Jürgen HubertWhen the forest spirits left the Schömberg region, they altered the appearance of the local sparrows so that the locals would remember them.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Forest_Spirits_and_the_White_Sparrows
HypnogoriaWhether you know them as will-o-the-wisps, corpse candles, or lantern men, following these strange lights often will lead you to your doom...
Illustration - A mirage in a marsh by C. Whymper
Every time you twist a tree, a wood spirit will die.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/A_Wood_Woman_Mourns_Her_Husband
The Wild Huntsman relentlessly hunts the spirits of the forest.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Hounded_Forest_Woman
The life of certain forest spirits are bound to specific trees.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Beautiful_Fir_Tree
The Godyssey PodcastIn the Great Cedar Forest of Mesopotamian myth, there lives a giant, who is a mixture of animal parts and who devours men in gory fashion. When came Gilgamesh to gather cedar planks, Humbaba had to die: and this became his undoing. #FolkloreThursday
The Godyssey PodcastIn the Great Cedar Forest of Mesopotamian myth, there lives a giant, who is a mixture of animal parts and who devours men in gory fashion. When came Gilgamesh to gather cedar planks, Humbaba had to die: and this became his undoing. #FolkloreThursday
Foundational to the creation of Merlin is Myrddin Wyllt, or Myrddin the Wild, a bard who in Welsh poetry went mad after a battle and fled to the Caledonian Forest far to the north as a wildman, contemplating his former life but gifted with prophecy. #FolkloreThursday
🖼: A. Lee
Foundational to the creation of Merlin is Myrddin Wyllt, or Myrddin the Wild, a bard who in Welsh poetry went mad after a battle and fled to the Caledonian Forest far to the north as a wildman, contemplating his former life but gifted with prophecy. #FolkloreThursday
🖼: A. Lee
The Haslen Forest is haunted by an evil poodle.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Black_Poodle_in_the_Haslen_Forest
