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The Lady of the Cold is a character from Tove Jansson's 5th #Moomin book 'Moominland #Midwinter' (1957). She brings ice and snow to #Moominvalley and is described as extremely beautiful. However if you look into her eyes she will instantly freeze you to death #GothicAdvent 🥶❄️🌨️
In traditional Himalayan #folklore Yetis are sometimes said to have feet that point backwards to #trick hunters attempting to track their footprints in the snow🏔️👣🦍
Explains why no one's ever managed to find one.
#FolkloreThursday #GothicAdvent #cryptozoology
American #FolkArt "Carved wood sculpture of an #exorcism scene, Mid-western, circa 1910, depicting a group of people surrounding a child in bed with a demon"
Love the eyes peeking out from under the covers 👀
Sold by Sotheby's last year https://t.co/LhBHXvmnDT
#FolkloreThursday lumberman Albert Ostman told a tale of how he was kidnapped by a family of Sasquatch in the wild woods of British Columbia in 1924. He was snatched up in his sleeping bag and kept for 6 days, eventually escaping when the father fell ill after eating his snuffbox
Chickcharnies live in pine forests on the island of Andros, #Bahamas. If you meet one and are polite they will help you, but if you are rude they will twist your head off. They are suggested to be based on giant extinct barn owls #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay #FairyTaleTuesday
Photos by Morgan Silk of some of the celebrants at the 2013 Jack in the Green #MayDay #Beltane celebrations in #Hastings
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The Welsh word penguin originally referred to the flightless Greak auk of the North Atlantic. One of the last in the world was beaten to death on the Scottish island of St Kilda in 1840 because the locals thought it was a storm-conjuring witch #ExtinctIsForever #WorldPenguinDay🐧
In #Hawaii it is believed that if people #steal rocks and take them away from the islands they will anger the #volcano goddess Tūtū Pele, who will curse them with bad luck until they are safely returned 🌋 #FolkloreThursday
@RHHaleAuthor @everlyn_j @femmebionic @FdavisFrank @Fictisha @GaryGoggans2 @HaileyPiperSays @harbinger451 @HorrorPaperback @iamthecritic @ianfjames @ianthompson1701 @ielester @isaacrthorne Thanks R.H. for the shout-out, hope you have a wicked weekend 🧙♀️
The Victorian tradition of sending Vinegar #ValentinesDay cards to your most hated, complete with insulting caricature and rhyme #FolkloreThursday
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