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Sophie Rowan, '19th century vampire lady: peekaboo'
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#FolkloreThursday While early medieval accounts portrayed the Wild Hunt as demonic, later romances imagined it as a host of fairies. English leaders of the Hunt included King Arthur, Herne the Hunter, and King Herla https://t.co/hoMcZLnQmW
🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo & George Cruikshank
#WyrdWednesday 'Gothic Nightmares:Fuseli,Blake and the Romantic Imagination' was an exhibition at Tate Britain in 2006.The exhibition was the 1st to explore the roots of this phenomenon in the visual arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century https://t.co/5hwHSih93R
Happy #InternationalCatDay! 😻
🎨Image from "The Lances of Lynwood. By the author of ... 'Heartsease,' etc [Miss C. M. Yonge]", artwork by Louis Wain, cidaq, and postcard design by E.Döcker #Caturday
#FolkloreThursday According to pagan lore,yew trees are sacred to Hecate, the Greek goddess of death,witchcraft, and necromancy. It's said that the yew purifies the dead as they arrive in Hades,also known as the underworld https://t.co/nrlkqNDNDD
🎨Maximilian Pirner,William Blake
#MythologyMonday Rauðskinna: The Famous Icelandic Book of Black Magic
The Book of Power, Rauðskinna (‘Red Skin’ in Icelandic) was written by a Christian bishop. Its main objective was to use magic to gain control of Satan himself https://t.co/0ynEUEtiqP
🎨 by Jan Parker
Arthur Krüger (1866-1926), ‘Der Vampir’, “Der Wahre Jacob”, #858, 1919
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#WyrdWednesday Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. He died in his studio. His remains were embalmed in accordance with Ancient Egyptian burial rites and buried in a vault in the municipal cemetery of Ixelles
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#MythologyMonday In Greek mythology,Hypnos (the personification of Sleep) and his twin brother Thanatos (the embodiment of Death) live in the underworld (Hades). They are the children of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness)
🎨'Sleep and his Half-brother Death,' J. W. Waterhouse,1874