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“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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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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On Christmas Eve when the clock begins to strike twelve, the doors should be opened, that bad spirits may pass out and good spirits come in...

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5) 'THE OTHER SIDE', Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (1893)
"the wolf-keeper whose face was ever veiled in shadow spake some words in a voice that seemed to come from afar..but all he could distinguish was his own name..and her name Lilith. Then he felt arms enlacing him."

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2021-12-05

The pricolici are Romanian of ancient lore, the reanimated corpses of evil men who've committed violent crimes. After a pricolici dies, it comes back as a They are said to be particularly active during the Christmas season.

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2021-12-05

From November through the 12 days of Xmas,stay out of barns with opposite doors after dark. They're the kind through which the Wild Hunt is most likely to come riding.
If you do find yourself...


🖼️:Wild Hunt by Velamir on DeviantArt

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2021-12-04

According to Italian folklore, female children born at midnight on Christmas Eve would become a witch (strega) and males would become werewolves (lupa manaru)
art by

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2021-12-04

Yule is a time filled with frightening folklore- possibly none more scary than some Sami tales of the Stalo, a giant creature who eats people and children.

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2021-12-04


Miserable, miserly, mean & extremely wealthy curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ Christmas Carol, rejects the Christmas season of good will. By the end of the tale & after the visitation of 4 ghosts he is redeemed & a reformed man
🎨Anton Pieck

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2021-12-03

At this time of year the soul stealer and sin eater will meet in the centre of at midnight; they play a game of chance for the immortal spirit of those that stumble by.

Who wants to hear a story of that encounter?

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2021-12-02

Historical records indicate that some medieval Europeans believed the Wild Hunt capable of rampaging through their dreams. In many locales the ghostly riders were thought to be most active during the 12 Days of Xmas https://t.co/1r93BZQEaV
🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo

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2021-11-30

It's St Andrew's Eve tonight, an auspicious date for divining weather & future lovers. It also marks the time when dark things come out and haunt the night: In Southeast European lore, Vampires are most active between St Andrew's and St George's Day in April!

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THE LIMINAL When we are on a threshold, between the known & the unknown, between darkness & light, or bordering one year and the next, during any of these liminal moments, it is said that the Community of Shadows stands ready to claim us 🎨Froud

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“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins” (Winter's Tale)

Well advised was who watched out during for Krampus, Belsnickel & Hans Trapp. During Twelvetide, Rauhnächte, bleak nights, even more dark things go bump in the night.

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