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My late grandmother would often recount the tale of one of her Irish ancestors encountering a Banshee on his way home one evening.
Understanding this to be an ill omen, he spent that night putting his affairs in order, and was found dead the next morning

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2021-06-16

The term "jack-o'-lantern" may be derived from the Irish legends of Stingy Jack, a conniving drunk who cheats death time & again. When he eventually dies, neither Heaven nor Hell can take him, so he wanders between worlds, using a hollow turnip as a lantern.

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2021-06-16

I grew up in a land of Viking settlers, under Odin’s Crag, North Yorkshire. When the crag “wears a cap” (of cloud) folk warn of “a clap” which will herald a wild, raging storm.

🎨 My childhood skyline: ‘The Wild Hunt of Odin’, Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872.

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2021-06-10

Rán was the place it was believed that Vikings who drowned at sea would end up. It was a golden hall at the bottom of the sea, ruled over by a primordial sea spirit, also named Rán, who would use a giant net to sink ships. 8/

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2021-06-09

Since today's theme is Norse Mythology, I've decided to make a short thread on ancient Norse beliefs on the afterlife, specifically the various worlds that Norse pagans believed people would go to after death. I hope you enjoy! 1/

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2021-06-09

In Norse mythology, Freyja is the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death. She owned the magical necklace Brisingamen & a cloak of falcon feathers that gave its wearers the gift of flight. She is accompanied by the golden boar Hildisvini & rides in...

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2021-06-09

"That night I couldn’t sleep. Toward sunrise I dreamed of an engraving in the style of Piranesi, one I’d never seen before or perhaps seen and forgotten—an engraving of a kind of labyrinth" (Jorge Luis Borges)

Piranesi's kafkaesque carceri d'invenzione for

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2021-06-02

Pulp hero Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze, had a polar 'Fortress of Solitude'. A strange blue dome in the arctic wilderness.

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2021-06-02

"The Vampire" by Edvard Munch in the year 1895. It's now in the Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.

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2021-05-27

In the tale ‘black, brown and grey’ some of Fionn Mac cumhails newest warriors find themselves in very strange company when they decide to investigate a light in the woods. A night of magic, theft, killing and cannibalism follows...#WyrdWednesday

Art self

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2021-05-26

More Hopeless, Maine vampires for

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2021-05-26

Not exactly Dracula, but a member of the founding families of Hopeless, Maine and very much a vampire (among other things) Meet Durosimi.

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2021-05-26

In Ireland, some believed that when people died, they went to fairyland. As such, fairies were thought to be just the departed dead instead of corporeal & magical tricksters, & fairy sightings could have just been ghost encounters.

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2021-05-19

"The Mystery of the Third Planet" is a film based on books about Alisa Selezneva, a teenage schoolgirl with an interest in biology, by Kir Bulychev. Here are illustrations by P.Kotov and N.Orlova inspired by the film, a superb science fiction fantasy for children.

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2021-05-19

"The Mystery of the Third Planet" is a film based on books about Alisa Selezneva, a teenage schoolgirl with an interest in biology, by Kir Bulychev. Here are illustrations by P.Kotov and N.Orlova inspired by the film, a superb science fiction fantasy for children.

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2021-05-19

Bödvar Bjarki channeled the spirit of the bear and sent it into battle at Hleidargard where it went on a four-legged rampage during Hrólfr Kraki's Last Stand. 🖼️Louis Moe.

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2021-05-13

In ‘Fionn Mac Cumhal and the house of death’ retold by Nuala Hayes in Laois folktales, youth is represented by a young woman.
Life and death are a lamb and a black cat, constantly trying to face each down and inextricably bound to each other at the same time.

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2021-05-12

A woman buried her dead husband with a cockerel so that when he reached heaven's gates St Peter would see the bird and be reminded of when he denied Jesus.This would force Peter to judge leniently and admit her husband to heaven.
Moral: passive aggression pays off!

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2021-05-12

In Nordic magic, a fylgja is a companion spirit, often joining a soul at birth. The fylgja reflects the nature of the person it joins, with a goat reflecting a "tame" soul. Fylgja can be dream companions or provide omens in waking life.

🖼: D. Lefebyre

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2021-05-12