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Although not technically today's focus and are The 3 retribution who punished men for crimes. They were concerned with homicide, offenses against the gods, and perjury.

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2020-10-16

Has arrived early?

Nope!

October is Halloween ALL MONTH LONG on Nadaness In Motion!

And this year's features artwork by

Have a look and let those juices flow!

https://t.co/uza8NBWpxm

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2020-10-15

Hel rules the inglorious dead of Norse belief, those who died of disease or lethargy in old age or those who did not live a life worth living. Here they toil building a ship of toenails, which will carry the armies of the dead to Ragnarok.

🖼: Vesper-Moth

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2020-10-16

There were many kinds of mountain spirits to be found in medieval mines. Dwarf-like ones were a good omen for nearby rich ore veins, the mountain devil instead could hurt you throwing rocks or even kill you with his poisonous breath

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2020-10-16

The Knockers or Tommyknockers, (aka Cousin Jacks) are underground spirits of the mines. Referring to the knocking on the walls before cave-ins. 2ft tall creatures, warning the miners of impending danger. But also known to steal unattended tools or left out food.

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the Bavarian Gentians light the way to the underworld . . . Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto's gloom,
ribbed and torchlike, with their blaze of darkness spread
down

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2020-10-15

CALLICANTZAROS demonic beings confined to the underworld, emerging for 12 days from 25th Dec to 7th Jan. Uncannily referred to in English as the 'Christmas Vampire'. Greek & Serbian folklore has KALLIKANZAROI, malevolent Xmas goblins

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Mefiti, the goddess of the volcano stands at the entrance to the murky depths, the underworld. She has powers from deep in the earth, sometimes the cracks burst open in flame. Also the god of noxious gases, her animal is the duck -

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The Handless Maiden tale is a symbol of women's journey into the underworld to reclaim their psychic & creativity power. In the tale, the girl loses her hands to the Devil & then begins her transformative journey of death/rebirth until she heals & becomes Queen.#FolkloreThursday

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2020-10-15

In Norse Mythology there is da terrifying draugr. An undead being that haunts it's own burial mound.

One belief is Shetland's 'trow', a creature that lives below da hills, evolved in wir folklore fae this.




Artwork: https://t.co/OxrIajtWq3

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2020-10-15

For theme of the underworld and underground, some jottings form my sketchbook. I'm fascinated by the way the British landscape is peppered with reminders of our anicient connection to what lies beneath.

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2020-10-15

Gwyn ap Nudd was a Welsh Psychopomp, the king of the Tylwyth Teg (fair folk) and ruler of the Welsh Otherworld, Annwn (believed to be underneath the earth)
He is closely associated with the Wild Hunt along with his spectral hounds (the Cŵn Annwn)

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Two paintings based on the mythic journeys to the underworld.

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2020-10-15

Gnomes happen to be my favorite dwelling creature of They are known in folklore as hobgoblins or kobolds, but in fairy tales they live under trees or in caves, and are delightfully surly creatures who are equal parts wise and childlike.

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When Eurydice dies from a snake bite, Persephone persuades her husband Hades to release Eurydice back to Orpheus. Sadly Orpheus proves incapable of following instructions & she ends up back in the underworld https://t.co/IvLMue2I7B (img: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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It is often overlooked that once it was arranged that Persephone would return to the living world for 6 months every year, (one month for each pomegranate seed she had eaten), she became equal to Pluto in ruling the underworld & did so very well. Img: Rossetti

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2020-10-15

This week's theme is folklore of the and (Image: Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld, Jan Brueghel the Elder)

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2020-10-13

making use of extensive online content for & dipping into the marvelous resource that is Thomas Pennant's A TOUR IN

- 8 volumes chronicling 3 journeys 1773-76 (Cromlechs & Druids in vol 4!)

https://t.co/H2b2pZ4g0K

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2020-10-10

The illustration is by Meg Whalberg, for Rose Fyleman’s “A Fairy Went A-Marketing.”
As a child, my mother (a teacher and poetry lover) read to us from the Childcraft series, circa 1949. The poem tells of a fairy, who releases the creatures she buys.

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2020-10-09

According to The Vedas, all souls return to the moon after death, to be devoured by maternal spirits...

🎨Léon-François Commere

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2020-10-09