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Wicked Jack tricked the devil. Then he died and went to Hell, but Hell didn't want him! His old foe gave him an ember from the furnace to light his way back. Jack put it inside a turnip and with this jack-o’-lantern he has wandered the earth ever since...
#FaustianFriday
In Scotland, to see a robin outside your door in autumn, foretold an early or severe winter...
#FairytaleTuesday @FairyTale_Tues
In a story from The Seneca, Wolf Spirit sang the moon into the sky, and so that is why all wolves howl at the moon...
#FaustianFriday
In Finistère, damp straw was burned in boats' holds to drive out the spirits of robbers who hid there. But as the spirits could make themselves tiny, the smoke had to fill every crack...
#FolkloreThursday
On the Île de Sein in Brittany, folk would tell of hearing the Crierien, the bones of drowned sailors whose spirits call out for burial...
#OfDarkAndMacabre
When the fishermen of Port-Blanc Brittany, left at night, they often reported seeing the hands of corpses clinging on to the sides of their boats...
#OfDarkAndMacabre 🎨Alfred Kubin - The Horror
A mermaid and a man married. As she was dying, she asked to be returned to the sea. But the husband thought to save her soul and buried her by the church door. The sea-folk brought a tidal wave to drown the town. And so, the mermaid returned to the water...
#FolkloreThursday
Witches raise storms in many ways - one is to hurl sea-sand up into the sky...
#WyrdWednesday #WitchWednesday
In Ireland, the Fairy Market was sometimes called The Fair of the Dead and held at Samhain. At times the dead held the market, at other times, the fairies, and they were often confused as one and the same...
#FairyTaleTuesday 🎨Josh Honeyman
In English superstition, the nightjar was a witch in
disguise that sucked the cows’ milk...
#MythologyMonday 🎨Adam Burke