# bookchatweekly ofdarkandmacabre cumbria

"My mother, what is happiness?
My mother, what is Hell?
With William is my happiness, -
Without him is my Hell!" (Bürger "Lenore")

Ups Lenore's fallen groom and takes his bride to the cold grave. Double quick, "die Todten reiten schnell".

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2022-09-24

Wicked Jack tricked the devil. Then he died and went to Hell, but Hell didn't want him! His old foe gave him an ember from the furnace to light his way back. Jack put it inside a turnip and with this jack-o’-lantern he has wandered the earth ever since...

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2022-09-24

In an Armenian folktale, a husband stops his mother and aunt from eating his wife 🔥
Just then the ground ripped open, the aunt fell into the crack and the ground closed above her. Both sisters were now under the ground where all giants went when they died.

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2022-09-23

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." ― Dante Alighieri

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2022-09-23

"Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer!" (Marlowe)

Dearest Darklings,

topic tomorrow is

Hell to Pay – Stories of those Dragged to the Down Below

RTs from 10am-10pm CET

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2022-09-22



“The sun is blotted out of the sky — look there — a lethal mist spreads all across the Earth.”

In Homer’s Odyssey references to planets and constellations may describe a solar eclipse that occurred in 1178 B.C.

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2022-09-17

In a story from The Seneca, Wolf Spirit sang the moon into the sky, and so that is why all wolves howl at the moon...

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2022-09-16

"Nvdo walosi ugisgo.” “The frog eats the sun/moon.” Traditional Cherokee Native American belief that an eclipse is caused by a giant frog swallowing the sun/moon. To scare the frog away, people made loud noises for the duration of the eclipse. [AI art by me]

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2022-09-16

Witches steal the milk by night but are chased by daybreak 🐇

The hare started off at a brisk pace, squirting up the milk she had sucked from her mouth and nostrils, and the dogs making after her rapidly...

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2022-09-09

Poludnitsa is a Slavic goddess who appears at noon in agricultural fields.She harasses those at work by posing them riddles or asking questions. If an insufficent answer is given,she will cut off their head with her scythe
https://t.co/HwKKwXakTn
🎨Serge Tsvelykh

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2022-09-09

In the Dungeons & Dragons world of Ravenloft, because elves love to dance under the moon, elvish vampires are cursed to be burned by moonlight instead of sunlight. As a result, they're the one kind of vampire that prefers to hunt during the day and sleep at night.

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2022-09-09

In Flemish folktales werewolves hide their skin in trees. When someone steals their skin and burns it the wolf dies or disappears. It's also said that you can recognise werewolves if you cut them with a knife that has cut through bread or earth first.

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2022-09-03

The tried and true way of killing a terrible monster that terrorizes Spear-Danes is to rip off its arm during glorious hand-to-hand combat in a splendid meadhall in the darkest depths of the night. 🖼John Howe

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2022-09-02

How do you kill the hydra? Well, it depends.
Burning the neck to prevent regeneration is a recent version featuring additional help: the storyteller is trying to explain why labors were originally 10 and now we count 12. Sorry, Heracles: this one doesn't count.

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2022-09-02

Perseus attacked Medusa, using Athena's polished shield to view the reflection of her awful face and avoid her petrifying gaze while he beheaded her with a harpe, an adamantine sword.

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2022-09-02

“But in the meantime a boy had run up with a pitchfork, and he dabbed the wolf from behind: in the same moment it became changed, and all saw that the boy had killed the man’s wife” (S. Baring-Gould)

Welcome to a garlic-garnished Darklings!

RTs 'til 10pm CET

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2022-09-02


A combative Perseus carrying Medusa’s head, riding the winged horse, Pegasus, descends to rescue Andromeda and slay the sea monster, Cetus with his magical sword.
🎨Giuseppe Cesari

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2022-09-02

"derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited” ~ village of Renwick

a weasel is immune to the stare of a Cockatrice, but only the branch of a rowan tree can kill it!

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2022-09-02

The Triple Hekate, William Blake, 1795. Hekate, the Goddess of the Crossroads, Maiden, Mother, Crone. Dog, Snake and Horse. Hekate pitied Queen Hecuba who drowned herself after the Fall of Troy, resurrecting her as a pet black she-dog, free of all memory of grief

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2022-08-27

Rán and Ægir have nine daughters who live in the ocean and tend to be a bit homicidal (particularly where ancient Scandinavian sailors are concerned). 🖼️Rim Bitik for https://t.co/fUg9l6yfmk

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2022-08-27