#hill towns

[swforester]

A road trip through the hill towns of Western Massachusetts with stops in Chester, Becket, Hinsdale and Worthington. With visits to an abandoned state park, Chester factory center Cemetery, Becket Center Cemetery, Hinsdale Cemetery and North Cemetery in Worthington. It was beautiful and melancholy on a dark winter day such as this was. A rewarding ride to say the least.

[techdriveplay]

14 Best Places to Visit in Italy for a Bucket List Experience

Italy captivates with historic cities, breathtaking landscapes, and extraordinary natural wonders. From the drama of the Dolomites to the ancient history of Sicily, choosing where to go to experience authentic Italy can be a tough call and one you can’t afford to get wrong. I curated this list of the best places to visit in Italy based on two criteria: they offer something special that…

[lemonspades]

She's so helpful in the remake isn't she?

[inkedberries]

let uncle bachelor handle this

[prupket]

SHE SAID SHE WAS FINE BY HERSELF 🙄

[space-cadet-haze]

[ghost0casper]

[deafeningdreamlady]

Some may travel to Kerala for a refreshing vacation. For some, the beaches of Goa hold the key. But those who want solo adventure will find relief from their daily grind in hill towns.

[serpentface]

The pylidaigh, a type of vampiric snow ghost, as imagined in folklore in and around the Highlands.

This is a ghost believed to come into being when a person dies in the snow and their body is not found before their soul (still trapped without its funeral rites) 'freezes' inside of it. The body then reanimates into a pylidaigh's twisted form. It looks like someone who slowly died of starvation, just a thin layer of flesh over bones. Its skin is as white as the snow itself, so pale it can blend seamlessly into a blizzard. Most of its body appears subtly stretched and lanky, save for its exceptionally unsubtle long, skinny arms, which drag on the ground behind it when it walks. After a big meal of blood, its belly swells like the abdomen of a tick.

A pylidaigh can only tread across snow and ice, and so doorways and windows are best kept clear of snowfall during the winter in order to prevent it from reaching inside. It mostly comes out to hunt during blizzards when there is little that can prevent it from catching its victims.

In spite of its fragile appearance, a pylidaigh is supernaturally strong, and can run at great speeds when it wants to. No mortal weapons can pierce its body, nor can any bonds known to craftsmen hold it in place. It is usually said that chains forged like iron but made out of ice can bind a pylidaigh and render it immobile, but this smithing technique remains tragically elusive to the average joe.

This ghost is either cast as a wildly dangerous but tragic figure, or one that is more simply malicious. In either case, it is described as experiencing nothing but bitter cold. It shivers endlessly. It retains distant memories of what it was to be alive, and it is motivated by a futile desperation to experience the feeling of warmth again.

In more sympathetic framings, it is described as using its freaky gibbon arms to capture its victims and pull them into an embrace, rather innocently trying to warm itself against their body. This inevitably fails, and the embrace becomes a bone crushing squeeze. When that too fails to warm the ghost, it rips out the person's throat and drinks their blood until the victim is as cold and drained as the pylidaigh itself.

In other cases, this more pitiable narrative of a ghost seeking warmth with no comprehension of its actions is discarded in favor of making it purely monstrous. Here it is a type of vampire with an insatiable thirst, practically a physical manifestation of the worst of winter itself. Some tales acknowledge both variants, suggesting a pylidaigh's violent attempts to warm itself may be initially devoid of malice, but turns into an act of furious jealousy of the warmth of the living after years of suffering.

The only (more or less) surefire method to permanently kill a roaming pylidaigh involves trapping it with fire. They are attracted to any source of heat, and will attempt to warm themselves with the flames (if not tempted away by a juicy living human body). The fire itself cannot kill them (as the sheer cold of their body is more powerful even than flame) but they can be trapped if kept near the fire long enough for the snow it depends upon to melt. This does not kill the pylidaigh either. The monster will remain in stuck in place (and potentially become a threat again if it snows more) for the duration of the winter. Only when the spring comes and all the snow melts does it revert into a normal human carcass (though mysteriously invulnerable to decay), at which point it can be cremated.

Pylidaigh in the wilds also revert to a human corpse during the snowless seasons, but will roam again each following winter unless it is burnt in the interim. It is of critical importance that any human corpse found in high mountain pasture is cremated- not only out of respect for the poor soul trapped as an earthbound ghost, but to prevent the threat of the possible dormant pylidaigh emerging next winter.

[dailyjuppet]

bonus juppets for today

JUPPETS TAKE OVER HERMITHILL ON PONY TOWN!! renamed to joe hill … giggles

[gothictravelguide]

Mausoleum Window

Oak Hill Cemetery

Lawrence, Kansas

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 12: Beware the Grapes of Wrath.

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[thegroundhogdidit]

his autistic mannerisms and lust for blood have captivated me

[childishratboyy]

El muchacho de los ojos tristes,

I ❤️ JAMES SUNDERLAND !!!

[hadthatdreamagain]

restof team sonic from my shogakukan/magical girl esc au that still needs a name

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