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Unlike other Christmas figures like Santa & Krampus, the Yule Cat doesn’t care about your misdeeds.
Your only insurance against being torn apart & eaten by this Icelandic feline is receiving an article of new clothing for Christmas.
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Art @tiakinsmanart #Caturday
In 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he wrote a speech for President Nixon, ‘In the Event of Moon Disaster’
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#WorldBeeDay today here’s a 🧵 with some folklore about bees & death💀🐝
In the 18th & 19th centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe, a strange ritual involving households that kept bees took place called ‘The Telling of the Bees.’
(Image by Nikolay Tolmachev)
6. You may remember the Night on Bald Mountain segment from #Disney ‘s 1940 film Fantasia, which depicted a witches’ night in progress (watch here: https://t.co/E3MjKblkgF)
It was once believed that the time between Christ’s death on Good Friday, and his resurrection on Easter Sunday was particularly vulnerable to evil things
Macario (1960) this classic folk tale about a man who is kind to a mysterious stranger on Dia de Muertos, was the first Mexican film to be nominated for an Academy Award
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For #WorldBeeDay here’s some folklore about bees & death💀🐝
In the 18th & 19th centuries in the U.S. and Western Europe, a strange ritual involving households that kept bees took place called ‘The Telling of the Bees.’
(Image by Nikolay Tolmachev)
Remembering mothers who have lost a child to violence 🖤
By artist Tavo Santiago
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This week, April 30th, is Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), also known as the ‘other Halloween’ — a night that belongs to WITCHES.
#FolkloreThursday
9. Throughout the years the Easter Witch has been re-branded. She now brings good fortune to a household by landing on the roof, and leaving a copper pot of coffee behind ☕️🧹