Search
- According to medieval folklore, a panther is a big cat with a multicoloured hide. When it roars, the panther's breath smells so sweet that it draws all creatures to it (except dragons). After the panther devours these beasts, it sleeps for three days in a cave. #LegendaryWednesday
- Yuki onna is a fearful #yokai appearing on snowy winter nights. She glides across the snow with her blue lips and transparent skin. Beware as her icy gaze can be deadly and she will suck the life force out of you and leave you to die in the snow. #LegendaryWednesday #JapaneseFolklore 🎨Shigeru Mizuki
- In #JapaneseFolklore tsurara onna are #yokai also known as icicle women. When lonely single men gaze at icicles during winter, they admire their beauty and wish for a wife just as beautiful. Soon after, this yokai will appear, presenting as an ordinary woman. #FolkyFriday 1/2
- If you hear a knock on your door during a snow storm be very careful, it could be amazake baba. #LegendaryWednesday #yokai
- In #JapaneseFolklore amazake baba is a #yokai from Miyagi and Aomori prefectures. She appears in the form of a haggard old woman and knocks on doors late at night calling for amazake (fermented rice drink) in a child-like voice. Whoever answers her call falls very ill, regardless... #FolkyFriday 1/3
- #legendarywednesday "There is a grave for March, a grave for Gwythur of the Red Sword, Arthur's grave is a mystery of the world." 1/2
- In #JapaneseFolklore kamikakushi is the concept of being spirited away by the kami, or gods. Sometimes when people disappeared it was blamed on evil #yokai who may have taken the person to the spirit world. The Ghibli film Spirited Away is based on this concept. #LegendaryWednesday
- In #JapaneseFolklore when people vanished without a trace the disappearances were often blamed on evil #yokai. Sometimes victims were never seen again but in some cases missing people returned to the world days, months or years later, sometimes with no memory of their time... #LegendaryWednesday 1/3
- There is a very bizarre tale from #JapaneseFolklore about todaiki, which is when a sorcerer used dark magic to transform their enemy into a human candle in order to keep them trapped, unable to either move or speak. #LegendaryWednesday #yokai
- Many #yokai tales in #JapaneseFolklore involve people visiting strange lands and the mysterious explanations of why they have never returned home. The bizarre story of todaiki involved a government minister who travelled on a mission to China but did not return. The man's... #LegendaryWednesday 1/3
- A very mysterious #yokai for #LegendaryWednesday.
- In #JapaneseFolklore there is a strange #yokai phenomenon known as ashiarai yashiki where a giant, hairy, bloody, disembodied foot crashes through the roof of a house demanding to be washed by the residents within. If it isn't obeyed it will smash the house to pieces. If it is... #FolkyFriday 1/2
- art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #legendarywednesday #bookchatweekly
- Santa Claus by Arthur Rackham #LegendaryWednesday
- Ceridwen by Christopher Williams #LegendaryWednesday
- Daughter of Titan and Oceanid, Circe is the most prominent sorceress of Greek myth. She is able to transfigure men into pigs and women into monsters, and able to purify transgressions, such as Jason and her kin Medea's murder of Medea's brother #LegendaryWednesday 🖼️: Waterhouse
- The Butterfly Lovers is considered one of China’s four great folktales. Set in the Eastern Jin dynasty, it tells the tragic love story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhu was the only daughter of a wealthy family. Despite living in a time when women were not allowed to... #LegendaryWednesday 1/6
- In #JapaneseFolklore when people vanished without a trace the disappearances were often blamed on evil #yokai. Sometimes victims were never seen again but in some cases missing people returned to the world days, months or years later, sometimes with no memory of their time... #LegendaryWednesday 1/3
- Many #yokai tales in #JapaneseFolklore involve people visiting strange lands and the mysterious explanations of why they have never returned home. The bizarre story of todaiki involved a government minister who travelled on a mission to China but did not return. The man's... #LegendaryWednesday 1/3
