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#GhostlyRevenge—Oiwa and her disfigured face haunts her traitorous husband in this iconic image of her angry spirit merged with a lantern, drawn by Hokusai. As Japan's most famous ghost story, #YotsuyaKaidan continues to influence Japanese #horror even today. #FolkloreThursday
During his travels in Asia, Marco Polo saw these creatures and calmly reported it in his book "Il Libro delle Meraviglie". The first creature is using the giant foot as an umbrella. #FolkloreThursday
The Welsh Cyhyraeth is mythological Wraith (Similar to the Irish banshee and Scottish Cailleach) The Cyhyraeth's wail is a portent of death. The Cyhyraeth also sounds for the Welsh dying far from home and her weeping may fortell epidemics or disaster #FolkloreThursday
"I've taken you by the hand, for you must come to my dance": the #DanceOfDeath/#DanseMacabre is a powerful & #frightening image in European ideas, originating in the Middle Ages, developed in following centuries, & still potent now #FolkloreThursday #Halloween /cntd: pic.credits
#folklorethursday In Peru The Pishtaco is described as a pale skinned foreigner, with boots, leather coat, and felt hat. He sneaks into graveyards to grind human skeletons into a paralyzing powder he uses to incapacitate hapless travelers on nocturnal mountain roads and paths.
Hantu Banyu is a ghost believed to haunt Musi River in South Sumatra. It's shaped like a floating head with long hair. The ghost is believed to drag people with its hair and kill them by drowning or tearing through their backs and breaking their spines. #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday The Gashadokuro is a yokai that take the form of a gaint skeleton. They are said to roam around at past midnight looking for lone humans. They then bite the persons head off and drink their blood.
This All Hallow's Eve is extraordinary for it's coinciding blue-moon (2nd full moon of the month) which is said to call all creature-witches of the Majickal Dales to broom to fly in its radiance until dawn's first light... #FolkloreThursday
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In the middle ages it was believed that witches anointed their bodies with a tincture of Deadly Nightshade to induce the sensation of flying or being changed into animals, as the Atropine in the berries causes hallucination, confusions and convulsions.
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The Mischief of Spirits On All Hallows Eve acrylic and oil on paper 12 x 19 inches. #FolkloreThursday #DavidBezArtist
The #HuntersMoon of 31 Oct arrives right on #Halloween, enhancing the energy of #Samhain as the veil between the worlds thins. It is also especially magically powerful as it is a rare #bluemoon, being the second #fullmoon in a month. #FolkloreThursday Img: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Cailleach roams free during Samhain in Ireland and Scotland. She is a crone with no patience for anything. She carries a huge hammer to destroy everything she sees.
It is said that she created many places, including Ceann na Caillí ('The Hag's Head'). #FolkloreThursday
Oiwa is a Japanese ghost, the vengeful spirit of a young woman betrayed by her husband. He disfigured her face in an attempt to get rid of her so he could marry a younger woman. She cursed the pair on her death & returned to haunt all who had betrayed her.
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In #DayakIbanMythology, a woman who die in childbirth may assume the form of a vengeful ghost called 'antu koklir'. It threatens men, the agents responsible for female death, with castration or death by emasculation.
Image: Adeshark in DeviantArt
@licorice444 There are preorder bonuses which point out our potential six candidates for each gender. They gave us DILFs before MILFs. Bummed out the maid waitress is ruled out but I'm like our bachelorette roster. The bachelors went for a lot of variety this time though.
The Bean Nighe in Scottish folklore is an omen of death. Found by streams or pools, she sings a wailing dirge while washing blood from the clothes of those who are to die. Some say if you lay eyes upon her, it will be the last thing you see. #FolkloreThursday
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For #FolkloreThursday before Halloween, here are a few illustrations by Arthur Rackham from The Ingoldsby Legends which is a collection of ghost stories, myths & legends. They were written mostly as pastiches of medieval folklore & poetry.
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By the Pricking of my Thumbs is one of Agatha Christie's later works. It has an eerie plot, with themes such as memory, enigmatic artworks and missing children. There is also an old ruined doll which falls out of a chimney and provides a clue. #FolkloreThursday
once again idk how to feel on the bachelors, but the bachelorettes are cuter once again 😭