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Pocket, Queen Cordelia’s trusted fool, is lured into a trap by a merchant, Antonio, by senator Brabantio and by Iago, a naval officer. In a dark dungeon he is offered a rare Amontillado and we all know how that usually goes.
Christopher Moore, “The Serpent of Venice”
#BookWormSat
«Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.»
Kenneth Grahame decides to start his "Wind in the Willows" like this.
#FolkloreSunday
"Spring" by Alphonse Mucha.
Have a good one, people!
#FairytaleTuesday
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
#WyrdWednesday
In Mme d'Aulnoy's fairytale, Prince Adolph of Russia ends up on the island of Eole, god of winds.
A playful Zephir aids him in reaching the Island of Happiness, where they both meet in secret with their beloved.
🖼️William-Adolphe Bouguereau
#FairytaleTuesday
Hail horrors, hail
Infernal world,
and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor:
One who brings
A mind
not to be chang’d
by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place,
and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell,
a Hell of Heav’n.
— J. Milton
#WyrdWednesday
🖼 G. Dorè
When pouring rain floods the 100 Acres Wood, water simply *can’t* get to Christopher Robin’s house. It’s the only explicit statement of a warding power the child holds over elements in his realm, and it bestows upon him an unprecedented divine aura.
#LegendaryWednesday
Frederic Leighton, "Summit spirit" (1894)
#WitchyWednesday
If you like this, there's a whole article on Rackham and Undine on my blog:
https://t.co/9NrZPqv4oM