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Hey folks! Gonna be continuing my Dark Souls 3 Lorethrough with Maddie. Come say hi!

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2019-01-27

In the Balkans, vampire pumpkins are harvested rather quickly. Apparently, if they sit on the ground too long, they go a little stir crazy and attack people in their houses at night. (Img: "The Vampire", by Edvard Munch)

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2019-01-24

While it's for everyone else, it's FolkloreEveryday in the Southland! There's already a kappa featured in this first story, but did you know there will be kodama, nurikabe, and a Baba Yaga-inspired witch? It's probably true!

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2019-01-25

OAK: Acorns cups can become fairy shelters, as in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: “All their elves for fear, creep into acorn-cups, and hide them there”

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2019-01-24

Fitness, superfoods, clean eating and mindfulness are nothing new🥑💪

Check out our board featuring images from a medieval handbook on health, nutrition and well-being https://t.co/n378sBhGzY

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2019-01-24

Look on the bright side of life!
A symbol of eternal love, happiness and glee...

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2019-01-24

As the old tale goes, 'when gorse is in flower, kissing's in season' - get ready to pucker up!

Image - Watercolour by John Miller Nicholson, 1865.
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2019-01-24

🌿💘🍀Old English charm for finding true love, divined by counting the number of leaflets...
"Even Ash and four-leaved Clover
You are sure your Love to see
Before the day is over."

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2019-01-24

How to harvest a without getting cursed: Tether a dog to the base of the and throw it a tasty morsel just out of reach so it lunges forward, uprooting the mandrake. The dog will die at sunrise & should be buried with secret rites.

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2019-01-24

In there is an ancient belief that if you plant a tree near your front door it will ward off witches’ spells, as well as faeries & bad spirits. The rowan is also known as witchentree or witch-wood. Flower Fairy: Cicely Mary Barker.

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2019-01-24

𝐄 𝐏 𝐈 𝐂
colored improved remastered sequeled tempered the sketch of balorette that i did a couple days ago

SMASH THAT MF LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE TO BALOR
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2019-01-22

Mermaids are my favourite mythical creatures. Does anyone know where did the concept that they grow legs on land comes from? (Here is a mermaid I painted a few years ago.)

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2019-01-18

According to this cracking article from The Spectator, 1908 - the last fairies in England lived in the South Downs. These Sussex fairies, once known as pharisees, were renowned for their love of dancing. https://t.co/AlWFITsHq0
[image: William Blake, 1786]

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2019-01-18

Today is and I thought that for once I would keep up with the art hashtag and post characters I did a while back inspired by Japanese folklore. ❤️

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2019-01-18

The Banshee has diff. names & forms in Celtic lore; but this female keening spirit will omit a high-pitched lamenting cry when a family member dies or is near death. This ominous herald of death is often the first warning to the family, that a loved one is gone.

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2019-01-17

Błędne Ognie (Lost Fires)are Slavic Will-o'-the-wisps that are believed to be souls of treacherous men who in an attempt to regain their bodies made deals with serpentine bog&field demons to lure Men in so the serpents could bite, kill & take their victim's soul

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2019-01-17

The Vroffa Tree Inn - renowned community hub of 'The League of Lid-Curving Witchery' - where creature-witches of all descriptions gather to tell tales, settle disputes and consume Grimwagel Wine in ever-impressive quantities...

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2019-01-17

*17 January Take good care of your hounds in hard weather.

‘If it be a hard Winter, after your hounds are fed suffer them for an hour or two to stretch themselves before the fire.’ (Country Contentments, 1615)

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2019-01-17

Wassailing the apple trees takes place in the West Country, where there is cider-making. Traditionally held on Old Twelfth Night, 17th Jan, it is the custom of drinking & singing to the health of the trees so they yield plenty in the autumn.
Image: Cicely Barker

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2019-01-17