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“His mind now misgave him; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched." (W. Irving)

Awae' wi' the fae for 20 years, Rip van Winkle discovers that the future did not make his world a more welcoming place

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2022-04-27

In fairy tale lore, Rip Van Winkle fell asleep following a draught of an unusual liquor offered to him by a mysterious stranger. On waking he finds that 20 years have passed and he no longer recognises the world he left ...


🎨 Arthur Rackham

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2022-04-27

Tamamo no Mae was a famous kitsune who was said to be the concubine of Emperor Toba. She was a shapeshifter & a trickster, appearing as a supernaturally beautiful woman.

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2022-04-21

Erik the Red was a rebellious Viking whose temper was beyond control. He was so violent and controversial that he was exiled from his country on two occasions! His people got tired of him because he didn’t know where to draw the line. More: https://t.co/Y1JAPWcGr4

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2022-04-21

Tróndur í Gøtu was a Viking chieftain who was fighting for the freedom of his land — against the royal taxation and christianization of the Faroe Islands.

Once a real man, he got fictionalized and became a hero of numerous legends and ballads.

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2022-04-20

Gráinne Ní Mháille (c. 1530 – c. 1603), also known as (Irish: ), was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland, and the daughter of Eóghan Dubhdara Ó Máille. In popular culture she is often referred to as "The Pirate Queen".

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2022-04-20

The legend Robin Hood center around the vigilante who rebels against King John. The Prince of Thieves is known to take from the rich in order to give to the poor. His rebellious acts make him a hero among the common people.

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2022-04-20

Boadicea by A. S. Forrest

Boudicca was the queen of the British Iceni tribe. She led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. 

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2022-04-20

These are only some of the many characters circulated throughout this form of digital folklore. As creepypasta is told & retold by different people with many different variations, creepypasta, at least in its earliest form, is a tradition that belongs to all 9/

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2022-04-14

Ticci-Toby is a bullied teenage boy who dealt with multiple mental illnesses and had trouble fitting in. After losing his sister, Toby descends into madness, kills his abusive father, and becomes a proxy for Slender Man. 4/

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2022-04-14

Creepypasta is a type of online urban legend. They are horror stories (and other medium) framed as if they were real & the most popular characters often recur in other stories. In the earlier days of creepypasta, stories were written anonymously & widely shared. 1/

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2022-04-14

Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel, features in works of fiction ranging from novels to films,televised dramas and video games.Influences on the depiction of the Ripper include Marie Belloc Lowndes' 'The Lodger' & Alan Moore's 'From Hell'

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2022-04-13

Mrs Catherine O'Leary was an Irish immigrant living in Chicago, Illinois, US. The story is that an alleged accident involving her cow started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871! Fact or urban legend?! 🎨1871 from Harper's Magazine.

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2022-04-13

Many of John Bauer's paintings focused on mythology, especially trolls. He is best known for his illustrations of Bland tomtar och troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls), an anthology of Swedish folklore and fairy tales.

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2022-04-07

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!” ~ Lewis Carroll.
[Illustration by John Tenniel (1820-1914)]

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2022-04-07

An old favourite...
The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea by Thorvald Niss...

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2022-04-07

Portrait of the artist painting a portrait of something shy and unspeakable

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2022-04-06

H.P. Lovecraft once said: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”

Art can bring fear to life, which painter Thomas Kinkade shows through his paintings of Lovecraft's monster Cthulhu.

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2022-04-06

Landscape with birds, Lucian Freud, 1940.

Self-portrait, ‘Man with a Feather’, Lucian Freud, 1943.

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2022-04-06