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In Ancient Mayan legends the Hummingbird was made from other bird's feathers. The Hummingbird was celebrated by all for its beauty, magic & wit.

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In Warwickshire, gold finches were k/as "proud tailors" as it was said that the souls of tailors who sang while they worked, had settled in these colourful little birds.

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While ominous lore surrounds ravens, in Greek myth they were seen as prophetic & tied to Apollo, the god of prophecy. Apollo adored & used them as his messengers, gallant spies, & avian assistants who could see what was happening in his world 🖤

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In both China and Japan the goose is linked with the moon. It was common for the family of a bride to give a goose as a gift to the groom.

🎨'White-fronted Goose - Ohara Koson.

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In Wales it was believed that a child born on the day the first cuckoo call of the season is heard will be lucky for their whole life.

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Scholars pondered the witches' ability to Metamorphosis, but concluded them to be diabolical illusions. The peasants ignored this, there were several testimonies in🇸🇪Dalarna that a bird flew out of a witch's mouth in the moment of death (older Scandinavian belief)#SuperstitionSat

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Traditionally sailors considered a flying albatross to be a sign of good luck. Killing an albatross was said to be extremely unlucky. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the death of the albatross brought terrible bad luck, including a lack of drinking water.

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In Spain on New Year's Eve, it's said that you should eat a dozen grapes one by one at the stroke of midnight to symbolize each month of the year. If the grape is sweet,that particular month will be a good one.If sour, it's going to be a bad month.🎨Noah Verrier.

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The pomegranate is a lucky fruit. Always make a wish before you eat it, and soon it will come true.✨

from Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences

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It was once believed that if you dig under mugwort on Midsummer Eve, you will find a coal which would protect you from plague, carbuncles, lightning, a mild form of malaria & burning. Mugwort collected at Midsummer also protects against evil spirits & possession

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If the first butterfly of the season you see is yellow then it is said to mean that the summer will be warm and sunny.

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Michaelmas Superstition - if the breast bones of the goose are brown after roasting the following winter should be mild, but if the bones are white or have a slight blue hue the the winter will be severe.


🎨Corrine Aelbers

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As the summer solstice nears, so does June’s Strawberry Moon. The berry is native to North America & only went to Europe in the colonial era. Indigenous peoples named the moon for the fruit’s brief season. The moon is seen as a time of love, luck & prosperity 🍓

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A very common Superstition in America is…

Bad News Comes In Threes

Bad news always seem to come in 3s. When a tragedy happens, people wait to see what the next 2 will be. Why 3? What is the significance? Is it random? Or a self-fulfilling prophecy?…

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It's almost again! We're coming to the end of our WORLD TOUR this Saturday with an Atlantic bash between

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“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” (Melville)

Once upon a time, in the waters near Bikini at new moon.

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On the Pacific coast, a charm of coconut leaves plaited into the shape of a shark was hung up to prevent thieves. If a thief ignored it, they would be eaten by a real shark...

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According to Hawaiian superstition, if you see an old woman sitting on the side of the road, you should offer her food and drink. The woman is likely to be the volcano goddess Pele, shape-shifted into the form of an elderly person.

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Kanashibari is the Japanese word used to describe sleep paralysis. A spiritual interpretation suggests that kanashibari is the human body's reaction to being approached by an evil spirit 🖤


🎨Henry Fuseli's incubus.

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"Though as a ghost,
I shall lightly tread,
the summer fields."
(Hokusai)

Yūrei are Japan's restless spirits, mostly women, who haunt the night still dressed in their white burial kimonos

🎨 "Female Ghost in the Moonlight" (c 1850)

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