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Witches steal the milk by night but are chased by daybreak 🐇

The hare started off at a brisk pace, squirting up the milk she had sucked from her mouth and nostrils, and the dogs making after her rapidly...

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2022-09-09

Poludnitsa is a Slavic goddess who appears at noon in agricultural fields.She harasses those at work by posing them riddles or asking questions. If an insufficent answer is given,she will cut off their head with her scythe
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🎨Serge Tsvelykh

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2022-09-09

In the Dungeons & Dragons world of Ravenloft, because elves love to dance under the moon, elvish vampires are cursed to be burned by moonlight instead of sunlight. As a result, they're the one kind of vampire that prefers to hunt during the day and sleep at night.

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2022-09-09

In Flemish folktales werewolves hide their skin in trees. When someone steals their skin and burns it the wolf dies or disappears. It's also said that you can recognise werewolves if you cut them with a knife that has cut through bread or earth first.

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2022-09-03

The tried and true way of killing a terrible monster that terrorizes Spear-Danes is to rip off its arm during glorious hand-to-hand combat in a splendid meadhall in the darkest depths of the night. 🖼John Howe

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2022-09-02

How do you kill the hydra? Well, it depends.
Burning the neck to prevent regeneration is a recent version featuring additional help: the storyteller is trying to explain why labors were originally 10 and now we count 12. Sorry, Heracles: this one doesn't count.

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2022-09-02

Perseus attacked Medusa, using Athena's polished shield to view the reflection of her awful face and avoid her petrifying gaze while he beheaded her with a harpe, an adamantine sword.

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2022-09-02

“But in the meantime a boy had run up with a pitchfork, and he dabbed the wolf from behind: in the same moment it became changed, and all saw that the boy had killed the man’s wife” (S. Baring-Gould)

Welcome to a garlic-garnished Darklings!

RTs 'til 10pm CET

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2022-09-02


A combative Perseus carrying Medusa’s head, riding the winged horse, Pegasus, descends to rescue Andromeda and slay the sea monster, Cetus with his magical sword.
🎨Giuseppe Cesari

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2022-09-02

"derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited” ~ village of Renwick

a weasel is immune to the stare of a Cockatrice, but only the branch of a rowan tree can kill it!

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2022-09-02

Prompt: "A Faustian transhumanist sorceress in the style of cyberpunk noir, digital art" (#StableDiffusion)

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2022-08-31

The Triple Hekate, William Blake, 1795. Hekate, the Goddess of the Crossroads, Maiden, Mother, Crone. Dog, Snake and Horse. Hekate pitied Queen Hecuba who drowned herself after the Fall of Troy, resurrecting her as a pet black she-dog, free of all memory of grief

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2022-08-27

Rán and Ægir have nine daughters who live in the ocean and tend to be a bit homicidal (particularly where ancient Scandinavian sailors are concerned). 🖼️Rim Bitik for https://t.co/fUg9l6yfmk

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2022-08-27

The weird sisters or fates in a mari form whichever you choose the mari’s will oblige

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2022-08-26

The word witch dates from around 800 AD. It referred to men who practised witchcraft, but 200 years later it referred to female magicians and sorceresses. Later it meant women who cooperated with the devil
Source: A Glossary of Witch Words https://t.co/Te05z7g6YG

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2022-08-26

"Is that all true, Mère Pinquèle?" he said.
"Oh, quite true, and not only that, the best part is yet to come; for they take a child and—" Here Mère Pinquèle showed her fang-like teeth.
"Oh! Mère Pinquèle, are you a witch too?"
— 'The Other Side' (1893) 3/3

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2022-08-26

Wishing everybody a fabulous

Nymphs Dancing to Pan’s Flute, by Joseph Tomanek, c.1920.

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2022-08-26

Darklings!

Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with

🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH

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2022-08-20

In Greek lore, Keres were death spirits with gnashing teeth and claws, who spread disease amongst the living. Although most often drawn to the battlefield, they could be prevented from entering homes by painting sticky tar onto door frames...

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2022-08-20

A vampire-like creature apparently stalked the streets of Alnwick, England in 1196, spreading plague in its wake. Two local men dug it up and attacked it with a spade before destroying the monster, thus ending its reign of terror [My AI Image]

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2022-08-20