Lilly ✨ I Travel for the Stars

It’s 2025 and I just read a review of a styling service in Japan that didn’t speak English well. The customer’s hair turned out great! But stars were deducted because the hairdresser didn’t speak English 🤯🤯🤯 like. Wth

A reminder that when you travel, you may go to a place where people speak limited (or no) English.

Be prepared for some miscommunication and make sure you do YOUR best to communicate.

Be kind ✌🏻

They’re coming after Old Bay

(Also I didn’t know McCormick was based in Baltimore. Another Bmore company for the win)

Timeline cleanse 🐶

Today’s tale is of a Skadegamutc, a Native American ghost-witch that feeds on the living

www.native-languages.org/abenakistory...

Pachinko Please Look After Mom Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World The Nine Cloud Dream Under the Midnight Sun

My lit picks for my upcoming Asia trip. And someone who wanted to be in the photo 😂

Just today I was doing some brief research on lemurs, one of the animals found only in Madagascar. Of course deforestation and habitat destruction came up.

What great news 💚 🌳

What Is Voodoo and Where Did It Originate? - Cultures of West Africa Discover the origins of Voodoo, a syncretic religion that blends African spiritual beliefs and Catholicism.

Voodoo is usually associated with curses from a group of practicing people in New Orleans on Haiti. But what really is voodoo? And how has the religion evolved since it originated in West Africa?

www.culturesofwestafrica.com/what-is-vood...

Ghost turnips, the púca, fortune-telling and evil abductions...how our ancestors inspire our Hallowe | National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions

You may know that Halloween originated in Ireland 🇮🇪 🎃

Here are some old Irish Samhain traditions, from turnips to cake 🫜 🍰

www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/2...

Be kind & eat well 🌺

What flavor are you getting? 😋 🍦

📍 Bmore Licks, Baltimore

😂 😂

What is a Yokai? 30 Mysterious Japanese Demons Yokai is not simply the Japanese word for demon. Enjoy the fantastical stories, and breathtaking artworks, of 30 of the most popular of these Japanese mythical creatures!

Today’s article is about Japanese yokai - folklore from forest spirits to different kinds of ghosts

japanobjects.com/features/yokai

MoCo businesses offering deals to federal workers Businesses across Montgomery County are offering deals and discounts to furloughed federal government workers.

Furloughed? We can’t get you working again, but we can tell you where to find some freebies.

@miamiherald.com It has now been over 2 weeks since you published the story that 1,200 migrants had disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz. Where is the update? Even if the update is “nothing new,” we want answers.

I think a guy was flirting with me and Pirates of the Caribbean came up and I told him I’d seen them all in theatres but haven’t seen them since then.

I could see the happiness drain from his face. Guess I aged myself and am much older than he thought 🤣🤣

And that “something” is never going back to South Africa 😔

I just realised that it’s been months since I’ve heard about Musky and I’m sad it didn’t stay that way 😂

Awesome!

You’ve never accidentally put goat dna into yourself? 🧐 ok.

More ‘Disease’ Than ‘Dracula’: How the Vampire Myth Was Born Writing for The Conversation, a UVA professor of Slavic languages and literatures explains the origins of the vampire myth, and its connection to disease, political upheaval and fears of societal brea...

What day is it?

It’s October 3rd 🤓

Today’s Halloween pick is the origins of vampires in mythology and exploring what could have prompted the vampire legend.

news.virginia.edu/content/more...

Yeah I learned on my last trip that DB is super unreliable. Which is ironic for a country that’s known for its technology and punctuality.

I can only read this in ozzy osbourne

The Goatman of Maryland: Bowie’s Most Terrifying Urban Legend Is the Goatman real? Dive into Maryland’s scariest legend—from Bowie’s backroads to Crybaby Bridge. Discover the truth behind the half-man, half-goat myth.

Today’s Halloween story is from a local legend: the Goatman 🐐 I definitely heard stories of him attacking cars on bridges as a kid!

ghostsofdc.org/2023/11/03/m...

An unsolved mystery: The coffins found on Arthur's Seat | National Museums Scotland Satanic spell, superstitious charm or echo of Edinburgh’s grisly underworld history? We examine the strange tale of these tiny coffins, discovered on Arthu

I’m going to try to post Halloween related things each day in October 🎃 (but I’ll be travelling so we’ll see how well it goes lol)

First up is the mystery of a bunch of dolls in coffins found on King Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

www.nms.ac.uk/discover-cat...

Do they have “warrantless arrest powers”? I thought they were required to have a warrant (but many were making arrests anyway)

Salem the black cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch “Halloween - is it just a date on a calendar or is it a state of mind…”

Happy Halloween the 1st

A Medieval Cat's Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History - Medievalists.net Imagine stumbling upon a centuries-old manuscript and discovering an unexpected visitor had left its mark – a cat’s paw, immortalised in ink. This quirky image, a medieval equivalent of your cat…

A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats

If anyone has any recommendations for things to see and do in Vermont, please leave a comment!

I’m still planning for my birthday trip and would love some suggestions. This is going to be a road tripping, hiking, exploring small towns type of trip.

It really is so pretty 😍