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Armenian holds a rare account of women being turned into werewolves as a consequence of deadly sin for a period of seven years. She wanders only at night, condemned to eat children, by day returning to her human form...

Art: LadyFiszi @ deviantart

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The Gwyllion are evil fairies who haunt lonely roads in the Welsh mountains, they torment and lead night-travellers astray. Image- Brian Froud

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A conjunct Mars & Venus in Virgo, on 30 Aug. 6:37 am EDT, 11:37 am BST, 20:37 Aust. A as it is the 2nd new moon in a month, & a being very close to the earth. The magical energy of the new moon will be ramped up. Img: Waterhouse

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In Japanese folklore, a Nure-onna is a spirit which resembles a reptilious creature with the head of a woman and the body of a snake. She is typically spotted on a shore, washing her hair. She sometimes chokes you to death with her long snake body.

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Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds & fertility. Part man, part goat, his name gives us the word ‘Panic’.
Psyche, a beautiful mortal who earned the love of Eros, gives her name to the soul or mind & its study:‘Psychology’.


(Pan & Psyche 🎨Burne-Jones

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Vodník is the Czech/Slovak version of vodyanoy, a male water spirit. Vodník looks more humanlike, wears clothes, and can survive outside water with his clothes wet. He tricks people, then steals their souls and keeps them underwater in teacups.
Art: Josef Lada

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Who are your favourite "real" witches - either self identifying or named as such by others, from history to the present. (Image: A Witch on Pegasus by Clara Siewert)

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Actaeon was out hunting and accidentally saw Artemis bathing. She turned him into a stag and he was ripped apart by his own hounds.




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A dragon is a mythical creature breathing fire & having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, & a long tail. It appears in the of many world cultures & considered both benevolent & malevolent according to region & belief system.
Img Antonello Venditti

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Ossian conjures up the spirits on the banks of the River Lorca - Károly Kisfaludy

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Mis is the original wild woman of Irish mytholog. Overcome with grief upon finding her father’s body, she licked his battle wounds, much like an animal, to try to heal him. When it failed, she rose into the air like a bird and flew away. (Img: Rackham)

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What a wild session, I’m leaving you with this illustration from Arthur Rackham. Wild things have a place and deserve their space! This is Crystal of signing off. The amazing will be joining as your last host at 6:30 BST!

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There is a 'Wild Woman of the Woods' named Tsonoqua. A giant cannibal covered in hair, who targets naughty children. Emitting an eerie whistle before snatching kids in a pack basket. Tsonoqua stories inspired the famous witch from the Hansel & Gretel

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Thinking his lover Iseult has betrayed him, Sir Tristan withdraws to the forests of Cornwall for months, naked, raving, and mad. When he’s finally brought back by King Mark, he’s unrecognizable—except by Iseult’s little dog.

Art: Edward Burne-Jones

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'Schneewittchen' – The German Snow White Tale by the Brothers Grimm is our tale this week! A darker version with woods and seven little men. Read the illustrated story now on our blog: https://t.co/EbyvtrmLnf
Illustration by A. H. Watson.

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Circe, a goddess & sorceress, who transforms many of Odysseus’s crew into swine. A symbol of women’s magical hold over men’s baser instincts.
"So she enticed & won our battle-hardened spirits over..."

(🖊️Homer 🎨Waterhouse)

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They don't get much wilder than the Red Cap, beings who hang out in ruins along the border between England and Scotland. The name comes from their tendency to dip their cap in their victim's blood... https://t.co/NfFHuQo4D5 [Image by Eugene Smith]

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Wild Man astride a dragon pulled by a pegasus.
Illustration of a pageant sleigh from a winter parade held in 1640-41, Nuremberg. From the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, Bavaria (112pp late 16c-mid 17c) [Held in Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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