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The 1st rule of the Eleusinian Mysteries? Don’t talk about them... but it’s believed the secretive ancient Greek cult let most anyone attempt initiation. Those who passed enjoyed a 9-day party-The Greater Mysteries-w/ singing, dancing & sacrifices, to celebrate.

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One of the most bittersweet love stories is Where "star-crossed" lovers Orihime & Hikoboshi (stars: Vega & Altair) are forced apart & separated by the Milky Way. Only permitted to see each other once a year; celebrate this annual rendezvous

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Lord Peter is the transformation tale of beheaded cat who becomes a human princess. This is that story in McCall’s Read Me a Story Book (1961). by Leonard Weisgard.

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A pig that lays eggs? 🤥 That can't be true! This gorgeous creature is in a Hungarian folktale featured in our latest issue of Storytime (issue 56). Art by Jesús López. https://t.co/yztsAHEJmW

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During Bealtaine, farmers would drive their cattle between two bonfires. This would purify and protect them from disease before they were sent out to their summer pastures. The ritual may date back to Iron Age Ireland, where cattle were the measure of wealth.

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Flesh eating demons from Indian mythology, the Pishacha loves darkness and it haunts cremations grounds. They are said to have a dark, black skin with bulging veins and protruding red eyes.

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stardew valley bachelors and bachelorettes!

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The is the tree & is a symbol of the fire festival The cutting of hawthorn (May blossom) is sacred to the goddess Brighid, & signifies new life & fertility. Known as a faery tree, the hawthorn should never be harmed. Img: Cicely Barker

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OC for a cursed "harvest moon but the MCs are all space entities, and they're planting lovecraftian looking vegetables in a sentient outer space farm"

the bachelorettes, Necrome and Lytalia

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Donkey cabbages - here is the hero using the magic cloak to fly the witch's daughter to the jewel mountain - after he throws up the magic bird heart and before he eats the magic cabbage and turns into a donkey.

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On April 30th it will be Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night), known as the ‘other Halloween’ — a night that belongs to WITCHES.

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Sinbad made seven voyages throughout the seas around Africa and Asia. During these travels, he meets many beasts and monsters, some magical, including giant snakes, cannibals, and huge terrorizing birds.

3rd Voyage in 'Arabian Nights' (1917) Charles Folkard

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Yosuzume are yokai birds that appear in eerie swarms around travelers at night. They bring bad luck, so chant to scare them away: "Chichichi calls the bird - maybe it wants a branch - if it does, hit it with one.” art by https://t.co/qJtKtgnNNo

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Obariyon lurks at roadsides then jumps out at travelers and demands a piggyback ride. It grows heavier with each step and in some tales the person is crushed, in others they get home to discover they're carrying a big sack of money. art by

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The Zbruch (WorldSeeker) Idol is a 9th-century sculpture or bałwan ('idol' in old idiom, today meaning 'snowman')& one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic faith. The 3 tiers represent the levels of the world: underworld, mortal world & world of the gods

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In Manawydan fab Llŷr, Manawydan & Pryderi see their kingdom transformed into a wasteland. They find a mysterious fort & Pryderi enters, drawn to a golden bowl--his hands stick to it. His mother Rhiannon enters too, and both are imprisoned as the fort vanishes.

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GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE Old Orkney Ballad. A girl romances a seal man; after 7 years the selkie returns & gives their son a gold chain. She marries a human who 1 day shoots 2 seals, round the neck of the youngest dying seal is a gold chain

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has a long history, home to companies such as Cannocks and Loretta Bloom. Read more in this history of Limerick industries, trade and commerce, ed by David Lee and Debbie Jacobs, published by in 2003

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Happy [Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, "Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld."]

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