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camelidae · 3 days

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High-contrast coats are a rare sight in most unicorn societies, but there are rumors that, in certain lonely stretches of the South Western desert, ‘anything goes.’”

#unicorns #junicorn #junicorn 2024 #appaloosa #jackalope #unicorn art #western unicorn #art #illustration #mythical creatures

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romantasyreader28 · 3 days

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#sad quotes #words words words #spilled ink #quote #art #Hades #persephone #hades and persephone #hades art #spilled feelings #spilled thoughts #sorry for being depressing #tw depressing stuff #darkness #greek mythology #greek gods #mythology #mythical creatures #mythology and folklore

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bethdehart · 2 days

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Junicorn Day 4: Fashionable

Monochrome cutie <3

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#junicorn #junicorn2024 #junicorn 2024 #unicorn art #art challenge #mythical creatures #furry #furry art #furry fandom #beth dehart #cute #art #horse #equine #cute art

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pick-a-plush · 22 hours

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Jellycat dragons? All the dexter varieties including the two new ones persimmon and sky? Make em fight!!!

There are sooo many Jellycat dragons and for my sanity I’ll only do 8 plushies at a time. So I can do 8 dragons for you! I do really love all these guys!

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bestiarium · 3 hours

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The Ushi-Oni [Japanese folklore, yokai]!

Japanese folklore has a rich repertoire of strange beasts, spirits and creatures. And as Japanese Yokai go, the Ushi-Oni is one of the older ones. Though usually depicted as a giant spider with the head of a bull, some sources portray it with a feline body, resembling a monstrous bull-headed tiger. Regardless of its appearance, the Ushi-Oni is a cruel and vicious creature that enjoys killing people. In some versions this monster makes its home on mountains or in forested areas, but usually it is an aquatic spook, living either in the sea or in freshwater rivers, lakes or swamps.

The Ushi-Oni is married to a different monster: the Nure-Onna. This female fiend resembles a large snake with a human head and arms. She is an aquatic creature and lives near shores and riverbanks.

The two monsters work together to ambush people, with each having a set role: first they wait on a shore or coast for someone to pass by. When they spot a lone traveller, the Nure-Onna transforms into a young human woman holding an infant. She then walks up to the intended victim and asks them to hold her baby, and if they do, she casually walks into the sea and disappears, leaving the victim confused and holding a baby.

Whether this baby is a sentient, separate entity or merely a magical illusion is unclear, but its weight magically increases when the victim is holding it. Eventually, the child is so heavy that the traveller is unable to move without dropping the infant. At this point, the bull-headed Ushi-Oni emerges from the sea and pounces on the unfortunate victim to devour its prey.

In the 14th century epic ‘Chronicle of Great Peace’, the hero Watanabe Tsuna faces and eventually defeats an Ushi-Oni.

Sources: Yoda, H. and Alt, M., 2016, Japandemonium Illustrated: the Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama sekien. This work is a translation of the Gazu Hyakki Yagyo by Toriyama Sekien in the 18th century. Marks, A., 2023, Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings: Authentic Paintings and Prints of 100 Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Magicians, Tuttle Publishing, 240 pp., p. 122. (image source 1: Vongraven on Artstation) (image source 2: Bakemonozukushie, an Edo period scroll currently in possession of the Brigham Young University collection)

#Japanese mythology #yokai #aquatic creatures #monsters #mythical creatures #mythology #folklore #Japan

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possumcollege · 2 days

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What do you get when werewolves and mermaids skip the middle (hu)man and get down to business?

Merwolves.

Get bitten by one? Weremerwolf.

#possumcollege #wolves #mermaid #merwolf #weremerwolf #monsters #creatures #cryptids #mythical creatures #sketch #sketchbook

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vodkartoons · 3 days

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water and lines

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spacerockband · 4 months

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spiritually laios and i are hanging out in the school library reading the entire encyclopedia of mythical creatures together

#art tag #comic #comics #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #fan art #fan comic #digital art #personal comic #griffin #hippogriff #dunmeshi spoilers #but only slightly #monsters #mythical creatures

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the-evil-clergyman · 5 months

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Wassernixen by Josef Wawra (1920)

#josef wawra #art #paintings #fine art #1920s #1920s art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #austrian art #austrian artist #mythical creatures #mermaid #mermaids #classic art

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camelidae · 2 days

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Though unicorns have never been known to plant, tend or harvest crops, berry season is still a busy season for them – delicately nipping off each wild berry individually and fully savoring the bouquet of sweet and tart goodness is a lot of work! They take it very seriously.

#unicorns #junicorn #junicorn 2024 #watercolor #colored pencils #unicorn art #illustration #equine art #mythical creatures #fantasy illustration

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whereserpentswalk · 20 days

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Reblog to receive the transformation. Like to upgrade your power.

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bethdehart · 15 hours

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Junicorn Day 5: Sickness

A silly plague doctor zombie unicorn, trottin' around having a good time. They're harmless.

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#junicorn #junicorn2024 #junicorn 2024 #unicorn art #art challenge #mythical creatures #furry #furry art #furry fandom #beth dehart #cute #art #zombie #gore #ask to tag

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sennamaticart · 1 year

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Running Running Running

#unicorn #horse #pony #animation #2d animation #animator #animated gif #gallop #run #fantasy #medival #fantasy illustration #fantasy art #magical creatures #mythical creatures #myth #art tag #the number of songs i listened to about running while doing this is insane actually

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violetwolfraven · 1 year

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The funniest thing in the world to me is when people write mermaids that are bothered by humans eating fish. Like do you think fish don’t eat each other? The ocean is full of little freaks that will eat whatever or whoever the fuck will fit in their mouths. If the mermaids haven’t been eating fish this whole time what do you think they’ve been eating? If the answer is humans, that doesn’t make it any less funny. They’ll eat the species that looks like the top half of them but won’t eat a species that looks like the bottom half? Peak comedy.

#mermaids #mythical creatures #edit:#okay a lot of you have had good ideas about why mermaids possibly would be bothered by humans eating fish #so i will amend my original statement to say it’s funny and it doesn’t make any sense #unless you outright in-universe explain it #like don’t just fall back on the excuse of bUT tHeIR OUr unDERsEa BrOTherS #make it a part of their culture or physiology #if they haven’t been eating fish explain what they HAVE been eating and why #make it interesting

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vyxaer · 6 months

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Quiet Riverbed

#artists on tumblr #digital painting #painting #animal drawing #illustration #portrait #mythical creatures

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vyrosk · 11 months

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|Blood To Bood|

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