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Fairy food is complicated. If in a fairy realm, do not touch the food - you’ll get trapped there. However, if offered fairy food as a gift in the human realm, you should eat it or suffer a punishment like being pinched or, in the worst case scenario, death.

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2021-11-05

food themed post!

Cornish pasties feature prominently in the folklore of the mine spirits ‘Knockers’. Named for knocking to alert miners of danger or to lead to the best ore veins. This comes with a price…and that price is…mutual respect and PASTY crusts!

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2021-11-04

The sacred woods include holly, laurel, pine and spruce, and cedar These trees “stayed awake during all seven days and were blessed to stay green. Burning cedar is important to Cherokee spiritual beliefs. “Cedar is used to cleanse an area of negative energy.

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Black Annis is described as a hideous witch with iron claws and a taste for human flesh. She stalks the countryside of Leicestershire, England. Venturing out at night to look for unsuspecting victims, before wearing their skins around her waist.

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The beech tree has always been associated with knowledge & learning. In Welsh lore Henwen, a white sow, eats the nuts of the beech tree & gains the gifts of wisdom & prophecy. Img: Cicely Mary Barker.

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It is important to not just respect your house spirits but reward them. It is common in folklore to leave food out for house spirits like brownies and tomte, thanking them for a job well done cleaning the house. Not doing so has dire consequences

🖼: J. Nyström

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In Zoroastrian myth, Ahura Mazda, who was the god of light,smelled wonderful, but Ahriman his evil equivalent, smelled like a garlic bulb, 'fetid and rotten.'

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They thought me, once, a magic tree of wondrous lucky charm, And at the door they planted me to keep the house from harm..

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To appease & keep the fairies sweet, it is advisable to make them offerings of food & drink, known as libations. A happy, well-fed fairy is less likely to be cantankerous or mischievous. They are rather partial to milk, fruit, cakes & ale.
🎨IdaRentoulOuthwaite

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2021-11-04

theme is food so my dark self couldn't choose a simple picture. Instead, I offer Erysichthon, the Thessaly King who was cursed with insatiable hunger by the Goddess Demeter.

Erysichthon tormented by insatiable hunger by Antonio Tempesta, 1606

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2021-11-04

That's the end of one scary 🎃

Today's theme was Frightening folklore for & If you aren't a little afraid, you're not scrolling back far enough 👻 This is signing off, have a spooky one!

🐈‍⬛🧟🌙🕷️🧛‍♀️💀🦉🍂🍷

Horace Vernet 1839

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2021-10-29

During the Finnish harvest festival Kekri people believed that the spirits of the ancestors were on the move. It was appropriate for the living people to go outside only if they were dressed as spirits. People went from door to door asking for beer and food.

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2021-10-29

Never forget gods can be exceptionally cruel: Ra got tired of how loud humanity had become, and so sent Sekhmet the lioness to destroy mankind. Such was the devastation that, like a slasher film parody, the world was flooded with red blood, so Ra called it off.

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A frightful Swedish spirit, the mara rides her victim in their sleep, delivering mardrömmar (nightmares) and a bad night’s rest in general. 🖼 Joakim Skovgaard and Carl-Martin Bergstrand

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2021-10-29

On Halloween night hold up a mirror and walk backwards down stairs reciting:

"Whoever my true love is to be
Come and look in this glass with me."

If a face appears looking over your shoulder it will be who you will marry, but a coffin means you will die⚰️.

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from Aldrovandi's 1640 book about & by Tasia, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the

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The is a 'Weeper'. It is heard groaning before a death, especially multiple deaths.

Its doleful sound is heard first at a distance, then nearer, then close at hand; so that it is a three-fold warning of death.

Pic:

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2021-10-29

It is unlucky to uproot Periwinkle from a grave 🌱

The dead will appear to the person who takes it and his dreams for the next twelve months will be very wretched and miserable 💀

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2021-10-28