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Sleep Paralysis is when your body has switched off, your mind half awake and your dreams still running - you lie paralysed and hallucinating (giant spiders in my case). In mythology there are descriptions of demons or hags suffocating sleepers

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Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos(Death) were brothers or sometimes half-brothers in Greek mythology who lived beside each other in the underworld.

Waterhouse - Sleep and his half-brother Death

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How wonderful is Death,
Death, and his brother Sleep!

―Queen Mab, Percy Bysshe Shelley

🎨John William Waterhouse

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The son of Hypnos, the god of sleep, Morpheus had the power to enter the dreams of mortal men to deliver messages from the gods. Among his siblings, he was best at disguising himself as a human, though his true shape was a demon-like figure with huge black wings.

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In the tales of the Fianna, Grainne laces the mead with a sleeping draught at her own wedding feast after being enchanted into an overwhelming love for Diarmuid, which means they both must flee into the night.
Art self for ‘Finn and the Fianna’ by Daniel Allison

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"Here I am lying down to sleep;
No night-mare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth,
and counted all stars
that appear in the firmament"

Westphalian charm to ward off a nightmare

🎨 Fuseli

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Re-worked an old piece for the upcoming release of Fragments of the Past - the TTRPG

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2022-09-22

Arguably humans are often made like robots by gods: whether from earth and clay (Pandora, Adam), carved from a trees (Aski and Embla), flowers (Blodeuwedd), or blood (as Marduk does from Tiamat's consort), many humans are artificial.

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2022-09-20

A powerful onmyōji can make a shikigami a physical form from anything, be it wood, paper, or wax, and all he has to do is impart it with some part of a soul to do their bidding. These constructs act as familiars, as onmyōji are similar to wizards.

🖼️: M. Meyer

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2022-09-20

Merlin showed them how to construct engines and under his supervision the stones of the Giant's Dance were taken easily from the ground, transported to Britain and set up a monument to those fallen in The Treachery of the Long Knives. https://t.co/GJXGlNND9q

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2022-09-19

Time to show off some of the creatures from Scottish folklore that has been working on for our various Origins-led projects!

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Explore some sinister tales of vengeful in this perfect watch...

SIDEWORLD: TERRORS OF THE SEA is out now, available to rent or buy .

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Giant sorcerers created a huge figure out of clay to help the giant Hrungnir battle Thor. Unfortunately, the only heart the sorcerers found big enough for their creation was a mare's. This made the clay figure so cowardly he peed himself when Thor approached.

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Rejected by his mother Hera because he was lame & ugly, Hephaestus was cared for by the Sintians and became a skilled craftsman. He built automatons to help him in his forge on Mt Olympus. His creations included the Golden Tripods & Talos a giant cast in bronze.

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When Merlin first appears in the 12th-century "History of the King of Britain," his only supernatural power is prophecy. The original story says Merlin instead built Stonehenge via advanced "machinery," though it is vague what exactly these machines were.

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My latest are a contemporary take on traditional thangka art, the deities replaced by characters from folklore and mythology

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I hope you've enjoyed the self-insert folklore I've shared this .

And I want to emphasize that I encourage folklore-based fanfiction writing by placing all my translated German folk tales under a Creative Commons Zero license!

https://t.co/Vflpnjqngb

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2022-09-13

According to Hesiod, a bronze anvil falling from the sky would fall nine days and nights and hit earth on the tenth day.

A bronze anvil falling down from earth would fall nine days and nights and reach misty, gloomy Tartaros on the tenth day.

🎨Felix J. Gardon

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Would love to be Ankou, the soul collector, head can turn 180 degrees, with two skeleton helpers as we ride around in our creaky wooden cart seeking lost souls & leading them into to the afterlife.

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