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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

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

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

The Roggenwolf (rye wolf) are wolf-shaped field spirits of German folklore. They were blamed for the disappearances of children and have also been linked to werewolf legends.

🌽Art by Janna Sophia🌾https://t.co/Sqk2Wzl7va

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2022-09-09

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
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🎨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