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“... 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

The Wild Hunt is a motif that occurs in the folklore of various Northern European cultures.The hunters are the souls of the dead or ghostly dogs,sometimes fairies,Valkyries or elves.Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague

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2020-10-31

“Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah —‘And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.’” (Herman Melville)

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2020-10-23

"And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight" (13:33)

is pushing away and taking over for the next hour.

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2020-10-23

I am Bibliophilla, Giantess of the Library. I dwell in the Bodleian where I protect ancient books. My would-be slayer is censorship.

https://t.co/K7DdVmv1FU

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2020-10-16

"...they defiled...they begot giants and monsters...they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted...with its blood and by the hand of...giant's which did not suffice for them and...and they were seeking to devour many" (Book of Giants)

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2020-10-17

In Norse cosmology the Aesir are gods of war, love, ferility. Giants are depicted as an opposing force. A goddess accepted by both was Skadi, goddess of many aspects of Winter. Daughter of the giant,Thiazzi, wife of the god Nijord.


Images: Pinterest

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2020-10-16

In Polish folklore and literature, Pan Twardowski is a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil. He sold his soul in exchange for special powers – such as summoning up the spirit of Polish King Sigismund Augustus' deceased wife – but he eventually met a tragic fate

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2020-10-02

It's commonly said that the last witchcraft execution in England took place in Exeter in 1682, involving Temperance Lloyd. But in 1716, Mary Hicks and her young daughter were hanged in Huntingdon, as the mother had convinced the girl to sell her soul to the Devil.

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2020-10-01


The Guardian rose from its long sleep, moving earth and water of Sorrow Lake. It was disturbed by the Raven Clan's strong magic cast to find the lost lance of Boudicca to give them strength for the battle.
But first they must face the power of this behemoth. https://t.co/jlXkPHSD3e

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2020-09-26

The Porte des Morts, or "Door of the Dead" is a turbulent strait in Michigan near Door County, Wisconsin. It has been the home of 24 ship wrecks and a battle in which 600 Potawatomi warriors were thrown up against the rocks and killed during a storm.

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2020-09-25

Rusalka, female mermaid-like ghosts in Slavic mythology were said to be souls of young women who died before their time or were murdered. They haunted lakes & could leave their watery depths to swing on branches of birch & willow trees by night to seduce men.

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2020-09-05

In Polish folklore, Pan Twardowski, a sorcerer who made a deal with the Devil is said to have escaped as he was being taken to Hell. Ending up living on the Moon,his only companion, a spider would descend to Earth on a thread & bring him news from the world below.

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2020-08-28