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Yer weekly wunderkammer safety advice - edition

If ye see red sails East o' the Good 'ope, shipmates, beware! Arrgh! It be the Flyin' Dutchman! Yer doom be ascertained!

Thank ye. Spit thrice, touch cold iron an' be safe.

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2021-09-18

✨🍀✨It was believed that carrying a four-leaf clover would grant the ability to see Faeries.

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2021-09-05

RAVEN GOTHIC The hoarse screech of the raven was seen both as an omen of death & a source of power; straddling the worlds of the living & the dead, the raven is an uncanny messenger between the two. 🎨Victorian Halloween invitation; image 2 c/o shirleytwofeathers

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2021-08-28

In many Latin American countries, the color of your underwear on New Year's Eve is believed to impact the coming year. Yellow brings prosperity, red brings romance, white brings peace, green brings good luck, & blue brings good health.

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2021-08-21

In the 19th century, women began to flirt safely in more overt ways: by “dropping” one’s glove for a suitor to pick up. Today, it’s still considered bad luck to retrieve one’s own glove. Oh, no! 😂🧤💖#SuperstitionSat

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2021-08-15

Do not sleep with the obi (belt) of your kimono near you as you sleep: you will dream of snakes. Legend speaks of animated obi turning to snake-like bakemono and strangling people in their sleep.

🖼: M. Meyer

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2021-08-14

The Scottish ban nighe (the washerwoman) is said to be seen by rivers, washing the clothes of those doomed to die. She is a bad omen for any who see her on their travels.



🖼 Alice Alinari

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2021-08-14

A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left.

art: Eric Edwards

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2021-08-14

🌿Meadowsweet, also known as Queen Of The Meadow. A sacred herb, medicinal and magical, traditionally added to summer wedding bouquets and worn as a garland for Lammas celebrations. It's thought to bring courage and harmony.

[🎨 Cicely Mary Barker]

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2021-08-07

American superstition said, leave bread and coffee under the house to prevent ghosts from calling...

🎨Gérard

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2021-08-07

A ‘cooler’ is a person so unlucky that when they play at a gaming table, everyone suffers bad luck. Casinos allegedly hire coolers to bring ill luck to hot tables in games of chance--and the house wins.

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2021-07-31

"Flight of Dragons" is a 1982 Rankin/Bass. In the movie a board game mimics the different characters and types of magic (green (earth), yellow (air), blue (sea) and red (fire,death). Here my take on the music theme https://t.co/CYOZGhROV2

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2021-07-31

One more again for

Vaesen is a fantasy horror RPG based on Nordic folklore, and folks it is a wonderful Strange creatures in deep foreboding forests? Step this way and hold onto to your talisman... 🌿



🖼 Vaesen

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2021-07-31

⛈️🐈‍⬛⛈️If a Ship's Cat is unusually excitable or frolicsome it's a sure sign that a storm is on the way!

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2021-07-24

Your weekly Wunderkammer safety advice - under-the-weather edition

“Ring around the moon, it’s meant to rain soon”

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

🖼️ Alphonse Mucha (#BOTD 1860) "The Moon" (1902)

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2021-07-24

🌿🐜🌿Ants in Cornwall - known as Meryons or Muryans - were believed to be diminishing Faeries living out the last and smallest stage of their earthly existence before disappearing from this world - therefore misfortune would befall anyone who harmed an ant.

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2021-06-26

It is unlucky to kill a blue dragonfly. A little awkward because it will bring you luck if you place the wings of a blue dragonfly between the pages of a religious book. (Evans, 1845. Shaw, C18th)

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2021-06-26

We’ve always loved ladybugs. Historically, they meant luck, plus they dressed in style. Their noble title wasn’t from the peerage, though, but from religion, ie “Our Lady.” The British call them Ladybirds (ie “Bird of Our Lady”), but it seems poor taxonomy. 😉💕#SuperstitionSat

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2021-06-26

The fern flower can be found once a year, on Kupala’s night. This glowing bloom carried under shirt, can provide knowledge of people’s thoughts, of the future, ability to understand the speech of all living beings, see the trees walk in the forest, and more.. 🐍

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2021-06-13