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"Here I am lying down to sleep;
No night-mare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth,
and counted all stars
that appear in the firmament"
Westphalian charm to ward off a nightmare
🎨 Fuseli
#mythologymonday #ofdarkandmacabre
@avalonbalcony @SuperstitionSat ... "and Naiades / With fruits and flowers from Amalthea’s horn", to quote Milton... yes, I believe I found her :-)
@PrairieBones @Corvuscorax81 @yung_magus The poor things, eh? Regardless… :-)
"A second snake crept out of the hole... with three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snake, laid them together, as they ought to go, and placed one of the leaves on each wound" (Grimm)
🎨 theartful-dodge
#fairytaletuesday #ofdarkandmacabre
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
Michel de Montaigne died #OTD 1592
🎨 Rubens (1604)
#boochatweekly
"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures" (George MacDonald)
🎨 Vasily Ermolaev
#dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
“So, dream thy dreams, O Faust, until we meet once more!” (Goethe)
🎨 Carl Gustav Carus "Faust's Dream" (1852)
#ofdarkandmacabre