Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

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“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

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"Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called."~Remy de Gourmont 

🎨Tristram,1080,#OfDarkAndMacabre.

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Uncanny and exquisite aesthetic

Sinister and gloomy art by Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto.

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I wonder if shapeshifting counts as dressing up? To this purpose I present the Irish goddess The Morrigan. Her rôle as a symbol of imminent death, and to influence the outcome of war, was achieved by appearing as a crow flying overhead.

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