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‘The Old Churchyard,’ by Henry Mark Anthony, circa 1846

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2022-10-15

In "The Woman with Hair of Gold," a woman is killed by a man after rejecting him. For long time, no one notices her death. But then her golden hair starts to grow until her grave is filled w/ golden reeds. When people play flutes made of them, they sing the truth.

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2022-10-14

Hyakume (which means hundred eyes) is a that lurks around in the shadows of abandoned homes or empty temples.
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2022-10-14

A visit to the severely haunted the old meeting site for the Poetry Society in MA. "Haunted Hospitality: Hell Hotels and Demon Inns" “Midnight Visitor” by

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2022-10-08

A visit to the severely haunted the old meeting place for the Poetry Society in MA. "Haunted Hospitality: Hell Hotels and Demon Inns" “Midnight Visitor” by

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2022-10-08

A Flemish folktale says the devil once entered a crowded inn. When he started to dance with the innkeeper all the people flew away with the wind. They were never seen again. Soon after the innkeeper disappeared as well.

🎨Mcptato

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2022-10-07

The tune & lyrics relied on the repetition of a couple of basic motifs which could be extended or shortened. Since there was no established keening ‘text’, the singer was expected to improvise based on feeling. Keening was rhythmically free, i.e. without a metre.

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2022-10-01

"There were three rauens sat on a tree,
They were as blacke as they might be.
With a downe, derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe.
The one of them said to his mate,
Where shall we our breakfast take?"
(Folk Ballad)

🎨 Brewtnall (c 1880)

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2022-10-01

In the tale "Skeleton Woman," she drums on the fisherman's heart, singing "Flesh, flesh, flesh!" As she sang, the flesh returned to her body until she became a woman again. Many cultures believe that songs can attract what is most wanted and repel what is not.

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2022-09-30

The dark neoclassical band Nox Arcana experimented with setting parts of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to music in their album Transylvania. In ‘The Howling’, the Count’s famous lines are uttered: ‘Listen to them,the children of the night. What music they make.’

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2022-09-30

In western Brittany, the begou-noz (night mouths) were said to be little flames of light that repeated, at night, the words that they heard spoken on the wind.

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2022-09-30

"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

Sealed away in a cave for who knows how long by faustian gods, Then had most of her powers taken by said gods when I was set free by the desires of people from my world and maybe others I’m now here to clean up my mess from back then but also to try and spread hope again.

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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