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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

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

In Slavic Folklore, the firebird is both a symbol of wealth and a harbinger of doom. The firebird is typically a catalyst to the story, and brave young men and women try to capture him on a long quest

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2020-11-14

Robot0celot | Faustians | bry2die

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2020-11-13

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

I am Thinking ... Very Much ... of a Black Butler x BSD AU ... With Ciel!Yumeno ... and their two demon butlers ... Who both enter into a competitive Faustian contract for Q’s soul ... But instead of battling it out ... They fall ... in love ...

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2020-11-03

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