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  1. May 13

    "I love thee better than any witch's puppet in the world; and I've made them of all sorts--clay, wax, straw, sticks, night fog, morning mist, sea foam, and chimney smoke…" Feathertop | Nathaniel Hawthorne Mother Rigby conjures a lively, gentleman scarecrow.

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  2. May 13

    🖤🖤🖤 Back in the day an area of my town was home to sacred trees. One of these trees was felled and made into a ceremonial drum that was used to march Scottish troops into battle. Rumour goes the drum became possessed by the dead from the Flodden war...

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  3. Apr 29

    Witches flew by a magic salve, prepared and rubbed on objects, including their bodies. Many lists exist, causing hallucination and poisoning, but Francis Bacon's recipe was the fat of dead children, celery juice, crushed wolfsbane and cinque foil, with wheat meal

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  4. May 13

    The cursed galleon hanging from the ceiling of Nottingham's Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem pub must never be taken down and cleaned. If it is, sickness and death follows.

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  5. May 12

    THE HOPE DIAMOND curse Once owned by King Louis XIV, it disappeared during the French Revolution & a string of upsetting fates occurred for many of the individuals who owned or even touched it over the years, until the 20th century 📷Smithsonian

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  6. May 13

    In there is a wish-granting that resides in dolls and is known as hinnagami. They are created by a complex magical ritual of collecting earth from graves, shaping it into a doll & then leaving it on the roadside to be trampled on... 1/2

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  7. May 13

    In Jessie Burton's "The Miniaturist", lady Petronella Oortman's famous doll's house becomes an object of mystery, as she receives miniatures foreshadowing her destiny and hinting at dark mysteries in her own household.

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  8. May 13

    "There is a doll. The wicked she conjures is never small." A.K. Kuykendall Welcome to our possessed We RT between 10 am - 10 pm CET 🎨 John White Alexander (1898)

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  9. May 12

    “Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today?” (Kuykendall) Darklings, Tell your tales and share your images of “Haunted Dolls and Possessed Objects" tomorrow for We RT between 10 am - 10 pm CET 🎨 Waterhouse

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  10. May 13

    'The Shoe Doll' 👞 is part of the collection at the Childhood Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. Its label reads: "Discovered in 1905 in East London, by folklorist Edward Lovett... Who do you think made her?" 👞

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  11. May 13

    in Arthur Machen's 'The White People' (1904) the narrator reveals that, at 8 y/o, her nurse taught her a strange game where they made clay dolls & did "all sorts of queer things" while chanting/singing to it. The nurse then tells her a story about these dolls 1/5

    Voodoo doll Louvre (from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voodoo_doll_Louvre_E27145b.jpg). Nude female voodoo doll in kneeling position, bound and pierced with thirteen pins. Found in a terracotta vase with a lead tablet bearing a binding spell (katadesmos).
    A white hand with long, sharp nails reaches towards a black gloved hand, which receives it lightly.
    Three women in flowing white dresses stand with their faces obscured y their hair and shadows. The middle figure appears to levitate, with the other two facing her.
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  12. May 13

    In the Russian fairy tale 'Vasilisa the Beautiful' it is a magical doll that helps Vasilisa complete the tasks set for her by the witch Baba Yaga.

    In the Russian fairytale 'Vasilisa the Beautiful' a girl is sent by her cruel stepmother to retrieve fire from the witch Baba Yaga. Despite being set a range of seemingly impossible tasks Vasilisa triumphed with the help of a magical doll. 1/2
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  13. Apr 28

    Witches' Flight (1798) by Francisco de Goya

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  14. May 13

    Darklings, Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, don't forget to share your favourite South American superstition tomorrow with and make a house call at our friends'!

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  15. Apr 29

    A happy to all! The Red Shoes

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  16. Apr 29

    The Dance of Witches by Isaac Levitan

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  17. May 6

    Entrance to Le Cabaret de L'Enfer (the Cabaret of Hell), Paris circa 1900 (demolished in 1950) 📸 Public domain

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  18. May 13

    In Somerset, the Chilton Cantello Skull is kept in a cupboard in the farmhouse. It belonged to Theophilus Brome who died in 1670 and asked that his skull be kept in his home. In 1826, some workmen celebrated by drinking from his skull and unsurprisingly…1/2 💀

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  19. May 6

    In Slavic folklore, birches are connected to the world of the dead and often serve as portals. In Poland, it was believed that solitary birches were haunted by souls of young women and that at night they could escape and dance you to death.

    “Bitch witch” by Ire https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Dx6oOn
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  20. May 5

    Trolls and other supernatural creatures in Scandinavian folklore, are known to guard the door to their mountain realm very well. Sometimes they kidnap humans, and once the door to the troll mountain closes behind you, you'll most likely stay in there forever.

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