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Owls on vintage Halloween cards

Pech are gnome-like beings in Scottish Highlands lore. They are short of height but extremely strong, and built the great stone circles and burial cairns. They brew the finest heather ale. #gnomes #folklore #Scotland art: Kjell E. Midthun

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane, by American painter John Quidor (1858). Smithsonian American Art Museum.

#WyrdWednesday 🧙‍♀️🐈‍⬛ #BlackCats #Familiars 🐾 Witches who transform into cats 🐾 stalk the boundaries between the mortal world and supernatural domains 🌙✨. These shape-shifters, usually women skilled in ancient sorcery, adopt feline forms to observe secretly 🔮, cast curses

Some cultures saw witches as guardians, not monsters. In the Caribbean, obeah and bush doctors used herbs and spirit-work to protect communities - power drawn from ancestors, not evil. #WyrdWednesday

Yue Lao, the Old Man Under the Moon, is the Daoist deity of love and destiny. With a marriage book in hand and a red string unseen by mortals, he binds fated couples across time and distance. On the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, his presence is most felt. #mythology

#FairyTaleTuesday Though she appears only briefly in the Mabinogion, Blodeuwedd, the woman made from flowers, remains one of the most enduring and beloved figures in Welsh mythology. Her final transformation into an owl is framed in the original tale as a punishment. Under a more

While most of Western Europe had witch trials, in the German provinces and Switzerland they instead had werewolf trials: men and women were accused of courting Satan for the power to transform into wolves and devour their victims. These lasted into the 1700s #LegendaryWednesday

“Brujería, which combines Aztec myth, European witchcraft, and Cuban Santería, has Mexican cultural and religious roots. In the sixteenth century, when Spanish priests declared the pagan goddess Tonantzin to be a Roman Catholic, Tonantzin’s priestesses went underground and became

In the Alps, stories tell of tatzelwurms, cat-faced serpents hiding in snow caves. Whether demon, dragon, or mountain spirit, they embody the wild shapes nature takes when feared from afar. #FairyTaleTuesday

Among the Creole families or Trinidad and Tobago, a magic is passed down that can transform a soul into a Lagahoo, a kind of werewolf descended from the loup-garou. To kill this person you must beat them with an anointed stick until they are black mists. #LegendaryWednesday

The Wolpertinger is a chimera from Bavarian folklore, most commonly depicted as a rabbit with the antlers of a deer, the wings of a pheasant, and sharp fangs. It is said to live in the alpine forests of Southern Germany. The Wolpertinger gained popularity in the 19th century

Before Dracula there was Carmilla, the Sapphic vampire tale of a young girl who discovers her friend is more than a friend, in more ways that one. Despite being Victorian, Le Fanu's novella never antagonizes homosexuality. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: D.H. Friston

#FairyTaleTuesday Lamia was a female monster or spirit who belonged to the world of Greek popular religion. In later sources, in addition to stealing & devouring babies, she would also seduce and destroy attractive young men, like a vampire or succubus. https://t.co/8poTU3Ur1A

Nezha, son of General Li Jing, stands out in Chinese #mythology for his fiery defiance. When he slew Ao Bing, son of the East Sea Dragon King, the clash threatened heaven and earth. To protect his family, Nezha chose self-sacrifice, only to be reborn from a lotus—pure,

Ōmeteōtl is a pair of Aztec deities, one male and one female, representing cosmic duality. A magician of the highest order, Ōmeteōtl is the divine creator in some cosmologies, using magic to create the universe and giving that gift to humanity. #FolkloreSunday

Rougarou haunt the bayous and cane fields of Louisiana, a werewolf that hunts bad Catholic Cajun children in the depths of night during Lent. A rougarou is infected for 101 days, then draws new blood: they are the new rougarou. #FairytaleTuesday 🖼: Pashur

In a mythology from the indigenous peoples of the americas: Ravens were once only white, they helped humans master fire, and were turned black by the flames. #FairytaleTuesday #indigenous

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The Britons allegedly believed in a goddess, Andraste, whose favored animal was the hare. When released from beneath the dress of a maiden, where the hare ran determined victory or defeat in battle: Andraste was a victory goddess. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: L.J. Kilty