#fairy tale creature

[liliths-den]

Echoes of the Hollow Woods: Thistlegrim’s Gift

Thistlegrim is neither entirely beast nor spirit. It is said that the creature possesses an uncanny ability to perceive emotions, responding to fear with comfort and to malice with swift, unseen mischief. Those who earn its favor might glimpse its curious, luminous eyes peering from the safety of its tree-hollow home. Legends tell of a wandering bard who once on a crisp autumn evening, as the…

[fleshwizard]

Dragons & Folklore de France

Translation below

The Tarasque dwells in the waters of the Rhone river near the town of Tarascon, where it devours travelers and destroys dikes and dams to flood the Camargue. Saint Martha chained it, and the people of Tarascon killed it.

The ruins of the amphitheaters of Metz were infested by hundreds of snakes. The largest of them, the Graoully, had a venomous breath, a mouth bigger than its body and devoured men. Saint Clement chased it away into the Seille River.

King of serpents, the Basilisk takes many forms throughout history and appears in many tales. One of them takes place at the Gate of Saint-Eloi in Bordeaux, known today for its Big Bell, where a well was occupied by a Basilisk. It petrified with its gaze anyone who went there to fetch water. It was defeated by a man returning from the Egyptian crusade, who petrified the beast with its own gaze using a mirail (mirror).

The Cocatrix is born from a rooster's egg incubated by a toad. The egg has magical properties but must not be broken. People who cross its gaze die immediatly.

Made of wicker and covered in flowers, the Grand Bailla wanders the streets of Reims three days a year and feeds on gold and sweets. It was banished by Archbishop Charles Maurice le Tellier.

The Grand'Goule haunts the marshes of Poitou, the waters of the Clain and the flooded cellars of the abbey of Sainte Croix. It feeds on nuns and casse-museaux (snout-breakers, cakes). Saint Radegonde chased it away with holy water.

In the rivers of the Jura and the Alps there is a group of diverse dragons, the Vouivres. They are generally flying serpents covered in fire and guardians of treasures. Many have for a single eye a gigantic carbuncle with extraordinary powers, desired by those in search of wealth and power.

Hidden in the caves and cliffs of la Pointe du Roux near La Rochelle, the Rô Beast traps and devours travelers in the coastal marshes. It was impaled by seven heroic pagans from the seas.

Mythical dragon of the Basque Country, Herensuge gave birth to the Sun and the Moon, swallowed all of Creation in ten days then regurgitated it in flames. Now asleep in the mountains, it sucks up flocks and shepherds in his sleep. When it wakes up, it will destroy the world in flames and blood. (illustration)

Durandal is the mythical sword that Charlemagne gave to the knight Roland. Some claim that it was inherited from Hector, the warrior of the Trojan War. At war with the Saracens in the Pyrenées, Roland wanted to break the sword so that it would not fall into the hands of the enemy but Durandal split the mountain. So he threw the sword, which went to stick miles away, in the rock of the town of Rocamadour.

The belief in the Tooth Fairy is widespread in several countries in Europe, and is sometimes amalgamated with La Petite Souris (little mouse). It exchanges baby teeth for money. No one knows what it does with all these teeth.

The Camecruse is a bogeyman that haunts the moors and marshes of Gascony. It is agile, can jump and hide in the night to better devour lost children. No one knows exactly how it feeds.

The caves under the hill of the town of Hastingues are home to Lou Carcolh, a monstrous snail, long, slimy and hairy. Its shell is as big as a house. With the help of its tentacles, it grips people to devour them.

The Questing Beast is hunted by kings and heroes in Arthurian legends. It symbolizes evil, incest, violence and chaos, and takes it name from the loud noises that come out of its stomach, similar to the barking of dozens of dogs.

The fairy Mélusine, cursed princess of Albania, was condemned to change into a snake below the waist every Saturday. She married Raymondin de Lusignan with whom they had 10 prodigious children. But Raymondin broke his promise never to see Mélusine on Saturday : he surprised her in her monstrous form, and she left her family forever.

[s-u-w-i]

Three more requests! I meant to make them all black&white but well, green knight somehow doesn't work all that well without green 🍀

IX. The Green Knight for romanodegois and @a-gremlin-for-my-thoughts VIII. Otesánek eating his mum for msdearcos who asked for folklore's creature from Czechia VII. for christine.kasparian who asked for spooky fairytale for the autumn season. I chose czech fairy tale Hádanka (Riddle) about this queen who made household items from the bones (and hair) of her lover to take a revenge on his killer.

Enjoy! 💀

[airitree]

Birth of a Dragon!

🥚Where the creatures come out to rejoice for the first hatch in many years. There the little dragon is met with a circle of strange faces and colors, when it has only seen darkness and red…🥚

[Prints available on my shop!]

[aromiekimart]

Hello everyone! Since there was interest in it, this RWBY fanart piece is now available as a high-quality print on INPRNT!

There's a sale going on right now on the site too :)

If anyone buys it, please feel free to send me a pic of how the physical print ends up looking, I'd love to see it

[cottageaesthetic]

[alrauna]

Annie Stegg Gerard (@anniestegg)

[madcat-world]

Autumn Gold - Unita-N

[fictionadventurer]

Of course Catherine Morland falls in love with the charming, kind Henry Tilney who's unlike any man she's ever met and who's the kind of person who she didn't think existed outside of books. But the great thing is that Henry's equally enchanted by the completely ordinary Catherine, because she's something that's totally unfamiliar to his world. They're equally mythical to each other, and in finding each other they upend their ideas of what they thought the world was, and they build a new world together, and that is peak romance.

[lunegrimm]

It's the last #WerewolfWednesday before Halloween, & I've saved my favorite piece for today! 🌕🐺

I'm still very happy with how it turned out! The tapestries are still available until 15th of November!

[road-kill-eater]

[lepetitdragonvert]

Grimm’s Household Tales

Edited and partly translated anew by Marian Edwardes

E. P. Dutton & Co

New York

1912

Artist : R. Anning. Bell

Princess and the Dragon

[paxthepuppycat]

… Can you make a Selkie stim board…?

here is a Selkie kin Stimboard!

[strijkdesign]

Yes it's May, so here are some of my fav mermaids to start off the month! I'm really busy for the first half of the month but will try to participate in the last half. How about you will you join in the #mermay fun?

all these beauties are available as print and merch in my shops

Etsy - Redbubble - Society6 - Inprnt

[punto-png]

Beauty and the Beast but make it 🌈✨gay✨🌈 This is the piece I created for @onceuponarainbowzine, an LGBTQ fairytale zine, last year. Leftover sales for the zine open in a few days if people want to grab a copy or any of the merch!

Bonus concept art sketches and lineart:

[lemikyainen]