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In Japan the hatsuyume, or first dream of each new year, has significant bearing on one's luck. Dreams of eggplants, hawks, or Mount Fuji are considered especially lucky.
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Seeing the full moon through the branches of a tree will bring bad luck; a new moon over your right shoulder brings good. But sleeping under the full moon brings the worst luck of all, as its light reaches down & disfigures your face.
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(All art by Jill Battaglia)

A ship once brought aboard a corrupt traveler named Yellow Jack - and never made it home. No port would dock it due to its cursed passenger, & his presence made the crew go mad, fighting & killing each other. The ship now sails endlessly, with a crew of ghosts.
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Naoyuki Kato

Leszy, Slavic spirit of the forest. It takes the form of a huge humanoid but shrinks & shrinks the further away it moves from the heart of its forest. The Leszy calls to travelers in voices familiar to them, luring them into the heart of the wood.
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Mervyn Peake kinda day

One crow means bad luck, but two means good. Three brings health, and four signals money. But five herald sickness, & a murder of six crows means death is near.
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Stikini, heart-hungry owl-creature in Seminole lore. By day a human, at night it vomits up its soul & organs, hides them in a tree, changes into its true form, & takes off to hunt, feeding on human hearts, which it plucks out by reaching down sleepers' throats.
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Medb, Irish warrior queen of legend: strong & clever, she outlives many friends & many foes in many stories. Led the infamous Táin Bó Cúailnge, or Cattle Raid of Cooley. She was killed while bathing with a piece of cheese fired from a sling. #FolkloreThursday
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The Mari Lwyd, the "Gray Mare," Welsh winter custom; a hooded horse's skull carried on a pole, accompanied by stock character as its handlers. It wins entry to houses & pubs by outsinging their owners, whereupon it can come in, making merry & running rampant.
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