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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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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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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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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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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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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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The gruesome French tale of Bluebeard. Leaving his new wife alone, Bluebeard tells her not to open a specific door. She does,falling into a bloodbath! With bodies of old wives hanging from the walls! Not able to clean the blood from the key; revealing her demise!#FolkloreThursday

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Fantasmagoriana, a French anthology of German ghost stories, plays a key rol in the genesis of Frankenstein and The Vampyre during the "wet, ungenial summer" of 1816 https://t.co/tRW6ju3e9I

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Phobos (who lends his name to the word 'Phobia') is the Greek God of fear. The lion-headed Phobos stalked battlefields with his brother Deimos (Dread). Fear is part of Halloween, and the wise or unlucky know that fear of death is the least of it. (Art by me)

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The blackthorn rules the dark half of the year from It is dark moon magic, an “increaser of secrets.” Its thorns are the pins in a poppet, its wands used for cursing. A tree protected by faeries, its berries are the sloe. Img: Cicely Barker

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The Kingdom was in trouble once again. The King offered half his wealth to anyone who would come to his aid.

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Properties 9-15 of are said to be linked to sightings. The first was in 1996 when a street cleaner heard commotion inside. Timber was seen being hurled around inside, despite nobody being on site.

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'Jack-o'-lantern' was originally used to refer to either a night watchman or the light of a will-o'-the-wisp.

(🖌️Jason Engle)

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The Malaysian penanggalan looks like a woman by day, but at night detaches its head from its body & flies around with its spinal column & internal organs dangling while it searches for prey. It uses its long tongue as a straw to drain humans to death.

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A palis is a vampiric creature of Middle Eastern lore that lives in deserts. It drains people's blood by licking their feet while they sleep. But it's repelled by salt, & can easily be tricked if two people sleep end-to-end with the soles of their feet together.

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