Nina Antoniaさんのイラストまとめ

'She sits & reckons up the dead & gone
With the last leaves for a love-rosary,
Whilst all the withered world looks drearily
Like a dim picture of the drowned past
In the hushed mind's mysterious far away' (Keats)

Why do we say 'Bless You' when someone sneezes? The nose was believed to be an escape route for the soul & blessing the person was a preventative measure @WyrdWednesday

vintage illustration of 'Suspicious Mushrooms'.

According to theosophists, 'Lords of the Flame' or 'Children of the Fire Mist' were adepts sent from Venus to help Earthlings, especially in times of crisis. More advanced than us 'Lords of the Flame' have been secretly helping our advancements but few are resident here anymore.

Hashish, an illusion more wonderful than reality.

Nevergreen:
1962: Sunday Express reports poor sales in green hot water bottles due to superstition.
N.E Scotland: if a younger sister marries first, the older sister wore green stockings.
1993: When street fixtures were painted green in Hull there was a deluge of complaints.

Publicity for 'Whatever Happened To Baby Jane' showing the Addams Family aghast, was featured in national newspapers in advance of the film's premier.

According to Arthur Machen: 'Osvald Kroll is quoted by one of the characters in 'The Great God Pan' as having said: "In every grain of wheat, there lies hidden the soul of Star". (Things Near & Far) (Art 'Northern Mists, 1911, artist unknown)

'Whistler & I'll Come To Thee': Rex Whistler (1905-1944) with 'Into The Woods' seems to have had quite an effect on Fred Banbery's Illustrations for 'Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful' especially in the picture of a wild eyed Victorian Miss. Fictionally distant cousins?

Covid has nixed traditional 'First Footing' - a lucky stranger crossing the threshold but it pays to remember that no joy would come of a woman being the first guest. Little boys would be marched through the house to 'Break the spell of the Witch' once she'd been turfed out.