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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more” (Lord Byron)

#Classiclitsaturday

🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, 1824

Your weekly Wunderkammer #SuperstitionSat safety advice - under-the-weather edition

“Ring around the moon, it’s meant to rain soon”

Thank you. Spit thrice, touch cold iron and be safe.

🖼️ Alphonse Mucha (#BOTD 1860) "The Moon" (1902)

@Jolywood Every #Swampsunday!

"When Thales was leaving his house to look at the stars he fell into a ditch; ... an old woman remarked to him: "You, O Thales, cannot see what is at your feet and you expect to see what is in the heavens?" (Thomas Aquinas)

The dangers of starry nights for #FolkloreThursday

“Whenever the pain becomes too much, I saddle my horse and disappear in the forest... silent as desire, silent as myself. For I am not the cheerful gentleman with whom you are acquainted"

Symbolist prodigy of the Decadent movement Félicien Rops was #BOTD 1833

#WyrdWednesday

“By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work, who lives with me deep inside my home, these people won't bring pain into my heart and laugh about it.” (Euripides)

Hecate is also the Queen of Witches.

#FaustianFriday

“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ("The Little Prince")

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born #OTD 1900 in Lyon.

#FairyTaleTuesday

“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass, darkly"

E. T. A. Hoffmann died #OTD 1822 in Berlin

🖼️ C. D. Friedrich "Monastery ruin Eldena" (1824)

"The witches used to gather on this mountain... Satan... gave the command for the sabbath, in which he chose for himself the witches who caught his fancy"

Mussorgsky finished his take on the #StJohnsEve's Witches Sabbath "Night on the Bald Mountain" #OTD 1867

#WyrdWednesday

"I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be – in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire"

#PreRaphaelite Edward Burne-Jones died #OTD 1898
🖼️ Love Among the Ruins, 1894