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In Wales, many people would be happy if a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin that cleans your home) took up residence in their home. However, these goblins are infamous for their hatred of teetotalers, and will often kick or throw plates at someone who refuses alcohol.

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It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not…”

—Lewis Carroll✨
Victorian medicines often had opium, alcohol and mercury.

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Brace yourself for the hairy coffee of Hopeless, Maine.

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2022-07-20

In Japan, kawauso are river otters, and like many other animals it is believed that once they reach old age they can develop supernatural powers and become These creatures love alcohol, especially sake. They are renowned shape-shifters and can...

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"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk" (Baudelaire)

🎨 H. Privat-Livemont (1896)

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A Flemish folktale says that a man was offered wine by witches who were dancing under the moonlight at a spot called Witches Mountain. The witches suddenly disappeared and the cup changed into the leg of a horse.

🎨Emma Childs

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Marvel's Hercules just happens to be one of Thor's best drinking buddies. But it wasn't always the case.

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In Greek legends Persephone, Queen of the Underworld was abducted by Hades who desired a wife. While she was picking flowers she was bewitched by a narcissus flower planted by Gaia. Hades, arrives with his hell hounds and takes Persephone down into the underworld

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In Irish folklore Tír na nÓg is an island of paradise a magical realm of eternal youth, beauty, health, abundance and joy. Its inhabitants are the Tuatha Dé Danann the gods of pre-Christian Ireland, who engage in the feast of Goibniu which gifts them immortality

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Deserters from Napoleon’s army are said to have hidden in the Paris catacombs & survived on mushrooms grown in their horse’s manure. Champignons de Paris, a delicacy, were farmed in the catacombs in the 1800s; the environment gave the mushrooms their unique flavour

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"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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2022-07-13

In 1818, John Cleves Symmes Jr proposed to mount an expedition to the North Pole, where he was sure they could locate an aperture to gain access to the inner Earth, believing that its interior would be "stocked with thrifty vegetables & animals if not men".

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Edmund Halley theorised (in 1692) that Earth is a series of nested, spherical shells, spinning in different directions, all surrounding a central core. He also posited that the space between each shell may have had luminous atmospheres capable of supporting life.

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It's amazing what you can find deep in a cave. In 'Journey into Mystery' Doctor Don Blake found the hammer of Thor.

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The Hollow Earth Theory proposes the earth's core is hollow or contains another world. This was first depicted in the satirical sci-fi novel Niels Klim's Underground Travels (1741), in which a man discovers a smaller planet inside earth while cave-diving.

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Story: The Lords

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Lightning bugs, Olympic divers, and anti-humans.

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Cat-sìth or sidhe, was a witch & soul-stealer that would morph into its cat form & back 9 x. If one of these witches chose to return into their cat form for the 9th x, they would remain a cat forever. This is how the idea of a cat having 9 lives originated from

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Black Shuck is a huge hound with glowing red-eyes who haunts the fens, lanes and churchyards of East Anglia, and is often viewed as an omen of impending death.

🎨by Graham Humphreys, 'The Usborne Book of the Haunted World', 1995.

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In Irish folklore, the Banshee is often represented with red eyes, reddened by her continuous weeping, while also looking menacingly terrifying. Hearing her screech and keening is believed to be a certain omen of death.

🎨IrenHorrors, The Cry of a Banshee

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