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Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed ?

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Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
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Thank you, myth lovers, this wraps up our emoji game 🤗
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Join @independentpen next week for a new theme!

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Thank you, myth lovers, for your stories about beaches!
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Join us next week here on for a new theme! And if you recently arrived from or : welcome and don't be shy and share your myths with us! The more people the better 💖

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A tale from Benjamin Lacombe's Japanese myth books volume one and two:

📕Geistergeschichten aus Japan

📕Japanische Geister und Naturwesen
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The fisherman, Urashima Tarō rescued a turtle that took him to the undersea Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) where he fell in love with Princess Otohime.

After a few days, he wanted to return home and she gave him a parting box.

When he arrived on land, he did not recognize his village or anyone there. Asking around, he realizes that almost 100 years had passed.

Miserable, he opened the box and immediately turned into an old man (in some cases- to dust) as the years caught up with him.

Art by the illustrator, Benjamin Lacombe. Japanese myth features heavily in two of his works which I have only seen in German/ Italian so far!

His books feature the stories as told by Lafcadio …