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Kallikantzaroi is a mythical, malevolent goblin-like spirit of Southeastern European and Anatolian folklore.
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Hi everyone, hope you are all having a great week so far! A reminder that this Sunday’s theme is:
FOLKLORE of PROTECTION FROM HARM.

Bring your tweets to the hashtag with retweets from 10:30 am. Maude xx

Image: Warwick Goble, 1920

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Who are some of your favorite artists that work with folklore/mythology? One of my favorites is and his amazing art from Norse myth.

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Another famous wolf in is Fenrir, one of the children of Loki in Norse stories. Odin attempted to tame the wolf, but could not. He imprisoned Fenrir with enchanted rope. It's said in Ragnarök, Fenrir will kill Odin.

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- Belenus was the mighty Gaulish God of light.
"Great and powerful Belenus
You are known by many names.
You are the light over the crops in the fields,
the heat that warms the earth,
the hope that springs eternal,
the bringer of life..." https://t.co/akjEFiJIR3

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Lilith began life as a vague reference to owls or owl spirits in Mesopotamia, inhabiting the sacred tree of Inanna. Later fused with baby-eating Lamashtu, Jewish theology created modern Lilith in the 8th century as Adam's rebellious first wife.

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Christianity has some disagreement about where demons come from. While most cite fallen angels, others point to a Jewish source suggesting Cain slept with Lilith, thus creating the Lilim, which is either wicked humans or demons.

🖼: LeGrebe

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"Sowing Stars" by Valera Lutfullina

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🍀🔥🍀Fire omens...
Flames roaring up the chimney = a quarrel.
Cluster of sparks = good news.
Blue flames = frosty weather.
Coffin-shaped cinder falling onto the hearth = a death, or cradle-shaped one = a birth.
A coal falling at your feet = soon to be married!

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"If there is one among you hardy enough and bold enough to face and complete the long arduous journey, and daring enough to steal the fire from under the crest of Mar the Cockatoo, then humans will sing their praises for evermore.” https://t.co/kGWV7L3MK6

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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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The "skrzak" of Polish folklore are supposedly black, winged little evil imps who hide in dark caverns, like bats. When humans enter, they swarm over them, laughing and screaming manically in an attempt to drive them mad, clawing and biting at them.#FolkloreThursday

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The Boobrie is a malicious monster size water fowl of Scottish Highland folklore. The creature inhabits fresh water and sea lochs of Argyl. It eats fish, sheep, cattle and otters.Tales speak of the tearing apart a fisherman or sailor who try to catch it

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Brine. Print. https://t.co/vnCYPFfb2N inspired by the folklore of St. Nicholas. Three young students were killed and put into brine, but St. Nicholas, through his faith was able to resurrect them. This is my take on the subject. Three young specimens in a jar.

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The blue flames Roger shoots are based on the hitodama, a phantasmagoric phenomenon in the Japanese folklore which is said to be the souls of the dead.

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