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“And tears are heard within the harp I touch.” (Petrarch)

🎨 Michał Elwiro Andriolli c 1880

#ofdarkandmacabre

"... and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes. I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them, as they are secret woods." (Arthur Machen)

#bookchatweekly #dontgointothewoods

“Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
...
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea" (Matthew Arnold)

#swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre

"... and a star to steer her by" (John Masefield)

A more recent sailors' superstition has it that a tattoo of a compass rose or the North Star helps to guide you safe an sound back home again

🎨 Aivazovsky (1849)

#folklorethursday

"But goblins, bogies, and spectres issue forth from earth and rock and cloud for their annual carousal in the darksome forest...children dare not cry aloud, lest the witches, hearing them, should spirit them away to be served up at their terrible orgies!"

#dontgointothewoods

@PjZimmerlink @DeeringRachel By all means.

🎨 "For What Was I Created?" (1886)

“We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge”

Greek-Japanese writer, teller of Japanese ghost stories and cultural mediator Lafcadio Hearn was born #OTD 1850

🎨 "The Magical Incense" (1899)

#ofdarkandmacabre

“… in Wendsyssel… in the north of Jutland… There is still a great bog there. It may well be called the Wild Bog, and one can easily imagine how desolate and dreary it was among all these swamps and pools a thousand years ago.” (Andersen)

🎨 W. Heath Robinson

#swampsunday

@MaeneSigne Maybe we find one who likes crossword puzzles?

Any road, yes, sphinges are welcome, too!

@MaeneSigne No more!

Lynxes yes! Jinxes no!