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Nicnevin is the Scottish Witch Goddess of Samhain or is the Queen of fairies, she is mostly associated with Scotland's witch trials where the suspect would often name her as the one who inducted them into witchcraft.

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Seidr is a form of Norse magic and shamanism concerned with discerning the course of fate and working within its structure to bring about change, which was done by symbolically weaving new events into being.

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Tylwyth Teg.
A fairy dragon for the family.
Living in the darkest forests, and believed to be harbingers of good fortune, these tiny Welsh Dragons emerge into the evening sunlight for just a few hours each midsummer, before returning to their shadowy homes.

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2018-08-09

“Rowan tree & red thread make witches tine their speed”- an ancient rhyme. Known also as witchentree & witchwood, the Rowan was planted by homes to protect them from harm, & by churches in to watch over & protect the dead.
Image: Cicely Barker

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Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao! Hsi Wu from Jackie Chan Adventures for tbt.

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2018-08-03

For the ancient Mexicans, the moon was actually a jar containing pulque, a traditional thick and white alcoholic beverage. The phases of the moon indicated how much pulque was left on the jar. (Art by David Alvarez)

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Sazae (turban shell sea snail): a delicacy in Japan. Sazae Oni is a shape-shifting supernatural seductress who boards&beds a ship-full of men, then robs them of their testicles. For gold one can buy his jewels. Testicles are called kin-tama: "golden balls" in JP

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2018-08-02

16th century dining, included placing live birds in a pie as a form of entremet. Hoping they'd fly out singing when the pie was cut. "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, 4 & 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing."

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2018-08-02

In Northern Europe young men & women were encouraged to participate fully in fertility festivals (to gage their reproductive abilities) because it used to be conception, not intercourse, that dictated the consummation of a marriage.

Painting by William Blake

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In China, a nine-tailed dog ran into heaven & stole grains from the celestial supply. Although divine guards cut off eight of his tails during his escape, seeds stuck on the dog's last tail. He brought them to humans, so they could grow food for the first time.

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2018-08-02

The sweetness of life, the sorrow of death in the folklore of berries

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'Snegorochka'. the story of a girl made of snow who comes alive, only to melt when she goes near fire. In some parts of Russia, folk still mark transition from winter to spring by the traditional burning of a straw doll on a bonfire, to dispel Winter.

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2018-07-27

In Swedish/European ghost story The Hooded Congregation (or Christmas Service of the Dead) a girl comes to church too early & finds it full of corpses holding mass.They're not happy she's come.Sometimes they rip her to pieces,sometimes dead grandma warns her off

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According to the Wendigo is a haunting monster amid the wood; depicted as a gaunt giant with bloody lips, emitting the odor of decay. The embodiment of gluttony & greed: its never satisfied after killing & constantly searches for new victims to consume.

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2018-07-26

In 17th century, the cockatrice legend was exaggerated: the snake was said to be generated from an egg laid by a cock&hatched by a serpent. In addition to the weasel, another 1 of its enemies was the roster:if the basilisk heard it crow, it would shortly die 2/2

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Cockatrice is a small serpent, possibly the Egyptian cobra, known as a basilikos &credited with powers of destroying all animal& plant life by its mere look or breath. Only the weasel, which secreted a venom deadly to the cockatrice, was safe from its powers 1/2

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Shesha, king of Nagas &a divine, cosmic serpent. Depicted as a multi-headed cobra that holds all the planets under its hoods&lays them on a sea of milk. When it coiled forward, time moved& creation began. When it coils backwards, the universe will cease to exist

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Oldest recorded Cinderella? The Chinese Cinderella is 2,200 years old—with a tiny lost embroidered slipper. Ye Xian's fairy godmother/protector is a magical fish: https://t.co/rg4KSCwyfq

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2018-07-26

Mr today...I was a bit speedier seeing as though the sun has got his hat on...Enjoy your day, people!

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2018-07-26


sacrificed his plumage & gentle voice by collecting a burning branch from the Great Sky Spirit, after a devastatingly cold winter, to save other animals. His feathers were charred black & his voice turned harsh & hoarse.
(#NativeAmerican)

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