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On Halloween night hold up a mirror and walk backwards down stairs reciting:

"Whoever my true love is to be
Come and look in this glass with me."

If a face appears looking over your shoulder it will be who you will marry, but a coffin means you will die⚰️.

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from Aldrovandi's 1640 book about & by Tasia, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the

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The is a 'Weeper'. It is heard groaning before a death, especially multiple deaths.

Its doleful sound is heard first at a distance, then nearer, then close at hand; so that it is a three-fold warning of death.

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It is unlucky to uproot Periwinkle from a grave 🌱

The dead will appear to the person who takes it and his dreams for the next twelve months will be very wretched and miserable 💀

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The gruesome French tale of Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, Bluebeard tells her not to open a specific door. She does,falling into a bloodbath! With bodies of old wives hanging from the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key; revealing her demise!#FolkloreThursday

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Fantasmagoriana, a French anthology of German ghost stories, plays a key rol in the genesis of Frankenstein and The Vampyre during the "wet, ungenial summer" of 1816 https://t.co/tRW6ju3e9I

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Phobos (who lends his name to the word 'Phobia') is the Greek God of fear. The lion-headed Phobos stalked battlefields with his brother Deimos (Dread). Fear is part of Halloween, and the wise or unlucky know that fear of death is the least of it. (Art by me)

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The blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins in a poppet, its wands used for cursing. A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. Img: Cicely Barker

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The Kingdom was in trouble once again. The King offered half his wealth to anyone who would come to his aid.

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Deep in a decaying rain forest, another child has gone missing from a village haunted by the Pontianak...I am proud to release 'Mists & Shadows' - a 5e D&D adventure based on Malaysian folklore & culture! Bring the horror of hantu to your table (for FREE!) https://t.co/ufJKFokHPU

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Properties 9-15 of are said to be linked to sightings. The first was in 1996 when a street cleaner heard commotion inside. Timber was seen being hurled around inside, despite nobody being on site.

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kimi: i'm not a nine tail fox like folklore but me and renny love to play with the nine tail butt plug hehe

(artist: cottontail)

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'Jack-o'-lantern' was originally used to refer to either a night watchman or the light of a will-o'-the-wisp.

(🖌️Jason Engle)

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The Malaysian penanggalan looks like a woman by day, but at night detaches its head from its body & flies around with its spinal column & internal organs dangling while it searches for prey. It uses its long tongue as a straw to drain humans to death.

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A palis is a vampiric creature of Middle Eastern lore that lives in deserts. It drains people's blood by licking their feet while they sleep. But it's repelled by salt, & can easily be tricked if two people sleep end-to-end with the soles of their feet together.

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Have you heard of this Belizean/Yucatec Maya folklore? What other versions have you heard of it? 👻🕸🇧🇿

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thumbs, has backwards feet, & wears a large brimmed hat. He is also characterized as being very strong.

The Tata Duende has appeared on a postage stamp of Belize as part of a series on Belizean folklore & has been told through different variations; one of them being that this

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Spooky Week: Central American edition 🕸
Tata Duende or Nukux Tat 👻

The Tata Duende is a goblin of folklore from Belize. The Tata Duende is famous folklore common to the Yucatec Maya culture. In Yucatec Maya, he is known as Nukux Tat

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folklore by taylor swift being my life support

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