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In Turkic cultures, Alkarısı or Albastı is a female spirit that plagues post-partum chambers by night, incapacitating the mother by sitting on her chest. For protection, new mothers wear red ribbons and a red cloth may me spread over the infant 🧿
#FaustianFriday

The War of the Crows and the Owls is a story that appears in Pancatantra and its translation, Kalila wa Dimna. The 13th century illustration from an Arabic Kalila wa Dimna shows the King of Crows consulting with his advisors to strategize against the owls 👑
#FairyTaleTuesday

A 17-18th century illustration for al-Qazwini's 13th century cosmography shows the "island of big birds."
#WyrdWednesday

Long before true crime and blood spatter evidence, there were singing drops of blood, summoning people to the crime scene♥️

"Where are you?"
"Here I am! On the stairs sweeping," answered one of the drops of blood.
#FairyTaleTuesday

🎨 Arthur Rackham

In H.C. Andersen's The Red Shoes, a little girl is cursed for dancing 💀

"Dance you shall!" he said, "dance in your red shoes until you are pale and cold! Until your skin shrinks together like a skeleton."

#WyrdWednesday
🎨Adrienne Segur

Sedna is an Inuit deity who ends up in the ocean in many a legend and tale. Along the way, she loses her fingers, which turn into water animals and make their homes in her hair. She offers the ocean's bounty to angakoks who comb her hair 🐋
#SwampSunday
#DarkGreenWeek
🎨 ALT

In Kunwinjku mythology, a yawkyawk is a mermaid-like spirit with hair of algae that floats to the water's surface 🪸
#DarkGreenWeek
🎨 Gabriel Maralngurra

To and fro we leap,
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles.
And is anxious in its sleep.
Come away! O, human child!
To the woods and waters wild,
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world is more full of weeping than you can understand.

#BookWormSat

Kanashibari is the Japanese word used to describe sleep paralysis. A spiritual interpretation suggests that kanashibari is the human body's reaction to being approached by an evil spirit 🖤
#SuperstitionSat

🎨Henry Fuseli's incubus.

A witch is spotted in the shape of a hare sucking her neighbor's cows dry 🐇
"The hare started off at a brisk pace, squirting up the milk she had sucked from her mouth and nostrils, and the dogs making after her rapidly."
#FaustianFriday