Stone Age Herbalistさんのイラストまとめ

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Baron Samedi is the master over the cemeteries, dressed in
black clothes with a black hat and dark glasses. He has a skull for a face. The Haitian dictator Papa Doc (François) Duvalier dressed as Baron Samedi in most of his public appearances.

"oh yes, there used to be many more insects and birds when I was younger, I wonder what happened?"

Consciousness after decapitation? Part Two:

After looking at the historical record for choice anecdotes and arguments on this topic, we now turn to the science of rat guillotines, head transplants and brain waves to give us an answer.

@Jansson11678117 You will be seeing great zoonosis

The Hmong believe that the 'dab tsog' is kept at bay through ancestral worship and protection from the shaman. The scattered and isolated men experienced the Nightmare and the demon claimed them

Broadly speaking the 'dab tsog' fits into an almost universal culture phenomenon which medical science today calls 'sleep paralysis'. The feeling of being unable to move at night but fully alert to a truly malevolent evil in the room or on your chest, suffocating you.

Pictures of a giant sloth, a gomphothere, a camelid, horses and three-toed ungulates with trunks.

**THREAD**

As #nunavutnovember draws to a close I thought we could look at some of the creatures and supernatural beings of Inuit mythology. These aren't gods or even esp important figures, but they reveal a lot about the psychology of living so far north.