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'Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me.
Thousands of voices weave in the rain.'
-Conrad Aiken

🖼️Hengki Lee
#OfDarkAndMacabre #BookChatWeekly

A Flemish folktale says the devil once entered a crowded inn. When he started to dance with the innkeeper all the people flew away with the wind. They were never seen again. Soon after the innkeeper disappeared as well.

🎨Mcptato
#FaustianFriday #Gothtober

I've been very, very ill the last couple of days and will return to the world very, very slowly. Also, dreaming about this hedgehog's cosy home.🦔🖤 Brilliant art by Deborah Hocking.

Forget running away from everything, I want to fly away.

In Flemish folktales werewolves hide their skin in trees. When someone steals their skin and burns it the wolf dies or disappears. It's also said that you can recognise werewolves if you cut them with a knife that has cut through bread or earth first.

#FaustianFriday

In a Flemish tale a man steals a hat. The hat shapeshifted into a screaming, grinning skull. He was advised to bring the skull back with a newborn. A woman appeared and said that if it wasn't for the child she would have broken his neck and flown him to hell.

#FairyTaleTuesday

'She haunted him like his shadow, gliding from tree to tree, nestling down amongst thick fern and undergrowth, motionless as one who stalks a wild thing...'
-Jean Lang, Book of Myths, Echo and Narcissus.

🎨Helen Stratton
#BookChatWeekly

'What greater gift than the love of a cat.'
-Charles Dickens.

🎨Philippe Mercier

According to legend painter Quinten Massijs can't marry the daughter of a painter because he's only an ironsmith. Quinten paints a lifelike fly on a painting depicting the devil. The father fails to kill the fly and says the creator may marry his daughter.

#MythologyMonday

Falling in love with this bewitching artwork by Sarah Jarrett. 🖤