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Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
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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

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KUBIKAJIRI (首かじり) head-eating ghost or ghoul of Japanese folklore rumoured to lurk in graveyards

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ALP. German shapeshifting Can terrify people with the EVIL EYE and drink blood or milk through the nipples of both sexes. Likes to wear a magical invisibility hat; shares some traits with the incubus.

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FAIRY CATS In the KING O' THE CATS 'Old Tom' becomes Tom Tildrum, the cat king, swelling & shrieking in a human voice. His image is of a CATSITH, or cat, marked by a white spot (check your cat). 'More English Fairy Tales', Joseph Jacobs 🎨 J. A. Batten, 1922

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THE VISIT AT MOONLIGHT Fairies encircle a tomb at night in E.T. Parris, 1832. The connection between gothic, & painting is made clear; the white floating figure of a fairy ballerina in productions of 'Giselle' & 'Ondine' is here transposed

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FEY JANE 'elfin' & 'bewitching', Jane Eyre 1847, is said in the novel to be a friend of 'the men in green'. She sketches 'an elf in a Hedge-Sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn bloom'; Bronte is thought to be referencing images by 🎨Amelia Jane Murray 1800-1896 below

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NEKOMATA. Japanese Forked-Tailed Cat Yokai. First recorded 1233. When a cat reaches a certain grand age, it is said that its tail will bifurcate and it will turn bad. Check your cat's tail this
🎨Melissa Jaglowski; Kazuaki Horitomo;

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SKILLYWIDDEN. The wonderful name of a caught by a farmer in Trerbridge in It is one of only a few captured fey that have ever been documented and is recorded in Hunt's Popular Romances of the West of England 1865 🎨Cornish Piskies Brian Froud

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WEREWOLF WARNING the first full moon of the year tonight will bring increased activity from Compelled to leave their hunting grounds in the woods, they will make their way to open fields to prowl & howl at the moon. Farmers Beware!!

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CHILDREN OF LIR (or Oidheadh chloinne Lir) Aoife, transforms Lir's 4 children into white swans. The swans sing with human voices & tell Lir of Aoife's evil act. Aoifé, touched by a druid's wand is transformed into a demon.
🎨Hill, 1914; rare Lir stamp, Lir Sculpture, Dublin

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