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Advent Calendar - Door 6. 💫
✨ Speedpainting 06122025 ✨
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-06122025-1272209486
Advent Calendar - Door 6. 💫
✨ Speedpainting 06122025 ✨
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-06122025-1272209486
#FotoVorschlag
“In der Innenstadt” / In the city center
The dragons of Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard, facing Ho Chi Minh City Hall, in Saigon, #Vietnam.
#photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #dragon #sculpture #publicart
There are a number of reasons why I regret not paying more attention in #Latin classes back in school, and this book with its awesome illustrations of fantastic Swiss #dragon - snakes is near the top.
https://archive.org/details/ouresiphoiteshel02sche/page/n32/mode/1up
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“In der Innenstadt” / In the city center
The dragons of Nguyễn Huệ Boulevard, facing Ho Chi Minh City Hall, in Saigon, #Vietnam.
#photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #dragon #sculpture #publicart
That depends entirely on what terms the oral folk storytellers used! I'd use "Nix"/"Näcken" whenever that's what the locals used, and a more generic "river spirit" if there are multiple names for similar entities.
To use a German example, I use the term "night hags" when talking about sleep paralysis demons. The German texts use all sorts of different regional names, such as "Trude/Drude", "Mahr/Nachtmahr", "Walrider", "Incubus", "Alp", and so forth, but these all fall into the same overall behavioral patterns, so "night hags" is okay as an overall group name.
And I see "dragon" as a group name as well. "Lindwurm", "Drak", and so forth might be more specialized names for the German "Drache", but these terms, too, mean different things to different people - and often the very same creature is called a "Drache" in a different story anyway.
As far as I can tell (though I don't know as much about British folklore), the " #dragon "/" #wyvern " distinction in the UK arose from heraldry, _not_ folklore. Heraldry experts needed clear definitions so that they could describe or draw heraldic symbols - but are those same definitions actually used within folk tales? Did the oral folk storytellers really distinguish between four-limbed wyverns and six-limbed dragons?
If they were _anything_ like their German counterparts, they would have used both names and appearances as narrative tropes that could be used or discarded as needed. And when it comes to #folklore , I will take _their_ word above the word of non-folk storytellers.
I hope I am making sense here.
There are a number of reasons why I regret not paying more attention in #Latin classes back in school, and this book with its awesome illustrations of fantastic Swiss #dragon - snakes is near the top.
https://archive.org/details/ouresiphoiteshel02sche/page/n32/mode/1up
To be, or not to be!
I want to do another dragon skull eventually :)
To be, or not to be!
I want to do another dragon skull eventually :)
New print! Flying dragon (digital painting) printed on premium quality, age resistant paper.
I painted this as a tribute to the dragons I've loved, and to advenures, new and old!
You can get the print in my webshop: https://petrabrandstrom.com/webshop/flying-dragon-art-print
21x30cm: 249 SEK
30x40cm: 360 SEK
New print! Flying dragon (digital painting) printed on premium quality, age resistant paper.
I painted this as a tribute to the dragons I've loved, and to advenures, new and old!
You can get the print in my webshop: https://petrabrandstrom.com/webshop/flying-dragon-art-print
21x30cm: 249 SEK
30x40cm: 360 SEK
Dragon for the sake of dragons. 😁 Of course.
#drachenmagier #dragon #fantasy #traditionalArt #traditionalMedia #MastoArt #art #creature #WorkInProgress
Dragon for the sake of dragons. 😁 Of course.
#drachenmagier #dragon #fantasy #traditionalArt #traditionalMedia #MastoArt #art #creature #WorkInProgress
St. George and the Baby #Dragon. book of hours, France 15th century. British Library, Harley 2952, fol. 21r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
St. George and the Baby #Dragon. book of hours, France 15th century. British Library, Harley 2952, fol. 21r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
DRAGON FIRE (1989)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32” x 20”
After I submitted my concept sketch for the cover of SUNRUNNER’S FIRE by Melanie Rawn, I realized that the anatomy of the dragon’s wings was inconsistent with the structure on the other covers I had done for the series. 1/3
#fantasy #fantasyart #sff #illustration #melanierawn #dragon #dawbooks
If someone has messed with the supplies in your attic, it might be a wild animal.
Then again, it might be a dragon!
#France #folktale #folklore #dragon
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fiery_Dragon_in_Riedheim
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