month: one for a theme and one for a character. all patrons can make suggestions for the theme (i randomly choose characters for the OC poll) and Moonbeams get to cast votes, then everyone gets the finished art at high res when it's done before the rest of the world. everything will get posted eventually, so nothing's strictly paywalled, but patrons do get things earlier. June's theme for Frostwhisper was KEYS & DOORS https://www.patreon.com/nixsmis Frost & art © me brought to you by my lovely patrons

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#horse #kelpie #fae #nature #magic #door #keys #nixsmis #furry #anthro #marsh #swamp #wetlands #trees #doorway #glowing #arch

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danjiisthmus · 8 months

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The Fae and the Flowershop

The fae have crossed paths into Allison's flowershop somehow! Piece for Arthfach of my characters aaaa <3

#furry #furryart #anthro #sfwfurry #traditional art #watercolor #painting #bear #caterpillar #demon #fae #fairy #elephant #barn owl #horse #house #tiger #plants #manycharacters

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adelaideoldburg · 5 months

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Ayla & Umbra

The northern lights are Ayla's favorite sight - maybe because they resemble its own beautiful coat? Umbra has a very high body temperature due to its fiery mane and is said only to be seen in the wild under the pale light of the new moon.

Fae aka LightFeather

Mare - Eternal - Ayla

Nyx aka MidnightMystery

Mare - Eternal - Umbra

As previously discussed, the Andalusian model isn't my favorite, but I do enjoy these two. One of the few magical horses where I prefer the magical coats. I also realized there was not that much lore for these guys, because I though there was more but I think I just made up a lot lmao.

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#i think they are higher bcs of sentimental reasons tbh #sso #ssoblr #star stable #star stable online #adelaide oldburg #fae #nyx #the horse collection

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icedghostlatte-art · 1 year

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A couple of Nightmares. Siblings, if you will.

#rotg #nightmares rotg #onyx rotg #ebony rotg #onyx may be wearing a maid dress but she has a license to kill #for an au where Pitch is a Fae King #and the Nightmares are a race of demonic horses that work for him

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