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Christmas Ghosts....🎨John Leech.
#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #Ghosts

The Ahiarmiut people told the story of Paija, a cannibal spirit with one leg, and flowing, black hair. She hunted in the long winter nights, looking for those caught in blizzards to devour...

🎨Aleks Sennwald
#GothicAdvent #OfDarkAndMacabre

Ardat Lili, is a wild-haired, winged, screech owl demon of the night, her name means Maid of Desolation. She harms all humans she meets, enticing them to the lonely places to attack them...
#FolkloreThursday #OfDarkAndMacabre
🎨Edvard Munch

Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant's garden she gave none. 'He is too selfish,' she said. So it was always Winter there, and the North Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the Snow danced about through the trees.

#FaustianFriday 🎨Lisbeth Zwerger

Mermaids were often seen dancing on the waves before storms...

#FolkloreThursday

In Irish folk tradition the long hair of the banshee is often cited. Older rural Irish women wore hair covered, unless when keening and mourning, when it would be loose, providing one explanation of why long strewn hair is so common for the death-messenger...

#FairytaleTuesday

In Ireland if death was near, lots of bread was brought into the house so that evil spirits would be drawn away to eat and let the soul of the dying leave in peace...

#FolkloreThursday #Gothtober @FolkloreThurs

In England and Scotland, once a corpse was laid out, a person would have to touch it to prevent dreaming of it or death...

#Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween #OfDarkAndMacabre

In Southern States of America, folk said the blue-jay was never seen on a Friday, because it was carrying sticks to the Devil in hell. This bird was the Devil's messenger and spy...

#FairyTaleTuesday #Gothtober

A branch from the elder tree will protect one from the charms of witches & wizards...

#SuperstitionSat