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It is important to not just respect your house spirits but reward them. It is common in folklore to leave food out for house spirits like brownies and tomte, thanking them for a job well done cleaning the house. Not doing so has dire consequences

🖼: J. Nyström

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2021-11-04

In Zoroastrian myth, Ahura Mazda, who was the god of light,smelled wonderful, but Ahriman his evil equivalent, smelled like a garlic bulb, 'fetid and rotten.'

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2021-11-04

They thought me, once, a magic tree of wondrous lucky charm, And at the door they planted me to keep the house from harm..

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To appease & keep the fairies sweet, it is advisable to make them offerings of food & drink, known as libations. A happy, well-fed fairy is less likely to be cantankerous or mischievous. They are rather partial to milk, fruit, cakes & ale.
🎨IdaRentoulOuthwaite

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2021-11-04

theme is food so my dark self couldn't choose a simple picture. Instead, I offer Erysichthon, the Thessaly King who was cursed with insatiable hunger by the Goddess Demeter.

Erysichthon tormented by insatiable hunger by Antonio Tempesta, 1606

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2021-11-04

Pizza Boy has to be the best insult of all time

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2021-11-03

Part 1 November releases 😍 Which are you most excited for?
-Van Helsing: Return of the League of Monsters
-ManGoat & the Bunnyman Graphic Novel
- Tales of Terror Quarterly: Bachelorette Party

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2021-11-01

To celebrate being good now, here's the extended version of the eligible men that I drew for a zine based on Sophie Monk's season bloody ages ago. 1/2

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2021-11-01

Loretta the Pixie casts a fattening spell for herself and for Shoji from Devil Survivor! A commission for the absolutely awesome !!! Thank you so much!

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Details of a watercolor by Irish actor, writer, and artist, Micheál Mac Liammóir (1899-1978), illustrating W.B. Yeats’ poem, the Stolen Child. From the Loretta Clarke Murray collection of women in revolutionary Ireland.

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Loretta the Pixie poses for her Halloween shot! Part 1 of 2 for the incredible !!! I will post the next piece later today!

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2021-10-31

Hoje fecha meu Exploretober. Foi um projetinho maneiro, bem diferente do ano passado com as casinhas. O lance de tentar fazer uma coisa sequenciada, mas bem diferente me fez descobrir padrões nas formas e cores e encontrar uma identidade pro "planeta"=)

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2021-10-30

That's the end of one scary 🎃

Today's theme was Frightening folklore for & If you aren't a little afraid, you're not scrolling back far enough 👻 This is signing off, have a spooky one!

🐈‍⬛🧟🌙🕷️🧛‍♀️💀🦉🍂🍷

Horace Vernet 1839

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2021-10-29

During the Finnish harvest festival Kekri people believed that the spirits of the ancestors were on the move. It was appropriate for the living people to go outside only if they were dressed as spirits. People went from door to door asking for beer and food.

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Never forget gods can be exceptionally cruel: Ra got tired of how loud humanity had become, and so sent Sekhmet the lioness to destroy mankind. Such was the devastation that, like a slasher film parody, the world was flooded with red blood, so Ra called it off.

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A frightful Swedish spirit, the mara rides her victim in their sleep, delivering mardrömmar (nightmares) and a bad night’s rest in general. 🖼 Joakim Skovgaard and Carl-Martin Bergstrand

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On Halloween night hold up a mirror and walk backwards down stairs reciting:

"Whoever my true love is to be
Come and look in this glass with me."

If a face appears looking over your shoulder it will be who you will marry, but a coffin means you will die⚰️.

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from Aldrovandi's 1640 book about & by Tasia, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the

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