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Amabie has become well known over the past few years for its ability to protect people from disease, but it is also said to deliver prophecies about good harvests. Often appearing as a glowing light out to sea, it has long hair, three legs, a beak and the...

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2022-03-18

King of Ulster's chief druid, Cathbad, prophesied that an unborn Deirdre would be the most beautiful girl in Ireland. So...warrior would kill warrior, 3 of noblest sons of Ulster would be exiled, Ulster would be torn to pieces. Known as 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'.

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2022-03-18

Martin Rowson on the Tories’ Faustian energy pact – political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6

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2022-03-17

In ancient Greek Mythology,Enyo was the goddess of war and destruction. She is connected with Ares who was the war god. She was usually shown as the sister and companion for Ares the God of war. Sometimes she was called the “Sister of War”or the“Sacker of Cities.”

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2022-03-12

There's been quite a fuss about the arrival of a Japanese spider in the East Coast of North America: the Jōrogumo, an actual species of orb weaver, is in Japanese folklore a craven hungry monster masquerading as a beauty with eyes only for you.

🖼: IrenHorrors

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2022-03-12

Lilith is a female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology,alternatively the 1st wife of Adam and supposedly the primordial she-demon. Lilith is cited as having been "banished" from the Garden of Eden for not complying and obeying Adam https://t.co/cOy1kPk8s0

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2022-03-12

Catalina de los Ríos y Lísperguer nicknamed La Quintrala because of her flaming red hair,was an aristocratic 17th-century Chilean landowner and murderer of the Colonial Era. She is famous for her beauty and,according to legend,her cruel treatment of her servants.

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2022-03-12

In many versions, Morgan the Fey has good reason to hate King Arthur's existence. Merlin's magic turned Arthur's father, Uther, into Morgan's father in order to sleep with Morgan's mother to produce Arthur. Then, to keep Morgan quiet, Uther made her join a nunnery

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2022-03-11

The Bloofer Lady: in Dracula, after becoming a vampire, Lucy is seen wandering around Hampstead Heath, luring children. Her name hints at her two natures: ‘light’ in her human form, but also Lucifer as a vampire, a female figure drawing on Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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Symbols appearing in D.G. Rossetti's 1866 painting Lady Lilith allude to the femme fatale reputation of the Romantic Lilith: poppies (death & cold) & white roses (sterile passion). He wrote a sonnet: Lilith (later renamed Body's Beauty) to appear alongside it.

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In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's thought to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'

🎨Thomas Maybank

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Irish goddess The Morrígan (phantom/great Queen) incites warriors to battle! Trio of sisters; Badb, Macha & Nemain. Appears as a crow (badb)! When Cú Chulainn died (strapped to standing stone), only when a crow landed on him was his enemy convinced he was dead!

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2022-03-11

Many Ulverston locals will avoid the eerie woods at Plumpton, and lurking in the water of the flooded iron mines nearby, lives Jenny Greenteeth, a 'river hag' who pulls children and the elderly into the water to drown them


artist: unknown

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2022-03-11

BERSERK X BLY MANOR
an ancient cultist seduces a reluctant priest with the promise of freedom from the church that has imprisoned them both, ft.
🩸 dual timelines
🩸 star-crossed lovers
🩸 demonic hauntings
🩸 faustian deals

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2022-03-06

It comes from a European belief that vampires cannot resist the urge to count things.There are stories that say you should carry bag filled with grains of rice with you. In case of a vampire attack, you can spill the seeds on the ground to divert their attention,#FaustianFriday.

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2022-03-04

I love the way the Victorians conceived of witch & bat-woman attire —the 19thc had such rich histories surrounding occult hobbyists 🖤🦇#FaustianFriday

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2022-02-26

Oh yay! I'm Coffee and I'm currently working on a dark fantasy webtoon called Scylla, about a faustian bargain and two star-crossed lovers trying to survive in a forest full of monsters and secrets

https://t.co/IvauK6gSUO

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2022-02-26

Dressing for the Masquerade by Thomas Rowlandson

Masquerade balls have been a feature of the season since the 15th century. Full of allegorical costumes, pageants and triumphant processions.

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2022-02-25


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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