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"Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.”

#Fairytaletuesday

“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

Victorian novelist & poet Thomas Hardy died #OTD 1928

🖼️ John Constable "Stonehenge" 1835

"He was the first to realise the danger arising from contempt of technique... and that an ill-drawn coloured cartoon can never be the supreme achievement in art" (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911)

Leading German classicist painter Anselm Feuerbach died #OTD 1880 in Venice

“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins” (Winter's Tale)

Well advised was who watched out during #GothicAdvent for Krampus, Belsnickel & Hans Trapp. During Twelvetide, Rauhnächte, bleak nights, even more dark things go bump in the night.

#Gothic12Tide

@bjorn_stjerne And I do think there's an app for it :-)

@bjorn_stjerne @FaustianFriday There's even an app for it now, naturally! Add-on available for most mobile payment services...

@bjorn_stjerne Just so :-)

@habit_of_art Bavarian Baroque churches make me run away screaming :-) ... churches I'd worship in... ⬇️

@bjorn_stjerne @WlfInChpClthng And his steampunk imagery is just... ace!

"Then was the body of Baldr borne out on shipboard; and when his wife, Nanna the daughter of Nep, saw that, straightway her heart burst with grief, and she died; she was borne to the pyre, and fire was kindled" Prose Edda

🎨 Louis Moe "Balders Bålfærd" (1898)

#MythologyMonday