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bevanthomas

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Author, editor, and teacher of creative writing, speculative fiction, and comics. Thinker of strange thoughts. Member of Cloudscape Comics. MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.

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Manawydan ap Llyr, most cunning of Welsh heroes, shocked everyone by making a tiny gallows to hang one of the mice involved in the destruction of his wheat fields. However, he'd realized that the mice were shapeshifting fairies, and this one the wife of the ringleader.

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The original version of Robin Hood did not give to charity. He was a folk hero not because he helped the poor but just because he harassed the rich -- robbing corrupt bishops and abbots, humiliating sheriffs, and poaching the king's deer on the royal reserves.

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In many religions, the gods of death are sombre and even rather depressed. But Vodou's Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte love to drink, smoke, tell filthy jokes, and generally party hard. It would be fun to imagine them throwing a wild party to get their fellow death gods to loosen up.

bevanthomas, to queer
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bevanthomas, to random
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Senet was an ancient Egyptian board game popular with all kinds of people. Many Egyptians were buried with senet boards. Paintings depicted kings, queens, gods, and even wild animals playing. However, it lost favor in the Roman period, and so the rules were sadly lost.

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bevanthomas, to books
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!
Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!"
He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.
The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding."
– William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost" (Act 1, Scene 1)

bevanthomas, to books
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"He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realized the disadvantage. 'The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic,' he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it.'"

bevanthomas, to random
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The lemures in Roman mythology are the formless, vengeful spirits of people not given the correct burial rites by the living. Because lemures have no proper tomb to house them, they cannot rest. However, they can be mollified with offerings of black beans.

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"Though thou get this, there is yet that which thou wilt not get. It is not possible to hunt the boar Trwyth without Gwyn, the son of Nudd, whom God has placed over all the devils in Annwn, lest they should destroy the present race."

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In Greek mythology, the god of sleep is Hypnos, son of Nyx (Night) and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death). His sons are the gods of dreams, including Morpheus (dreams about humans), Somnus (dreams about animals), and Phantasus (dreams about inanimate objects).
🎨​ Jean-Bernard Restout

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According to legend, the mandrake plant screams when dug up, killing all who hear it. However, as mandrake root is a key ingredient in many potions and can be transformed into a homunculus, sorcerers and witches have tried various methods to safely acquire it.

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Rokurokubi are a kind of malevolent yokai (Japanese spirit) that looks largely human. However, one kind has a neck that stretches while another (the nukekubi) has a head that detaches and flies around freely. The nukekubi flies by flapping its ears.

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In Welsh King Arthur folklore, the warrior Gwrhyr asked the oldest animals if they'd seen the demigod Mabon. The Eagle of Gwernabwy was so ancient that a boulder he'd pecked every day had by now been worn down to a pebble, but even he hadn't seen Mabon.

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One of the few Arthurian characters who's an established historical figure is the 5th-century Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus. Evidence suggests he won many of the battles later credited to King Arthur, though in legend Ambrosius is Arthur's uncle.
🎨​Angus McBride

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John Troyer (1753 –1842) was an Ontario farmer who became famous as an exorcist, herbalist, and cunning man who could deal with a wide range of supernatural threats, as well as use his occult skills to find buried treasure. Legend claims that Troyer once stole a witch's broomstick and figured out how to fly it himself.

bevanthomas, to random
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Since ancient times, the Welsh have celebrated the Spring Equinox as a time when the Earth's various spiritual energies are especially potent, including the "Awen" - that flowing spirit of divine inspiration which is the source of all poetry and prophecy.

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In Welsh King Arthur stories, Arthur's brother Cai the Tall (Sir Kay) had many superpowers, including making himself red hot. During rainstorms, Cai's friends would stay close to him, as Cai's extreme heat turned the raindrops to steam, keeping everyone dry.
🎨​Disney's "Sword in the Stone"

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In some Christian folklore, the demon Leonard is inspector general of sorcery and grand master of the black sabbaths. Though Leonard acts shy and melancholy most of the time, he becomes commanding and even manic when speaking to assemblies of demons or sorcerers.
🎨​Louis Le Breton

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Most surviving Welsh legends are heroic adventures rather than mythological origins of things. The few exceptions all involve the wizard Gwydion. He stole the first pigs, turned a woman into the first owl, and a sea god named like his nephew Dylan created the first gulls.
🎨​Margaret Jones

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Though in modern fantasy the term "dryad" means any tree nymph, to the ancient Greeks the dryads were only nymphs of oak trees. Other nymphs included daphnaie (laurels), epimelides (apple trees), meliae (ash trees), anthousai (flowers), and kissiae (ivy).

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Gwalchmai/Gawaine is one of the few warriors of King Arthur who doesn't have any superpowers in the original Welsh King Arthur stories, but is ironically the only who does have powers (superhuman strength based on the sun) in many later Arthurian romances.
🎨​Howard Pyle

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Surprisingly, it was not King Arthur's sword that was one of the 13 Treasures of Britain in Welsh legend, but instead his cloak Gwenn. This silk cloak was white as snow and had a reddish-gold apple sewn at each of its corners. It could turn King Arthur invisible.
🎨​Rubin Eynon

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