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pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

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Here’s a list of weird/strange articles on wikipedia in no particular order for you to read and just add more useless knowledge in your puny human brain. General murder/death trigger warning for most.

Bloody Mary || Kennedy curse || Taman Shud Case || La Voisin || Greyfriars Bobby || Pripyat || Albert Fish || Mary Toft || The Cure for Insomnia || Roanoke Colony || John Murray Spear || Arecibo message || Nuckelavee || Phaistos Disc || Tanganyika laughter epidemic || Mad Gasser of Mattoon || Murder of Junko Furuta || Peoples Temple || Ed Gein || Stargate Project || Jackalope || Numbers station || UVB-76 || Bélmez Faces || Donner Party || Adam || Mariana UFO incident || Valentich disappearance || Cleveland Torso Murderer || Trepanning || Dyatlov Pass incident || Grey goo || Overtoun House || The Garden of Earthly Delights || Wilhelm Reich || Starchild skull || Original Night Stalker || Owlman || Ararat anomaly || British big cats || Jack the Ripper || Clapham Wood Mystery || Pope Lick Monster || Shadow person || Out-of-place artifact || Black Dahlia || Jersey Devil || Crawfordsville monster || Koro || Philadelphia Experiment || Glasgow smile || Roswell UFO incident || David Parker Ray || D. B. Cooper || Total Information Awareness || Goatman || Grey alien || Joachim Kroll || Peter Kürten || Gilles de Rais || Alien abduction || Joseph Vacher || Mothman || Polywater || Catacombe dei Cappuccini || Villisca Axe Murders || Grace Sherwood || Loveland frog || The Hermitage || Jatinga || Sankebetsu brown bear incident || Mongolian death worm || Devil’s Footprints || The Sick Child || H. H. Holmes || Dysaesthesia aethiopica || Bloody Benders || Lamia || Black Paintings || The Monster with 21 Faces || Shirime || Lina Medina || Exploding head syndrome || Quantum suicide and immortality || Mokele-mbembe || Spontaneous human combustion || Dulce Base || Chandre Oram || Oscar || Men in Black || Vladimir Demikhov || The Great Red Dragon Paintings || Bloop || Retroactive continuity || Elizabeth Báthory || Delphine LaLaurie || Silverpilen || Polybius || Guided rat || Robert J. White || Chelyabinsk meteor || Armin Meiwes || Big Crunch || Belchen Tunnel || Moberly–Jourdain incident || Boy Scout Lane || Princes in the Tower || Rosenheim Poltergeist || Peter Stumpp || Bermuda Triangle || Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery || Hill of Crosses || Self-immolation || Lycaon || Burke and Hare murders || Pykrete || Kate Morgan || List of unusual deaths || Sawney Bean || Rogue elephant of Aberdare Forest || Yoshio Kodaira || Incorruptibility || Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus || Toynbee tiles || Rat king || Sailing stones || Thalidomide || Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 || Tunguska event || Head transplant || List of cryptids || Borley Rectory || Sedlec Ossuary || Alien hand syndrome || Capgras delusion || Mellified man || Atuk || Monster of Glamis || Spring-heeled Jack || Allagash Abductions || Aokigahara || Raymond Robinson (Green Man) || Premature burial || Brain transplant || Nightmarchers || Decompression illness || Midgetville || Zombie || Mercy Brown vampire incident || Necromancy || Lamkin || Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. || Icelandic Phallological Museum || Neisseria meningitidis || Unit 731 || Bunny Man || Bubbly Creek || Malleus Maleficarum || Moll Dyer || Original Spanish Kitchen || Charles Bonnet syndrome || Voynich manuscript || Black Annis || True name || Dorothy Talbye trial || Black dog || Wandering Jew || Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway || Yara-ma-yha-who || Rod Ferrell || The Juniper Tree

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Predictions of dark forces being unleashed by an evil vixen hung over social media in Japan on Monday after a famous volcanic rock said to kill anyone who comes into contact with it was found split in two.

According to the mythology surrounding the Sessho-seki, or killing stone, the object contains the transformed corpse of Tamamo-no-Mae, a beautiful woman … Legend has it that her true identity was an evil nine-tailed fox whose spirit is embedded in the hunk of lava, located in an area of Tochigi.

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Celtic faery tradition is full of tales of ‘glamourie’, a Scottish word meaning illusion. It was believed that faeries had the power to cast a ‘glamour’ over the senses, so that things did not appear as they actually were. The word is in fact a variation of ‘gramarye’, from which derives ‘grammar’, for spells of enchantment have much to do with the spelling of words. The spell of glamourie could only be broken by a four-leaf clover  or by the application of faery ointment to the eyes - Mara Freeman

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haven’t you ever seen a mermaid in a motel pool before?

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The fairies of folklore - historic and modern - are depicted across a wide range of sizes and forms, from about 18 inches tall to well over 13 feet. These beings are known as shapeshifters and their size is often fluid and changeable, or at least human perception of their size isn’t constant. Also specific types of beings are known to have particular sizes and appearances, such as the selkies who are human-like on land and seals in the water. In many Irish fairy encounters the beings are described as more or less human sized, a feature we see as well in Scotland. Some specific beings like Leprechauns were known to be about 18 inches to 3 feet tall, depending on the story. As with so many aspects of folklore this subject isn’t clear cut or easy to simplify but includes a spectrum of possibilities. However we can say in a very general sense that the idea of tiny, insect sized or smaller fairies isn’t common across Western European folklore.

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Cryptid of the Day: Big Muddy Monster

Description: In June of 1973, two police officers reported seeing an unknown creature, described as tall, white haired and caked in mud. It was seen near Big Muddy Rover, Illinois, giving the monster its name. A similar creature was reported in the 1950s at Westwood Hill.

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Since the 1920’s, Maryland has been host to a strange creature resembling a werewolf.

Witnesses generally describe it as dark furred or brownish, and in one instance it was said to have stripes on its lower half like a thylacine, while another described it with sprawled back legs. Some accounts include fangs, muscular hind limbs, a long bushy tail, etc. This depiction is based upon some eyewitness descriptions as well as a sketch by News-Post sketch artist Ed Mull from the December 1, 1965 issue of The News.

An early report of the dwayyo came from Carroll county and the beast was described as calling out in “frightful screams" not unlike those of the dogman found in Michigan.  However, while that account dates back to 1944, it wasn’t until the holidays in 1965 near Gambrill State Park that the creature resurfaced, with enthusiasm, even attacking a man who defended his family from the beast!  In fact, it was seen so often that a hunt was planned, though it was unsuccessful.  It wasn’t seen again until the summer of the next year, where a gentleman encountered it and heard it scream as it backed into the woods again, where it remained unseen for a decade. Frederick county was next to be visited by the Dwayyo, where a couple of gentlemen were on the lookout for deer, and instead encountered a beast in the headlights!  It was a mere two years later that it was spotted in the same area again, where it ran in front of two onlookers and disappeared from history again until 2009.  The beast appeared by Hawbottom road, where it kept pace with a car estimated at 25 miles an hour. When the car slowed, the slobbering creature lunged at the vehicle!

Rumors abound about this mysterious creature, some claiming it’s a hoax, others saying that it’s a variety of cryptid, while others speculate that it’s a shapeshifter of some variety.  Regardless, the mystery continues, and perhaps you should tread with caution, should you find yourself alone in the forests of Maryland. 

Mysteries & Lore of Western Maryland -Snallygasters, Dogmen, and Other Mountain Tales

By Susan Fair 2013

The Michigan Dogman -Werewolves and Other Unknown Canines Across the U.S.A.

By Linda Godfrey 2010

Weird Maryland  -Your Travel Guide to Maryland's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By Matthew Lake, Mark Moran, Mark Sceurman  2006

The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings

By Brad Steiger 2011

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Sprites based on flowers that were suggested to me on twitter, drawn to celebrate that The Sprite and the Gardener will be released in a month! 🌻🌼🌷

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Frazetta Mothman

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Mythology Illustrations by milirine

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Kongamato, the 156th Known One.

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Here’s a few fairy pngs I made from Cicely Mary Barker’s artwork. Feel free to use them!

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I couldn’t decide if I wanted to draw mermaids, or drawing something inspired by Alfonse Mucha’s beautiful sketches. So then I thought: Why not both?  These flowy underwater ladies were the result. Do you ever mix and match your inspirations?