//=time() ?>
#FaustianFriday Rats in art:
"The Dance of Rats", Ferdinand van Kessel (Attr)
"The Council Held By The Rats," by Gustave Doré
"Two Rats", by Vincent van Gogh
"Boots and Rats", by C. Tudor
#FolkloreThursday Nyx is the Greek goddess of the night. Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death),with Erebus (Darkness).Her appearances reveal her as a figure of exceptional power and beauty
#FaustianFriday In ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon. She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun,Sol,conceived of as a god. Luna is also represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess along with Proserpina and Hecate
#GothicSpring For 30 days, water it with cow's milk in which 3 bats have been drowned. When the 31st day arrives, take out the root at night and dry it in an oven heated with branches of verbena; wrap it up in a piece of a dead man's winding-sheet and carry it with you everywhere
"Fantasy on Faust" by Mariano Fortuny, 1866 https://t.co/ngXKoDXGu7 #FaustianFriday
#FairyTaleTuesday John Anster Christian Fitzgerald was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. Many of his fairy paintings contain images of ghouls, demons, and references to drug use; his work has been compared to the nightmare-scapes of Bosch and Pieter Brueghel.
"Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches" by William Holbrook Beard
Agostino Arrivabene ~ A Visionary Surrealist painter
https://t.co/4Wnje8Uj1l
#MythologyMonday A "siren song" refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that will lead to a bad conclusion. Some writers have implied that Sirens were cannibals,based on Circe's description of them with "heaps of corpses rotting away,rags of skin shriveling on their bones"
August von Kreling, Illustrations for "Faust", 1877
Source: https://t.co/2A7aT7B1IU