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On Christmas Eve when the clock begins to strike twelve, the doors should be opened, that bad spirits may pass out and good spirits come in...
#YuleFolklore #GothicAdvent
The Sandman was once a terrifying nursery ogre. He threw coarse sand into the eyes of children who would not sleep. When the screaming child rubbed its eyes, they fell out, bloody, upon the floor. The Sandman took the eyes to feed his children in the moon...
#FolkloreThursday
Horses were used to find the resting places of vampires in South-Eastern Europe. They were led into cemeteries suspected of sheltering the undead and forced to tread on graves. They refused to step over ground which held these creatures...
#WyrdWednesday
One Irish belief is that you can't refuse what a fairy asks of you on Hallowe'en...
#31DaysOfHalloween
If you can get a ghost between the door and the doorpost, and then slam the door, it will be so tormented it will have to leave you...
#31DaysofHalloween #SuperstitionSat
In Celtic lore, fairies had a matriarchal society and were known as "the mothers". The children of fallen angels, they carried off the souls of the dead. Anyone who died at twilight would find themselves in Fairyland, between life & death...
#FolkloreThursday #31DaysofHalloween
Hina was the Polynesian virgin-mother goddess, creator of the world. She was both moon and first woman and gave birth to the gods and the humans. All women are said to embody her spirit...
🎨Schinkel #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
A Danish mermaid could be glimpsed in the summer sea mists. She would bring the wild weather and later visit the fishermen's night fires, taking those around her down to the watery underworld...
🎨Leeke #Mermaid #FaustianFriday
On the Isle of Man, "themselves" (the fairies) were sometimes said to be the souls of those who died in Noah's flood...
🎨Richard Dadd @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
American superstition said, leave bread and coffee under the house to prevent ghosts from calling...
🎨Gérard #SuperstitionSat