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Hello there! I'm The Sheepish One, but you can call me Sheeps. I'm an artist / storyteller that takes inspiration from southern superstition, folklore, and the occult. Thanks for being on this journey with me so far!

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2021-11-07

Happy Halloween everyone 🎃💛

Friendly reminder that statistics indicate that black cats take longer to be adopted than cats of other colors mostly bc superstition and they’re not considered photogenic. time to prove them all wrong and share pics of our black furballs

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2021-11-01

Why did give Edgar Allan Poe the heebie-jeebies? What have they got to do with And what was German preferred mode of transportation?

Get in the spirit with some raven 🎃

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2021-10-31

Key to a number of potions and balms is mandrake, which had to be handled carefully so it wouldn't scream you to death. Mandrake root was a key ingredient for making a homunculus, for flying ointments, for love potions, and indeed, to prepare for Black Sabbath.

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2021-10-30

Witches of Scandinavian folklore came up with a clever way to get free milk. They made troll cats out of nails and hair. They were often shaped as cats or hares and would steal milk or cream for the neighbours and spit it out into a manger.

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2021-10-30

Why do have such a reputation for being What will happen if one lands in your house? Spoiler: nothing good. And what is their place in different

Get in the spirit with some crow 🎃

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2021-10-30

There is desperate hope in superstition. We take strolls w/ lucky charms in our timorous hands & burn beeswax candles to help lift prayers to the right ears. My neighbours have amber gargoyles on their roofs to ward off illness & evil, but they only excite my sisters.

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2021-10-25

If you can get a ghost between the door and the doorpost, and then slam the door, it will be so tormented it will have to leave you...

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2021-10-24



In Gloucestershire there's a superstition that horses can see ghosts.

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2021-10-23

十六日目はヤドリまたはカッパ！
河童の中でもかなり特異な事例。
youkaitover only for kappa!
Please take a look if you like!
kappa-only youkaitober
Day 16:Yadori or Kappa


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2021-10-23

🎃SPOOKY FACT OF THE DAY🎃

The superstition around black cats crossing your path on Halloween stems from the Puritan Pilgrims of Plymouth. Puritans believed Witches could transform into black cats and back, hence the inspiration for characters like Binx from Hocus Pocus!

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2021-10-22

Sonadow-tober Day 17: Coffee Shop
Sonamy Spookfest Day 17: Superstition

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2021-10-18

In Irish lore, there is a belief that a house should not be built until a spade is stuck in the ground and left overnight. If the spade is still standing in the morn, it is safe to build without angering the fairies (aos sí) 🧚

🎨Alan Lee

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2021-10-16

🌿🌗🌿Hawthorn trees are sacred to the Fae, and it was believed that anyone foolhardy enough to rest beneath one when the veil between the worlds was thin - at Beltane, the Solstices and Samhain - risked falling under their power and being stolen away.

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2021-10-16

The prince thanking the Water sprite, from 'The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland' (1884) by Andrew Lang (illustration by Richard Doyle)

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2021-10-16

The colours of the Welsh fairyland, Annwn, are white and gold. As a result, fairies generally have pale skin, blond hair, and pale yellow eyes. Someone born in Wales with such features was often mistrusted, suspected of being secretly a fairy changeling

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2021-10-16

Trow are described as small, ugly, deformed creatures sometimes invisible to humans. At night the trow were thought to break into houses to warm themselves around the fire.

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2021-10-16

A sprite, a supernatural entity in European mythology. Often depicted as fairy-like creatures or as an ethereal entity


🎨 Mark Potts

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2021-10-16

SongTober Day 15: "Superstition" by Blanche
Man AJ is so hard to find songs for 😔

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2021-10-16