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A Flemish folktale says a woman who conferred with devils died when hundreds of them decided to strangle her. In another tale a girl whose soul became the devil's property after she read a book was found suffocated between two mattresses.

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2022-10-19

Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale!

— Moby Dick, H. Melville
(Ahab drowns by his own harpoon line.)

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2022-10-19

'Michael Scot, the Wizard' was born in the border regions of Scotland and northern England in 1175. He was a mathematician and scholar. His writings dealt with astrology, alchemy, and the occult sciences.


Medicinal Alchemy 1512

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2022-10-12

DC Comics character Zatanna, made her first appearance way back in Hawkman (1964).
[Art by David Mack.]

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2022-10-12

🌿👑🌿"It will not happen for hundreds of years, but both of us are to come back."

📖The Once and Future King by T.H. White.

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2022-10-12

also a connection with Leslie Charteris (1907-1993) & therefore "The Saint". This postcard was sent by Leslie to his old headmaster who ran Falconbury School in Sent mid Atlantic from the airship Hindenburg 7.5.1936.

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2022-10-05

Sorry if I use this tag for fanart... I judt think he's a cool underdog supportive charakter.

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2022-09-29


Wendic and sorbic house-dragonlike imps (Gluhschwanz, Drak, Alf and Plón), were said to belong to a houshold and would go and steal wealth for their owners. But they had to be well cared for and fed in return.
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2022-09-29

In an Armenian folktale, a fox helps a miller's son find his fortune. In return, the fox asks that when it dies, it be buried in a golden coffin. One day, the fox plays dead. Thinking it died, the miller's son says "Good! Throw him out into the road!"


🎨W. Homer

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2022-09-29

I'm not sure I want to know the of the beavers who burn their food for a cup of tea.


by Lily Seika Jones

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2022-09-28

Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world,
and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor:
One who brings
A mind
not to be chang’d
by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place,
and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell,
a Hell of Heav’n.

— J. Milton


🖼 G. Dorè

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2022-09-28

In apocryphal Old Testament texts, Adam's first wife was the redheaded Lilith, who was cast out of the Garden of Eden for believing she & Adam were equals. Red hair became associated with demons & witchcraft, but Lilith has since been embraced as a feminist icon.

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2022-09-28

Sinfjötli and his brother-dad, Sigmund, put on some wolfskins and go rampaging in the woods as wolves in Völsunga Saga. Preparing for sweet, sweet bloodthirsty revenge tastes better when you're a wild 4-legged animal. 🖼️ JC Dollman

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2022-09-22

Christians killed all the 'mouros' (pagans) who lived in A Creba (#Galicia). So the princess invoked a big wave that drowned the Christians, separated A Creba from the mainland and turned it into an island. Then, she became a huge snake and caused many wrecks.

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2022-09-22

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” (R.L. Stevenson "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"

🎨 Jeremy Wilson

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2022-09-22

Many a brave knight comes in a small package, according to the lore. As to the chicken... there are worse


by Omar Rayyan

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2022-09-21

A wildcat dwells in The Otherworld called ‘Little Cat’, it guards a vast treasure.
For a any would-be thief, Little Cat transforms into a flaming arrow, reducing said thief to ashes 🔥


art: Decadia

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2022-09-21

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” (Kafka)

Wyrd Mother here to embrace change with you Wyrdlings for the next three hours of a wynderful morning!

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2022-09-21

Sadhbh, Fionn mac Cumhaill's wife turned into doe for refusing druid's love! Told if she set foot in the fort of the Fianna he wouldn't have any power over her! Lived happily as human until Fionn away! Turned back to a doe, Fionn never found her again! 🎨Slogenie

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2022-09-21

The Sun stared long and hard at his eldest daughter. Under his angry gaze her golden dress melted, her ruby boots became mere goat hoofs, her lovely head, sank into her shoulders and her whole body grew over with black fur.


🎨D. G. Rossetti

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2022-09-15