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In traditional Himalayan Yetis are sometimes said to have feet that point backwards to hunters attempting to track their footprints in the snow🏔️👣🦍

Explains why no one's ever managed to find one.

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2020-12-03

“... the Yule-clog and Christmas candle were regularly burnt, and the mistletoe with its white berries hung up..."(Washington Irving)

Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for with your tales and images of

Pagan Christmas Customs

We RT after 2 pm GMT!

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2020-12-03

At this time of year the soul stealer and sin eater will meet in the centre of Newport at midnight; they play a game of chance for the immortal spirit of those that stumble by.

Who wants to hear a story of that encounter?

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2020-12-03

Scholars have connected the Yule period to the Wild Hunt (a ghostly procession in the winter sky), the god Odin (who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and bears the name Jólnir), and increased supernatural activity.

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2020-12-02

Gustave Doré's Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
https://t.co/tPOTEHCjjT via

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2020-12-01

Choosing to read "The Count of Monte Cristo" for instead of "A Christmas Carol" this year. Then will try to get to a rewatch of both films. 😊📚🎬

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2020-11-30

24. ‘Curious, if True’, Elizabeth Gaskell,
"all at once I saw a château before me...at the end of what seemed to be an ancient avenue...Large, stately, & dark was its outline against the dusky night-sky...fantastically going up into the dim starlight."

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2019-12-24

GUARDIAN ANGELS The idea that every living being has its own attendant spirit is shared by many cultures. The literature of encounters with is vast; a surprising number of people speak of experiencing angelic assistance or visions Ills Mann; Galli Swinstead

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2019-12-21

A TAXONOMY OF ANGELS
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
First order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Second order: Dominions, Powers, Virtues
Third order: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
Image: Victorian Christmas Card bring trees and Lilies

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2019-12-19

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads…
“The Christmas Dream” by French artist-adventurer Jules Tavernier (1844-1889)— the content pre-empting many a contemporary horror film.

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2019-12-18

16. ‘The Open Door’, Margaret Oliphant,
"restlessly wandering to & fro; sometimes the voice dropped, as if throwing itself down, sometimes wandered off a few paces, growing sharp & clear. “Oh, mother, let me in! oh, mother, mother, let me in! oh, let me in!”"

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2019-12-16

To wish someone wealth and prosperity, give them a gift of jewellery. Spiders symbolise reward and recognition for creativity and hard work.

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2019-12-15

Albtei im Eichwald / The Abbey in the Oak Wood, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1808-1810. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

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2019-12-16

The Moomins cartoons mixed dark elements in with children's storytelling.
I remember being frightened of the Ice Queen chasing Little My.
Oh yeah and she had stars for feet
https://t.co/gFWrhr8M4D

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2019-12-13

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge. 'The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand'. Images 1843, 1920, 1970

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2019-12-13

JACK FROST Is wonderfully In 1902 he appears in 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus', by L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz. He's re-imagined by Arthur Rackham in Allies' Fairy Book 1916, Hawthorne's Wonder Book 1922 & in Linda Ravenscroft

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2019-12-11

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable, a group of pyromaniac sparrows or a grotesque-looking teapot lady!! You have to love Xmas cards

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2019-12-11

The horrible, terrible (and sometimes benevolent) Frau Perchta, a cousin to the is the topic of the new episode now out. Complete with music and FX. on , Stitcher, etc. and link here:
https://t.co/QejS2EunkA

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2019-12-10

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. It's the work of a Hobgoblin. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters a person's heart it will turn to ice

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2019-12-09

In Polish folklore, Turoń is a festive monstrosity in the form of a black, horned and shaggy animal with a flopping jaw. Its appearance can be noticed at folk events during the period of Christmas, yet most likely in times of Carnival and before Lent begins.

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2019-12-09