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In Renaissance Europe, many university students got involved in the occult to rebel against their parents. Books on demon summoning often featured demons who were masters of specific academic disciplines (history, biology, etc.). Students tried to summon them to get good marks in their classes.
The Scholomance of European folklore was an infamous school of black magic located somewhere underground in Transylvania. Satan was the headmaster, and classes taught such sorcery as the speech of animals and weather control. In the original novel, Dracula was a student.
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Are Pixies a Force for Good?
I mean, generally, no.
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#FairyTaleTuesday: #Dylan's Rock is located north of the Church of St Beuno's Church at Clynnog Fawr on the seashore, which must be on or near the location of his grave as told in Englynion y Beddau (Stanzas of the Grave) of the Black Book of Carmarthen.
In some interpretations of legend, #Dylan represents darkness while his twin brother Lleu Llaw Gyffes represents light. But the more common inerpretation is that Dylan is a #Welsh sea-god.
Dylan was accidentally killed by his uncle, and it has been said that "The clamour of the waves dashing upon the beach is the expression of their longing to avenge their son." #Celtic
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_ail_Don
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#FairyTaleTuesday: `Similarly to the one at Kilmalkedar, the Doagh holed stone in Co. Antrim became known as the “Love Stone” or “Betrothal Stone” because of its reputation for exchanging marriage vows; this tradition survives up to the present day.` #Celtic
Source: https://irishheritagenews.ie/irelands-holed-stones-swearing-oath-taking-and-healing/
#FairyTaleTuesday: One of the stations of the Glencolmcille pilgrimage in the townland of Farranmacbride, Co. Donegal, is a cross-inscribed holed stone called “Cloch an Aoineach” (“The Stone of the Gathering”) with the hole piercing the centre of the cross. Traditionally, engaged couples would entwine their fingers inside the hole, one on either side of the stone.` #Celtic
Sources: https://www.tuatha.ie/glencolmcille/
https://irishheritagenews.ie/irelands-holed-stones-swearing-oath-taking-and-healing/
In Irish folklore, Jack was a lying drunkard who trapped Satan, and wouldn't let him go until he swore to never take Jack's soul. However, Jack's sins meant he couldn't go to Heaven when he died. Barred from Heaven and Hell, his ghost is forced to walk the Earth forever, carrying his lantern in a turnip. Thus, he became known as Jack o' Lantern. Jovan Ukropina
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The original version of Robin Hood did not give to the poor. He was a folk hero not because he helped the poor but just because he harassed the rich - robbing corrupt bishops and abbots, humiliating sheriffs, and poaching the king's deer on the royal reserves.
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Did you know the Church waged a war against Cornish crows?
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#FairyTaleTuesday for #ILoveHorsesDay: `When Sualtach found that no watchman of the kingly fort at Emain Macha answered him, in violent anger he turned back again. In his fierce wrath he dragged the bridle-rein, so that the Grey of Macha reared, and stumbled on a sleeping man, and swerved aside, flinging Sualtach forward on its neck. His head struck on the sharp edge of his missile-shield, so that it sheared it off, and the shield fell from his hand, his head within it, at the horse’s feet, the body hanging yet upon its back. At that the Grey turned round, and made its way into the inner court and onward to the hall, the lifeless body still upon its neck, dragging the head along upon the shield, whose strap had caught into its feet. And all the way they went, passing the outer and the inner courts into the very presence of the King, the voice of Sualtach from the dissevered head still called aloud, as though he were alive, “Your men are being slain, your cattle driven away; your women fall as captives to the men of Erin. In wild Murthemne’s plain Cuchulain all alone still holds the foemen back. Ulster, Arise, arise!”
“Too noisy is that head,” King Conor said, moving again and stirring in his sleep; “put it upon the pillar of the house that it may go to rest“.` #Celtic
Source: Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, by Eleanor Hull
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When you're done screaming, the giant monk in this dark mine would like to give you lamp oil.
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#FairyTaleTuesday: `The Fians were appointed by the high king to be the keepers of peace in the land, and to repel the invaders who often came from over sea to make war on Ireland. It is for that reason they had so many camping-places on the coast, and kept watch and ward both over sea and land.` #Celtic
Source: Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russel
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Would you give your baby away to a strange lady?
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Did a snake crawl in your mouth while you slept?
Does it now rest in your swollen belly?
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#FairyTaleTuesday: In the #Celtic #Fairytale „The Sea-Maiden“ a fisherman's son helped a large black dog, a hawk and an otter divide a carcass among the three. For settling their dispute, all three promised him their help in need.
To save the king's daughter, the son of a fisherman, who was meanwhile the king's shepherd, had to defeat a great beast with three heads that was dwelling in a loch.
And again the great black dog helped him after having saved his life when he had to fight a #giant.
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Bald? Comfortable with being beheaded for a bit?
Well come on down to your black magic blacksmith!
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The myrmecoleon was a mythical ant-lion hybrid referenced in the "Physiologus," a 2nd-century didactic Christian bestiary from Greece. Its lion mouth could only chew meat but its ant stomach could only digest grain, and so the poor creature starved.