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In Cornwall if you see a bat it's traditional to chant for luck:
“Airymouse, airymouse, fly over my head

and you shall have a crust of bread,

and when I brew and when I bake

you shall have a piece of my wedding cake.”

🎨Dudley Hardy (1891)

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2020-08-01

According to folklore, evil spirits would appear on the summer solstice. To ward off evil spirits, people would wear protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most powerful of these plants was known as ‘chase devil’ or St. John’s Wort

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2020-06-20

Some fairies are murderous, such as the Redcaps who are said to haunt the Border peel towers. They try to redye their caps in human blood...#SuperstitionSat

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2020-05-30

Your weekly Wunderkammer safety advice, special

The sluagh are the host of restless dead turned fae. They return from the West to haunt you. When you smell decay, close your western windows!

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

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2020-05-30

The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever.The myth is likely to have originated from the 17th-century golden age of the Dutch East India Company. The sight of this ship is a portent of doom.

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2020-05-16

Well, it's Saturday... again!

And this week's optional theme as chosen by YOU is
⛵ THE SEA 🌊

Thus sharing all your superstitions with the hashtag from now until late!

Good luck, mateys!

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2020-05-16

The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It is considered unlucky to kill an albatross; in the poem the narrator kills the bird and his fellow sailors force him to wear the dead bird around his neck.

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2020-05-09

'Last night the sun went pale to bed,
The moon in halos hid her head.'
This is from Superstitions of the Irish Country People, by Padraic O'Farrell. It is said to be a portent of a change in the weather.

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2020-04-25