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'Once a young woman went to the market to buy some bread. But the bread seller would not sell to her because he said her eyes shifted like flame...'
- The With Eyes of Fire


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by Achen089

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2022-11-01

In Norse mythology, Beyla (one of Freya’s servants) is said to be goddess of the bees and beekeeping. Bees are associated with wisdom and Yggdrasil the World Tree.
🎨 Q.Cassetti https://t.co/0qHCSSlL4q

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2022-11-01


In Norse mythology the ravens, Hugin and Munin, are the companions, messengers and birds of wisdom belonging to Odin. It is spectaculated that they are a metaphor for Odin casting out his thoughts and his mind in a trance-like practice.
🎨Chris Reach.

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2022-11-01

When Normans attacked the northern coasts of bishop Saint Gonzalo, grabbing his staff and raising his arms, invoked a storm that sank the entire Viking fleet. Only one ship was saved, which is carried the stunning news of the massacre to Scandinavia.

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2022-11-01

In the 13th-century Old Norse poem Völsunga Saga, the hero Sigmund & his son Sinfjötli find magic wolf pelts that transform people into wolves for ten days. They wear the pelts & go on a violent rampage, which ends with Sigmund nearly killing Sinfjötli.

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2022-11-01

The Norns were the 3 Norse sisters of fate - past, present & future. When they weren’t hanging out under Yggdrasil, watering its roots & dispensing advice to the gods, they were spinning & weaving the threads of fate for each child at birth. (artist unknown)

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2022-11-01

Sen början på 1700-talet tills 1765 var svenska uniformen i stort sett oförändrad, annat än att den blev blå-gul för samtliga regementen. Efter kriget i Pommern moderniserades uniformen till ett preussiskt snitt och olika färger återinfördes för att enklare urskilja regementen.

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2022-10-31

In the French tale "The Goblin Pony," three boys ignore their grandmother's warning not to go out on Halloween night. They decide to ride a black pony who, unbeknownst to them, is a shapeshifting goblin in disguise. The goblin runs into the sea & drowns them.

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2022-10-26

🎃🎃🎃For all my fellow Witches , Warlocks and Goblins out there 🎃🎃🎃Happy Frolicking on Halloween or any time really!🌛🌓🌕#FairyTaleTuesday

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2022-10-26

Today's New Moon bathes & heals by shedding its skin in Scorpio:

'Mother, the moon is dancing
in the courtyard of the dead.'
-Federico Garcia Lorca-

🎨Christian Schloe

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2022-10-25

"I am the lady of the castle. My name is exile. My name is anguish. My name is longing. Far from the world on the windy crests of the mountain, I am kept in absolute seclusion. My time passes in an endless reverie, a perpetual swooning."

-Angela Carter

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2022-10-25

In Scandinavian folklore, a troll cat is a cat made by a witch from bones, sticks, wool, hair, nails, metal scraped off a church bell and graveyard soil. It was believed that the troll cat gained life in a magic ritual where blood was sacrificed.

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'When the air grew chill, and the sky more fierce, when the rains carried out their patient vengeance, and the wind went wild, that was when she came.'
- The Weather


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by Rima Staines

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2022-10-25

Millicent Sowerby, British (1878-1967) 222

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2022-10-19

In the Tlingit vampire legend, a flesh-eating giant is defeated by a brave warrior, who chops up & burns the body. The ashes turn into a cloud of mosquitos, & the man hears the giant's voice declaring, "I'll eat you people until the end of time!"

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2022-10-19

"The Soldier and the Vampire" tells of a serviceman who visits home and finds an undead warlock stealing blood from civilians. (Source: Russian Folk-Tales by W. R. S. Ralston).

Art: "Ryott, Bloody Warlock" from Legends of the Cryptids wiki.

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2022-10-19

The vampirix strix of antiquity feasted on the blood and flesh of newborns, but could be driven off by garlic in an infant's mouth at night. Likely descended from owlish Lamashtu, striges are also considered witches.

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2022-10-19


Celtic Vampire-lore Scottish Baobhan Sith means “fairy woman” who appears as a red-head beauty with a flowing Green gown that covers her deer hooves in place of feet. This deadly night creature drinks human 'blood' and sleeps during the day

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2022-10-18