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was described as a grisly monster with 100 heads who was conquered and cast into the by
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a half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster and was the mother of many of the most famous monsters of
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was a fire-breathing of Lycia, composed of the parts of more than one animal. It is usually depicted as a with the head of a protruding from its back, and a tail that might end with a head.
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the or of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. They often have unfinished business and visited/#haunted the living.
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or occasionally is a human with the ability to into a either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction with the transformations occurring on the night of a
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If ever you should wander mountainous Japan at night, feeling as though you are being followed, take care: for the okuri inu (送り犬) follows lone travelers. Spirits and animals stay away if it follows, but should a traveler trip the black hound will devour them

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In the nordic 'Saga of the Volsungs', a questing father & son discover magic wolf-skins that turn them into savage wolves for 10 days. After the father wounds his son, a raven provides a leaf with healing powers. The men burn the magic wolf-skins afterwards.

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Yann an aod (John o the shore) were spirits of the drowned whose bodies were unburied. If you answered its plaintive cry, it leapt half the distance between you. Answer again & it will jump half the remaining distance. Answer a third time: it will snap your neck

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🌹#FairyTaleTuesday🌹 A Very Vampy Tuesday: 1.Freelance Illustrators ; Gary Arthur, 2. Kent Davis , 3.Petri Blanquist ? 4. Bente Schlich. 😈 Happy Halloween Y'all ! 🎃

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The Baobhan Sith
Tip: When in The Highlands never stray from your path or talk to beautiful woman because these beauties cld be vampires who will wound you with their sharp fingernails & suck all the blood out you! 🖤

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Edvard Munch originally called his 1895 painting Love and Pain, but critics quickly renamed it

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In Greek mythology the are sisters, three old women, known as “the grey ones”. Born grey, their most obvious physical feature was that they had but one eye & one tooth between them, which were passed around the three.
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Hawthorn has always been the wood of choice for making stakes to drive into vampires, either arisen or buried. Stakes were pounded into graves so the undead would be impaled upon rising, & thorns were placed inside coffins, pinning the restless down.
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"The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Anderson has a villain as the protagonist. A man steals a tinderbox that, when used to strike flame, summons three supernatural dogs. He uses these dogs to kidnap a princess, kill everyone else in the palace, & take the throne.

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A 6 issue series-WYTCHES by Scott Snyder (illustrated by Jock) is the tale of a family who moves to a remote town, but something evil is waiting in the woods, watching from the trees, ancient & hungry.
"Pledged is pledged"

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Morgan le Fay - halfsister of Arthur Pendragon, Lady of the lake, immortal Queen of Avalon, needs no further introductions 🥰 (art by Margetson, Pieterman, anon)

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10. In the also called the Grey Sisters and the were 3 telling who shared 1 eye and 1 tooth. Their names were Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo. They were the basis for the wierd sisters in
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