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Scottish folk said magpie carried a drop of the devil's blood under its tongue...

🎨Xu Beihong

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Very long-lived bats can transform into yokai called yamachichi. This pointy-faced monster visits people when they are sleeping & sucks the life force from their mouth before tapping them on the chest, causing them to die the very next day.
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As it’s I’d like to remind people of and French folklore story in issue 2 of Trompe la Mort.

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In Romanian mythology, Strigoi are spirits that transform into an animal, become invisible, and to gain vitality from the blood of their victims. Strigoi possibly originated from the Latin terms strix and striga, the root of which later has been related to owls

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The Cheval Gauvin is an evil horse that haunts eastern France & the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. According to legend, it is a harbinger of death that is found in forests & cemeteries and kills those who ride it by drowning or tossing them off into chasms.

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In folklore & legend crows & ravens are often regarded as harbingers of doom, but they can also be the means of divination & prophecy bearing messages from the gods. The Celtic goddess Morrigan often appears in the form of a crow or raven.
🎨Jessica Galbreth

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In European folklore and folk-belief of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, familiars were believed to be supernatural entities that would assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. They would appear in numerous guises, often as an animal.

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Johannes Praetorius was an "witchcraft reporter" and a key infuence on the Brothers Grimm.

To learn more about his life, we spoke with Professor Gerhild Scholz Williams, vice provost of Washington University in St. Louis.

https://t.co/vCusYlpIUV

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Abaia, a huge, magical eel in Melanesian mythology is said to dwell at the bottom of freshwater lakes in Fiji, Solomon & Vanuatu. The mystical eel considers all creatures in the lake its children & protects them against anyone who would harm or disturb them.

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The island of has deep roots in ancient Greek mythology as the Diktaean Cave at Mount Dikti was believed to be the place of Zeus' birth. In Crete Hercules captured the Cretan bull & where the labyrinth of the Palace of Knossos was built. Map by Piri Reis

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2020-07-17

Bysen is the tomte-like väsen that is doomed to forever wander the woods of the Swedish island of Gotland as penance for a past crime. He leads people astray, taunts human woodsmen, and conducts his own nefarious logging operations.

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The legend of 'La Diablesse' in Caribbean Appearing beautiful, her ancient dress hides her cow hoof! She walks with one foot on the road & lures her victims into the wood. Casting spells on them, until they fall into a ravine & get eaten by wild dogs!

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I’m off to bury my toes in the sand, This is Crystal waving goodbye. The magnificent will join at 6:30 BST for today’s last session. “Every island to a child is a treasure island.” ― P.D. James (Image: M. Pernhart)

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The Islands of Orkney were reputed to be a haven for witches and King James wrote in Daemonologia of the special power of the devil there - the spae-wives were the wise women of the island and they were victims of the witch hunters. Spae - fortell . . .'to spy'

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In Scottish waters, three days before a storm, the drowned would leave their watery graves to lament and warn the living of what was to come...

🎨John McGhie

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In the tale of Momotaro, the oni were pillaging villages and kidnapping women, and would take them back to their island, Onigashima. It was up to Momotaro and his animal friends to go to that island, defeat the oni, and rescue the captives.

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Ukonsaari Island in Lake Inari is a sacred site of the Sámi, Europe's only indigenous culture whose people have long inhabited the arctic circle. Shamans (noaidi) visited the island to communicate with Ukko, the god of thunder in charge of weather & harvests.

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An aside to Glastonbury being the Isle of Glass in Welsh: when the base of the Tor was a lake, several villages were built in the marshes - Iron Age crannogs.
One of them, Meare Lake village, was a centre for rare Iron Age glass bead making.

A real Glass Isle.

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the Beach-Crow sees what is lost, opens the earth, and owns that which is not possessed by anyone.

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