Simple As This Im In Love With The Risk

did you go to the feywilds recently by any chance?

✨ The collection of my Mari Lwyd art through the years ✨ — First art is called: “Dude… give me the bottle” (or when you lost a rhyming contest against the supernatural skeletal horse) Second art is a meme reference x) Third art is featuring Mari on her day off (hence no rhyming, but she wouldn’t say no to a treat) Plus other stuff, silly sketches and artworks, like Mari Lwyd in modern times being disappointed that nobody wants to rhyme with her anymore, so she has to buy everything herself (featuring a distant relative of the guy from the first piece, plus a Waterboy mashup). —

There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Certified horse groom here! A horses feet/hooves are just as important as the heart and lungs, some experts would wager even more so.

A horse’s hoof is not entirely hard, the inner part of the hoof is made up of soft tissue and bone. On the bottom of the hoof there is this rubbery - almost squishy - padding called the “frog”. When a horse takes a step, the frog expands, or rather ‘pumps’, acting as a second cardiovascular system that helps to circulate blood through the entire body. Not only does this soft tissue expand to circulate blood, but it is also what keeps rocks out of ‘wild’ horse’s feet, allowing them to naturally dislodge over distance travelled. If a horse is not moving and has a rock caught in its hoof, it may cause irritation and inflammation (laminitis). One way that you can check for inflammation is by cupping your hand around the outer hoof / hoof wall and feeling for an abnormal rise in temperature.

A horse that’s been lying down for three hours is considered a medical emergency. And a horse that’s been lying down for seven hours is pretty much as good as dead. Even if it was perfectly healthy that morning!

Yeah. Sure. Humans can develop skin sores over a period of days.