GRÝLA: THE GIANTESS www.xphaiea.bigcartel.com “Grýla had three hundred heads, six eyes in each head, besides two livid and ghostly blue eyes at the back of each neck. She had goat’s horns, and her ears were so long as to hang down to her shoulders at one end, and at the other to join the ends of her three hundred noses. On each forehead was a tuft of hair, and on each chin a tangled and filthy beard. Her teeth were like burnt lava. To each thing she had bound a sack in which she used to carry naughty children and she had, moreover, hoofs like a horse. Besides all this, she had fifteen tails, and on each tail a hundred bags of skin, every one of which bags would hold twenty children.” from 'Icelandic Legends' collected by Jón Arnason (translated by George E. J. Powell and Eiríkur Magnússon), 1864 ••• #xphaiea #gryla #icelandicfolklore #folklore #iceland #macabre #horror #icelandiclegends #horrorart #witchart #esoteric #occult #beautifulbizarre #artdoll #artdolls #art #artist #folklore #dollartist #scandinavia #scandinavianfolklore #folkhorror #troll #paganart #icelandic #textileart #textileartist #goblincore https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn7G_NxrDM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=