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“A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not”

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"Mythic & Mysterious Bipeds!"

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2021-01-14

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist", Charles Baudelaire
🎨Gustave Doré, John Collier, William Blake, Alexandre Cabanel

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2021-01-08

The Queen of Elphame/Elf hame, (associated with Morgan le Fey & Mab), rules over Fairyland. She's beautiful, seductive, & deadly. This fairy queen is said to pay a tithe to Hell every seven years. ⌛️ Her abducted mortal lovers often provide this sacrifice.

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2021-01-08

In Eastern Europe it was once said devils would celebrate their weddings at crossroads, where their dancing and festivities caused dust-storms and whirlwinds...

🎨Rackham

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2021-01-08

Uriah Heep created by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield is a villain of the worst kind, a snivelling sycophantic creep, noted for his cloying “umbleness” & insincerity. Motivated by greed, he schemes & manipulates, to gain control of the Wickfield fortune.

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2021-01-08

“Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry”

Welcome to our 27th

is celebrating with you for the next 2 hours.

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2020-12-25

The Crimson Winter Widow, a dark spirit that blesses weddings or shall haunt the villagers till the next winter. The masses celebrated me.
If I bless your union, I shall never claim your children. My offering is a cake—blended with blood to seal my certificate. https://t.co/ZbstZF09MA

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2020-12-18

Pines & fir trees were loved by the Romans as a symbol of rebirth & life in the depths of winter. A live tree was brought into the home so the spirits that lived within would be warm in winter. Morsels of food were hung on the branches to nourish them. Img: CMB

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2020-12-19

Mari Lwyd is an ancient Welsh Yule custom where revelers carrying the skull of a mare on a stick would attempt to gain entry to homes thru song. They would be discouraged by the homeowner, thru song and a song fest commenced until one side relented

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2020-12-18

Scrooge:“Ghost of the future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company..."



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2020-12-11

“It held a branch of green holly in its hand; and in singular contradiction to that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers”

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Christmas Ghosts

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2020-12-10

“... the Yule-clog and Christmas candle were regularly burnt, and the mistletoe with its white berries hung up..."(Washington Irving)

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Pagan Christmas Customs

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2020-12-03

My realm of influence is a land of perpetual night. My dominion however is the Netherealm, aided by the Goddess Hecate the Queen of Darkness. But in this Darkness, there is always Light Hecate is the Protector of Children and a Provider of Wealth.

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2020-11-21

I am Diana my domain is the underworld & the countryside. I protect the moon, hunters, childbirth, & crossroads. Magical incantations wake me up.

https://t.co/Lf517e6VFY

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2020-11-21

A demon from the underworld has emerged and I wake to protect the sphere of knowledge off all things which has a portal to a parallel universe. https://t.co/J0VfswtXcj

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2020-11-20

Garmr is the blood-stained hellhound who lives in the drab cave Gnipahellir and guards the Gates of Hel. At Ragnarök he will break free and go after Tyr to finish the job that his buddy Fenrir started.

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2020-11-21

Albert Joseph Pénot was a French painter known for female nudes and landscapes. Today he is more popularly recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker, more macabre themes
🎨"La Femme Chauve-Souris", circa 1890
"Départ pour le Sabbat", 1910

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2020-11-21

I am the Queen of Elphame. My domain is the Hill. I protect the healing crystals of the earth. Each day I am awakened by harp music.

https://t.co/k6nwSyOkyX

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2020-11-20

I start my quest at the Dark Mirror of Duplicity. I travel through the looking glass, to the land of Deception and Damnation. I face Mendacium the Deceiver. I bring back the Book of Truth to liberate those with Eyes to See and Ears to Hear.

https://t.co/yRHP0WGQtT

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2020-11-06