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Darklings!
While #Folklorethursday sends you off to sea, arrr, it's back to school with #bookchatweekly's topic for tomorrow - Looking forward to read your book reports! https://t.co/dWwfvTb5ai
According to old Irish superstition, fairy queens gathered the most powerful magical herbs by the light of a candle held by a dead man’s hand under the full moon.
🎨 Carus
#superstitionsat #fullmoon
"... and her name was Hellawes the sorceress, Lady of the Castle Nigramous." (Malory "Le Morte D’Arthur")
🎨 IrenHorrors
#FairyTaleTuesday
Darklings!
Let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings - tomorrow at #Fairytaletuesday's.
Looking forward to see your takes on Arthurian myths.
🎨 James Archer (1860) https://t.co/6MVaAho9cy
On the Isle of Man, water goblins are known as Glashtyn. Among that of various other quadrupeds, they are able to assume a horse form, known as kabyll-ushtey and are decidedly malevolent, known to grab calves and even teenage girls and tear them apart
🎨 Haapala
#swampsunday
“But in the meantime a boy had run up with a pitchfork, and he dabbed the wolf from behind: in the same moment it became changed, and all saw that the boy had killed the man’s wife” (S. Baring-Gould)
Welcome to a garlic-garnished #FaustianFriday, Darklings!
RTs 'til 10pm CET
"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Think how thou stabb'dst me in my prime of youth
At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!" (Shakespeare)
The ghosts of his victims come to haunt Richard III on the eve of his last battle.
🎨 Darley
#WyrdWednesday #bookchatweekly
Darklings,
Time to rendezvous with things that go bump in the bog again - another one will meet you tomorrow on #SwampSunday!
Share your tales and show your images of bogs, brooks and bights as well!
🎨 Lily Seika Jones "The Moirai" (2018)
In 1549, Georgius Agricola's "De animantibus subterraneis" divides continental mountain and mine spirits in two categories: daemon subterraneus mitis, benevolent creatures, and daemon subterraneus truculentus, bergteufel, mountain devils!
🎨 J. B. Monge
#superstitionsat
Darklings!
Today's #FaustianFriday ends now. And while it's all things #ofdarkandmacabre over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with #superstitionsat Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with #bookwormsat!
🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH