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A girl sleeping in a fairy rath on May eve was carried off by the Aos Sí, leaving only a shadow body, was reclaimed with proper rituals, complains she:

"...it is all gone, and you have brought me back, and I shall never, never see the beautiful palace more”

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Hawthorn flowers are also called blossom. They are sacred to the goddess Brighid when she brings new life & fertility & appear from April until June. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed, & brings love & healing to the heart.

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A potent beauty charm was believed to be hawthorn dew on May Day.

'The fair maid who, on the first May,
Goes to the fields at break of day,
Washes in dew from the hawthorn tree,
Will ever after handsome be'.


🎨 John Waterhouse

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“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and air and water held revel."
~ Bram Stoker

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Some superstition stuff

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Cat-Sith - Black Cat - Witch

Song: Only Superstition

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Many items are regarded as bad luck to keep inside one’s home. Some are practical (garden hoe, open umbrella). Others are harbingers of bad luck. It is believed that displaying paintings or photographs of scenes of disasters will bring distress to your home.

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I am an optimist about things in general, but I look upon the sea as the ancients viewed their gods, with superstition. ~ E.A. Pye (Sea View by Moonlight by Ivan Aivazovsky)

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2022-04-17

Lily of the Valley is one of the lilies of Originally linked to Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of the flower symbolises the arrival of new light & life. Image: Cicely Mary Barker

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🌊🧜‍♀️🌊In Rostherne Mere, Cheshire, a church bell lost long ago in its waters can be heard chiming at dawn on Easter Sunday - it's said that a mermaid swims through a subterranean channel from the river Mersey to ring the bell and sit upon it to sing.

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is this superstition?

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💀Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal🎨Pedro Sena-Lordigan💀#HPLovecraft

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Eating Flowers by Liz Grounds
According to the 1903 book "Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, And The Occult Sciences Of The World" good luck will ensue on your birthday if you eat primroses. Please note that the book is highly unreliable.

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Botticelli depicted Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, having emerged from the sea fully-grown.
"…she was carried over the waves of the resounding sea on soft foam. The gold-filleted Horae happily welcomed her & clothed her with heavenly raiment…"

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There are a lot of beliefs about mavkas, nyavkas and rusalkas in Slavic folklore.

One of them is that rusalkas can steal the bodies of unbaptized babies from their graves.


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Day 3: Superstition

“Bigyan mong pagkain si kuya mo, baka bumisita.”

Here at our place, we do offerings to the dead especially during events. To make sure that they get a share of whatever we’re eating, and to avoid “bati”

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Day 3: Filipino Superstitions

Tlj doesnt want jiumei to get sick 😊😊

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My late grandmother would say that Galloway was the last stronghold of the Ancient Folk (faeries).
In 1850 a hawthorn tree halted the widening of the road between Glenluce and Newton Stewart because it was 'faerie property'.


art: Joanna Wolska

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