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RAT KINGS As it's #worldratday I am celebrating my article on the interactions between the Pied Piper, Dracula and Nosferatu: rat kings and the rat as vampiric totem animal!
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@DrSamGeorge1
Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
- WINTER FOLKLORE IN COSTUMES - A thread Europe loves its folk festivals and Charles Fréger has lovingly photographed the most striking winter folk costumes - a delight to behold. Let me know your favourites & share your own! 1. Austria
- SCHNABELPERTCHEN Austrian Folklore figures with long beaks, equipped with a basket on their backs, large scissors, needle & thread & a broom. The Schnabelperchten make their way through town on the 5th of January, on the eve of Epiphany #GothicFolklore
- HUMANS ENCOUNTER FAIRIES IN FORESTS 1. Malevolent fairies enchant a peasant woman in a stunning painting by Yulia Litvinova. The fae are contemporary manifestations of Polevoi or Rusalka, dangerous inhabitants of forests & rivers #GothicSpring #WyrdWednesday
- WINTER FOLK COSTUMES - A thread Europe loves its folk festivals and Charles Fréger has lovingly photographed the most striking winter folk costumes - a delight to behold (with a nod to folk horror). Let me know your favourites & share your own! #31daysofhalloween 1. Austria
- WIZARD OF WHIRLAW magical carved boundary stone on Todmorden Centenary Way in Yorkshire - delighted to have come across this!
00:00 - CORPSE KEYS There are Victorian graves with doors to which only the corpse has the key. Mysterious fears of being buried alive led to doors being fitted already locked over (or at the front of) the grave after burial, the key left in the hand of the corpse inside #FolkloreSunday
- TIBETAN GHOST BEATING FESTIVAL at the Lama Temple or Yonghegong in Beijing China. The symbolic ritual involves wonderfully elaborate costumes & the beating away of spirits of troublesome #ghosts with sticks.
- RUSSIAN FAIRIES enchant a peasant woman in a stunning painting by twentieth-century Russian artist Yulia Litvinova. The fey are possibly Polevoi or Rusalka, dangerous inhabitants of forests, fields, and rivers #FolkloreGetsEvil
- TITANIA iconic images of Vivien Leigh as Titania in #Shakespeare, A #Midsummer Night's Dream, Old Vic Theatre, 1937. She was born to play the fae! #folkloreSunday #MythologyMonday
