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Some Eastern Slavic communities believed that the spirit of the devil dwelled in the wind and that souls of sinners took flight with its gusts 🍃


🎨John William Waterhouse

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2022-09-29

As Ian approaches Florida, recall that hurricane is a Taino word, and Master of Hurricanes is Guabancex, who rules all Gulf storms. Her servants herald her coming: Guatabá brings thunder and lightning, and Coatrisquie brings floods.

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2022-09-29

On Imbolc (Feb 1) the Cailleach runs out of her store of firewood and goes to gather more. If the day is fine and dry, she is able to gather more firewood and prolong the harsh winter months. If it rains, she will have no fuel and so she gives way to spring.

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2022-09-28

When pouring rain floods the 100 Acres Wood, water simply *can’t* get to Christopher Robin’s house. It’s the only explicit statement of a warding power the child holds over elements in his realm, and it bestows upon him an unprecedented divine aura.

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2022-09-28

“Many haws, many snaws, many sloes, many cold toes.”

So there might be lots of sloe gin, but a cold, snowy winter is foretold.
Image: The Sloe Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, 1926

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In The Odyssey, Penelope has a dream that a great eagle
swoops down from the mountains and kills her geese.
It’s a prophetic dream for when her husband, Odysseus,
returns from war, he kills her many suitors.

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2022-09-22


Caer Ibormeith, Celtic goddess of dreams & prophecy was a
shapeshifting deity who spent one year as a woman and then the next year as a swan. She fell in love with Aengus and every night for a year, she visited him in his dreams, while he slept.

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2022-09-21

“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew...”

A C19th bedtime poem by Eugene Field. by Margaret Tarrant, for Verses for Children, 1918.

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2022-09-21

The Pleiades were the seven sister-nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.Together with their seven sisters,the Hyades,they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades,nursemaids and teachers of the infant Dionysus.
🎨Elihu Vedder,1885

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2022-09-14


Crystal balls & Aztec mirrors were used for scrying.
During the Victorian era from 1837-1901 Crystallomancy was popular. Crystal gazing worked best when the Sun was at its most northern decline. The Crystal ball would become cloudy right before a vision.

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2022-09-14

- At the Oracle of Delphi, Pythia was seated in a state of trance, speaking on behalf of the gods delivering her prophecies.
Modern scientists say an intoxicating gas below the temple suggests Pythia was on drugs while guiding people. https://t.co/hNNZcZkH7L

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2022-09-14

The prophecy of Simeon, to the Virgin Mary: "Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed."

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2022-09-14

In some Slavic communities having a cat in the house during a thunderstorm was a mixed blessing. On the one hand it could protect the house from being struck by lightning, since lightning was the devil's doing and the devil wouldn't strike its own kind (1/2)

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2022-09-08

"On the outside we look proper and prim,
but we battle nobility's ill-advised whim:
shameless and shining, we always ask why,
for what cooks in our cauldron could call down the sky".
S.J. Tucker, "Song of the Witches"

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2022-09-08

Siberian shamans would place representations of owls and eagles inside their drums, as these animals were thought to guide them on their spiritual journeys 🪶


🎨by Yakut artist Timofey Stepanov shows a shaman holding his drum, on a spiritual journey 🌘

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2022-09-08

Odysseus stays w the magical Circe (and then Calypso) “These siren goddesses initiate our hero & a grand transformation occurs, as he moves from self-serving power seeking male to ....a vision for the good of the kingdom and all its inhabitants.
-A Williams

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2022-09-07

In witches were believed to turn into hares after drinking the juice of the harebell. This juice, lore tells, also helped them to fly. Image: Cicely Mary Barker, 1925

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“Don't you know a Sand-fairy when you see one?"

—The Psammead is an ancient, grumpy, wish-granting creature from the Five Children and It by E. Nesbit. The beloved book has never been out of print since its publication in 1902.

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2022-09-01

"We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
"Come buy," call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
"Oh,...
You should not peep at goblin men."

-Christina Rosetti, "Goblin Market"

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2022-08-24

Pantalone is one of the stock Commedia dell'Arte characters. He is the archetype of an old merchant, sometimes wealthy and esteemed, at other times completely ruined and lecherous. Often greedy, he assumes everything, especially love, can be bought and sold.

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