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Harry Clarke’s illustrations were nightmare fuel, none more so than the macabre plates he produced for Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1919)
L: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
R: The Fall of the House of Usher
#FaustianFriday

In Genesis, after the serpent tempts Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, God curses it to crawl on its belly & eat dust


BUT the snake is simply a ‘beast of the field which the Lord God had made’. Satan isn't mentioned #mythologymonday 🎨Lucas Cranach the Elder

In the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin, the Fairy Queen is a terrible, seductive figure who pays a tithe to Hell in the form of a soul every 7 years. This echoes Christian lore that fairies were fallen angels neither good enough for heaven nor evil enough for Hell #FolkloreThursday