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Published: 2009-06-14 10:48:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 8202; Favourites: 374; Downloads: 148
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Quick painting of a Kelpie.Creepy critters, awesome though. Flesh eating horses are always pretty neat.
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Amazing Kelpie!! O: Beautifully terrifying! *w*
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thank you very much
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c: you are very welcome!
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Chris: Oh! oh! I once read about the Kelpie in a book my artistteacer gave to me. (It was a book about old legends)
WerenΒ΄t they living in rivers?
This picture is awesome, so gloomy and bloody ^^ (....?...)
really awesome!
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They lived in bodies of water. The legends differ in some cases as to its appearances and locations C:
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Ooh, a white Kelpie! And a rather healthy looking one at that! What a nice change from the more popular black or green things usually seen c:
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Well in a lot of the legends they were white. C:
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Searching through DA, though, I've mainly seen black and green, but I think white makes it far more spooky and ominous c:
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White is normally associated with purity, so yeah it does. C:
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Gorgeous yet frightening! Kelpies are one of my fav mythical creatures!
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I'm in love with the colors in this.
The messy strands of hair and foamy water are really nice details. :]
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Looks like he has enjoyed a small child or two for supper, maybe a weary traveller
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Kelpies were also thought to be the spirits of the dead, a departed loved one that returns to watch over and protect a child or lover from their doom.
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Really? o_O I've heard of them reputedly being spirits of the dead, or more, lording over the spirits of the dead but I didn't know they had an ounce of protective instinct in them.
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I can't remember the name of it, but there is a movie about a mother that returns in the guise of a kelpie (white horse) to warn her son of his untimely death...
There are Irish tales about the Kelpie that aren't so horrific. In one a kelpie appears to warn a group of workers that a man is going to drown after he crosses the creek. They freak, ahd lock the guy in the church thinking the beast is going to drown him. But the guy trips and face plants on the holy water basin, breaking it, and drowning in the water...lol.
Kelpies pull the headless stangeman's coach (death) and are said to be the headless horseman's mounts. (insert spooky sounds)
I imagine the lot of fairy creatures have been rather badly slandered in some ways.
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LOL funnily enough only Irish versions of waterhorses seem to be actually 'ok'. Having been brought up with Scottish Highland lore, you learn to be scared out of your wits... but for me gory fascination seems a better option. Anyway, they are so lovey dovey, courting wives etc. kinda hard to take em seriously at times... er... that is until they get revenge on a wife by decapitating her baby son's head and flinging it at her... :/
As for them having a bad press, i'd have to agree but they probably deserve such a reputation at any rate. They'd enjoy it
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lol...I've read that one, too. They are all sweet until the wife misses her family.
I started doing research for a project a friend and I are doing, retelling myths and legends, I bought a book on Scottish folklore and then one on Celtic folklore and Irish tales...the difference is quite shocking. But Yeats wrote my favorite book so far.
W.B. Yeats wrote, "If we could love and hate with as good a heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them. But until that day their untiring joys and sorrows must ever be one-half of their fascination." -The Celtic Twilight.
He insists the negative view is due to Catholocism wanting to draw the people away from pagan beliefs by making anything outside of it 'demonic' or evil. So you get horror stories instead of fantastical frolicks.
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I love Yeats and pretty much dote on his poem/song 'the stolen child'. I shall have to read The Celtic Twilight. It makes so much sense, after all, hatred and love are simply two sides of the same coin.
Yes, I find they do this a lot to the fey... but I don't believe it is all untrue. Fey aren't bad or good, they're like us humans (if you choose to believe) and they have their faults. There are plenty of short tempered men, why not a short tempered kelpie. Plus I do believe the kelpie and each usige are the sort of creatures that are meant to be story book evil, even if they do have a loving side. Sort of like a wolf.
I hope your project goes well. I wish we did projects like that but were I live there seems to be a deliberate attempt to move us away from the past, especially the long gone past.
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I've featured this piece in my journal, here: [link]
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man that would suck to be eaten by one of those things
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It would. They would drown you and then devour your corpse.
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al though i would lol at its funny looking face
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hullo. i faved this. i thought i'd let you know
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That is really neat xD Doesn't get much better than this (unless it's yaoi) lol
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Spectacular! It is always nice to see artwork of such a fascinating entity.
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Thank you very much!
It was a very fun, relaxing piece to work on. It was nice doing something I don't normally.
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Yeah, a change of pace is always awesome.
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BADASS! Bwee this is terrifying. X3 Love the mane and the bubbles. x3
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Haha glad you enjoyed it.
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I love Kelpies!
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