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Victorian Christmas cards were a bit creepy...

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2021-12-11

Witches are rumoured to be especially active during and out to harm livestock. For protection, farmers put iron knives in mangers, the goodwife blew into cattle’s nostrils, made the sign of the cross over them and brooms were put before stable doors.

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2021-12-10

Norwegians used to believe that the dreams you had the night before Christmas, could reveal who would die in the next year. Therefore many people avoided sleeping altogether and stayed awake all night, preferring not to know about anyone's death in advance.

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2021-12-09

The murderous Hans Trapp made a deal with the devil to gain his wealth. He became an outcast, roaming Alsace dressed like a scarecrow, and eventually became a cannibal. Legend has it, he returns on Christmas…

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2021-12-09

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters your eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters your heart it will turn to ice
🎨T.Pym

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2021-12-08

Christmas Goblin
Josué Macías✍️

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2021-12-08

❄️ The Yule Goat ❄️by David Procter.

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2021-12-07

on Day seven- Durosimi the malign sorcerer and vampire to be. (and...something that rhymes with seven. )

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2021-12-07

In the Borders, there dwells the Gyr-Carling, a witch, some say, a downright ogress, all agree, greedy ‘vpoun Christiane menis flesche’. During Christmastide, long-nebbed Gyr-Carling enters homes to steal all knitting unfinished until New Year!

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2021-12-07

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote "Der Sandmann," who threw sand in kid's eye in order to collect them to feed his children on the moon while, Hans Christian Andersen's "Ole Lukøje" carried two umbrellas with dreams for good children & no dreams for bad children.
🖼️Kat Lowry

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2021-12-07

Our fascination with ghostly Christmas tales goes back thousands of years and is rooted in ancient celebrations of the winter solstice.
In the depths of winter, Pagan traditions included a belief in a ghostly procession..
More: https://t.co/J8sUTmJd9O

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2021-12-07

Be careful that you don't discard your old "unwanted" toys this Christmas - they may come to life & teach you a lesson...



'A Christmas Dream / Vánoční sen' (1945) dir. Karel Zeman, Bořivoj Zeman.

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2021-12-06

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Occultist author Dion Fortune was born 1890 in Llandudno

🎨 Rossetti "Damsel of the Sanct Grael" (1879)

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2021-12-06

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable or a group of pyromaniac sparrows. You have to love the darkness in Victorian Xmas cards

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2021-12-05