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The Ethiopian Crocotta/ Leucrotta is a hybridized were-animal that can mimic human voices to lure their prey. If the creature looks at you three times then it will root you to the spot.
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2021-10-09

In the Kenyan village of Kakamega, some locals believe the resident geese only honk at witches, as they have a sixth sense for identifying them. Families keep geese as security guards to alert them to the presence of witches.

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2021-10-09

According to legend, Siamese cats were used to guard the King of Siam.They would perch on tall pillars placed around his throne; if anyone threatened the King, the cats would leap down on the attacker, slashing with their claws
🎨Eileen Mayo (1906-1994)

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2021-10-03

Different regions have different rules, saying when a cat reaches 7, 8, or 13 years old, it gains magical powers. The bakeneko is a magic cat, a trickster able to shapeshift and create fire. Some even gain two tails, called Nekomata.

🖼: Cake-o

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2021-10-02

The Scottish 'Cat Sìth' is said to be a thief of souls. The superstition that cats have nine lives comes from the idea that the Cat Sìth's were witches that could transform nine times, with the final transformation being permanent.
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2021-10-02

The Cù-Sìth is a spectral hound from the Scottish highlands that takes souls to the afterlife. A popular superstition states that hearing a dog howl is an omen of death and this comes from the idea that the Cù-Sìth's three howls can cause death.

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2021-10-02

In the past, when horses got a new pair of horseshoes, their owners didn't throw the old pair away, because they believed in "cream witches:" witches that kept cream from becoming butter. The remedy was to drop a red-hot burning horseshoe into the butter churn.

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2021-10-02

"... like another cursed Jonah..." ("Moby Dick")

A bringer o' bad luck on board a ship be called a Jonah 'n thrown into the sea, like the sailors o' Joppa did wit' the prophet on thar way t' Tarshish



🖼️ print after Rubens, 1755

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2021-09-19

Although their real existence is not proven, it is said that, on stormy nights, the RAQUEIROS (from English wrecker) tied torches to the horns of cows and released them on the cliffs, in order to confuse the ships that sailed near the coast and cause their wreck.

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2021-09-18

What became of St Dahalin's pirates? Well, I like to think that they became really friendly ‘saintly’ seafarers after that! Instead of pillaging people, they took to the high oceans, had fun looking for🧜‍♀️, & never ever made anyone walk the plank again!

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2021-09-18

Yer weekly wunderkammer safety advice - edition

If ye see red sails East o' the Good 'ope, shipmates, beware! Arrgh! It be the Flyin' Dutchman! Yer doom be ascertained!

Thank ye. Spit thrice, touch cold iron an' be safe.

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2021-09-18

An illustration for an exhibition entitled ‘The Art of Superstition’.
The piece features four superstitions; lucky four leaf clover, lucky rabbit's foot, lucky pants and 'three on a match'.

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2021-09-14

✨🍀✨It was believed that carrying a four-leaf clover would grant the ability to see Faeries.

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2021-09-05

RAVEN GOTHIC The hoarse screech of the raven was seen both as an omen of death & a source of power; straddling the worlds of the living & the dead, the raven is an uncanny messenger between the two. 🎨Victorian Halloween invitation; image 2 c/o shirleytwofeathers

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2021-08-28

In many Latin American countries, the color of your underwear on New Year's Eve is believed to impact the coming year. Yellow brings prosperity, red brings romance, white brings peace, green brings good luck, & blue brings good health.

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2021-08-21

Day 18: The witching hour: Of ghosts and superstitions
Ghost hinata is coming to your house..... Tonight 👻

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2021-08-20

The only and authentic freedom of the human being is that of the spirit, of a spirit uncontaminated by irrational beliefs and perhaps poetic superstitions in any case, but which distort the perception of reality and should offend the most elementary reason.

José Saramago

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2021-08-16

In the 19th century, women began to flirt safely in more overt ways: by “dropping” one’s glove for a suitor to pick up. Today, it’s still considered bad luck to retrieve one’s own glove. Oh, no! 😂🧤💖#SuperstitionSat

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2021-08-15

Do not sleep with the obi (belt) of your kimono near you as you sleep: you will dream of snakes. Legend speaks of animated obi turning to snake-like bakemono and strangling people in their sleep.

🖼: M. Meyer

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2021-08-14