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aaand bachelorettes anyway im not technically late dont look at me

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2018-11-01

Slavic Lore: Aitwar is a household ghost that takes the form of a cock with a flaming tail&smoke-filled eyes or a strange lizard with fire for a tail. If you allow it to sleep in a warm corner of a home it will bring you treasure, if not, your home will burn 1/2

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2018-10-26

The is a S.E. Asian (Indonesia, Malaysia, etc) a detached female head capable of flying around on it's own at night. It's stomach and entrails dangle below it; during the day it behaves like an ordinary human being.😱 (Image: ProdigyDuck)

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2018-10-26

Outlines on Brandy's '70s ensemble. You can find instruction telling you to finish all parts of a work at the same rate, or you can do it this way. Whatever works.
Brandy lookbook here - equal parts Ronstadt, Tucker, and Emmylou. Gentry x Loretta x Colter hair completes the look.

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2018-10-25

HIC FUERUNT DRACONES: Three short essays by Natalie Lawrence on the natural history of monsters



https://t.co/2owMaqkrhW


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2018-10-26

new book is out 15th November. Its a modern retelling of a traditional Selkie tale. Here's one small detail from one of my illustrations for the book. The book was such fun to work on, I cant wait to share more.

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2018-10-26

Sure, ghosts and bats and spiders are scary, but let's not forget that in Japan you aren't even safe from vegetables!

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2018-10-25

According to Romanian the blood-sucking takes origin from the gruseome ruler Vlad the Impaler. Who got his nickname from his excution style; impaling his enemies & guests with giant wooden spikes, watching their still-twitching bodies slowly die.

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2018-10-25

When the internet is awash with spiteful Trolls, spare a thought for their ancestors!
John Bauer (1915)

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2018-10-25

The only sort of Troll we welcome on (OK. it's actually a Goblin, but pretty close!) art-self.

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2018-10-25

Illustration to (1785) by ‘some account of the principal charms and spells of that night so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland’ watercolour by Walter Weir 1816 https://t.co/wA3e7YNF7J

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2018-10-25

scenes from un-life just off the coast of Hopeless, Maine... Art-self and

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2018-10-25

Mythic Appalachia includes everything from haints and hags to Black Shuck himself, talking animals to faceless demons. GHOST DAYS is an illustrated anthology that explores the landscape via the travels of an errant witch:
https://t.co/GXmPmhQE4N

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2018-10-25

Some terrifying details from ‘Witches at their Incantations’ (c.1646), by Italian artist Salvator Rosa. The painting, kindly loaned to by , is one of many chilling items in our https://t.co/eDz3Kuzpw1

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2018-10-25

Hello This is welcoming you to a spooktacular Halloween edition! Click on our account to see the best of the day's folklore.
(Image: via Wikimedia)

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2018-10-25

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.
Image - Cicely Mary Barker

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2018-10-25

while we're feeling spooky, , how about the story of Jan Coo, who clearly hasn't seen enough horror movies because a *something* in the river calls his name and he goes to investigate! You can read the tiny story here: https://t.co/aJeHXikRYc

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2018-10-19