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In a Flemish tale a farmer woke up to discover that his sheep were lying on the ground with snakes around their necks. He also found flower wreaths underneath the doors and windows. It was thought that witches were responsible.

🎨Franz Stuck
#GothicSpring #OfDarkAndMacabre

'Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?'
-Lord Alfred Tennyson

🎨Emilio Freixas

'The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.'
-Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

'And many a quiet night,—in slumber sweet and deep,
The pretty fairy people—would visit me in sleep.'
-William Makepeace Thackeray

🎨Gustave Doré

'We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.'
-Ursula K. Le Guin

🎨Arthur Rackham
#DontGoIntoTheWoods

'She left the rosy morn,
She left the fields of corn,
For twilight cold and lorn
And water springs.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Florence Harrison
#BookWormSat

'Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.'
-Lewis Carroll

🎨Arthur Rackham

'For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.'
-W. B. Yeats

🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

In Scotland Nicnevin is said to be a Queen of the Faeries. According to Walter Scott she's thought to be a sort of mother witch or the Scottish Hecate who 'rode on the storm and marshalled the rambling host of wanderers under her grim banner.'

🎨Thomas Maybank
#FaustianFriday

A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.

🎨Wiertz
#OfDarkAndMacabre