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In Key West, conch shells are placed outside the door to bring good luck and keep the sea out of your house.
art by Jacob de Gheyn (1596–1641)
#superstitionsat✨
If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.
—Ursula K. Le Guin
#BookwormSat✨
Fairy tales do not start, nor do they end, at the dark forest.
—Theodore Lasso
art by Franklin Booth
#dontgointotheforest✨
James Tissot attended a séance where he contacted his deceased lover through a spirit guide. He created this painting in 1885 to immortalize the moment.
#FaustianFriday✨
It’s not the forest animals you need to be afraid of. The most dangerous creatures are the greedy politicians.
#dontgointothewoods✨
The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.
—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger #dontgointothewoods✨
#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
Merry #FairyFriday night✨
Dorothy Lathrop
Frontispiece to Walter de la Mare's Book of Fairy Poems (1922)
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not…”
—Lewis Carroll✨
Victorian medicines often had opium, alcohol and mercury. #WyrdWednesday
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better.
—Amy Tan
art by Blaz Porenta✨
#dontgointothewoods