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In the wake of the French Revolution the last Marquis of in Flanders was forced to flee, after which his castle burned down. The grounds became haunted by the white ladies, who danced among the castle ruins and its beech tree drive.

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2022-10-20

Bezkost is a boneless vampire from Slavic folklore. A flexible mass of skin and flesh, it can squeeze through cracks in the walls or under the door to gets to its victims. As it feeds, it fills up with blood like a balloon.

Art by J. Puciłowski

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2022-10-20

"Spooky night creatures and nocturnal legends." "Still Life with 17th century, artist unknown.

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2022-10-19

What not to do after dark, according to Anatolian folk beliefs:
- whistle (or you'll summon the djinns)
- chew gum (or you'll be chewing on the flesh of the dead)
- give away salt, vinegar, or onion (or someone from your household will die)


🎨R. Magritte

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2022-10-19

Medusa was a woman of exceptional beauty,she boasted especially lush hair with which she competed with Athena. In another version, her grace caught the attention of Poseidon. As punishment, the goddess turned the girl into a hideous creature.

🎨J.M

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2022-10-13

Before the King could judge which was best, the two tablets flew together and could not be parted. The lovers were united beyond death.

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2022-10-12

In Turkish culture, supernatural encounters often involve run-ins with djinns. A common setting is a bath house. A human realizes that the people nearby are djinns, when they notice that these people have feet pointing backwards or thumbs on the wrong side 🪬

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2022-10-06

In the Saga of the Volsungs, Sigmund and his son Sinfjotli discover wolf pelts that turn the wearer into wolves for 10 days. They went on a killing rampage, which only ended when the father wounded the son.

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2022-10-05


Cerberus, the multi-headed hound of Hades, guards the entrance to the Underworld so that none may escape. At times, depicted as a 3-headed dog.
Astronomer, Johannes Hevelius presented the constellation Cerberus as a 3-headed snake held in Hercules’ grip.

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2022-10-05

Bell Witch claimed to be the spirit of
Kate Batts, an otherwise unfriendly neighbor of John Bell who believed she was created by him in a land purchase
*Poster of 2013 film

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2022-10-05

The Wind is the narrator in this tale:

"I used to meet her in the garden, the ravine, and in the manor fields. She was always picking flowers and herbs... her father could use for healing drinks..."

- Hans Christian Andersen,
The Wind's Tale
🎨 Edmund Dulac

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2022-09-29

Płanetnik is a Slavic folklore creature who moves the clouds through the sky and gathers water to release it as rain. They help farmers by watering their fields, but if slighted, they retaliate by sending storms, hail and torrential rains.

Art by Paweł Zych

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2022-09-29

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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2022-09-28

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