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#FairyTaleTuesday Undines are a category of beings associated with water,1st named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph, with adaptations like Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and the Undine of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Louis Prang was an American printer, lithographer and publisher. At Christmas 1873, Prang began creating greeting cards for the popular market in England and began selling the Christmas card in America in 1874. He is sometimes called the "father of the American Christmas card".

#GothicAdvent Lucy's Latin name Lucia shares the root (luc-) with the Latin word for light, lux. Some traditions incorporate St. Lucy as the bearer of light, her feast day being 13 December. As some versions relate that her eyes were removed, she is the patron saint of the blind

#GothicAdvent Some Christmas Cards by Edward Gorey

@tonythorne007 Yes, a fascinating creature! :)

#GothicAdvent Scholars have connected the Yule period to the Wild Hunt (a ghostly procession in the winter sky), the god Odin (who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and bears the name Jólnir), and increased supernatural activity. #WyrdWednesday

#GothicAdvent Gustave Doré's Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
https://t.co/tPOTEHCjjT via @brainpicker

#GothicNewWorlds Outstanding artwork by Ivica Stevanovic

French Artist Benjamin Lacombe's Haunting Illustrations for Poe's "Tales of the Macabre" https://t.co/MRuotspTYr via @brainpicker

Anonymous Italian, “Memento mori (‘INGREDIMVR CVNCTI, DIVES CVM PAVPERE MIXTVS’)” (c. 1750)