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on Day seven- Durosimi the malign sorcerer and vampire to be. (and...something that rhymes with seven. )

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2021-12-07

In the Borders, there dwells the Gyr-Carling, a witch, some say, a downright ogress, all agree, greedy ‘vpoun Christiane menis flesche’. During Christmastide, long-nebbed Gyr-Carling enters homes to steal all knitting unfinished until New Year!

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2021-12-07

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote "Der Sandmann," who threw sand in kid's eye in order to collect them to feed his children on the moon while, Hans Christian Andersen's "Ole Lukøje" carried two umbrellas with dreams for good children & no dreams for bad children.
🖼️Kat Lowry

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2021-12-07

Our fascination with ghostly Christmas tales goes back thousands of years and is rooted in ancient celebrations of the winter solstice.
In the depths of winter, Pagan traditions included a belief in a ghostly procession..
More: https://t.co/J8sUTmJd9O

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2021-12-07

Check out my new interview at Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: https://t.co/ThuoLEvifG

Big thanks to e, and also very big thank you to for writing the interview!

Artwork in post based on

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2021-12-07

Be careful that you don't discard your old "unwanted" toys this Christmas - they may come to life & teach you a lesson...



'A Christmas Dream / Vánoční sen' (1945) dir. Karel Zeman, Bořivoj Zeman.

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2021-12-06

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Occultist author Dion Fortune was born 1890 in Llandudno

🎨 Rossetti "Damsel of the Sanct Grael" (1879)

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2021-12-06

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable or a group of pyromaniac sparrows. You have to love the darkness in Victorian Xmas cards

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2021-12-05

On Christmas Eve when the clock begins to strike twelve, the doors should be opened, that bad spirits may pass out and good spirits come in...

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5) 'THE OTHER SIDE', Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (1893)
"the wolf-keeper whose face was ever veiled in shadow spake some words in a voice that seemed to come from afar..but all he could distinguish was his own name..and her name Lilith. Then he felt arms enlacing him."

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2021-12-05

The pricolici are Romanian of ancient lore, the reanimated corpses of evil men who've committed violent crimes. After a pricolici dies, it comes back as a They are said to be particularly active during the Christmas season.

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2021-12-05

There are days when I feel so useless, redlined and unwanted that I think my birth was a... fault, I'm a malfunction

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2021-12-04

From November through the 12 days of Xmas,stay out of barns with opposite doors after dark. They're the kind through which the Wild Hunt is most likely to come riding.
If you do find yourself...


🖼️:Wild Hunt by Velamir on DeviantArt

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2021-12-04

According to Italian folklore, female children born at midnight on Christmas Eve would become a witch (strega) and males would become werewolves (lupa manaru)
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2021-12-04