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Come and see me, and at this Sunday. We'll be talking about folklore and the joy to be found in the dark. https://t.co/GCpnmxUOZF

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Queen of the Bad Faeries. In Scotland she is Nicnivin, Elph Queine of the Unseelie Court. In Germany she is Berchta, leading the savage dogs of the Wild Hunt, telling all she meets "Travel by day, for the night belongs to me." Art by Brian Froud.

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Hagstones have a natural hole and can be found on many beaches. Hung in homes to keep away witches or hags, and in stables to stop witches riding horses to exhausted death at night. Look through the stone to see other worlds, spirits and to see through glamours

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My favorite in is the Russian Baba Yaga! Living deep amid the forest in a turning chicken-leg hut; fortified by watching skulls. Known to help strays, she gets around on a flying pestle &mortar; using a broom to sweep away her tracks.

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Some Witches I've drawn previously. Love today's theme!

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I never turned anyone into a pig. Some people are pigs. I make them look like pigs. ~Louise Gluck, Circe [Waterhouse, Sorceress, Circe Summoning Ulysses, Circe Invidiosa (poisoning the waters); Evelyn De Morgan, Love Potion)

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WITCHES. A sexualised witch used by Pears Soap, 1899-1900 juxtaposed with a fairy tale witch from Andrew Lang's Yellow Fairy Book, 1894, a crone figure with large nose, warts or moles. These would be seen as witch marks made by the devil in witch craft trials

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'Haint blue' bottle trees, popular in the US south, are said to trap evil spirits at night which the rising sun then destroys. Originally an African tradition, this folk magic is thought to come from Arabian traders' tales of Jinn imprisoned in bottles (lamps?)

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Nicnevin is the Scottish Witch Goddess of Samhain or is the Queen of fairies, she is mostly associated with Scotland's witch trials where the suspect would often name her as the one who inducted them into witchcraft.

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Seidr is a form of Norse magic and shamanism concerned with discerning the course of fate and working within its structure to bring about change, which was done by symbolically weaving new events into being.

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Tylwyth Teg.
A fairy dragon for the family.
Living in the darkest forests, and believed to be harbingers of good fortune, these tiny Welsh Dragons emerge into the evening sunlight for just a few hours each midsummer, before returning to their shadowy homes.

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“Rowan tree & red thread make witches tine their speed”- an ancient rhyme. Known also as witchentree & witchwood, the Rowan was planted by homes to protect them from harm, & by churches in to watch over & protect the dead.
Image: Cicely Barker

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Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao! Hsi Wu from Jackie Chan Adventures for tbt.

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For the ancient Mexicans, the moon was actually a jar containing pulque, a traditional thick and white alcoholic beverage. The phases of the moon indicated how much pulque was left on the jar. (Art by David Alvarez)

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Sazae (turban shell sea snail): a delicacy in Japan. Sazae Oni is a shape-shifting supernatural seductress who boards&beds a ship-full of men, then robs them of their testicles. For gold one can buy his jewels. Testicles are called kin-tama: "golden balls" in JP

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16th century dining, included placing live birds in a pie as a form of entremet. Hoping they'd fly out singing when the pie was cut. "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye, 4 & 20 blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing."

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In Northern Europe young men & women were encouraged to participate fully in fertility festivals (to gage their reproductive abilities) because it used to be conception, not intercourse, that dictated the consummation of a marriage.

Painting by William Blake

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In China, a nine-tailed dog ran into heaven & stole grains from the celestial supply. Although divine guards cut off eight of his tails during his escape, seeds stuck on the dog's last tail. He brought them to humans, so they could grow food for the first time.

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The sweetness of life, the sorrow of death in the folklore of berries

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