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#FolkloreThursday 'The Descent of the Witch' marks the beginning of the local festival of the Navarrese town of Vidángoz in the Sangüesa. The town's popular festivities are held in honour of its patron saint St. Augustine, taking place at the end of August https://t.co/IaPdCi5kPf
"Lenore"(1774) is a poem by Gottfried August Bürger. It is characterised as being part of the 18th-century Gothic ballads,and although the character that returns from its grave in the poem is not considered to be a vampire, the poem has been very influential on vampire literature
#GothicSpring 'Les Fleurs du mal' ('The Flowers of Evil') is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism https://t.co/Gi3Dqa08Gq
#FairytaleTuesday The original ballet adaptation of 'Scheherazade' premiered in 1910 by the Ballets Russes. The Ballet Russes' 'Scheherazade' is known for its costumes, opulent scenery,and erotic choreography and narrative which was rarely seen in ballets of the time
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Illustration by Eleanor Vere Boyle from Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale "Thumbelina", depicting the titular character riding a swallow, 1872
#FolkloreThursday In Romanian mythology, the iele are feminine mythical creatures often described as faeries. They are said to live in the sky, in forests or in caves, and reported to have been seen bathing at crossroads. From this point of view, the Iele are similar to Hecate.
#GothicSpring In Canto XIII of his 'Inferno', Dante Alighieri envisages the wood infested with harpies, where the suicides have their punishment in the 7th ring of Hell. William Blake was inspired by Dante in 'The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides'.
Heinrich Kley was a German illustrator,editorial illustrator and painter.Cartoonist Joe Grant was well aware of Kley's work and introduced his drawings to Walt Disney,who built a private collection.A number of early Disney productions, notably 'Fantasia',reveal Kley's inspiration