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Witches going to their Sabbath (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero

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Silviu Sadoschi

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🥀Hags🥀

🥀 These fairies look like old women, and the term is often used interchangeably for spirits as well as for human crones with magical powers. Folklore often holds them responsible for nightmares, and some stories say they sit on sleeping men’s chests, causing a feeling of immobility known as sleep paralysis. In other tales, hags transform themselves into beautiful young women and sneak into men’s bedrooms at night as succubi to have sex with sleeping mortals.

🥀 Hags turn up in the myths of many cultures, as the Irish banshee, Eastern Europe’s Baba Yaga, and Japan’s Onibaba. Perhaps the most familiar hags in the English-speaking world are three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, who chant “toil and trouble”. while stirring their strange brew. Although folklore acknowledge their powers as healers, sometimes linking hags with Hecate and the nature goddesses of winter, neither mythology nor modern literature has much good to say about these beings. Like witches, hags for centuries have been portrayed almost universally as ugly, evil creatures who consort with the devil and other demonic forces. This misconception may have contributed to the murders of countless human women and children in Europe and the American colonies from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

ART BY: RALUCA LOSIFESCU AT https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ly0ZY

SOURCE: FAIRIES BY SKYE ALEXANDER

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The Norns by Johan Egerkrans on Artstation. Illustration for his book “Norse Gods” (Nordiska gudar)

The Norns: Urd (that which is) Verdani (that which is becoming) and Skuld (that which shall be, come out from a hall standing at the Well of Urðr (well of fate). They are the ones who spin ‘the threads of life’, - the smoother the thread, the easier the life, but if the thread is tangled, the life will be too. They come out from a hall standing at the Well of Urðr or Well of Fate. They draw water from the well and take sand that lies around it, which they pour over Yggdrasill so that its branches will not rot. Yggdrasill is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.