matryoshka-nikolina:

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Bannik (банник)

He is the bath/steamhouse spirit. You shouldn’t bathe alone or at night, lest he come to curse you. You also shouldn’t bring things from the bathhouse back to the home, in case he might be in it. Children are usually born here, and are vulnerable to the unclean force(s). That also means that pregnant women are vulnerable and should not be left alone. The Bannik is entitled to use the steamhouse as well, and only he is allowed to bathe during the third (or fourth, depending) firing. 

Peeling is his choice of punishment. 

euphoticwaves:

The Turtle is an ancient symbol that represents creation, endurance, strength, stability, longevity, fertility, and innocence. The Turtle also provides protection, good fortune , and brings happiness and good omens.

One of the four Chinese sacred animals (among the dragon, the phoenix, and the unicorn), the ever adapting turtle is a creature of both land and sea and can thrive in any environment.

In Asian myth the turtle represents order and was thought to have created the entire universe from it’s body parts. The heavens were formed from the shell, the earth was created from it’s body and it’s undershell was the underworld.

In American Indian culture, the turtle represents the caring wisdom of the ancient ones and is respected for it’s protective strength.

The Turtle is considered to be the oldest, most sacred symbol of the Anishinabe and Haudenosaunee people. They believed that North America was created on the back of a turtle.

“Legend says that Father Sky’s wife fell through a hole in the sky, and to keep her from drowning, little Muskrat managed to bring up a handful of soil from the bottom of the ocean; she placed it on Turtle’s wide back and the land immediately began to grow, forming North America.”

To this day most Indigenous peoples refer to North America as Turtle Island.

nordic-drifter:

The Nøkken, or Näcken, is a dangerous creature from Scandinavian folklore. They are water-dwelling shapeshifters who usually appear in the shape of a naked man playing a violin or similar instrument, or a beautiful white horse. They lure unwary travelers into the water and drown them.

These creatures are sometimes called Fossegrim, but this name is applied almost solely to the most harmless of these water spirits. Stories exist in which a Fossegrim agrees to live with a human who fell in love with them or agree to help travelers, for a price.

Similar creatures exist in all Germanic mythologies.

fantasticallore:

Origin: Chinese folklore

Type: Vampire

Jiang Shi, which means ‘stiff corpse’, were animated corpses, brought back by Taoist priests. They were hired by families who could not afford to travel to the deceased, so the animated corpse could ‘hop’ back. In many contemporary Chinese…

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Artio by Thalia Took

Artio (Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) is the Continental Celtic Goddess of fertility and wild animals, especially bears, and in fact that is exactly what Her name means, “Bear”.

Her name is derived from the Gaulish word artos, bear. Other Celtic languages have similar words, such as Old Irish art, Welsh arth - which may also be the source for the modern name Arthur.

lokitalia:

Sköll, the wolf which chases the sun across the sky.

It is said that during Ragnarök the wolves chasing the heavenly bodies will finally catch and consume them both, plunging the world into darkness and chaos for the final battle to begin.

fantasticallore:

Origin: Greek mythology

Type: Nature god

Pan is the lusty spirit of wold nature, and protector of woodlands, mountains, hunting, shepherds and their flocks. He is depicted as a man with horns, the legs and tail of a goat, a snub nose and pointed ears. His name is derived from the Greek word paon, which means ‘herdsman.’ He was said to cause people to feel sudden fear in lonely places, and so Pan is the origin of the word ‘panic’.

fantasticallore:

Origin: Native American mythology

Type: Sacred bird

The Thunderbird is a gigantic creature with curled horns and teeth within its beak. Its wingspan is two canoe-lengths, from wingtip to wingtip. Each beat from its wings pulls clouds that creates thunderstorms. Each blink from its eyes bring lightning flashes, and lightning bolts are snakes the Thunderbird throws onto the ground.