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#Bees symbolize wealth of all kinds. If they come to live near your house it will be blessed with prosperity.#FolkLoreThursday#BeesNeedspic.twitter.com/BtEYLS6Nj4
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In the Highlands if the last sheaf of the harvest was cut after Samhain, it was called Cailleach, or the Auld Wife.
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Domoviye are protective house spirits in Slavic folklore. They act as the home’s guardian.
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#FolkloreThursday Harbingers of sickness & death; protective spirits; symbols good fortune or just plain wise. Let's hear it for the Owls! pic.twitter.com/9OOVH86A6b -
The Dance of Death, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), considered the first printed image of the human skeleton
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Folklore tells the tale of mandrake growing under the gallows of murderers,sprung from the bodily drippings of criminals #folklorethursday pic.twitter.com/Fnhdo09KKN
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Really good artistic representation of a Wendigo
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NORSE Lore-Loki's daughter HEL is the goddess of winter & death and rules the underworld. She is half corpse, half woman
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In some cultures foxgloves are known as “fox fingers,” its blossoms used as gloves by foxes to keep dew off their paws
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Witch architecture
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A wet windy happy
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In CELTIC Lore-WHITE STAGS are thought to be messengers from the Otherworld.If you catch one, it will grant you one wish.
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The Basan is a yōkai from Japanese mythology. It is depicted as a huge chicken that breathes cold fire from its beak.
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The dark spot on the side of haddock is known as St Peter's Thumbprint, left there when he pulled one from the sea
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Rabbits were believed to burrow underground to reach the Otherworld, & carry messages to the lands of the Fae and the Dead
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The wolpertinger of the alpine forests of Bavaria varies in form but is often a rabbit/squirrel/deer/pheasant. I want one!
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Butterflies are thought to be fairies in disguise.
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The Queen of the Night, the Burney Relief, from around 1800 BCE at the
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The bonnacon a beast like a bull that uses its own dung as a weapon. Pliny the Elder did describe the bonnacon!
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Common Centaury is named after Chiron the Centaur who used it to heal a wound in his foot made by one of Hercules' arrows.
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