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The farmhouse ‘Y Trwyn’, near Abercarn, was famous for the sprite, ‘Pwcca’r Trwyn’, which haunted it. Learn about the house, and the story, on Coflein: https://t.co/9h5EXCJVde

(Picture from Wirt Sikes, ‘British Goblins’ (1880), p. 21)

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The Cailleach, the 'veiled one', is the Gaelic embodiment of the dark mother/harvest goddess. Called the bringer of storms, she is a crone often portrayed riding on a wolf with a hammer made of human flesh. She sometimes wears human skulls on her clothes.

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News for those born on All Hallows Eve:
If you were born on Halloween you're said to be gifted with "second sight."
It is also said that Halloween's seers are not only able to foretell events and see ghosts, but they're also able to ward off evil spirits.

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Seeing a white owl in the daytime is said to portend death.

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For on here are some of Arthur Rackham’s illustrations from The Ingoldsby Legends (1898 & 1907) which contain ghost stories, tales of strange myths & legends, and poetry.

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Happy My 2017 article on Halloween and Samhain in children’s is now available on my blog! 🎃🎃🎃
https://t.co/XIpZ9gKaGI
(It was first published in ’s journal Gramarye)

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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: C. Barker

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🦂Tony Foster has painted many wildlife specimens throughout his artist-explorer career. This scorpion was painted as a souvenir in Monteverde, February 1992🦂

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contributed an amazing strip to the anthology The Seas all about selkies

Beautiful artwork and clever storytelling

I recommend you go to his site and enjoy a nose around

https://t.co/COjhaGulXa

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Illustrations from Grimm’s Fairy Tales by artist, Arthur Rackham (UK, 1867–1939).

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Sea travelers of the Viking Age respected and feared the untame powers of the sea. Myth told of a monster so big, it was placed in the endless ocean. The Midgard Serpent, Jörmungandr, could also spit ‘eitr’ venom.

Art, Johu Huttunen.
Altunastone w/Thor, Sweden.

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Also at school, Aka manto comes to the bathroom when there's no paper and asks "Do you want red paper or blue?" Say red and you're slashed to death, say blue and all your blood is sucked out and you're left dead and blue on the floor art by

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Jörmungandr (Midgard Serpent), Norse mythological monster, son of Loki and archenemy of Thor. Painting to the right by Swiss Romantic painter Henry Fuseli (1790).

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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
- Lewis Carroll - "Jabberwocky", a dragon-like monster with smooth teeth and buttons on his stomach.

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The baku was made at the end of creation from leftover bits of other animals. It feeds on bad dreams and protects from evil spirits and bad yokai. If you have a nightmare repeat three times "Baku-san come eat my dream." But.... by

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The Iberian version of El Coco is called a Bugbear. Although, the Bugbear was more of a sort of hobgoblin(sometimes with a pumpkin head).Only eating disobedient children. 'Bugbear' is also a figure of speech, representing an irrational or exaggerated  

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In Spanish lore, the under the bed is El Coco. The child-eating hairy beast who devours children! Often hiding in closets or under beds, it only eats children that misbehave when they are told to go to bed.

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The Haunted Landscape: Magic and Monsters of the British Isles
23 November 2019



https://t.co/x03kariJFU

Monsters include a dragon, fairies, Old Stinker the Werewolf and the Croglin Vampire.

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