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A little out of the ordinary for me but I like it! Based on the musical Hadestown, itself based on the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Appropriate as it's y

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2020-02-07

In Olde English folklore, Bluebells were said to ring when the fairies needed to gather, but if a human heard, it was said to be their death knell, and so its said to be unlucky to walk on a bed of bluebells, because it will anger the fairies resting there.

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2020-02-06

Some In Japanese folklore, the Iso onna are Siren-like vampires that sit by the sea waiting for fishermen. They appear as beautiful women in need. They drain the blood of their victims through their hair, which always appears wet. https://t.co/9nDHUyI8nB

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2020-02-06

Our time together has come to an end, This is Crystal signing off. will jump on at 6:30 GMT to share more of your traditional stories and tales for See you soon! (Image: Rackham)

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2020-02-06

"When the Forge is cold and the Glory is dark and the Wood is dust, perhaps the Wolf Divided will rest, but only until it can devour itself."

the 16th Hour is a God-from-Blood, the Wolf Divided, who unmakes, who unmakes, who unmakes...

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2020-02-07

Some of the best-known Romanian tales can be found in a Romanian-English-French edition: https://t.co/nGJbm5pbZF

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2020-02-07

some mari lwyds and skeletons pics this week

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2020-02-06

Ignis fatuus, the 'will o the wisp', once more commonly seen, often in oak woods, were also known as corpse candles. They were spirits, and could lead you into a bog. Natural gas, Now a rare phenomenon, due to vastly increased agriculture, drainage & irrigation.

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Raised by wild coyotes, Pecos Bill could use a rattlesnake to lasso a cyclone. He rode a horse called Widow-Maker, and his favorite food was dynamite. Naturally, he met his paramour, Slue-Foot Sue, while she was riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande.

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The Panchatantra or The Five Treatises is a collection of interconnected animal fables for children. It's earliest version in Sanskrit dates to 200 BCE and the stories have seeped into the culture of almost every country in the world.

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The Little Mermaid, shown as naked & vulnerable by Rie Cramer.
Folklorist Virginia Borges writes that the story is about the dangers of accepting abuse or inconsiderate treatment in the name of love.

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2020-02-06

Wayland the smith is a story told in Völundarkviða (a poem in the Poetic Edda) and Þiðreks saga. In them, Wayland is enslaved by a king and takes revenge by killing the king's sons and then escaped by crafting a winged cloak and flying away.

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2020-02-06

It is unlucky to uproot Periwinkle from a grave, for the dead, will appear to the person who takes it, and his dreams for the next twelve months will be very wretched and miserable.

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2020-01-30

Naglfar, a ship fated to sail during Norse end times, was to to be built entirely from the finger/toe nails of corpses. To deprive the otherworld of materials & delay the ships construction, funerary tasks often included trimming the nails of loved ones.

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2020-01-31

Hecate was the Greek goddess of crossroads, doorways, boundaries, thresholds & city walls. This eclectic deity was also linked to the home, magic, necromancy, dogs, polecats, yews, light, ghosts, herbs, medicines & poisons.

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Fenrir, a monstrous wolf of Norse mythology, was the son of the demoniac god Loki & a giantess, Angerboda. Fearing Fenrir’s strength the gods bound him w/ a magical chain and gagged him w/ a sword, the spell breaking only on Ragnarök (Doomsday), releasing him.

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