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The strange and unusual,haunted places and spooky happenings #UrbanLegends #Folklore #Paranormal.Counting down to #Halloween. We are #31DaysOfHaunting

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Thank you for making this year's #31DaysofHaunting our biggest yet! Halloween season is always better with you! This is more than a hashtag to me, it's a community! I appreciate the effort you put into your contributions and enjoyed chatting with you about them!
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[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

Illes is a species of nocturnal Troll from Icelandic and Scandinavian folklore. It is able to lure humans into its lair by shapeshifting into the form of an attractive human.

art: Brian Froud

[Suzie Selenophile @TheCemetress]

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Happy Monday Everyone!!!

[Haunted Trails #31DaysOfHaunting 👻 @31DaysHaunting]

@2112Westy Good Thursday to you ✨

[Haunted Trails #31DaysOfHaunting 👻 @31DaysHaunting]

Good morning.
May you be haunted by good things today.

[Folklore of Scotland @StephenGeoRae]

Drake is a little household spirit in the form of a dragon that keeps the hearth burning, only trouble is, he smells of rotten eggs

from: 'Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin' by Stephen G. Rae
link: https://t.co/CMK9DSvw6l

art: Stephen G. Rae

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

Grendel’s mother in Beowulf is not just a monster seeking revenge. She is a grieving parent, moving through the marsh to avenge her son, her fury rooted in something deeply human but expressed in a way the world cannot accept. #WyrdWednesday

Art: Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The fox appears in the folklore of many cultures and is associated with cunning and tricks or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers #FolkloreThursday
Silk embroidered fox by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, UK #WomensArt

[Haunted Trails #31DaysOfHaunting 👻 @31DaysHaunting]

@LadyLeo1976 Good morning! Wishing you the same ✨

[Mary-Ann Thorson𐃆 @NoctrnlValkyrie]

#FairyTaleTuesday
“There is an old woman who lives in a hidden place that everyone knows but few have ever seen. . . .

The sole work of La Loba, (the Wolf Woman), is the collecting of bones. She is known to collect and preserve especially that which is in danger of being lost creatures: the deer, the rattlesnake, the crow.

But her specialty is said to be wolves. She creeps and crawls and sifts through the montañas, mountains and arroyos, dry river beds, looking for wolf bones.

When she has assembled an entire skeleton, when the last bone is in place and the beautiful white sculpture of the creature is laid out before her, she sits by the fire and thinks about what song she will sing.

And when she is sure, she stands over the creatura, raises her arms over it, and sings out. That is when the rib bones and leg bones of the wolf begin to flesh out and the creature becomes furred.

La Loba sings some more, and more of the creature comes into being; its tail curls upward, shaggy and strong.

And La Loba sings more and the wolf creature begins to breathe. And still La Loba sings so deeply that the floor of the desert shakes and as she sings, the wolf opens its eyes, leaps up, and runs away down the canyon”

-  Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[Summer 🌻 @LadyLeo1976]

Witches use cleaned deer skulls for spiritual & symbolic reasons, focusing on honouring the animal spirit.

It is a stark reminder of mortality, but in witchcraft
this is not negative. It represents the transformation from life to death & the continuation of the cycle of life.

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

The Smurl Haunting of 1970s Pennsylvania blended poltergeist and possession, growls in pipes, sulfur smells, levitations. A priest performed exorcisms. The family moved. The noises didn’t stop. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

[Susan J Hodgetts (Sue) @hodgetts_susan]

I saw the grave-worms crawling..😱

✍️ Mary Shelley: #Frankenstein

#31DaysOfHalloween #31daysofhaunting #Halloween #WyrdWednesday

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

Many possession accounts begin with sleep paralysis or the sense of a presence on the chest. Science calls it REM disorder. Folklore calls it the Old Hag. Both explanations leave the room cold. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

Art: Henry Fuseli

[Susan J Hodgetts (Sue) @hodgetts_susan]

When death comes knocking
I can hide
I can run, but the beast
Smells my blood in the wind 
Hear the gasp 
Hear it roar
This is my primal fear from within..🎵

#Halloween #31daysofhaunting #31daysofhalloween

🖼️The Univited Guest, 1844: Adolph Menzel(1815-1905)

[Summer 🌻 @LadyLeo1976]

Wishing you all a Spooky 👻 Wednesday with ~

Bobby “ Boris” Pickett _ Monster Mash 🧌

https://t.co/tJYPStjMM5…

#Samhain 👻
#Halloween 🎃
#31DaysofHaunting
#WyrdWednesday

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

The 1949 case that inspired The Exorcist involved a 14-year-old boy in Maryland. Witnesses said the words hell and evil appeared scratched into his skin, furniture moved on its own, and priests performed more than 20 rites. #31DaysofHalloween #31DaysofHaunting

[Susan J Hodgetts (Sue) @hodgetts_susan]

The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

We meet them at the doorway, on the stair,
Along the passages..

"Haunted Houses" #HenryWadsworthLongfellow

#Halloween 🎃 #31daysofhaunting #31DaysOfHalloween

🎨Dean Gioia

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

Many ghost sightings happen at the edge of vision - a shadow in the doorway, a reflection that moves on its own. Folklore calls it second sight: not imagination, but the moment the unseen looks back. #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween

Art: Sir Alfred Munnings

[Summer 🌻 @LadyLeo1976]

Welcome October 🍂🎃🧡

The thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly.

~ Anne Sexton

#SeasonOfTheWitch
#31DaysOfHaunting 🎃
#WitchWednesday 🖤

[Axel Kallesøe @axelkallesoe]

"Ridley was inspired after becoming stranded overnight at Mangotsfield railway station (a now abandoned station) on the defunct Midland Railway Company's Bristol and Gloucester railway line."

"The Ghost Train" (play)

#BookWormSat #31DaysofHaunting

🖼️ Spögelsestoget (1976)