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Published: 2017-11-15 18:38:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 91583; Favourites: 3724; Downloads: 0
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This piece does not have a specific mythological basis, I just finished one of my sketches, but if you can correlate this creature with already existing forest/swamp monsters, I will be glad to learn something new
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Looks like a wendigo. Awesome! I love the antlers.
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Reminds me of the swamp witch/demon monster thingy from the LEGEND fantasy movie from the 1980s!!!
Perhaps she would also be easily flattered by compliments and a bit vain-then one could be head her!!!lol
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I kinda wanna make my own desc for this creature..
Here I go:
Due to mankind taking down much of nature, certain demons were created by Mother Nature herself to protect nature. There are different kinds of these demons: Forest, Swamp, Sea, etc. They are powerful beings with high pitched screams. Their horns are full of magic which they can channel out of their horns to send out deadly spells. The two horns have different kinds of magic, and these types of magic cannot work without the other. When the demon makes a spell the two types of magic are channeled into a ball between their horns, thus mixing them together before the spell is cast.
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This is really good - Reminds me of a wendigo.
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Or like a Forest Demon ; )
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You're getting better and better with every piece. This one here is just outstanding!
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She looks a little stressed.
Maybe a good night´s sleep and a warm cup of tea will help.
And a manicure.
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The beautiful creature needs to have a long distance relationship with a wendigo across the swamp and they only get to meet at a certain time like if the swamp was low enough for the wendigo to get across
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Is it normale that I find something really cute in it? 
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Is it normal that I find it irresistibly cute?
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I love this thing! Wanna have one? What do they eat? Wanna have one! Can i adopt it?
Hell yeah it looks super cute
Greetings from Germnay
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Fafnir. A cool pic
If I would be asked what kind of creature it is, I would say, that it is a mix bedween the irish Spriggan (with the wooden attributes and appearence) but also an eastern European kobold called Leshy that is said to misslead wanderers foolish enough to follow it into the woods and swamps.
The plantlike body reminds me also of the farming godess maty syri zemlya (not sure if I wrote the name correctly) but the name should mean Mother of farming earth.
And last but not least I had to think of a female Ent from Tolkiens Lord of the Rings novells, maybe fallen into darkness by her creepy eyes^^
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Wow this is awesome! Love the hooorns 
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Hanyistók is the most well known swamp creature in Hungarian folklore (even though he's more similar to Gollum than to your drawing
There's another legend when Hanyistók fell in love with a lady from the nearby village. But the lady married someone else, so Hanyistók killed that man, then fled back to the swamp. Whoever saw it, told that his body is covered with scales, there's a web between his fingers and he can talk with frogs and other swamp animals.
His figure then became a monstrous entity, and there are still many tales about him in the area.
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Wow, how interesting, thank you!
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Looks quite scary!
The antlers really look perfect on it.
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The tree looks pretty cool. Like from an old Disney movie.
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MBloodriver , you're not far from it.
from Wikipedia:
In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo or windigo is a mythical cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviours.
The legend lends its name to the controversial modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, described by psychiatrists as a culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear of becoming a cannibal. In some Indigenous communities, environmental destruction and insatiable greed are also seen as a manifestation of Wendigo Psychosis.
IrenHorrors : here's a fanart of a Wendigo boy. wendigo boy
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Your artworks are constantly incredible and epic!!! I love it so much!
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