Nina Antoniaさんのイラストまとめ

This is a moon's moon's moon's world but it wouldn't be nothing without star gazing Moon Maidens. (Moon Men: Benda, Moon Maidens: Bauer. Lyrical inspiration: James Brown)

@ClayFJohnson @gordon_holst Both brother's seem very partial to painting trillions of tiny supernatural figures - I wonder what that was about?

'The Last String' (1903) In folklore, musicians were regarded with suspicion if not superstition. Music was considered a fairy gift whilst changelings in the cot would give themselves away with their mastery of music. The Pied Piper is just the tip of the magical mountain.

Thank you to everyone who braved the inclement weather & train strikes to attend Saturday evening's 'Dancing with Salome' book signing event at the enchanting @AtlantisShop it was a truly memorable evening. (art Yeroslav Gheredovich)

#summerforgoths
'The unearthly are abroad, & weary & spent,
With rush extinguished, to their dreaming go,
& world & night & star-encrusted space
The glory of beauty are in one enravished face'
(Nightfall - Walter De La Mare)

The Toadstone was a jewel prized by witches that was thought to be stored in a poor toad's head.
'Sweet are the uses of adversity,
which like the toad, ugly & venomous
Wears yet a precious jewel in its head' #Shakespeare

#FaustianFriday 'This I do vow & this shall ever be; I will be true despite thy scythe & thee'
(Shakespeare Sonnet 124) Art Charles Robinson #ofdarkandmacabre

#SummerForGoths I'm not sure if David McConachie's painting 'July Ghost' is based on A.S Byatt's book of the same name. Regardless, it's a reminder that ghosts are for all seasons. However, it is with the summer that the most poignant of all shades, the child ghost, returns.

#FolkloreThursday The Cow Jumped over the Moon. In UK & European folk lore, the Milky Way was a soul road & one's guardian for the journey was a cow. Rustic funeral processions often included a cow ostensibly as a gift to clergy but also for the soul's safe passage.

@ofdarknmacabre #ofdarkandmacabre I always understood the Korrigans to be ghost-fees, the shades of pagan priestesses, according to the great Katherine Briggs in 'Fairy Lore & Legends'.