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Look & see the saddle markings
Where the fairy warriors rode them.
(As they ride them still at midnight,
On Midsummer's Eve at midnight,
When we mortals all are sleeping.)
–Anne G. Biddlecombe.

This poem fixed the Pembrokeshire Corgi into fairy folklore.

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2022-12-03

My brother warned me that if I whistled in a graveyard, a ghost would follow me. He was right.

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2022-11-26

from my grandmother

Don’t break mirrors
Don’t step on cracks
Always wish on the first star you see


art by Oskar Herrfurth

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2022-11-26

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s fabulous hashtag fun with our pals at and

(art bySei Koyanagui)

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2022-11-26

"These Tuatha were great necromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all the arts as builders, poets, and musicians."
(Lady Jane Wilde "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland)

🎨 Stephen Reid

with a bow to

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2022-11-26

Some people think that a black cat is a symbol of bad luck, but we strongly disagree with this superstition. Drop your black Mars Cats in the comments to spread the beauty!

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2022-11-26

Chilli peppers will turn out hotter if you plant them while angry.

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2022-11-19


The mandrake was linked with myths and magic, being one of the ingredients of the witches’ ‘flying ointments’ in the Middle Ages. In ancient legends, when the plant was uprooted it would scream, killing anyone who heard it.

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2022-11-19

Oak, Ash & Thorn are trees sacred to the Celts, especially when found growing together. The oak brings healing & protection along with prosperity & luck. The ash brings prophecy & healing, & the hawthorn symbolises fertility & is a tree sacred to faeries.

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2022-11-19

“Do you believe it? The superstition that if you witness the first snowfall with someone you like, true love will blossom between both…”

Gorgeous art by:

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2022-11-14

“There is a mortal amongst us,” they said. “Let us drown him.” (Lady Jane Wilde)

Ireland's fae folk has a downright malevolent streak and it often needs more than one supernatural agent to save a stricken human from their mischief

🎨 Bauer

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2022-11-13

The "pagaíños" ('little pagans') live in Northern mountains. They are small, unkempt, long-haired beings that dwell underground. They do not like to interact with humans, although they can be seen dancing (with great dexterity) on top of certain rocks.

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2022-11-12

In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly. During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts.

art: John Anster Fitzgerald

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2022-11-12

🍀🍄🍀Clover was believed to protect humans and animals from the spells cast by Faeries - and carrying a four-leaved clover was said to bestow the ability to see them.

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2022-11-12

I've got a real . I like to only tell a once - in So, I won't talk about a project I'm working on because I think it takes the fire out of the telling. That's to say, a in progress will lose its immediacy..


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2022-11-12

SUPERSTITION

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2022-11-09

🌿🌗🌿Ancient hollow Yews - living doorways between the present, the past and a mythic reality, where longbows and silver-tipped arrows are your only defence...

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2022-11-06

INCEPTION by

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"This image in which the human figure becomes an inanimate mannequin describes the submission of mankind to the fears and superstitions dictated by ignorance."

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2022-11-01

is here. Now is the time to discover the story of how a shy young naval officer once returned home, only to be drawn into a thrilling vortex of superstition and sexuality.
To find out more visit the Moon Dancers website: https://t.co/b00iE0jpcz

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2022-10-31

Halloween soon and like 2 days ago there was National Cat day so have some black kitties!
Remember to keep your small voids safe during Halloween and if you consider adopting a cat, consider adopting black one! Small voids often end up being adopted last due to the superstitions.

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2022-10-30