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‘Mad as a Hatter’ comes from the 18th and 19th century when hatters used mercury nitrate as part of the process of turning animal fur into felt. The substance caused hallucinations, emotional instability and the desire to have tea with wild animals.

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2018-10-04

According to Asian & Native American Myth; Octopus-People or Cecaelia, are half human/octopus. Known as the Witches of the Sea, with mystic powers & the qualities of an octopus. Often seen with woven seaweed backpacks & domesticated sting-rays, as pack animals.

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2018-10-04

Sidney Paget, who created the classic image of was born on 4th October 1860. He the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when they appeared in The Strand Magazine from 1891 to 1902.

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2018-10-04

"Nyurgun said that without the help of the spirits, the shaman is no different than a child trying to play the komuz: its strings will produce sounds, but not music.
The teacher is the path, but it is the spirits who form the taiga."
🌙https://t.co/IqGSuha4aR

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2018-09-27

Queen Nehalennia (aka Nehellenia) might be based on Nehalennia, a Celtic or Germanic goddess venerated by seafarers. Images of her seated with a dog at her feet were found on votive altars in Zeeland.

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2018-09-28

No doubt you've heard of the genie in the bottle, what about 'The Bottle Imp'? Inspired by the Grimm tale 'Spiritus Familiaris' and based on R.L. Stevenson's 1891 story, 'The Bottle Imp': 'Der Flaschenteufel' (1952) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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Crystal gazing was practiced by ancient civilizations in North and South America, Egypt, Persian, China. Pliny the Elder tells of Celtic Druids of Gaul, Britain, &Ireland. Burne-Jones uses spheres as the home of unrealized worlds and possibilities.

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2018-09-27

This mark your calendars, because we're going to celebrate the only way we know how...

With a kickstarter to collect the entire lot...

Trick...or...treat?

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2018-09-27

In Māori mythology, Punga is the ancestor of sharks, rays, lizards and all distorted, ugly things. It is said that all deformed things are Punga’s children.

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in Japanese folklore, sandals that have been forgotten or mistreated by their owners become Bakezori; sandal spirits that awaken at night and run about the house at night causing mischief.

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As well as carrying the devil’s curse on all those who eat them after blackberries can protect your home against vampires. If planted nearby, a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries & forgets his harmful intentions.

Image - Cicely Barker

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In Sailor Mars' "Evil Spirits Begone" attack, quick shots of Acala (अचल), a Buddhist dharmapala, are seen. In Japan, he is called Fudō Myō-ō & is revered in Shingon, Tendai, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism & Shugendō traditions. He is 1 of 5 Wisdom Kings.

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2018-09-21

Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen

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2018-09-21

*Harvest* comes from Old English and means "Autumn". Harvesting (and reaping) with William Morris and the Limbourg Brothers. [ Left: Rossetti tiles based on Morris & Co. Labors designs. Right: Autumn tiles Tres Riches Heures Labors]

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2018-09-21

With the spirits trapped in the chestnuts, one has to wait until first snowfall. Then you have a choice to either roast the chestnuts or to take them out into the woods& leave them, ether way the the malice of the spirits will be cleansed, giving them peace. 2/2

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2018-09-21

More punishments of the damned: hail and firestones, flames, and (for the usurers) boiling wells.

MS. Douce 134, fols 103v, 105v, 121r: https://t.co/Zr1RBzqPRv

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2018-09-21

Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?

MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5

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2018-09-20

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Long ago there were 10 suns causing drought. Hou Yi shot down 9 suns, leaving just 1, was rewarded with an immortality elixir, but was drunk by his wife who flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was sad so offered fruits & gave sacrifice to her.

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2018-09-20