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VINTAGE HALLOWEEN I love finding vintage decorations and I now own this delightful paper #vampire bat. He's definitely vampiric look at his tiny fangs! He doubles as a puppet as you can fold and unfold his wings. Image 2 vampire bats c.1900 #31DaysOfHalloween #DollsPuppetsToys

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.

7 sisters #werewolf myth Sabine Baring-Gould 1865 #FiendsAndGhouls

BECOMING A VAMPIRE. The myriad of ways one can become a #vampire according to Romanian folklore include: dying unmarried, dying a suicide, dying unforgiven, having a cat walk over your corpse, having the shadow of a man fall on your corpse, being born with a caul #FiendsAndGhouls

STITCHWORT Is known as 'Pixies' in Somerset ; those picking it are likely to be Pixie-led. Dartmoor Pixies often take the form of Hedgehogs (image B. Froud). This fey plant is known as 'Snapjack', 'Allbones' & 'Mother Shimbles' Snick Needles' (Wiltshire) #BotanicalGothic

What Happens to a #Werewolf in the #Harvest Moon on the @OGOMProject blog now. Stay indoors if you are in a werewolf hotspot!
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WEREWOLF WARNING The #HarvestMoon will bring increased activity from #werewolves. Compelled to leave their hunting grounds in the woods, they will make their way to open fields to prowl & howl at the moon. They may be found crossing roads & gardens. Farmers Beware!! @OGOMProject

CROGLIN VAMPIRE. Attacks a Miss Fisher in Cumberland, England (1750s, documented 1871). The #vampire scratches at the window, disappearing into a vault, only 1 coffin remains intact & there shrivelled but quite entire stands the the Croglin Vampire #FiendsAndGhouls

AUTUMN FAIRIES 2
Cicely Mary Barker published the first of the Flower #Fairy books in 1923, rapidly followed into print by 'A Flower Fairy Alphabet', 'Flower Fairies of the Wayside' and 'Flower Fairies of the Trees' #FairyTaleTuesday #BotanicalGothic Time for seasonal fey!

PLANT NAMES FOR CURSING Bloody crane's-bill; Bastard toadflax; Devil's bit scabious; Fiddle dock; Nipplewort; Spotted me-dick; Stinking Iris; Hoary cress.
Images: Vintage witch & witch's tree invite for #Halloween ooh not long now darklings! #BotanicalGothic

FLOWERS PERSONIFIED 2. Victorians merged the laws of propriety with the language of flowers; nun-like Water Lily, or Nenuphar; sleep/death inducing precocious Poppy or Pavot, shrinking Violet or Violette from J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847 #BotanicalGothic @daisy2205