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This All Hallow's Eve is extraordinary for it's coinciding blue-moon (2nd full moon of the month) which is said to call all creature-witches of the Majickal Dales to broom to fly in its radiance until dawn's first light...

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🪦⚰️☠️ Between 1742-1832 plagued churches! Join us & at 1pm for a & discover what lengths churches went to in order to combat them!

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📷 Wellcome Images

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In the middle ages it was believed that witches anointed their bodies with a tincture of Deadly Nightshade to induce the sensation of flying or being changed into animals, as the Atropine in the berries causes hallucination, confusions and convulsions.

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The Mischief of Spirits On All Hallows Eve acrylic and oil on paper 12 x 19 inches.

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The of 31 Oct arrives right on enhancing the energy of as the veil between the worlds thins. It is also especially magically powerful as it is a rare being the second in a month. Img: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

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Cailleach roams free during Samhain in Ireland and Scotland. She is a crone with no patience for anything. She carries a huge hammer to destroy everything she sees.

It is said that she created many places, including Ceann na Caillí ('The Hag's Head').

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Oiwa is a Japanese ghost, the vengeful spirit of a young woman betrayed by her husband. He disfigured her face in an attempt to get rid of her so he could marry a younger woman. She cursed the pair on her death & returned to haunt all who had betrayed her.

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In a woman who die in childbirth may assume the form of a vengeful ghost called 'antu koklir'. It threatens men, the agents responsible for female death, with castration or death by emasculation.

Image: Adeshark in DeviantArt

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The Bean Nighe in Scottish folklore is an omen of death. Found by streams or pools, she sings a wailing dirge while washing blood from the clothes of those who are to die. Some say if you lay eyes upon her, it will be the last thing you see.
📷W.H. Brooke (c.c)

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For before Halloween, here are a few illustrations by Arthur Rackham from The Ingoldsby Legends which is a collection of ghost stories, myths & legends. They were written mostly as pastiches of medieval folklore & poetry.

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By the Pricking of my Thumbs is one of Agatha Christie's later works. It has an eerie plot, with themes such as memory, enigmatic artworks and missing children. There is also an old ruined doll which falls out of a chimney and provides a clue.

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Coming soon to which will follow the Tiny Toons to college & from Genndy Tartakovsky: inspired by myths & folklore from around the world. (Source: Variety.
https://t.co/3Ts6xsckqx.)

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yessss, thank you for a halloween artshare!! I love making fantasy monsters and ghouls inspired by folklore. I'm a bit of a horror fan and I adore the halloween season

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Thank you for the art share!!
I'm a small artist currently working on a fantasy/folklore inspired comic. I mostly like to draw monsters/cute characters and I have a realistic-ish anime style I guess

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Scottish folklore with elements of the darkest Horror, Scifi, and Fantasy.

"...great heritage in this collection...deserves to be kept alive.” -Ginger Nuts of Horror

"Meikle is one of the premier storytellers of our time." -Famous Monsters of Filmland

https://t.co/1JVIxRadXP

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⚠ cw decapitation
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day 3 - mythical/folklore


before penanggal dio goes hunting for the night, he always makes sure his body is in safe hands (literally his kapre boyfriend's hands)

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I'll keep this thread going! Hello, I am heavily inspired by mythology/folklore and fantasy, but I also enjoy sci-fi (especially mecha). I am all over with themes for my style.

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Book of the New Sun's bestiary is a strange one, drawing from prehistoric biology, mythology and folklore.

This is the Alzabo-- if you've read BotNS, those familiar with Annihilation (2018) will know where the idea of the Bear-creature truly comes from.

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