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The way this just has that magical ✨ vibe✨ makes me so sad compared to the newer map. I get why they changed it but... it looks like a colored fairytale book 😭

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Some trivia, some of our movie was filmed down the road from Croglin, birthplace of 'The Vampire of Croglin Grange' legend.

More info here:
https://t.co/25T7F9jSnh

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2021-05-12

Trolls have long been the most ubiquitous purveyors of distinctly Scandinavian creepiness. 🖼️Erik Werenskiold

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2021-05-12

Legend inspiring film inspiring art: Illustrator & animator Drazen Kozjan created comics such as Ghostcat (top); His tribute to Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires is in the style of Edward Gorey who cited Feuillade’s silent film serial as a key influence on his art

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"O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales".

Leo Rosten

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2021-05-12

There is a high level of crossover between fairy stories and ghost stories in Ireland. An daoine sidhe like Lugh lived and died, then reappear in the later tales of Cuchulainn as a specter. Fairies like the banshee are just sanitized Irish gods.

🖼: IrenHorrors

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THE WILD SWANS (1838): Andersen's tale of a princess who saves her 11 brothers, transformed into swans, by making nettle shirts. As she gathers them from a graveyard, she stumbles across ghouls feeding on the dead. (Illus: K. McMorris, https://t.co/HmIyr9Pir2)

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2021-05-12

Fear the coming of the Dullahan, a headless horseman of Ireland. Wielding a human spine and its own head, it is said to be the spirit of a dark god, Crom Dubh, constantly riding. When he stops, he speaks your name: and sucks away your soul.

🖼: M. Munoz

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2021-05-11

In Norse mythology the draugr was an undead being who would guard their burial place with a range of magical abilities such as shapeshifting or travelling into people’s dreams.

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BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 🎨Nagi Noda

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The Eloko is a cannibalistic dwarf from Zaire. They eat human flesh and possess little bells, which cast a spell on passersby that can only be repelled by wearing an amulet or fetish.

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2021-05-11

Apparently vampires adore blackberries so much they cannot pass a bush without counting each berry. This makes a blackberry bush the ideal protection if planted near your front door, as the vamp will be so distracted he will forget to enter your home. Img: CMB

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Some more for Please enjoy these rather bizarre Victorian soap adverts featuring totally normal content:

Sapolio soap, Cosmopolitan magazine (1899)
Pears soap (1889)
Lux Soap, 'Illustrated London News' (1906)

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'Balance of the Zodiac', Luis Ricardo Falero (19th c.)
'Moon Nymph', , Luis Ricardo Falero (1883)

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The Turn of the Screw, a novella by Henry James, tells of a governess trying to protect her young charges from the malevolent & manipulative of their previous governess & her boyfriend. It inspired several versions including The Innocents.

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2021-05-11


HARPIES (Greek Myth)
by Virgil: Bird-bodied, girl-faced things they are; abominable their droppings, their hands are talons, their faces haggard with hunger insatiable.
By Aeschylus: they snore with repulsive breaths, they drip from their eyes hateful drops.

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2021-05-11

Alta evolución en el hashtag a tenido este weon y cambios sin duda, igual aprendí mucho de dibujo digital dibujandole 😌

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"𝓜𝓲 𝓹𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓼 𝓶𝓲 𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓭 𝔂 𝓶𝓲 𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓭 𝓮𝓼 𝓶𝓲 𝓹𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻, 𝓼𝓸𝔂 𝓹𝓾𝓻𝓪 𝓿𝓸𝓵𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓭 𝔂 𝓹𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓵 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓶𝓸 𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓸.!!"

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2021-05-11

My new line is Fairy Tales and the first one I did was of Snow White!

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