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A Flemish tale says a dragon called fretalop ate everything. When he gobbled down a ship including everyone aboard a knight tricked him to come to the castle. The beast got stuck between the towers and the drawbridge and would eat no more.

🎨Arthur Rackham
#WyrdWednesday

'The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold'
-William Cullen Bryant

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)
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'Then the sudden rush
Of the rain, and the riot
Of the shrieking, tearing gale
Breaks loose in the night'
-Henry Van Dyke

🎨ZsaZsa Bellagio
#BookWormSat

A Flemish folktale says a weaver astonished everyone by getting so much work done. He claimed to have a servant, but no-one had ever seen the servant. They discovered he owned a bottle in which a 'galgejong' lived. A little devil doing all the work for him.

#WyrdWednesday

The perfect home 🖤
Art by Amelia Leonards

'...the Devil holds picnics in the graveyards and invites the witches; then they dig up fresh corpses, and eat them. Anyone will tell you that.'
-Angela Carter

🎨Joseph Tomanek

'Come to me in the silence of the night'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Kelly Louise Judd

A Flemish tale says a bird followed a man. One day the bird shapeshifted into a skull. The man had to go to communion to know if the shapeshifter was in heaven or hell. A smell of fire surrounded the man and the print of a burned hand was left on his property.

#FaustianFriday

A Flemish folktale says a woman who conferred with devils died when hundreds of them decided to strangle her. In another tale a girl whose soul became the devil's property after she read a book was found suffocated between two mattresses.

#WyrdWednesday #Gothtober

Falling in love with these two pumpkins by Tom Shropshire.