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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra #ofdarkandmacabre #GothicSpring
🎨The Triple Hecate, 1795. William Blake
The 'Voodoo Macbeth' is a nickname for the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.' Orson Welles adapted and directed the production, and moved the play's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island https://t.co/5gMEc2x23n
#WyrdWednesday Jack the Ripper, the serial killer who terrorized Whitechapel, features in works of fiction ranging from novels to films,televised dramas and video games.Influences on the depiction of the Ripper include Marie Belloc Lowndes' 'The Lodger' & Alan Moore's 'From Hell'
‘Witchcraft and Black Magic’: Surreal occult fantasy paintings by Jan Parker https://t.co/KAb91P4gS4 via @DangerMindsBlog #ofdarkandmacabre
“My salad days
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!”
― William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra,” Act I, Scene V #ShakespeareSunday
🎨Edwin Austin Abbey, John William Waterhouse &
A. M. Faulkner
“I am the vampire at my own veins.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal #BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre #GothicSpring
🎨Georges Rochegrosse (colorized) & Carlo Farneti
#MythologyMonday "To "invoke" is to "call in", just as to "evoke" is to "call forth" ... In invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In evocation, the magician, having become the macrocosm, creates a microcosm." Aleister Crowley
🎨Frederic Leighton & Ebenezer Sibly
Sidney Harold Meteyard (1868-1947), “The Golden Legend” by Henry Longfellow, 1910
Source: https://t.co/tCfEPTN5H7
#FairyTaleTuesday In Basque mythology, the eguzkilore (the flower of the sun) is a quite mystical flower. Amalur, the goddess of the land, gave the eguzkilore to men to protect them from the evil spirits and the sorginak (witches) who would get out at night 1/3
#FolkloreSunday Catoptromancy was a species of divination among the ancients performed by letting down a mirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.