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The Forbidden Knowledge

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not even any notes. I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a plot-advancing skeleton’s notebook

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they were erased

they knew too much

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Hi! Obligatory explanation from your local retired Bible Belt™️ queer

We love ✨Christianity✨ here

A “spiritual attack” is basically the devil tryna mess up the good Christian hub’s life by tempting him into “sinning…” (or perhaps he’s already far along “a sinful path”) which could quite literally be anything, depending on how fundie she is.

I’m talking from mental illness to porn addiction to maybe liking horror movies, video games, and secular music — ya know the kinda stuff that’s a “portal for demons and evil spirits” to invade your mind and soul.

I know of people who say the same thing about women wearing jeans or having televisions in their houses.

A less exaggerated version of people that call everything “demonic,” but not quite to the extent of Bobby Boucher’s mom in Waterboy.

I’ve seen TikToks of religious™️ people getting bent out of shape about trailers for The Conjuring purportedly bringing demons into their home.

Long story short, a spiritual or demonic attack is basically something that causes a Christian to stray from God, Jesus, the Church etc.

So, who knows what her fella’s up to or is going through. Hopefully, all’s well that ends well or something.

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Thank you, because I was like what the hell is happening and what the hell did I read.

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YOOOO SOMEONE BOOKEDMARKED MY STORY!

BEAN0626! THANK YOU! YOU MADE MY EVENING! IN THE YEAR OF 2026! AFTER YEARS OF NOT POSTING, BEAN, I LOVE YOU!

Whoever you are, hopefully your real, but you are a saint! I hope this finds you!

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A Sign of Affection ♡ Episode 1 “Is love like the snow? Does it arrive silently, with no fanfare? Will it fall from the cloudy skies above and color the world in its hue?”

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I miss this show so much 😭

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Art by ⌞HMZUK⌝

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do you guys think he likes eating rice so he got the name from it

(from tbb rogue agents, releasing soon)

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This kama has been to hell and back. Part of it stayed in hell.

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Reese Hannigan. you continue to have my biggest thanks. 😍

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Sergeant Cole at your service 🫡

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the sass twins have NO time for your bullshit

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Tobirama Week 2026.

Day 3: Hokage's Orders.

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2025マダラ誕生日おめでとう🥳🎉

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the every day horrors of hol horse's life

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There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter

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Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise you’ll draw their attention.

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Yall have evil whales?

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Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally “evil whales”, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (that’s blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.

All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. That’s right, they’re so evil, you can’t even eat them.

They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.

The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.

Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!

Or what about death from above? The stökkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.

Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hide…

… while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.

The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.

The same can’t be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.

The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.

How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.

For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.

https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/

Posts about Illhveli written by abookofcreatures

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This is also why fairies were referred to as the ‘Good Neighbors’ and why there are so many nicknames for Satan.

The concept of avoidance speech is endlessly fascinating and rife with plot points for writing, but honestly I’m just thrilled about the EVIL WHALES.

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Firstly and most importantly, @a-book-of-creatures I need you to know that your art is a significant part of why I look to your blog for inspiration and creature cameos when I’m writing.

Secondly, if anyone’s curious about using avoidance speech as a plot point, have you seen Red One?

“I can’t speak her name, she’ll hear.” Is basically this in a nutshell. Ironically, Red One sounds like an epithet as well.

Bonus detail, if you’ve ever heard about calling Hades or the Furies names like the Kindly Ones? It’s for the same reason. Even if the scary thing’s not necessarily out to get you, you don’t want to draw their attention.

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