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The natives of Renwick, Cumbria were once known as "bats" because of the monstrous bat-like being inhabiting their ruined church
and read more in my "Folklore of the Lake District"
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art: Johan Egerkrans
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West Virginia has some of the strangest folklore. Take the Snarlyyow for example. It is a ghost dog from the 1700s that is literally intangible. Bullets go right through it. It doesn’t even bark or bite. It just stands in your way until you decide to go home.#Appalachia #Monsters
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In Scots Gaelic lore, 'cu sìth' is the faerie dog; the size of a Highland Cow with a shaggy green coat. It will let out three barks as an ill omen:
walking in Torridon
my only companion
distant barking dog
from my "Folklore of Scotland"
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The victorian era CONEY ISLAND MONSTER • In September of 1880... reports of an "aerial mystery" were spreading! Said to be a man with bat wings, improved frog legs & a cruel & determined look on his face! Reported to be flying in a swimming like motion headed towards New Jersey!
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- Ancient Norse Werewolves -
Werewolves also emerged during the Ancient Nordic age (c.1700 BC – c. 500 BC) in folklore and mythology.
During the viking age, Norse people colonized Iceland and at the time their Aesir religion left elements of Norse mythology in Icelandic literature. Due to this, despite their distance, they share a common mythology.
Norse mythology is composed of sagas and when it comes to werewolfism, the Volsunga Saga from the thirteenth century stands apart because werewolf related stories have a prominent presence.
The most famous such story tells of a father and son who were wondering in the woods when they came upon a hut. In it they find two spellbound wolf pelts.
These pelts had the power to turn people into powerful and cunning wolves, but couldn’t be removed for a period of ten days.
The story states that the father and son donned the pelts, and after transforming into wolves journeyed together rampaging the forest for a time before splitting up.
When they separated, the pair agreed to howl to each other if one of them encountered seven men to fight at a time, but the son breaches the agreement and kills 11 men at once.
Angered by this, the father fatally injures the son. Then, a Raven who is a messenger of Odin, brings an enchanted healing leaf to place on the son’s wound.
On the tenth day, after he is healed, he and his father take off the enchanted wolf pelts and burn them to ashes.
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#FairyTaleTuesday
In Guernsey in 1617 Isabel Becquet went to Rocquaine Castle, ' the usual place where the Devil kept his Sabbath.
When she had arrived there the Devil came to her in the form of a dog, with two great horns sticking- up : and with one of his paws (which seemed to her like hands) took her by the hand.
He called her by her name told her that she was welcome : then immediately the Devil made her kneel down : while he himself stood up on his hind legs.
He then made her express detestation of the Eternal in these words : “I renounce God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost” he then caused her to worship and invoke himself.
- Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch In Western Europe ; A Study in Anthropology
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“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourselves”
- Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
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Possession. Do you believe we can become possessed? By who or what?
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Cernunnos - Shiva: dioses y brujos.
Cernunnos era una divinidad ligada al mundo salvaje; los bosques, las bestias, la naturaleza primordial de las cosas. Pero también se le asociaba con el mundo de ultratumba, especialmente por ser representado con una serpiente con cuernos.
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The Devil's Goats. . .
Now when goats went to pasture, they generally remained caught in the hedges by their tails, then the Devil had to go there and disentangle them, with a great deal of trouble.
This enraged him at last, and he bit off the tail of every goat, as may be seen to this day by the stump. After God's wolves take out the devil's goats.
God promises to pay the devil back when all the leaves fall from the trees. Unfortunately for the devil, one tree in Constantinople never loses its leaves. This upsets the devil .
In his rage he put out the eyes of all the remaining goats, and put his own in instead. This is why all goats have devil’s eyes, and their tails bitten off, and why he likes to assume their shape.
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In Irish mythology, fairies—known as the Aos Sí—are descended from the Tuatha Dé Danann, a race of powerful, semi-divine beings who once ruled Ireland. After being defeated by the mortal Milesians, the Tuatha Dé Danann retreated into the earth, taking up residence in burial mounds, sacred hills, and hidden places in the landscape. These mounds, called sídhe, became portals to the Otherworld—a mystical realm where the fairies dwell. The Aos Sí are not tiny, delicate creatures but tall, radiant, and powerful figures who exist alongside the human world, entering it at liminal times like Samhain, when the veil between realms is thin.
Irish folklore warns that the fairies are not to be trifled with. They are known for their beauty and mystery, but also for their unpredictable temper. Humans who disturb fairy places—such as cutting down a fairy tree or blocking a fairy path—risk illness, misfortune, or even death. Many rural Irish traditions include rituals to appease or avoid offending the Aos Sí, such as leaving offerings of milk or bread. Stories of changelings, banshees, and mischievous leprechauns are all part of the broader fairy tradition, reflecting the belief that fairies are both a part of the natural world and something entirely beyond it—guardians of an older, deeper magic.
via The Irish Abroad
#irishmythology #fairies #FairyTaleTuesday
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European werewolf folklore has ancient roots and evolved significantly from early mythology to medieval superstition.
Originating in part from the Greek myth of King Lycaon, who Zeus cursed into a wolf for serving human flesh, the concept spread across the continent, fueled by real fears of wolf attacks and a lack of scientific understanding.
In the Middle Ages, belief in werewolves grew in parallel with the fear of witches. People were often accused of being werewolves and were subject to brutal witch trials, where confessions were frequently extracted under torture.
Becoming a werewolf was often attributed to a curse, sorcery, a pact with the Devil, or in some Slavic traditions, a person who died in sin and returned as a blood-drinking wolf-like revenant.
Unlike the modern Hollywood image of a hybrid creature transforming on a full moon and only killable by silver, traditional European werewolves were often indistinguishable from normal wolves (except for sometimes lacking a tail) or were believed to be a delusion.
Their power was thought to come from magical ointments or wolf-skin belts, rather than a transmissible disease via a bite. The belief in physical werewolves largely subsided by the 18th century as scientific understanding grew, moving the werewolf into the realm of Gothic horror fiction.
