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“Schwingerl voll Darm! Basket full of guts!”, Bloody Lucy cries, St Lucia's dark aspect, walking the fringes of the Bavarian Forest in the dark of Old Midwinter, now St Lucy’s Eve, disembowelling the little ones she catches, filling her schwingerl with their guts

#GothicAdvent

Witches are rumoured to be especially active during #Yuletide and out to harm livestock. For protection, farmers put iron knives in mangers, the goodwife blew into cattle’s nostrils, made the sign of the cross over them and brooms were put before stable doors.

#GothicAdvent

@Kerria Yes, it is indeed!

In the Borders, there dwells the Gyr-Carling, a witch, some say, a downright ogress, all agree, greedy ‘vpoun Christiane menis flesche’. During Christmastide, long-nebbed Gyr-Carling enters homes to steal all knitting unfinished until New Year!

#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicAdvent

It's St Andrew's Eve tonight, an auspicious date for divining weather & future lovers. It also marks the time when dark things come out and haunt the night: In Southeast European lore, Vampires are most active between St Andrew's and St George's Day in April!

#GothicAdvent

In Komi mythology, Vakul is the water deity.

A fisherman once hurt an eye of a big pike and was taken by Vakul under the water – that pike was Vakul’s son, so the deity took the poor fisherman’s eye and implanted it into his son’s eye socket.

#31DaysOfHalloween #SwampSunday

“The Fairies come and go with noiseless steps, and their thefts or abductions are done silently and unawares to men”

Darklings! Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for #FaustianFriday & #31DaysOfHalloween with your tales of

"Supernatural Abductions"

We'll RT after 2 pm BST

Pumpkins not eaten after 10 days, left out in the light of the full moon or after Christmas can turn into vampires that drain your physical energy and leave you weak. Some even turn to physical attacks, according to Romani lore from the Balkans
#WyrdWednesday #31DaysofHalloween

In Lagrand folklore, arassas is a mountain dragon with the body of a snake and the head of a cat.

It dwells in abandoned houses and stonewalls, and kills people with a glare.

#31DaysOfHalloween

🖼️ Third-Axis

Darklings!

Tomorrow is the last day we'll let the beasts run free - #FaustianFriday draws close and so is the new topic for the last week of #31DaysOfHalloween ... and of course we will RT your spooky tagged tweets. Looking forward to see you again!