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THE WILD HUNT was reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve. In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of #ghosts of the restless dead ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises #31DaysofHalloween

VAMPIRES & WEREWOLVES. In Slavic lore the #werewolf is closely related to the #vampire. VUKODLAK, Serbo-Croatian vampire, means 'wolf's hair'. VYRKOLAKA is a Greek term for either vampire or werewolf; werewolves can become vampires after death #mythologymonday

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF.
It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a #WEREWOLF; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage (Sabine Baring-Gould 1865) #mythologymonday

THE SUPER FLOWER MOON is the 5th Full Moon of the year, sometimes known as the Corn Moon, the Hare Moon, or the Milk Moon. Tonight's will be the last Supermoon of the year; up to 30 times brighter and 14 times bigger #GothicAesthetics 🎨Amelia Jane Murray; Joanna May

UNDEAD CROSSROADS In Romanian lore, people who are destined to become #vampires after death send their souls out of their bodies at night to wander with reanimated corpses at crossroads #wyrdwednesday https://t.co/VRyG4EXF72

THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into #swans and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert #FairyTaleTuesday

ODETTE Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen, swims on a lake made from her mother's tears after a sorcerer, Baron von Rothbart, transforms her into a swan. At night she regains her human form🎨Anna Pavlova's dying swan dress. She played Odette over 4,000 times #FairyTaleTuesday

WILD HUNT My favourite mythical haunting. In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of #ghosts of the restless dead ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds shrieking & making wild noises🎨Arbo 1872; Haynes 1874; Dore’ 1865 #hauntedhappening

JENNY GREENTEETH Beware if passing a marsh or pond in a mist. This sharp-toothed crone pulls unwary wanderers into the depths & devours them. 'Jenny Greenteeth' is also the local name for duckweed in parts of England #FolkloreThursday 🎨image 2 Brian Froud

KAPPA. Vampiric Japanese river imp & Trickster Yōkai. Likes human blood & entrails. A kind of humanoid turtle with a carapace, webbed feet & knee claws. The only thing Kappas enjoy more than a tasty child is a cucumber!
Image 3 Kappa statue at Fukuoka #FolkloreThursday