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Called the Lord of the Wild Places, Cernunnos' imagery is drawn largely from the Gundestrup Cauldron, showing a horned god (i.e. what Cernunnos means) sitting in a wild place and bringing peace between animals and holding a royal torc. #MythologyMonday

🖼: IrenHorrors

The origin of kitsune can be traced to the forests and fields that raised them, before they gained magic powers. It is here they find safety, because though they envy human existence, they are still wild things, and the wilderness is where wild things are at home #MythologyMonday

It was deep in the forests of Jotunheim that Odin found the Children of Loki by Angrboda: ferocious Fenrir, massive Jormungandr, and decrepit Hel. Fenrir and Hel he brought from Jotunheim to Asgard, but Jormungandr he had thrown into the sea. #MythologyMonday

🖼: IrenHorrors

Do not sleep with the obi (belt) of your kimono near you as you sleep: you will dream of snakes. Legend speaks of animated obi turning to snake-like bakemono and strangling people in their sleep. #SuperstitionSat

🖼: M. Meyer

The people of Vietnam are descended of Dragons and Fairies: Âu Cơ, Queen of the Mountain Fairies, is the ancestral mother of the Vietnamese people. She can change form into a crane, and cures illness; she took half of thr Vietnamese people to the mountains. #FolkloreThursday

Two feet tall with a massive head and wrinkled skin, a knocker is a sight to see in the mines of Cornwall and Devon. A good sight, too: they beckon to veins of rich minerals and warn of incoming disasters when mines collapse. Treat them well. #FolkloreThursday

Cats are associated to witches through their association with Freyja, goddess of magic in Norse lore, whose chariot is driven by two massive cats. These cats appear in numerous ancient images including Schleswig Cathedral, ironically. #MythologyMonday

“Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”-Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki #FaustianFriday

🖼: T. Shuho

The Mongo people speak of the Biloko (Eloko in singular) dwarf-like creature of the Congo River forests who are hairless, clawed creatures covered in grass with mouths big enough to eat a human. The spirits of ancestors who hold grudges, they are treacherous. #FolkloreThursday

The wilderness is masculine, the city feminine, in Mesopotamian reckoning: Shamhat, a sacred prostitute, goes into the wilderness to use her wiles to "civilize" Enkidu so he may fulfill his purpose and rouse Gilgamesh from his tyrannical ways. #FolkloreThursday

🖼: LiigaKlavina