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Sleep paralysis is a disorder causing hallucinations/ supernatural feelings while your body is paralysed between sleep and awareness: shadows beings, buzzing, out of body perception. And the origin of many legends
My song / art "Nightmare"
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2023-02-10

A selection of engravings by Abigail Rorer for 'Mimpish Squinnies: Reginald Farrer's Short Guide to Worthless Plants' (2007), based on Farrer's 1919 descriptions of real flowers he disliked, which you can read here (and I urge you to do so)
https://t.co/MCJeUzoKQ5

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2023-02-04

Sorcerer’s Herb (Ground-ivy or Mugwort, depending on locality) gathered on Midsummer was believed to dry-up cows' milk when thrown over grazing land before sunrise but small bags were also placed under house roofs to attract misfortune to people and their animals.

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2023-02-03

🌿💔🌿Folklore from the Welsh border counties said that lilac trees would fall into mourning if any of their kind were cut down nearby, and would show their sorrow by not flowering in the following year.

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2023-02-03

In Cumbrian dialect, 'fellin-girse' is green hellebore. It was grown on farms as a cure for numerous livestock ailments, but in folk magic it's used to call forth demons and curse enemies


art: Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

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2023-02-03

Atropa belladonna is named for Atropos , one of the three Greek fates. After her sisters spun and measured a persons life thread, Atropos would cut it signalling the end of their life. Another name is Deadly Nightshade.
🖼️Elia Mervi

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2023-02-03

Deadly Nightshade – Hallucinations,Lightness & the Sensation of Flying
Deadly nightshade is linked to witchcraft; on Walpurgis night,it was thought that the spirit of the deadly nightshade emerged while witches were preparing their covens https://t.co/Kh6WnS2WgE

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2023-02-03

Some have speculated that the evil behind this 'curse' in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is a long history of incest or family inbreeding within the Usher line & that Roderick and Madeline are suffering the consequences https://t.co/GslbpCTnym

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2023-01-27

"Those are the eyes of the dead, truly,
No loving hand has closed their void" (Goethe)

🎨 Fritz Roeber (1910)

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2023-01-21

Did this inspire Otfried Preussler's Krabat, (The Satanic Mill)? I own the Dutch version, Master of the Black Mill. It's poetic and brilliant. The Mill is a school for black magic; every year the Miller sacrifices one apprentice. Until one day.. Recommend! https://t.co/l0cIYBkAR2

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2023-01-20

In the hillfort of the Muro da Cidade de Medeiros (#Galicia), a warrior married a "moura" (an Otherworldy woman). After giving its inhabitants the vine plant as a gift, she moved with her husband to Quinta do Peru, giving rise to a rich family.

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2023-01-20

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you. Oh, God, it is unutterable! I can not live without my life, I can not live without my soul”.
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
🖼️Rovina Cai

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2023-01-20


Today's theme is paranormal romances?
There are many different versions of the goldemar/ Vollmer folktale.
He's an invisible guest in a castle and depending on the version either has an affair with the count Neveling or the counts sister Kunigunde.

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2023-01-20

According to Lady Wilde, if a short cut was taken while carrying a corpse to the grave, the dead would be insulted and disturbed in the coffin...

🎨Wiertz

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2023-01-13


'On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.'

Shirley Jackson

Art: J. Edward Neill -ArtStation

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2023-01-07

When she is sad the sea is sad , and both are sad for ever. Carcassonne! Carcassonne!
This city is the fairest of the wonders of Morning; the sun shouts when he beholdeth it; for Carcassonne Evening weepeth when Evening passeth away.

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2023-01-06

My grandmother Cicely Anderson, would recount the tale of her Irish ancestor who encountered a Banshee on his way home one evening. Understanding it as an ill omen, he kissed his wife and children goodnight and was found dead in the morning.

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2022-12-16

The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as “bats” due to the monstrous creature that is said to have flown around their ruined church at night 🦇


art: Matthew Starbuck

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2022-12-16

'The Wild Hunt' image occurs in folklore across Europe - wailing ghoslty souls in a hunt across winter skies, said to be led by a figure such as Odin (providing very tenuous claims of links with Santa Claus).

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2022-12-16

"And the roar of the stormy chase went by,
Through the dark unquiet sky!" (Felicia Hemans)

Darklings!

Welcome to a Yule-ishly flying

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🎨 Lisa Hunt

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2022-12-16