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'Vodnic'  (ancient Slavic water god)  a 1902 painting by Jaroslav Panuska

       

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'Pan',  ancient Greek god of the wild ... an 1895 Will Bradley poster for a printing ink manufacturer

       

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1904 Worlds Fair amusement ... a giant display of the English children's rhyme

'There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe'

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an Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky painting      see full size

       

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Thomas Theodor Heine

       

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detail of a 1600s drawing by Ciafferi      see full size

       

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the Norse god "THOR" in hard times,  1949

       

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a Barry Moser illustration of  'The Headless Horseman'

       

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children's 1942 wallpaper   'Little Bo-Peep Has Lost her Sheep'

       

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from the first edition of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift,  1726 England

       

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Gustave Moreau,  1882      see full size

       

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a Mary Kay Brown cartoon about the Greek god Mercury

       

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a Haddon H. Sundblom illustration of the

red god  'Santa Claus' 

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Edward Robert Hughes,  1902

       

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an Ernest Griset illustration

       

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Jaroslav Panuska      see full size

       

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a Basil Gogos illustration ... 1960s television comedy 'The Munsters'
was a fun version of the fictional Frankenstein monster

       

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an 1880 children's book illustration for "Humpty Dumpty"

       

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a 1950s? Karlheinz Dobsky children's book about the old Hans Christian Andersen story

 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'

       

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a Joseph Kaspar Sattler illustration,  1800s      see full size

       

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a Johan August Malmstrom painting,  1866      see full size

       

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a Charles Addams cartoon of a 'Genie' spirit,  originating from ancient Middle East and Africa ... the modern version was mostly used for comedy in 1900s television and comics

       

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a developmental drawing for Disney's 1940 film Fantasia,  the ancient

Greek god Zeus throwing his lightning bolts      see full size

       

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a myth from the year 990?  waterspouts can sometimes drop fish from the sky

       

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William Mortensen,  1900s      see full size

       

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a haunted English house by Ken Reid,  1970s?      see full size

       

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Hans Christian Andersen popularized the children's myth of storks delivering babies to homes

... this 1943 German cartoon changes it a little 

       

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a Franz von Stuck painting of ancient Greek gorgon 'Medusa'

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a Will Rothenstien detail, 1896

               

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