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Wormwood is said to have sprung up in the track of the serpent as it left Eden...
#FolkloreThursday #GothicSpring
In East Anglia, nightingale was known as "barley-bird" as its song was first heard when the barley was being sown...
#FolkloreThursday
Never tease a cat, especially not tonight on Walpurgis eve, it will turn into a witch and harm you...
#SuperstitionSat #Caturday
The snake-locked Erinyes were chthonic goddesses of vengeance "who beneath the earth, punish dead men, whoever hath sworn a false oath"...
#FaustianFriday
In North Germany, it was said if you wish to see witches on May-day, go into church on Good Friday, but be sure not to stop to hear the benediction...!
#GoodFriday #GothicSpring
Parsley is slow to seed - it takes seven weeks because it grows down to the devil and then up again, unless planted on Good Friday...
#FolkloreThursday
An old favourite...
The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea by Thorvald Niss...
#WyrdWednesday
In Europe - an invocation to the new moon would ensure that one dreamed of one’s future partner...
#MythologyMonday
If you wash sheets on Holy Thursday you will be laid out in those sheets as a corpse before the next Holy Thursday comes...
Yorkshire Folk-Lore (1909) #SuperstitionSat