Alphabooks/Alphabeasts - I wish I had time for you. I love you so.

A while back I was in a, not a competition but a challenge thing called Alphabeasts, where every monday we drew another monster from A-Z. I tried to draw mostly Swedish monsters but when I got to C I realized that since the letter hardly exists as a consonant-sound in Swedish I had to go with greek myth.

Anyway anyway. It was great BUT I had work to do and I really didn,t have time for it. I tried but I kept slipping too far behind everyone else and I though "ah there will be another time". Now there is!

Its Alphabooks, where you draw a character from a book from A-Z. "Brilliant" I thought "Now its Jensy's time to shine. I got the summer off". And then I got allot of work to do for the summer (which is great, dont get me wrong). Aaaaaand I got as far as B. 

BUT its still going! If you are better at time management than me, perhaps you should damn well join in!

Alphabooks!

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So Charybdis, the vortex monster in the Homers Odyssé and her sister Scylla (the tooth paste)

Angelmaker, a classical - not monster, but profession in Sweden about 100 years ago. They made angels for a living/took in unwanted children for a fee and if those kids didn't survive they could take in more. The "made angels". Horrible.

Bortbyting is basicly the same as a changeling. Only about 200 ago in Sweden this was a real fear. If your kid was a bit wierd or strange. You assumed it was a troll child, a monster.

Elle is my favorite. Its from this story where Tor/Thor had to compete with a giants family.  He had to wrestle with the Giants grandmother. Unknown to him shes not an old woman but "old age" incarnated. And no one can beat old age.