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Dirk Miller used Sonido de Tortuga's villagers superstitions and dressed up as 'Shaman' to lure in more test subjects so he can complete the research on 'Kodoku virus'

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2021-02-14

Guernsey lore: when you see the 1st cuckoo of the year put a stone on your head & run. Mark where the stone falls off. Come back the next day. You'll find money under the stone. (If lazy, when you hear the 1st cuckoo turn over money in your pocket for good luck)

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2021-02-13

Fair Maid of February: Symbol of spring and associated with Imbolc/Candlemas, the snowdrop has many superstitions attached, both for good luck and ill. Bringing it into the house, for example, was thought to turn the milk sour and spoil the eggs.
[🎨CM Barker]

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2021-01-31

Your weekly Wunderkammer safety advice - Candlemas special

Don't let a candle burn down to the socket of the candlestick. That means certain doom for a sailor out at sea.

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

🖼️ J.M.W. Turner "Shipwreck" 1810

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2021-01-30

New tour! We take you to the Nightmare Realm where we discuss nightmare meanings, nightmare deities and entities, and superstitions. We also talk about our own personal nightmares as well as some lovely tourist submitted ones! https://t.co/c0GF746RUm

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2021-01-25

🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌿A Scottish charm to protect newborn babies from Witchcraft was to take a green Ash twig, put one end in the fire till the sap bubbled out then collect, cool and mix with a little honey before giving a spoonful to the baby.

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2021-01-23

🌿🦄🌿For I'm giving a mention to the magical stepping stones that get me through the week...






And for a daily dose of re-enchantment💚

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2021-01-23

Très vite, de nombreux disciples l'accompagneront. Parmi eux, Polybe, l'auteur du traité sur la Nature de l'homme et de sa théorie des humeurs.

Jusqu'à présent, la médecine souffrait des incantations propitiatoires et des superstitions.

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2021-01-16

theme of home remedies 🌿
A local recipe for that nasty cough:
1lb onions
1lb black treacle
Peel & cut the onions into small pieces. Pour the treacle over and allow to stand for 48 hours. Then strain & bottle.
A dessert spoonful taken if desired 🤢

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2021-01-16

Chinese snuff bottles with lucky bat decorations. In China bats were associated with auspiciousness & good fortune flying into one’s life. A bat hanging motionlessly upsidedown was a symbol of longevity.

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2021-01-09

cw superstitions ?

goodbye banri

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2021-01-04

🌟🍀🌟It was believed to be very disrespectful - and therefore unlucky - to point at a star.

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2020-12-19

Just a late upload and a humble travois hauled by a Canadian drek of the Masquerade Tribes, known for their superstitions about masks as a method of warding off evil spirits AND for their magnificent efficacy in interegional trade and barter commerce.

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2020-12-19

That's it for today's session! A heartfelt 'thank you' to all who gave a little bit of their time to participate this year 🐈‍⬛ Next week (19/12) will be the last of 2020, before a Solstice and a conjunction, with optional theme of

🌒NIGHT, LIGHT & SKY🌘

🐾

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2020-12-13

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It was once believed that during the time around the winter solstice, as on Halloween, the veil between the living & the dead thinned.

With this in mind, here’s a thread dedicated to death + Christmas superstitions 💀🎄

(GIF by lakritzellaz)

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2020-12-12

At Hogmanay, or Scottish New Year, a preferably tall, dark haired man bearing gifts of coal, silver coins, black buns, salt or whisky, is invited over the threshold as “First-Footer” to bring good luck for the coming year.

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2020-12-05

According to a compendium of Ozark superstitions—killing a goose in the fall & examining its breastbone gives clues about the winter to come. If the bone is thin & more transparent, the weather will be mild; if the bone is thick, the weather will be severe.

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2020-12-05

It was once said in Brittany that if a girl cooked an oak apple in the waters of a fountain whose source watered a cemetery, she would be imbued with the ancient wisdom of the fairies of old.

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2020-11-28