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Cerberus, three-headed, snake-tailed dog of Hades, guarded the entrance to the underworld, to prevent the souls of the dead from ever leaving...

#FaustianFriday 🎨William Blake

A vampire can be prevented from leaving its grave in the first place by stuffing the entrance with woven linen. It has to remain behind to disentangle and straighten the threads...

#FaustianFriday 🎨Wiertz

A sailor would never turn his shoes upside-down on the deck for fear the boat would copy and turn over too...

#SuperstitionSat 🎨Winslow Homer

In Romanian lore, if one cut oneself in a churchyard at night and the blood flowed onto a grave, the corpse inside could become a revenant...

#FaustianFriday

On Durham farms, a goat was kept with the cattle as it was believed they would eat adders who may otherwise have harmed the cows...

#SuperstitionSat

Breton fisherfolk believed when someone died at sea, gulls and curlews would beat their wings against the dead one's windows...

#SwampSunday

@bjorn_stjerne @starryforestbks Back atcha' my spooky story sister! Thank you so much for all your kindness.

In the folklore of Tobago, the sea dwelling mer-people are male. But beautiful fairy maids with one foot and one deer's hoof, live in rivers and under the bridges, in pools, near waterwheels and waterfalls...
#FairytaleTuesday

Once in Romania, if a funeral procession passed by, all containers of water would be covered, since the soul, being hydrotropic, might fall into one and drown...

#FairytaleTuesday

The Night-hag visits folk in their dreams to torture them with desire. She sucks on their hair, braiding it, leaving them with ‘mare-locks’ or ‘mare-tangles’...

#FaustianFriday