a tiny silver whistle & a piece of bone

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[mohtz]

Women in Greek Tragedy

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Hadrian’s Wall was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun in AD 122 during the rule of emperor Hadrian. In addition to its military role, gates through the wall served as customs posts.

photo by gms

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Gwrych Castle.

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R A D I C A L  

this is the most self indulgent doodle, but yo girls and big swords…..is a mood.

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hot take: magnus is taller than everyone on the starblaster and julia is taller than magnus 

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magnus, being hugged by someone taller than him for the first time in 100 years and struggling not to cry: ohhh my godoh my god hoooo boy oh my god

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St. Bride by John Duncan

[mohtz]

Νύξ : Nyx “Night”, goddess of the night

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Nishino Yoichi 西野陽一 (1954)

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[thesunthief]

The Amour of Armor.

Painting originally in an Iranian story-book.

[glorianas]

little folklore things

in some english folklore there is a belief that the first soul buried in a new burying ground will be tasked to haunt the cemetery forever helping souls move on to heaven and help them to avoid the devil and witches, to avoid this fate there is some customs of burying a dog or some other animal in a new cemetery, it is called a church grim, and unlike other black dogs, which are often harbingers of death, it is a benevolent spirit meanwhile in scottish folklore there is the belief that a person will haunt a cemetery until another is buried there to take their place and so on

in breton folklore it’s believed that if you find yourself on the sea on halloween or all soul’s day that the spirits of the dead lost at sea will try and call your name  to get you to carry them back to land so they can be put to rest properly

among the numerous beliefs of the origins of the selkies, one in shetland and orcadian tradtion is that selkies are the souls of drowned sailors who can return to human form once a year to visit their families

it is believed that the seventh son of a seventh son (or seventh daughter of a seventh daughter) who has red hair will be born with the sight to see the fairies

it is believed unwise to wear too much green as it is a fairy colour and might attract them to you

that’s all i got for now, feel free to add ur own fave little folklore things

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[ironinkpen]

forget slow burn romance, give me slow burn found family. give me enemies to friends to siblings. tired, weary old mentors learning to live again for their plucky young apprentices. heroes sharing apartments after world saving adventures because they’re so used to living with each other. dramatic “oh shit” moments where one gets kidnapped and the other realizes “god, that’s my kid.” i want to sit and watch in agony for thirty chapters while two idiots slowly adopt each other, someone get on it

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Flintholm (The Witches House) by Barry on Flickr.

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