✨🔥✨Circe The Sorceress - by John Williams Waterhouse.
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Oude Rode Ogen, or Old Red Eyes, is a black dog called the Beast of Flanders. Said to hunt children who terrorize their parents, one origin suggests he is the spirit of a vagrant wrongly lynched after a failed child kidnapping, come back for vengeance. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
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According to the Chiloe people of Chile, a black cat is necessary when hunting the carbuncle: when digging holes, you must throw a black cat into them. This does not harm the cat, and it will be returned to the hunter unharmed. Without this, death is imminent. #FolkloreSunday
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According to the Chiloe people of Chile, a black cat is necessary when hunting the carbuncle: when digging holes, you must throw a black cat into them. This does not harm the cat, and it will be returned to the hunter unharmed. Without this, death is imminent. #FolkloreSunday
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In Welsh #mythology, the Hounds of Annwn are spectral dogs accompanying Arawn in the Wild Hunt. They are ghostly dogs with white fur and red eyes that chase the damned.
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Archie Fisher - 'The January Man: 1961-77' box set, via @Kickstarter
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In Scottish and Irish folklore, the cù-sìth is a green fairy dog the size of a small cow. It normally hunts silently, but will sometimes bark three times. These barks can be heard for miles; anyone who hears them must reach a safe place by the third bark or die of fright.
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⛈️🐾⛈️The legendary hound 'Black Shuck' was said to have attacked the churchgoers at Bungay in Suffolk, during a violent storm that struck the village in 1577.
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⛈️🐾⛈️The legendary hound 'Black Shuck' was said to have attacked the churchgoers at Bungay in Suffolk, during a violent storm that struck the village in 1577.
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In Welsh mythology, the magical pig Henwen gave birth to a kitten who grew to gigantic size and cruelty. The Cat of Palug slaughtered 180 warriors on the Isle of Anglesey before it was slain by King Arthur's brother Kay (or by Arthur himself in later versions).
🎨Peter Diamond
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🖤🐦⬛🖤"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
📖Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven.
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This #indigenouspeoplesday , follow @LostCityMagic , who shares Cherokee language and folktales.
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In Irish folklore, Stingy Jack was a treacherous rogue who imprisoned Satan to force him to swear to never take Jack's soul. However, Jack's sins barred him from Heaven when he died. Thus, his ghost wanders the Earth forever, carrying his lantern. Now he's known as Jack o' Lantern.
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In Irish folklore, Stingy Jack was a treacherous rogue who imprisoned Satan to force him to swear to never take Jack's soul. However, Jack's sins barred him from Heaven when he died. Thus, his ghost wanders the Earth forever, carrying his lantern. Now he's known as Jack o' Lantern.
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Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell because of a bargain he made with Satan. Thus forced to wander Earth eternally, he took hellfire and put it in a turnip: thus were born Jack-O-Lanterns. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
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Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell because of a bargain he made with Satan. Thus forced to wander Earth eternally, he took hellfire and put it in a turnip: thus were born Jack-O-Lanterns. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
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Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell because of a bargain he made with Satan. Thus forced to wander Earth eternally, he took hellfire and put it in a turnip: thus were born Jack-O-Lanterns. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
🖼️: J. Ukropina
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The first known example of apple bobbing comes from Celto-Romano fusion, combining the two cultures and spreading accordingly. A maiden who placed a bobbed apple under her pillow would dream of her future lover. #FolkloreSunday
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The first known example of apple bobbing comes from Celto-Romano fusion, combining the two cultures and spreading accordingly. A maiden who placed a bobbed apple under her pillow would dream of her future lover. #FolkloreSunday
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The first known example of apple bobbing comes from Celto-Romano fusion, combining the two cultures and spreading accordingly. A maiden who placed a bobbed apple under her pillow would dream of her future lover. #FolkloreSunday
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1/2Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
We, the Fairies, blithe & antic
Of dimensions not gigantic
Though the moonshine mostly keep us
Oft in orchards frisk & peep us.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter
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1/2 Bobbing for apples, or snapping for apples, was a divinatory game as well. Initials were carved in the apples that would determine your future love interest.
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1/2 Apples are associated with divination so rituals to divine your true love were common at harvest. Peel an apple & throw it over your shoulder. It will fall in the shape of the initial of your true love. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3570... #FolkloreSunday #art #illustration #folklore
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2/2 Another says to cut an apple in 9 pieces & go into a dark room with a mirror. Eat the apple looking into the mirror, but throw the 9th over your shoulder to make the face of your love appear. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3589... #FolkloreSunday #art #folklore #homedecor #Halloween #gifts
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🖤🌕🖤"Tis now the very witching time of night..."
🕯️Hamlet.
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💜🎃💜"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
📖Henry David Thoreau.
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✨🍂✨It's said that if you catch a falling autumn leaf before it touches the ground, you will be granted a wish.
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✨🍂✨It's said that if you catch a falling autumn leaf before it touches the ground, you will be granted a wish.
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"Don’t meddle in the affairs of witches because they clout you around the ear."
Terry Pratchett - I Shall Wear Midnight
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The original headless horseman is the Dullahan of Ireland, carrying his own head as he searches for souls on Ireland's roadways. He may be an evolution of the Irish god Crom Dubh, the Black One. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
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The original headless horseman is the Dullahan of Ireland, carrying his own head as he searches for souls on Ireland's roadways. He may be an evolution of the Irish god Crom Dubh, the Black One. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
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The original headless horseman is the Dullahan of Ireland, carrying his own head as he searches for souls on Ireland's roadways. He may be an evolution of the Irish god Crom Dubh, the Black One. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday
🖼️: W.H. Brooke
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🌿🛡️🌿'Elfin Knight' - by Brian Froud.
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An Algonquin tale tells that the changing color of leaves is the blood of the Bear, who greedily ate the food stored in preparation of winter and whom the Algonquins chased across the world. Finally hit with an arrow, his blood turns the leaves red in autumn. #FolkloreSunday
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An Algonquin tale tells that the changing color of leaves is the blood of the Bear, who greedily ate the food stored in preparation of winter and whom the Algonquins chased across the world. Finally hit with an arrow, his blood turns the leaves red in autumn. #FolkloreSunday
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An Algonquin tale tells that the changing color of leaves is the blood of the Bear, who greedily ate the food stored in preparation of winter and whom the Algonquins chased across the world. Finally hit with an arrow, his blood turns the leaves red in autumn. #FolkloreSunday
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Sudano-Sahelian architecture, sometimes called "earthen architecture," is a style which uses mud bricks and adobe plaster over wooden beams to build airy desert-friendly dwellings with distinct appearances. Famous examples include the Great Mosque of Djene. #FolkloreSunday