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CALLICANTZAROS Winged demon & vampiric being confined to the underworld; only emerging for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. The Greek Callicantzaros is uncannily referred to in English as the Christmas Vampire or Demon #FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent 🎨Bartolomé Bermejo

NINGYO Japanese 'human fish' #Yōkai. Appears first in the Nihonshoki in Osaka in the year 619 as a fish child. Ningyo bring good fortune & in some cases immortality as in the myth of Happyaku bikuni, an 800 year old nun who ate a Ningyo as a child #FairyTaleTuesday 🎨Hsu; Meyer

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes everything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive; thanks to a Hobgoblin; If a fragment enters your eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters a your heart it will turn to ice #GothicAdvent 🎨Ford; T. Pym

WATCH OUT FOR LITTLE JACK FROST! !

Little Jack Frost walked through the trees
“Ah” said the flowers “we freeze we freeze”
“Ah” said the grasses “we die we die”
Said little Jack Frost “good bye, good bye”

Charles Sangster (1875) ills. Herford; Ravencroft #GothicNewWorlds

BECOMING A CAT Isobel Gowdie gave accounts of the formula by which she shifted into a cat; she confessed to being a witch in 1662

I shall go intil a cat
with sorrow & sych & a black shot
and I shall go in the devil's name
Ay while I come home again
#31DaysofHallowen Day 26

VICTORIAN RAVEN GOTHIC appeared on Victorian Halloween invitations; the hoarse screech of the raven was seen as an omen of death & a source of power, straddling as it does the worlds of the living & the dead; an uncanny messenger between the two #31daysofHalloween day 24

VINTAGE HALLOWEEN BATS 'from ancient eaves and dusty crevices the black winged bats come forth to seek the revelry' #baturday #31DaysofHalloween

CALLICANTZAROS demonic beings confined to the underworld, emerging for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. Uncannily referred to in English as the 'Christmas Vampire'. Greek & Serbian folklore has KALLIKANZAROI, malevolent Xmas goblins #FolkloreThursday

DARE YOU ENTER A FAIRY RING? Upon entering the elf ring or sorcerer’s circle of mushrooms you will become invisible & be made to dance around until you die of exhaustion. Fairy rings can uncannily appear in graveyards🎨W. H. Sullivan; autumn & graveyard rings #31DaysofHalloween

AN ENCHANTMENT or mesmerism cast over the senses is referred to as 'glamour'. #Witches and above all #fairies have the power to cast their glamour over you (it's only broken with a four leaf clover) #31DaysOfHalloween day 5 🎨Vintage Halloween; J.A. Fitzgerald