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Bakezōri are a type of tsukumogami. They look normal sandles with arms and feet and one eye. They like scaring people.

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2022-11-09

It's and I've got a fractured fairytale for you, IT'S NOT THE THREE LITTLE PIGS by ,, the new addition to the series https://t.co/gbXuSRuynN

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2022-11-09

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

🎨 Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896)

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2022-11-08

A 'hob-thross' lived in Millom Castle. He slept by the fire during the day, and worked all night, doing the chores the humans didn’t want to do. One harsh winter he was offered clothes, a terrible insult to a hob-thross, so he left.


art: Eric Edwards

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2022-11-08


The stray sod is an odd walking plant that grows on the graves of unbaptized children. They wander around mindlessly and anyone who steps on them are cursed with a confusion that will make them lost unless they turn their clothes inside out.

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2022-11-08

In “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” or “The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes” the King locks his daughters into their bedroom each night but come morning their shoes are worn to bits. Whoever can solve this locked room mystery wins the kingdom & a princess
🎨Errol le Cain

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2022-11-08

The Princess in the Suit of Leather, features a princess wearing a suit of leather that covers her from head to toe, in order to hide from her father who wishes to marry her.

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2022-11-08

In Irish folk tradition the long hair of the banshee is often cited. Older rural Irish women wore hair covered, unless when keening and mourning, when it would be loose, providing one explanation of why long strewn hair is so common for the death-messenger...

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2022-11-08

If led astray by fairy folk, turn your clothing inside out to break the spell. This folklore is recorded in the National Folklore Collection, UCD, Ireland.
(Pic: 'Oberon, Titania and Puck', W. Blake, c. 1786)
https://t.co/qVqLPnQs7Z

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2022-11-08

Sorry, re upload :(
Doing some experiments

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2022-11-08

According to the Norse sagas, humans and elves can interbreed and produce half-human, half-elfin children. These children often have the appearance of humans but possess extraordinary intuitive and magical powers.

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2022-11-03

Idun/Iduna is the Norse Goddess of Spring and the keeper of the apples of immortality that the gods would eat to preserve their youthfulness.

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🎨 Idun and the Apples by James Doyle Penrose (1890)

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2022-11-02

Has any mythology or folklore, Norse or otherwise, not benefitted from Arthur Rackham's illustrations?

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2022-11-02


In Irish lore, Donn "the dark one" is an ancestor of the Gaels is called the Lord of the Dead. Donn dwells in Tech Duinn the "house of the dark one"where the souls of the dead gather. He is said to be a phantom horseman riding a white horse.

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2022-11-02

In Norse and other European mythology, The Wild Hunt is a terrifying chase of ghostly riders, capable of sucking up souls and an omen of war. Often it is led by a supernatural figure such as Odin

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2022-11-01

The story of Fionn & Sigurd are similar - Sigurd kills dragon Fafnir and gains knowledge when he accidentally licks his finger while cooking for the dwarf Regin. In the Irish version, Fionn does the same cooking the Salmon of Knowledge for the dwarf Finnegas.

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2022-11-01

Do you like GHOST SHIPS?

Join us for terrifying tales of & some tremendous locations in SIDEWORLD: TERRORS OF THE SEA, Now available to RENT .

Just one of the multiple subjects we explore.

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2022-11-01


Jimmy Squarefoot is a slow but peaceful giant from the Isle of Mann with a piggish face and, as expected, square feet. Takes casual walks next to running rivers and the sea, he likes company and is a strong conversationalist, telling great stories and jokes.

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2022-11-01

A hero travels to the sky using his powers or aided by the Magic Bird. A mortal soul requires initiation, moral strength and above all a desire to climb this Cosmic Tree / Stairway to Heaven through the air.

Yggdrasil & Tree of Life

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2022-11-01