According to folklore, animals gain the ability to speak on Christmas Eve, but you may not want to hear what they have to say. In one story from the Alps, a farmhand overheard horses discussing the plans for an upcoming funeral that turned out to be his own. #FolkloreThursday

📷: Michael Starkie

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This Haunted Mansion-inspired Christmas tree, which is part of the annual Disney Springs Christmas Tree Stroll at Walt Disney World, would be the perfect backdrop for telling a Christmas ghost story. #GothicYuletide

#WaltDisneyWorld #DisneySprings #HauntedMansion #MadameLeota #Christmas #ChristmasTree

Beware out there tonight, #Krampus is abroad! #GothicAdvent #GothicYuletide #FolkloreThursday 🎨'Krampus in the Wild' by Andy Kehoe andykehoe.shop
#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent #GothicYuletide Perchten is an early December Austrian festival of masked parades to drive out the 'devils of winter' from villages Percht mask from the Salzburg region, Austria, 18th century Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin www.smb.museum/en/museums-i...