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Penny dreadful,The Flying Dutchman -The British Library
Stories of ghost ships have a long tradition, as in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. However, Thomas Peckett Prest’s version of the tale is in a much more populist vein.
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#FolkloreThursday Godiva is remembered for a legend in which she rode naked through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the taxation that her husband imposed on his tenants. In later versions of the legend, a man named Thomas watched her ride and was struck blind/dead.

#WyrdWednesday The 3 witches are characters in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'.They hold a striking resemblance to the 3 Fates.Their origin lies in 'Holinshed's Chronicles' (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources include treatises on witchcraft.

#MythologyMonday Hecate is a goddess in ancient Greek mythology associated with crossroads, witchcraft, ghosts,and necromancy.Shrines to Hecate at 3 way crossroads were created where food offerings were left at the new moon to protect those who did so from spirits and other evils

R.A. Stone — 'The Witching Hour'

#FolkloreThursday In Greek mythology, Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly, and tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.

'Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants of Hungary, Moravia, et al.' is one of the many works by Abbot monk Antoine Augustin Calmet. It included dissertations on magic,sorcery,witchcraft and instances of vampires and revenants https://t.co/pFMLpDg16I.

#NowReading 'King Pest' (1835) by Edgar Allan Poe
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“Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement and vitality from deep and secret sources of health...One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it.” Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

#FolkloreThursday The Fates were a common motif in European polytheism, most frequently represented as a group of 3 mythological goddesses.They were often depicted as weavers of a tapestry dictating the destinies of humans.The witches in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' resemble the Fates