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The Walker book of ghost stories : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://t.co/phuYNlNx7J via @internetarchive
#FolkloreSunday Witches' Kitchens by Hieronymus Francken II (between 1593 and 1623), Frans Francken the Younger (1610), David Teniers the Younger (between 1630 and 1690), and Francisco Goya (1797-98)
The Holy Grail tapestries are 6 tapestries with overall composition and figures by Edward Burne-Jones, heraldry by William Morris, & foreground florals and backgrounds by John Henry Dearle. They depict scenes from the legend of King Arthur & the Holy Grail https://t.co/0Nhq0VqJoq
"The Flapper" Life Magazine Cover, 1922 - Frank X. Leyendecker https://t.co/DRUM9kdwMw via @wikipaintings
#FolkloreSunday Christina Rossetti's ‘Goblin Market’ tells the story of an encounter between Laura & Lizzie & goblin merchants. Laura exchanges a lock of her hair to taste the goblins’ forbidden fruit & deteriorates till she is ‘knocking at Death’s door’ https://t.co/HeSTxcb51O
#BookWormSat “The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed & rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula
“I had been passing alone,on horseback,through a singularly dreary tract of country,& at length found myself,as the shades of evening drew on,within view of the melancholy House of Usher”
― Edgar Allan Poe,The Fall of the House of Usher,published in September 1839 #BookChatWeekly
#FaustianFriday Poludnitsa is a Slavic goddess who appears at noon in agricultural fields.She harasses those at work by posing them riddles or asking questions. If an insufficent answer is given,she will cut off their head with her scythe
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🎨Serge Tsvelykh
#BookWormSat 'Our legends of witchcraft & sorcery are very poor, and in some of these,...,the witch is evidently a fairy.The reason of this is not that the belief in witchcraft is extinct among the Basques,but because it is so rife.'Wentworth Webster,Basque Legends🎨Isaac Levitan
Loved the thought-provoking paper "Dreams and Feverish Sensations’: Blood, The Psyche, and Swedenborg in J.S. Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’" by @madeline_cct with Isabella Mazzanti's illustrations. Great analysis! #MyWildHeartBleeds