Irascible, fire-breathing mule.

Pied Harrier

Popular cat amulets from Ancient Egypt (Ptolemaic period). Carved from soapstone.  305-30 BC.  1 ½".

Day 1003 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: International Fund for Elephant Welfare

Elisabeth Sinding (Norwegian,1846-1930)

Untitled

Oil on canvas

Sunset Frog (Spicospina flammocaerulea), family Myobtrachidae, found in a small area in southwestern Western Australia

ENDANGERED.

photographs by Andrea Ruggeri

Daemon Blackfyre

shooo

Day 1002 of reblogging videos of elephants.

Sent to me by @triforce-of-mischief !!

Full Moon in September (x x x x x x x x)

Golden Eagle

Uncooperative and it feels like she’s regressed. Hacking only for a bit, I just hope the cars slow down

90/100

Cat figurine Middle Kingdom Dynasty 12 ca. 1981-1802 B.C. Possibly from, Egypt Heliopolis (Iunu; On), Memphite Region Blue faience with black spots, paint L. 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); W. 2.3 cm (7/8 in.); H. 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Day 1000 of posting pictures of elephants! 🐘

Sources: Save the Asian Elephants, Global Sanctuary for Elephants, & Cheryl Cheah (respectively)

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

Please elaborate on this topic at length

i think i've made my position clear

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]

Siberian tiger By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s