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The most popular versions of the Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman, involve her taking a human life after sparing the young woodcutter or weaver. She later marries him and gives birth to children, before she reveals her true spirit form. #FaustianFriday #ayokaiaday

🖼: Y. Yukikata

She is called the Phantom Queen: the Morrigan is the Irish goddess of fate, battle, and death, appearing as either an old woman savaged by time or a young seductive woman. Spectral at times, she is one of the proposed origins of the banshee. #FolkloreThursdayFL #31DaysofHalloween

On a stormy night , she gave birth to her thirteenth child, having cursed it to be the devil. And it was: the Jersey Devil was born a child who over time grew cloven feet, a goat's head, bat-like wings, and a forked tail. #FairyTaleTuesday #31DaysofHalloween

🖼: N. Anderson

Garm is the Red Rag, a wolf so drenched with the blood of the dead he simply looks red. He has always guarded Helheim, since before there was even a Hel, not allowing anyone in or anyone out. He will only abandon his post to join in Ragnarok. #FairyTaleTuesday

🖼: KayDaKay

Kappa, water monsters hungry for humans, can be found in any freshwater source in Japan, including swamps. The bowl on their head contains water, but you can trick them by bowing deeply and pouring it out, weakening them. #SwampSunday
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🖼: Atelier Sentô

Serpents and chickens shouldn't mix eggs, unless you want basilisks and cockatrices. A serpent or frog's egg hatched by a cockerel becomes the King of Serpents, a Basilisk. A cockerel's egg hatched by a serpent or frog produces a Cockatrice. #FaustianFriday

🖼: 1-D. Scott

The Linworm slithers despite its limbs, using these instead for traction and for grabbing things. It haunts Scandinavia, Sweden in particular, and has spread as a heraldric motif from there, where it originated from runestones. #FaustianFriday

Skadi came down from her mountain to Asgard demanding a blood price for her father's death. The gods feared her, for she was goddess of winter: she demanded the hand of Baldr, most beautiful of gods. But being the gods, trickery reigned. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: IrenHorrors

Different regions have different rules, saying when a cat reaches 7, 8, or 13 years old, it gains magical powers. The bakeneko is a magic cat, a trickster able to shapeshift and create fire. Some even gain two tails, called Nekomata. #ayokaiaday #SuperstitionSat

🖼: Cake-o

The origins of Lucifer depend on which way you view the origin. Following the Lucifer as Morning Star theory, you can trace Lucifer as originally referring to Venus, the morning star, and thus back to Aphrodite and Innana, and indeed, nothing to do with Satan. #WyrdWednesday