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In the tale 'The Handless Maiden', the girl's real hands are cut off by her father in a deal with the devil. Only when she throws her handless arms into a forest spring to save her child, a symbol of her creative force, from drowning, do her real hands grow back.

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2021-06-04

To avoid catastrophe if you utter the Scottish play that shall not be named, exit the theatre, spin around 3 times, spit, curse and then knock on the theatre door to be allowed back in…
https://t.co/Gwi7OGzUSL
📷 Wynne, MacArthur and Atienza in 'Macbeth' (1952)

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2021-06-04

The aerico is a demon in Greek and Albanian folklore which spreads diseases like the plague and malaria. It is believed to normally exist invisibly in the air, but takes a humanoid form sometimes. They are believed to be created by the Horseman of Pestilence.

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2021-06-04

To help avoid potential harrassment from the vättar, one should first declare "Se up därnere!" ("Look out down there!") before urinating on the ground or chucking water out of the house. 🖼️Reine Rosenberg

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2021-05-29

While not always confined to German households, Kobolds are often domestic in nature, much like a Scottish brownie. Believed to be a lingering pagan deity removed to a smaller stature, they were prominent enough that even Martin Luther took them seriously.

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2021-05-29

Riveted sheet copper alloy cauldron, found in the remains of a ruined chapel, from an abandoned village, lost in the marshes. Northeye,

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2021-05-28

Dworowy is a Slavic folklore creature who protected the household. He was portrayed as an old man with a long white beard and often with multicoloured hair. He liked offerings of shiny things, sheep’s wool and good bread.

Art by Paweł Zych

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2021-05-28

Leave out milk, bread, and honey and you'll have less housework to do: the brownie is a Scottish spirit that at night will tidy up the home a bit if given offerings. If ignored or offended, they become boggarts, so be kind.

🖼: T. DiTerlizzi

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2021-05-28

🪄🔥🪄The hearth as a sacred space is an ancient belief. It was kept neat out of respect for the household gods who dwelt there, and fire-irons were ceremonially placed in the hands of a new bride, to symbolise that she was now the mistress & guardian of the home.

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2021-05-28

On the Galician atlantic coast, sailors feared the ALARBIOS. They are horrible cyclops who travel by boat and capture the shipwrecked sailors to take them to their island. Once there, they feed them and, when the time comes, they devour them.

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2021-05-28

Maruxinhos are small in size and wear red clothes and hat ❤️, even so apparently inoffensive to humans they are described as highly tricksy.
The Portuguese Maruxinhos or Trasgos are part of the North of the country Folklore, specially Trás-os-Montes and Douro.

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2021-05-28

Barabashka in Russian mythology is a noisy spirit. It is believed every building has its own barabashka. Also “barabashka” is nickname for an angry household spirit domovoi. If for some reason domovoi gets angry then he begins to make noises.

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2021-05-28

In Aztec religion, Chantico is the deity reigning over the fires in the family hearth. Chantico's name means "she who dwells in the house" or "she who comes to make the house." The male Aztec deity reigning over fire is named Xolotl.

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2021-05-28

Devilish & deadly cover art from Der Orchideengarten, one of the first fantasy fiction magazines. Founded by Karl Hans Strobl in Munich & published from 1919-1921, it featured Gothic, horror, fantasy tales and illustrations.
(Uni. Heidelberg digital library)

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2021-05-21

The Arming and Departure of the Knights.
One of the sumptuous 19th-century tapestries by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, & John Henry Dearle. ⚔️

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2021-05-21

"Under the harvest moon,
When the soft silver
Drips shimmering
Over the garden nights,
Death, the gray mocker,
Comes and whispers to you
As a beautiful friend
Who remembers"

Excerpt from "Under the Harvest Moon" by American Poet Carl Sandburg

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2021-05-21

Men grow mighty in the May,
Proud and gay the maidens grow;
Fair is every wooded height;
Fair and bright the plain below.

A bright shaft has smit the streams,
With gold gleams the water-flag;
Leaps the fish, and on the hills
Ardor thrills the leaping stag.

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2021-05-21

Harpies appear in the stories of Charlemagne where they harried Senapus, the blind king of Abyssinia, by fouling his food so that he would have died of starvation if Astolpho had not arrived in time to drive them off and so save his life.

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2021-05-21

-Changelings

"I want to tell myself she is not you,
This strange girl wearing my eyes,
Whose every gesture rings untrue,
Familiar, but in disguise."

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2021-05-14