Shanon Sinn
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Author and comic illustrator. BC ghost lore. Publisher of Black Cat Books.
Vancouver Island, Canada
Joined August 2011
We are having another Art Jam Night this Thursday July 3rd, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join. Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (a few people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app). Art Jam Night at the Drake.
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My friends and I are meeting tomorrow night, Thursday May 8th, at 7 pm at the Drake in #Victoria to draw and hang out. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join us. Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (five people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app). Art Jam.
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Looking forward to next week's #FolkloreThursday 🐉.
Join us over on Bluesky 23rd January for the first hosted #FolkloreThursday of 2025! .Our theme is the folkore of birth, beginnings, and all things new! .(Image: (Image: Botticelli, The Birth of Venus)
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Happy New Year! Wishing you the best for 2025. 1885 Victorian post card
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Hope you are having a happy and safe holidays 🎄☃️. Grateful to be celebrating in BC. Hot Chocolate Porter out of the Krampus glass (Strange Fellows)! Alongside cobbler I made with berries I picked and froze, mixed with local farmed. The tiny blackberries are native ground
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That time Santa and his reindeer met E.T. 🎄. This classic 1982 Victoria Times Colonist cartoon Illustration by Raeside shows an interesting blend of #Christmas folklore and popular culture.
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Made magic cookie bars for a get together last night! A classic #Christmas treat from my mom’s old cookbook. Mom only used caramel chips but I rarely found them. I use Skor Chipits instead. People seem to like these squares a lot.
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Happy #WinterSolstice everyone ❄️🌞🎄🔥❄️. This early 1900s Liebig card translates as: The Winter Solstice Festival among the ancient Germans. I'm seeing parallels to Christmas in Northern Saskatchewan 🤔
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Originally from the Alps region, Krampus is a horned and chained companion of Saint Nicholas. As good children receive presents, Krampus whips the bad. Now known around the world, Krampus is often depicted as covered in black hair with a long tongue. 2015 Krampus movie art
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RT @bearlung: @ShanonSinn We had kerosene lamps I remember and they were out when we got home from midnight mass the only year I attended.….
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According to an old Scottish superstition, babies born on Christmas Day have the power to see and command spirits. Another widespread European belief claimed if your lamp went out on Christmas morning you would see the gathering ghosts of deceased family members.
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Seattle from the airplane. That’s the Space Needle below the shoreline 🤩. Our last flight to Victoria took less than an hour after eight+ hours of flying and two layovers. Happy to be home for the holidays 🎄
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RT @FolkloreThurs: Just a reminder to come over to Bluesky this Thursday (19th) for our hosted #FolkloreThursday! .(Please note, posts to t….
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The central plaza in Guatemala City is getting more and more into the Christmas spirit every day 🎄 I wish it was warm enough in Canada for these kinds of parties. #guatemalacity #christmas
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Tikal was breathtaking. Grateful we were able to visit these ancient Mayan ruins. Temple of the Jaguar, Temples I-III (the view from the Star Wars movie!!), a young Brown Jay, and the contemporary Mayan alter used for burnings during the solstices and equinoxes.
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The Island of Flores is in full party mode this weekend. The Christmas season starts with the burning of the Devil last night, which was explained to me as getting rid of the negative of the year for the holidays. Lights are up and traditional food is being sold on the street.
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We got to the Island of Flores last night on Lake Peten Itza. Tomorrow will we go see the pyramids of Tikal. But tonight at 6 pm, all across Guatemala, people will burn effigies of the devil outside their homes. Hoping to see this 🤞.
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Antigua was cool. It was once the Spanish capital in Central America but it was destroyed by earthquakes. That’s the volcano behind the arch, Cafe Condesa’s haunted courtyard (exorcised in 1992), the Grim Reaper, and a book of folklore I found #Antigua
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