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Some Norse magic was gendered. No man was allowed to learn Seidir, women's magic, and no man could become a Volva, a Norse seer. There was one exception to this rule: Odin learned Seidir from Freyja. Odin regularly broke gender rules, ignoring such "sins."

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Hoffmann’s “Der Struwwelpeter,” from 1845, is a terrifying, German children’s book. In moralizing tales, children are gravely punished for “bad” deeds —like “shaggy Peter’s” hygiene, & thumb-sucking! 😂Chilling images were burned into kids’ memories forever. 📚

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✨🍀✨It was believed to be unlucky - almost sinful - to point at stars, because the act was considered so disrespectful.

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"We don't have a place for these kind of people" You have to live working, if you like to eat for free, you will have to sit on the dock as an accused.

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"The Monk", a Gothic work of fiction, published in 1796 by Matthew Lewis, tells the tale of Ambrosio, a monk tempted into sin who enters into a tailspin of increasing carnal desire & murder. He loses his eternal salvation & his life at the hands of the devil.

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Depictions of sins in Dante's Inferno:

3rd Circle of Gluttony, illustrated by Stradanus (L)

4th Circle of Greed, by Doré (Up. R)

5th Circle of Wrath, by Stradanus (Low.R)

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It's [The Witches Sabbath, by Frans Francken]

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A Cheshire broadside tells how 5 maidservants conjured their future bridegrooms by making a ritual supper.
After reading the Lord’s Prayer backwards the door flew open & 5 ghastly gentlemen sat beside them. One girl apparently died from fright...
🎨Finden

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The wounds of a murdered person will begin to bleed again if they are touched by the murderer, revealing their guilt.

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In kijo are female demons. They appear as hideously ugly woman often with sharp horns, long claws, red eyes, wild hair & dressed in rags. These are women who were transformed into monsters due to jealousy, crimes or hatred.

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The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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One tale is that the Selkie or Seal Folk can only assume human form once every seven years because they are either humans who had committed a sinful act, or are fallen angels
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Sin-eating is an ancient ritual that involves symbolically consuming the sins of a recently deceased person. It's still practiced in some places, including Upper Bavaria. A cake is placed on the chest of the deceased & then eaten by a relative.

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This week's theme is the folklore of (Image: Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Lewis Walpole Library, via wikimedia commons)

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was brought to you today by and . Thanks for a great day, and we'll see you all next week! (Image: Lady Lilith, by Rosetti)

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My completed zine for college! The hags of Britain and Ireland, rendered in a bit of a somewhat art nouveau style.

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Two books

'Fleet' by , an epic poem of enchantment & familiar drama of longing, banishment, abuse, survival & love & 'Hares in The Moonlight', a tale in the spirit of Alan Garner & Susan Cooper by

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My drawing "The Green Fairy" linked to the green liquor Absinthe which green colour was enhanced originally with copper sulfate and antimony trichloride which caused toxicity and poisoning, and thus cause hallucinations (and green fairies of course)

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The Ceasg is a Scottish mermaid half-woman, half-salmon. In some tales, she swallowed men whole, trapping them in her stomach. To rescue them, her soul - often contained in an enchanted egg - had to be destroyed. If caught, she could also grant three wishes.

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