Never heard that before! Whereabouts exactly?
#FolkloreThursday Ancient Europeans believed seahorses carried the souls of dead sailors to the underworld
The Seahorse (1934) Jean Painlevépic.twitter.com/4dQTJfvoBT
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There's a lovely piece by
@IcySedgwick on Seahorses, which repeats this reference.http://www.icysedgwick.com/seahorses-folklore/ …
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Seahorses or sea-horses?
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"The word "seahorse" can also be written as two separate words (sea horse), or hyphenated (sea-horse)"
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But a seahorse is not a sea-horse.http://norwegianfolktales.blogspot.com/2017/05/hippocampus.html …
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I had not considered that... and I should have
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That's a beautiful idea, and a beautiful GIF.
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My first thought was that it was a lovely idea. Seahorses are fascinating.
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Fascinating! They are such odd creatures - you can see why the inspire such lore
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They were not wrong ...
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Fascinating as they have always intrigued me.
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Painleve's films are collected in a BFI DVD - well worth a gander
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I need to be able to like this twice.
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No better feeling than being surprised by a lovely thing you didn't know when you woke up. Also SEAHORSE GIF!!
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How totally superb!!!
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This is fabulous
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