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This mark your calendars, because we're going to celebrate the only way we know how...

With a kickstarter to collect the entire lot...

Trick...or...treat?

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2018-09-27

In Māori mythology, Punga is the ancestor of sharks, rays, lizards and all distorted, ugly things. It is said that all deformed things are Punga’s children.

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2018-09-27

in Japanese folklore, sandals that have been forgotten or mistreated by their owners become Bakezori; sandal spirits that awaken at night and run about the house at night causing mischief.

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2018-09-27

As well as carrying the devil’s curse on all those who eat them after blackberries can protect your home against vampires. If planted nearby, a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries & forgets his harmful intentions.

Image - Cicely Barker

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2018-09-27

Fun day working on this inspired illustration featuring Elizabeth Bathory!

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2018-09-24

Few.... finally finished digitalising this drawing of mine. I didn't want to leave you without any new drawing of mine so here it is. It's my first attempt in shading a drawing like this so I hope you'll like it.

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2018-09-22

In Sailor Mars' "Evil Spirits Begone" attack, quick shots of Acala (अचल), a Buddhist dharmapala, are seen. In Japan, he is called Fudō Myō-ō & is revered in Shingon, Tendai, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism & Shugendō traditions. He is 1 of 5 Wisdom Kings.

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2018-09-21

Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen

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2018-09-21

*Harvest* comes from Old English and means "Autumn". Harvesting (and reaping) with William Morris and the Limbourg Brothers. [ Left: Rossetti tiles based on Morris & Co. Labors designs. Right: Autumn tiles Tres Riches Heures Labors]

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2018-09-21

With the spirits trapped in the chestnuts, one has to wait until first snowfall. Then you have a choice to either roast the chestnuts or to take them out into the woods& leave them, ether way the the malice of the spirits will be cleansed, giving them peace. 2/2

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2018-09-21

More punishments of the damned: hail and firestones, flames, and (for the usurers) boiling wells.

MS. Douce 134, fols 103v, 105v, 121r: https://t.co/Zr1RBzqPRv

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2018-09-21

Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?

MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5

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2018-09-20

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival: Long ago there were 10 suns causing drought. Hou Yi shot down 9 suns, leaving just 1, was rewarded with an immortality elixir, but was drunk by his wife who flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was sad so offered fruits & gave sacrifice to her.

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2018-09-20

Arthur Rackham was born on 19th September 1867 in London. Here are some of his for the 1907 version of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, published by William Heinemann.

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2018-09-19

Finally got to finish this drawing after so long.
I used a base I was bored.
Nidalee belongs to me.

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2018-09-16

In Aztec mythology, the volcanoes were once humans who were deeply in love. This legend features the warrior Popocatepetl and the princess Iztaccihuatl. The Gods, touched by the lover's plight, turn the humans into volcanoes, so that they may finally be together

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2018-09-13

A "natural history" approach to the spiritual protectorates of Japan's forests and mountains, the Tengu. What Yokai should I tackle next?!

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2018-09-14

Covent Garden Tube Station is said to be
haunted by the ghost of actor William Terris,
who was stabbed to death at the
Adelphi Theatre in 1897.
Workers hear footsteps,
see a shadowy figure in the the tunnels
or a spectre on the spiral staircase at night.

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2018-09-14

Medieval Irish literature features many voyage tales to islands and lands inhabited by magical creatures and strange things - the immram or echtrae often features a heroes journey via ship to the Otherworld to to either seek vengeance, knowledge or purpose.

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2018-09-13