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Festa di San Giuseppe| Saint-Joseph Modesto Faustini, storie di san giuseppe, 1886-90, sogno di giuseppe Santuario Basilica della Santa Casa (Loreto) Italy

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Clergyman Samuel Roffey Maitland, Lambeth Palace Librarian, travelled through Europe in around 1830. He captured clothing of that period in his watercolour paintings. Some images are identified as Breslau - today [MS 1945, p. 9]

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Some Norse magic was gendered. No man was allowed to learn Seidir, women's magic, and no man could become a Volva, a Norse seer. There was one exception to this rule: Odin learned Seidir from Freyja. Odin regularly broke gender rules, ignoring such "sins."

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Hoffmann’s “Der Struwwelpeter,” from 1845, is a terrifying, German children’s book. In moralizing tales, children are gravely punished for “bad” deeds —like “shaggy Peter’s” hygiene, & thumb-sucking! 😂Chilling images were burned into kids’ memories forever. 📚

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✨🍀✨It was believed to be unlucky - almost sinful - to point at stars, because the act was considered so disrespectful.

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"We don't have a place for these kind of people" You have to live working, if you like to eat for free, you will have to sit on the dock as an accused.

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In Norse mythology, the sin-eaters swallow the dead & incubate them in their bellies before taking them to Hel, the goddess of the underworld, ruler of Life & Death. She teaches the sinners how to live backward until they are young again & ready to be born anew.#FolkloreThursday

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"The Monk", a Gothic work of fiction, published in 1796 by Matthew Lewis, tells the tale of Ambrosio, a monk tempted into sin who enters into a tailspin of increasing carnal desire & murder. He loses his eternal salvation & his life at the hands of the devil.

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Depictions of sins in Dante's Inferno:

3rd Circle of Gluttony, illustrated by Stradanus (L)

4th Circle of Greed, by Doré (Up. R)

5th Circle of Wrath, by Stradanus (Low.R)

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It's [The Witches Sabbath, by Frans Francken]

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A Cheshire broadside tells how 5 maidservants conjured their future bridegrooms by making a ritual supper.
After reading the Lord’s Prayer backwards the door flew open & 5 ghastly gentlemen sat beside them. One girl apparently died from fright...
🎨Finden

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The wounds of a murdered person will begin to bleed again if they are touched by the murderer, revealing their guilt.

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In kijo are female demons. They appear as hideously ugly woman often with sharp horns, long claws, red eyes, wild hair & dressed in rags. These are women who were transformed into monsters due to jealousy, crimes or hatred.

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The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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One tale is that the Selkie or Seal Folk can only assume human form once every seven years because they are either humans who had committed a sinful act, or are fallen angels
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Sin-eating is an ancient ritual that involves symbolically consuming the sins of a recently deceased person. It's still practiced in some places, including Upper Bavaria. A cake is placed on the chest of the deceased & then eaten by a relative.

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fave harvestmoon / storyofseasons bachlorettes

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This week's theme is the folklore of (Image: Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Lewis Walpole Library, via wikimedia commons)

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