purple-faerie:

Winged Companions by Anne Stokes

thepedigreeofhoney:

Nereids: nymphs of the Agean sea, the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris. Depicted as beautiful girls crowned with branches of red coral and dressed in white silk robes trimmed with gold, but who went barefoot

Kelpie: shape-shifting water spirit inhabiting the lochs and pools of Scotland. Depicted as a melancholy dark-haired maiden balanced on a rock

Naiad : nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. Distinct from very ancient spirits that inhabited the still waters of marshes, ponds and lagoon-lakes

Rusalka: water spirit in Slavic folklore. Depicted as a young woman who lures young men, seduced by either her looks or her voice, into the depths of said waterways where she would entangle their feet with her long red hair and submerge them

Swan Maidens: mythical creature who shapeshifts from human form to swan form. key to the transformation is usually a swan skin, or a garment with swan feathers attached.

Selkies: maighdeann-mhara (“maiden of the sea),mythological creatures found in Scottish, Irish, and Faroese folklore. Said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land.

ghostingwings:

have you ever thought about dragons

– desert dragons rolling in sand to polish their scales

– dragons cleaning themselves like a cat

– frorest dragons finding a creek to jump into and splash around in

– strong, burly dragons ramming into trees and toppling them over to build a den

– hatchlings wrestling with their siblings, practicing their menacing roar

– dragons befriending smaller animals

– dragons with odd hoards; hoards of sticks and rocks, hoards of animal bones, hoards of old car wheels, hoards of tattered books

– old dragons who live on the beach and collect seashells

– dragons with long necks who eat like giraffes

– dragons digging deep holes in the ground and storing food for a later time

– massive groups of dragons, running together like wolves, helping each other and keeping each other company

– dragons breathing fire onto the floor of their cave to make it hot, and then sleeping on it

– dragons

-dragons are great

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