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According to East Slavic folk-beliefs, September 18 is the day to force Kumokha (the representation of deceases and fever) to go back into the woods.
Thin and pale, it’s said, she loves gazing at her reflection in water...
#swampsunday
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙Pete Martin
“FAIRY, n. A creature that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests. It was nocturnal in its habits...
The fairies are now believed by naturalist to be extinct”
— A. Bierce, The Devil’s dictionary
#bookchatweekly
#dontgointothewoods
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙 Lysander H.
Not all monsters can be killed💀
From every blood drop of a palesmurt (a forest monster with half a body from Udmurt folklore) emerges a new palesmurt.
There’s a theory that palesmurts are warriors of an unknown tattooed tribe, thus half of their bodies seem “invisible”.
“My mother in the fold of sheep,
Do not worry, do not weep,
I shall lend you my blood-red rag
For you to wear, for you to wear”
— Jón Árnason, Icelandic folk and fairy tales
In Icelandic folklore, útburður is a bird-shaped spirit of a newborn murdered by its mother.
Goats are often linked to witches and magic, but in the Scottish Highlands, they are also associated with fairies.
In Breadalbane and the Highlands of Perthshire, it’s believed that the fairies live on their milk.
#FairyTaleTuesday
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙 A. N. Burke