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Mill Jjitneun Rabbit - Korean Folktale Painting

Gina Litherland (American, b. 1955, Gary, IN, USA, based Cedarburg, WI, USA) - 1: The Fauna of Mirro

someone who doesn’t know japanese folklore explain this

Guodong Zhao aka Zhao Guodong aka Sandaosi aka 赵国栋 (Chinese, based Beijing, China) - Chinese Ghosts

Suppon on Oryo — The Legend of the Vengeful Ghost TurlesA folktale from Edo Period Japan,A man

talesfromweirdland:Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon from a book of African American Folktales.

assemblyfairytale:Chinese Folktales by Eva Wang

thekimonogallery:“The Heron Maiden”.  Woodblock print, about 1770’s, Japan,by artist Isoda Koryusai

thekimonogallery:The Ibaraki Demon, by artist Shibata Zeshin, 1882, Japan. “ Watanabe no Tsuna, one

yokaizin:Biwa bokuboku琵琶牧々びわぼくぼくTRANSLATION: takes its name from a particular legendary biwaAPPEARAN

#folktaleweek Day 6: Key“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation— in fair

lyonesseofalbion:“Hungarian Folktales” (“Magyar népmesék”, 1980-2012) [dir. Marcell Jankovics, Zoltá

artemisdreaming:Heron Maiden,  1919 Kiyokata Kaburagi (Kiyokata Kaburaki)

Illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon from a book of African American Folktales. Love that fourth on

A speculative vision of historical figures and events, Salacia unfolds in the style of Black fantasy

irreducibilitas:Grimm and Other Folk Tales by Cory Godbey

Albert Weisgerber (1878-1915), “Kinder- und” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1912Source

Adolf Oberländer (1845-1923), ‘Gespensterzug’ (Of Ghosts), “Fliegende Blätter&rdqu

‘Myths and Legends of Ancient Slavs’, Illustration by N. Bukanova, 2007

“The Hunterman and the Crocodile” by Baba Wague Diakite, 2003Source

A John O’Brien illustration for The Stone Cheese from Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls retold b

The next こわい話 (kowai hanashi, scary story) is called のっぺらぼう (nopperabou). What is a のっぺらぼう? Oh, that

The climactic scene of Japanese folktale The Grateful Crane, as interpreted by @stuartayre.

witchshour:favorite folktales around the world (11/12): cinderella ‘When the two sisters returned fr

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