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'I must go down,
Down, down,
Below the crusts of things,
Under the shadows,
Into thought-haunted places
Where few go'
-Elsa Gidlow

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

In a Flemish folktale a werewolf who was said to be good friends with the devil often flew through the sky on a horse. In several other tales werewolves have the ability to fly. One man who saw them had nothing but bad luck for the rest of his days.

🎨Leo Putz
#WyrdWednesday

In Flanders it's said that a woman who was cursed flew in the wind. She only appeared during the summer months and destroyed cornfields. She also threw everything that was in her way into the wind.

🎨Henri Fantin-Latour
#SummerForGoths #OfDarkAndMacabre

'But who would want to keep the fairies out Mrs. Mitchell?'
-L. M. Montgomery

🎨Kate Greenaway

In a Flemish tale a father locked up his daughter in a tower because she wanted to marry the man she loved. After several months he dragged her out and drowned her. The sun set the tower ablaze and all the father could hear were his daughter's cries in the river. He went mad.

'Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.'
-Henry David Thoreau

🎨John Simmons

'I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.'
-Angela Carter

🎨Cipriano Mannucci
#OfDarkAndMacabre

'The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.'
-L.M. Montgomery

🎨Gilbert Williams

'Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.'
-Fernando Pessoa

🎨William Oliver (detail)

In Flanders it's said that a water devil who loved to pull people into a pit with a hook and drown them was responsible for many disappearances. It's also said that the water devil would sit on roofs to laugh at people.

🎨Aleksandra Waliszewska
#SwampSunday #OfDarkAndMacabre