The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times the pwca turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch it.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi #FolkloreSunday
The pwca is the black-furred Welsh version of the pooka - a forest goblin trickster. Sometimes the pwca uses a magic candle to lead travelers off the path, and other times the pwca turns into a black animal, such a horse, and entices travelers to try to catch it.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi #FairyFriday#31DaysofHaunting#31DaysofHalloween
One of the most iconic werecreatures of modern fantasy is the sewer-dwelling wererat: the apex predator of the city like the werewolf is of the forest. Wererats were inspired by the ratfolk of Lankhmar in Fritz Leiber's "Fafhrd and Gray Mouser" stories.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi #OfDarkandMacabre#31DaysofHalloween#31DaysofHorror#31DaysofHaunting
Though werewolves are usually ravening monsters in European fairy tales, werebears are more sympathetic. They are often people cursed with bear-form who wander the wilderness sad and alone until someone can break the curse and give them back their humanity.
🎨 Anton Lomaev #FairyTaleTuesday#OfDarkandMacabre
I'm feeling very dragony tonight! 🐉 My kind of dragony may be somewhat different than how you might imagine a dragon to be!
I want to unfurl my wings and fly high into the cold night air, and sail amongst the stars, letting out a roar of delight as I pass through a cloud that mists my flapping wings. ☁️🌠
I want to eat many a cupcake! 🧁
I want to run around and breathe a stream of blue floaty hearts!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙
I want to cuddle a sweet friend (or two... or five) and let them pet my fur and hear my deep, throaty purring! 🫂
"Like the new day come
We've only just begun to find our momentum
And we've got to stand straight up, strengthen the backbone
Staying physical, keep warm in the lyrical
Then we go for stretching up a rabbit
As a hammer beats down, that manages a sweet sound
Now you see that there is a bigger picture
We can go together I'll seek stormy weather
Like birds of feather we
Flock together we
On a mission some call a revolution"