#melusine — Public Fediverse posts

Sometimes she has two tails, or a fishtail or wings. There are different versions of her name and various stories are found in different regions especially France, Luxembourg and the Low Countries. I first learned of her from Manuel Mujica Láinez’s The Wandering Unicorn, which tells her story through the centuries. Her story also appears in A.S. Byatt’s Possession amongst many other places from operas to video games. 🧵2/2

#linocut #printmaking #mermaid #Mélusine #folklore #mastoArt

Mélusine for #MerMay!

This hand-printed Art Deco-inspired lino block print illustrates Mélusine at her bath, spied through a keyhole. Mélusine was the legendary half-fairy ancestor of the House of Lusignan and royals including the Plantagenets, whose lower half became a serpent when she bathed. She married a nobleman but insisted he must never observe her in the bath; of course he did, and she left him. 🧵
#Mélusine #artDeco #linocut #printmaking #folklore #fairytale #fairy #mermaid #mastoart

It's #MerMay and therefore we have a special #FannyFriday with a two-tailed mermaid with a human fanny between them. This copper cut depicts #Mélusine, a water spirit from European #folklore. She marries a human man under the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. Her husband keeps his oath for many years and she gives him children, wealth, land, and power. Goaded by his family, her husband eventually does peek into her chamber, where he sees Melusine bathing in her fish-tailed form.

#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature

#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature

#ASByatt is famous for her intertextual novels. How she used the #Melusine #serpent #mythology and played with it in her 1990 #NeoVictorian novel #Possession is analysed in this study by Gillian M. E. Alban

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=35865727X

#YearOfTheSnake #LunarNewYear #LiteraryStudies #EnglishLiterature

#Starbucks #history #GotMedieval #Melusine https://www.gotmedieval.com/2010/08/the-other-starbucks-mermaid-cover-up.html

@auposte @HelloQuitteX

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Aujourd'hui, on se fait #shadowban ou bloquer si on balance un slogan ou une réplique féministe.

Exemple avec #mélusine qui s'était fait bloquer son compte en publiant "Quand est-ce que les hommes arrêtent de violer ?"
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#helloquitterx

I am a dumb sea slug #melusine #genshinimpact #original_character

Mélusine for #MerMay!

This hand-printed Art Deco-inspired lino block print illustrates Mélusine at her bath, spied through a keyhole. Mélusine was the legendary half-fairy ancestor of the House of Lusignan and royals including the Plantagenets, whose lower half became a serpent when she bathed. She married a nobleman but insisted he must never observe her in the bath; of course he did, and she left him. 🧵1/n
#Mélusine #artDeco #linocut #printmaking #folklore #fairytale #fairy #mermaid #MastoArt

#Melusine orchestrated a raid on her father’s castle, confining him and all his attendants inside a magical mountain. Her mother Pressina wasn`t happy at this vengeful action. Instead, the descendant of serpents cursed Melusine to become a snake for part of every Sunday.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

My final ##PhysicalMediaHauls of 2023!

#ArrowVideo #UniversalPictures #EchoBridgeEntertainment #VinegarSyndrome #Mélusine #ParamountPictures #SentaiFilmworks #Neon #DecalReleasing #4KUltraHD #BluRay #DVD

#Melusine orchestrated a raid on her father’s castle, confining him and all his attendants inside a magical mountain. Her mother Pressina wasn`t happy at this vengeful action. Instead, the descendant of serpents cursed Melusine to become a snake for part of every Sunday.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @AeonOfSaturn
In Celtic mythology, the Melusine 🧜🏻‍♀️ was a freshwater 💧 spirit found in a sacred spring or river, w/ either the lower half of a serpent 🐍…
https://twitter.com/AeonOfSaturn/status/1034507278445989888