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Aldar Kose is a famous figure in Kazakhstan folktale, depicted as a sly, clever, mischievous, but kind man. In various stories, he uses his cleverness to outwit greedy and evil Khans, in order to assist the weak and poor people who are made to suffer by them.

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Beware Koshei the Deathless! An immortal sorcerer who hid his soul on an enchanted island, he is the villain of Slavic myth. He steals away young maidens, puts curses on the innocent, & terrorizes the good people. Only the bravest heroes can face him and live!

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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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Huēhuecoyōtl is the god of mischief, dance, song, and debauchery. Depicted as a dancing coyote, he often pulls benign franks on other gods and humans. He's a generous party-giver, but also known as creator of war simply to relieve his boredom.

🎨: Codex Borgia

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Hello and thank you to for hosting before the break. This is here as we cross to the dark side of folklore for villains, tricksters and antiheros.
Img: Set (via wikipedia) tore Osiris apart leaving Isis searching for the pieces.

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Ninmenju is a yokai tree that bears peaches with human faces. While they cannot speak they can laugh. But if they laugh to hard they will fall off. If you're brave enough to take a bite, you'll find it to be both sweet & sour.

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a woman. And her birch is not for children who have misbehaved!

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Across England it was thought very bad luck to harm a robin. The hand of someone who had killed a robin would always shake. If you broke a robin’s egg you would soon find your own crockery broken. If you broke a robin's wing your own arm would soon also break.

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embody the nature of the Filled with mischief and malice, they tangle hair (#elf-locks), they switch out children (changelings), they confuse the paths of travelers, and force humans to dance. But they're pretty...

by Arthur Rackham

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Vodník is the Czech/Slovak version of vodyanoy, a male water spirit. Vodník looks like a human, wears clothes, and can survive outside water with his clothes wet. He tricks and drowns people, then he keeps their souls in teacups underwater.

Art: Josef Lada

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The Baobhan sith (Bavaan-shee) is a vampiric creature in Scottish folklore. Fair or red haired maidens with deer feet and legs who dance in the moonlight to seduce travellers and shepards, only to kill them and drain their victims of their blood.

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The answer to this week's on is:

Snow ❄️

Fastest off the mark were:
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Well done and see you next https://t.co/tQD75BsoVp

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Today’s is all about ice and snow! The Hag of Beara was said to bring winter to Ireland. She is associated with various rocks on the coast, usually believed to be her petrified form, staring out to sea forever.

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or Kora, the maiden. Abducted by with approval from her father to be queen of the underworld. She is the of vegetation, leaping forth in Spring and sinking back into the earth in Winter.

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King Bress demanded milk from all the cows that were brown & hairless. He then passed all the cattle in Ireland between two fires so that their hair was singed off, which made all Irish cows brown & hairless.

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In Belgium, on the 25th of November, the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, if St. Catherine appears in a white veil (snow), the winter will be hard.

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In Polynesian myth, there are four sisters of the snow covered mountains, deities of Mauna Kea. Poliʻahu lives in the summit, Waiau, is a guardian, Kahoupokane is a weaver, and Lilinoe is the maker of mist. Together they create balance between ice and heat.

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Some images of
Jack Frost costume from "Santa Claus" panto, 1894
1910 Jack Frost with his silver brush, Jack Frost and Parsnip, 1914
https://t.co/utQggumrgk

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❄️🌱❄️Even though they're a welcome sign of springtime, Snowdrops were thought to be an ill-omened flower when brought into a house, and might presage a death. 🥚Less frightening was the belief that bringing them inside would prevent poultry eggs from hatching.

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