Curious Forgotten Lore

Walk softly
With a silent tread
Lest you wake
The sleeping dead

Hide a horseshoe
Neath your bed
To keep away
The restless dead

Scatter salt
Give blood & bread
To appease
The hungry dead

Numbly wait in
Fearful dread
For
When all is done
& all is said
None escape
The vengeful dead

1937 brought sadness to Welsh mining communities who mourned the passing of Wrnach fab Bachan Burdur from Pant y Splott, last of the indigenous Slate Giants famed for mining volcanic laver for local breadmakers, who tragically collapsed & solidified while at work after inhaling fumes from a canary.

The late 19th C. brought many inovations in medicine, much to the relief of both the general human populace & many minority communities.
Victorian vampires in particular, who had long suffered the indignity of being forced to feast on meals tainted by putrefaction, welcomed advances in purification.

In 2001 there was widespread public concern within communities near the secret Scientific Research Station at Starboard Harbour over fears that insufficiently strict safety protocols were being used during test-firing of an experimental canon utilising ammunition with quantum tunnelling capabilities

Almost invisible camouflaged owl

One of the most wisely feared therianthropic covert military units is the infamous Special Owl Service.
Wereowl soldiers of the airborne SOS are uncannily able to camouflage themselves in any environment, wait patiently, then swoop on enemy troops to digest them & regurgitate the remains as pellets.

Clown standing outside a house

Although clowns have a not undeserved reputation as crazed giggling psychokillers it is easy to forget that historically they have performed many useful roles, such as protecting homes by acting as both guards & attack-dogs (until the tragic massacres of ‘57 in which 9 towns & 3.7 cities were lost).

The public is all too familiar with attacks by everyday dæmonic mutant clowns, but thankfully highly potent emanations of Clod, God of Fools {for example as physical manifestations of the 9th Circus of Hell} are relatively rare; such as the corporeal coalescence of an Infinite Jester in August 1962.

In 1902 after an unfortunate victim successfully managed to maul one of the crowd of onlookers tormenting it, the sordid ‘sport’ of werebearbaiting was outlawed, to the outrage of many Master Baiters who had for years argued that semi-human bloodsports brought income & employment to the countryside.

Partially clothed nun

In 1965 evangelical publishing entrepreneurs spreading the word of god while purely coincidentally making large sums of money had commercial success with Christian versions of Rock & Roll, films & TV shows, followed by a trend for “Christian Men’s Only” magazines.
The most popular was ‘Repenthouse’.

An eyeless doll

Rose's were Purple

Violet's were Blue

Iris's were Green

Pansy's were Brown

Hyacinth's were Indigo

Lily's were Hazel

Marigold's were Grey

Blossom's were Azure

Cherry's were Violet

But...

What colour are the eyes

That the dolls are coming

To steal

From you?

In 1793 the already excommunicated Comte de St Germain was cast up from the pit by Satan when the Count reneged on his diabolic deal by offering to sell his soul to God in an Angelic Pact.
Banned now from both Heaven & Hell, St Germain is doomed to walk the Earth eternally.
Which was always his plan

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Magnum ice cream on a stick. The chocolate covering has melted to look like a screaming face.

According to a 2003 meta-analysis conducted by the Ministry Of Occult Manipulation Of Objects, when reincarnated, approximately 98.97% of "Dirty Harry" fans are frozen, covered in chocolate, have sticks shoved up their bottoms & turned into Magnum icecreams, then given to punks to make their day.

IT experts have to cleanse computers infested not by viruses but by the spirits of sewer-dwelling clowns, yet worse problems exist for those attempting to use PCs with Pentagram Processors ™️ to contact the ghosts of wealthy Nigerian princes, as psychic messages are now estimated to be 93.693% Pspam.

Optical Illusion

Although Centaurs are widely accepted in contemporary society & indeed can be found at Royal Ascot mixing with those of the finest bloodlines, both humans & horses alike, even the editors of “Horse & Hound” are still inclined to basic bitchiness when doggedly dealing with homocanine Cynoquadropeds.

Old X-Rays of fish

According to a 1902 report by RIP (the Royal Institute for Psipiscatology) after being filleted, the skeletal ghosts of fish enter the murky psychic seas of the human unconscious & take up residence within the dark depths of the Id, where they feed upon hidden fears & excrete ectoplasmic nightmares.

July 1956 brought good weather, warm temperatures, sunny spells & timeslips over coastal regions.

Holidaymakers suffered delays due to extremely brief dogfights involving Spitfires attacking supersonic Concordes,runway damage from bombing by atomic zeppelins & necroplasm waves from Martian saucers.

Although meteorological showers of
anomalous objects are not as uncommon as is widely assumed, (including downpourings of toads & frogs, cats & dogs, Datsun cogs, odds & sods, wooden clogs & numerous other eclectically eccentric items) the rain of fish which fell in 1986 was exceptionally heavy.

Photograph of a sign that reads, "SWIMMING NOTICE: MINNESOTA STATE LAW STRICTLY PROHIBITS UNDERWATER SMOKING"

In 1987 brought damp discord to Minnesota’s minority communities of Merfolk, amphibious & subaquatic werebeings, River Nymphs, Deep Ones & Atlantean immigrant refugees, due to what was widely perceived as an unnecessary infringement of civil liberties, specifically targeted at marginalised species.

Mediæval Anatomy Diagram as a Tarot card

#CuriousForgottenTarot
Card For Today
THE FLASHER

Advice
•Beware undead exhibitionists
•Avoid indecent extreme exposure
•Where there’s a dingle, there’s a dangle

Inverted
•Who stole the Emperor’s new clothes?
•Beauty is only skin deep

Lucky Song
•Mr Vein

Unlucky Song
•I’ve got you under my skin

On the other hand, having 10,000 spoons when all you want is a knife, but then, three days later, realising that you could have used a spoon after all... that would be ironic...

One of the more controversial events in the ever unfolding quest for greater civil liberties took place in Tennessee in 1962 when Billy-Bob-Ray Scuggins married longtime lover, Ahmed Ramses LXXXXVth, a semipharaoh of the pioneering immigrant Post-Ancient Egyptian Sphinxters who built Memphis in 1799

Town dwellers are accustomed to seeing what are viewed traditionally as woodland creatures roaming their streets (e.g. foxes, raccoons, scantily clad nymphs & bears) but eyebrows are occasionally raised when a wandering Skogtroll leaves its normal forest habitat to do a little late night shopping.

Medical history was made in 1872 when Mrs Portia Lane gave birth to non-identical twins, a baby boy called James & his sister, a doll named Bellzabubba.
After some months Mr Lane became somewhat suspicious & his tearful wife admitted to having had an affair with a demonically possessed shop manikin.

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In 2014 naturalists & supernaturalists warned the public against disturbing what may appear to be empty crows’ nests revealed in trees by autumnal leaf falls, as many of these ramshackle stickbuilt constructions contain escaped dolls, waiting in ambush to drop from branches onto their unwary victims

Figures burnt by the Ministry Of Occult Manipulation Of Objects in 2004 show that 98.73% of cups of coffee contain ghosts due to the use of expressocommunicated beans, thus making unhallowed ground coffee, possessing high coffine content.

This is worsened by 86.5% if equipment is not expressorcised

Many therianthropes have a justly deserved reputation for ferociousness, particularly when disturbed while transmogrifying into their bestial forms, yet some - especially wereponies - do not seem to mind being observed amidshift & may, if politely asked by fans, cheerfully pose for photographs.