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prokopetz:

You know, your vampire SO being able to hear your heartbeat isn’t as romantic as it sounds; if her senses are that acute, that means she can also hear every stomach burble, throat-clearing swallow and silent fart. You’d be just a ceaseless cavalcade of unseemly biological noises from her perspective.

werewolfism:

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shrinemaidens:

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[1/6] LEGENDARY CREATURES | FUNAYŪREI

Funayūrei (船幽霊) are ghosts that have become vengeful spirits at sea. They have been passed down in the folklore of various areas of Japan. In the Yamaguchi Prefecture and the Saga Prefecture, they are called Ayakashi.

Funayūrei are ghosts believed to use hishaku (ladles) to fill boats with water and make them sink. They are said to be the remnants of people who have died in shipwrecks and are attempting to cause humans to join them. According to legends, there are various methods that can be used to protect from the harm they inflict, such as throwing onigiri into the sea or preparing a hishaku with its bottom missing.

Their appearance as depicted in legends varies widely depending on the area. There are stories that speak of ghosts that appear above water, of boats that are themselves ghosts (ghost ships), of ghosts that appear on human-occupied ships, or of any combination of the above. There are many legends of funayūrei at sea, but they have also been described as appearing in the rivers, lakes, and swamps of inland areas.

They often appear in rainy days, as well as nights on a new or full moon, and on stormy nights and foggy nights. When it appears as a boat, the funayūrei itself glows with light, so that it is possible to confirm its details even at night. In the past, to avoid shipwreck on a day of bad weather, people would light a bonfire on land, but a funayūrei would light a fire on open sea and mislead the boatmen, and by approaching the fire, one would get eaten by the sea and drown.

effulgentpoet:

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LEY LINES

The concept of “ley lines” originated with Alfred Watkins in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, though Watkins also drew on earlier ideas about alignments; in particular he cited the work of the English astronomer Norman Lockyer, who argued that ancient alignments might be oriented to sunrise and sunset at solstices. On 30 June 1921, Alfred Watkins visited Blackwardine in Herefordshire,
and had been driving along a road near the village (which has now
virtually disappeared). Attracted by the nearby archaeological
investigation of a Roman camp, he stopped his car to compare the
landscape on either side of the road with the marked features on his
much used map. While gazing at the scene around him and consulting the
map, he saw, in the words of his son, “like a chain of fairy lights” a
series of straight alignments of various ancient features, such as
standing stones, wayside crosses, causeways, hill forts, and ancient churches on mounds.
He realized immediately that the potential discovery had to be checked
from higher ground when, during a revelation, he noticed that many of
the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a
straight line.He subsequently coined the term “ley” at least partly because the lines passed through places whose names contained the syllable ley, stating that philologists defined the word differently, but had misinterpreted it. He believed this was the ancient name for the trackways, preserved in
the modern names. The ancient surveyors who supposedly made the lines
were given the name “dodmen”. Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely forested,
the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line travel
routes, with prominent features of the landscape being used as navigation points. This observation was made public at a meeting of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club of Hereford in September 1921. X