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Due to a difficult sofa🙄 today's blog will be combined with tomorrow's.
Meanwhile here are some WIPs that will hopefully be for sale soon. These are a quite a bit larger than others I've done.

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2022-10-28

Aka Manto haunts Japanese bathrooms, offering colored paper to those without. The color indicates how they will kill you: red by slashing, blue by draining you of blood. The name means "red jacket."

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2022-10-27

Teodor Jewłaszewski mentioned in his notes an encounter with a ghost: in 1566, on his way back from Vilnius, Jewłaszewski stayed in a barn where, just before the sunrise, he was visited by a fiery man.

After that night, he began to suffer from sleep paralysis.

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2022-10-27

In some parts of Anatolia, it's believed that the newly dead walk for seven days. Day wander around the crowd at their own funeral, asking "Who died?" 💀



🎨Wladimir Petroff

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2022-10-27

Old Irish lore : when leaving a wake always say " nothing follow me home" before you get to your home. A grieving family can be open to demons who see grief as a doorway and attach themselves to people leaving the wake.....#IrishTwitter

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2022-10-27

The Cheval Gauvin is an evil horse that haunts eastern France & the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. According to legend, it is a harbinger of death found in forests & cemeteries, killing those who ride it by drowning or tossing them off into chasms.

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2022-10-27

The Cauchemar - French term which means “fiend that tramples.” The Proto-Germanic word meaning is evil demon or spirit being that rides astride chest of a sleeper and regarded as similar to mythical incubus and succubus.#FolkloreThursday
https://t.co/9uTqX2SEo3

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2022-10-21

In Latin American folklore La Patasola is a predatory supernatural woman preying on males. She entices a victim into the jungle and changes into a terrifying, one legged vampire-like creature that lusts after the blood and flesh of humans https://t.co/LcfTDjBZQP

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2022-10-20

Ghosts are said to be neutral, helpful or malevolent. Animal ghosts are on a whole helpful, with a few noticeable exceptions that may have more to do with human fear than ghostly intent. (Bray Road Beast by Abigail Larson)

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2022-10-20

The Alkha is a Siberian monster, an enormous dragon-like creature responsible for causing eclipses by trying to eat the sun & moon: look closely & you can see its bite marks on the latter. It also enjoys snacking on human hair.
Link to🎨https://t.co/XAsVUtPJnd…

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2022-10-20

The Inkanyamba a legendary serpent said to live in a waterfall lake area in the northern forests at the base of Howick Falls, S Africa. The Zulus believe it to be a large serpent with an equine head.

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2022-10-20

Loch Iorsa on the Isle of Arran has it's very own monster myth. The loch's name means 'loch of the serpents'. This serpent is perhaps a wurm, a dragon with no legs nor wings from folklore.


art: unknown

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2022-10-20

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888-1960) was gifted at depicting fairies in flight, via their unique & tiny means. To me, it also alluded to the agency that women might find within themselves, & deploy, despite their Edwardian contexts 🧚🏻‍♀️

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2022-10-14

🍀🥾🍀An old Northamptonshire superstition warned that if a shrew crossed your path as you set out on a journey, your travels would be struck with misfortune.

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2022-10-13

In Cornwall, snails were sometimes called “bullhorns;” if a miner met one on their way to work they would drop a bit of their dinner or some oil from their lantern before it for good-luck 🐌

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2022-10-07

The Wild Calf of the Highlands visited farms under the cover of night. Those who went outside to embrace her in the dark would be blessed with success. One night, a timid farmer took a candle with him to meet the calf and she disappeared forever.
🎨JamiesArt

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2022-10-06

"The werewolf's bloodline must be served..." ~ An American Werewolf in London (Werewolf by Taran Fiddler)

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2022-10-06

This is an 1899 double-exposed photo (so say the experts) that allowed this ghostly image. I think "spiritography" from the 19c and early 20c are fabulous. Happy Halloween early - this puts my in the spirit!

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2022-10-06