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BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF
It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF
7 sisters werewolf myth popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865

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Irish legend talks about the feared & magical shapeshifter Pooka/goblin/spirit/sprite that lives in the mountains and it is said to show up in November to warn people of upcoming unpleasant times.

🎨 Arthur Spiderwick's Field

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“Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments”

🎨📚 Brian Froud

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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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In the murky ponds on the floor of the Glow Forest , a plethora of creatures creep and crawl about their daily lives while trying to avoid the pond’s top predator - a massive leviathan blindly devouring everything in its path.

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"You humans build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!"
creepy art by Belarussian artist Valery Slauk

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Not all werewolves were bad! The Wulvers, from the Shetland Islands of Scotland, were known to be kind. They spent their days fishing, never bothered anyone, and often left fish on the windowsills of poor families.

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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

~ Alexandre Dumas

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"Then came October, full of merry glee."
~ Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Art: The Acorn Fairy. Cicely Mary Barker, Flower Fairies of the Autumn (1900).

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It was not just the ghosts of thr past that spurred Aeneas to continue his journey, but the ghosts of those not yet born: every Roman appeared to him, urging him on in the Underworld.

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Alfred Pomeroy Jones, sealawyer, born in Mumbles, sung like a linnet, crowned you with a flagon, tattoed with mermaids, thirst like a dredger, died of blisters.

Under Milk Wood
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🎨 W Heath Robinson

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In Irish folklore the banshee modern Irish bean sí, is defined as "woman of the fairy mound" or "fairy woman" who heralds the death of a family member, by shrieking, or keening. Her name is linked to the tumuli that dot rural Ireland & harbors dead spirits

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Galician "lavandeira" (washerwoman) is a hag who appears at night washing bloodstained clothes in a stream. She asks you to help her to twist her laundry. You must do it just the opposite way to her, and she will dissipate. Otherwise, you will suffer misfortune.

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The Singing Bone

A boy is killed by his brother during a boar hunt and his body is thrown under a bridge.

One day, a shepherd spies a bone under the bridge and makes it into a flute. When he plays it, it sings of the brother's betrayal.

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Anne Boleyn’s spectral carriage has been seen racing past Blickling Hall and each Christmas, Anne’s ghost manifests at Hever Castle, under an oak tree where she and Henry VIII once courted.


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'The woman twisted wool until her fingers bled. The pattern moved under her meticulous care, battened by a repetitive force that might have been better suited to a pickaxe.'
- The Who Did Something


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by Erin Beachy

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In Southern States of America, folk said the blue-jay was never seen on a Friday, because it was carrying sticks to the Devil in hell. This bird was the Devil's messenger and spy...

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