If there’s is something universaly popular in the Czech Republic it’s TV fairy tales, usually with a low budget and blatantly filmed in a film studio.
This one is called Anička s lískovými oříšky (Anichka with hazelnuts, 1993). It tells a story of a cursed princess whose head changes into a one of a sheep and it follows her journey to break the curse with the help of faeries, so she can live with her beloved king.
What is special about this fairy tale is that it is meant for children but it instead gave a trauma to a lot of them and I have nightmares to this day about the sheep head and nothing could make me watch it again.
Tag: oddity

Sammelhandschrift ~ 1475 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435
Saint George Killing the Dragon (detail)

hammerhead salamander
This crawled out of a Leonora Carrington painting.
This model is a recreation of the extinct amphibian diplocaulus; not a “hammerhead salamander”. You can see more of Goro Furuta’s work on his Facebook here.















