Bluebell Raven

Artist and Storyteller, posting Folklore, Fantasy Art, Poetry, Literature, and Mythology.

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Yes! ✨

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"Oh, but if I might but hold it in my hand one moment, I think that I should never even sigh again!"

"If you hold it," muttered Nod, "you will skip away with it into the deep streams, and I shall never see it again, nor my brothers either, and we shall be lost forever in the forest of Munza-mulgar."

"No, no," she sang, and her voice was like water trickling over little stones. "Only to touch it, Mulla-mulgar. Look! my fingers are cold as the rain. They have no strength to steal. Let me but hold it in my palm one moment, and I will give you a secret that the fishes told me—a secret of the path that leads through the black forest."

Nod leaned down farther until the warmth of his breath stirred the water near her cheek. His hand trembled, but he held the Wonderstone fast between his thumb and two fingers.

Its pale green milk-like light shone on her small, wet shoulder and on her floating hair. The Water-midden sat up in the water, her narrow eyes fixed on the stone.

"It is cold, Mulla-mulgar," she whispered; "cold as the snows of Amana. Give it me, give it me, only to hold for one moment, and I will give you a crown of water-lilies, and a secret that the fishes told me—a secret of the path that leads through the black forest."

"No, no," muttered Nod; "my brothers are sleeping; the night is far spent; I must go."

🎨Dorothy P. Lathrop’s illustration (1919) for Walter de la Mare's “The Three Mulla-Mulgars”

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“King” by Boban Savić Geto

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📍National Botanical Garden in Vácrátót, Hungary.
📷 Csaba Vásárhelyi

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“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden path that runs
Toward the Moon or to the Sun.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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‘The Shepherd Comes to an Arch of Snakes’,
Illustration by Henry Justice Ford.
From The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1903

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@wylfcen @eirewitch Blæwūð Hræfn

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@wylfcen @eirewitch What would Bluebell Raven be? 😄

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@Elizabeth_eno2 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Greek sirens began as half-bird, half-woman creatures whose enchanting songs lured sailors onto deadly rocks.

Over centuries, Roman adaptations morphed them into beautiful, half-fish mermaids, heavily blending their identity with sea nymphs.

This hybrid concept influenced Celtic and Germanic folklore, manifesting as dangerous water spirits like the Irish Merrow, the Slavic Rusalka, and the German Lorelei.

🎨 “The Siren's Lair” by Richard Hescox

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🎨 “Lonesome Unicorn” by Winona Nelson, for the Magic: The Gathering Throne of Eldraine set.

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…and, back to my world ✨

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@JonJay346517 How lovely 😊

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It’s a rainy day, today 🌧🌧🌧

🎨Trina Schart Hyman

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@Parsifel1 One of my favourites 🤍

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@Maria8963421664 I did that this morning 😅

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@Fruitbat_44 Thanks!

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On my way to work 🌬🌧

🎨Lily Seika Jones

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Farewell

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