The Victorian Gothic Librarian 🌙さんのイラストまとめ

The story is about a beautiful woman in a castle who uses these dolls to deter unwanted suitors. One day, a suitor witnesses her chanting things to the dolls and mentioning the suitors by name:
"Sir Dickon, Sir Dickon, your day is done,
You shall be drowned in the water wan"
2/5

Illustrations from Emma Frances Dawson's collection of supernatural tales ‘An Itinerant House and Other Stories’ (1896), drawn by Ernest C. Peixotto. You can read this collection in the Victorian Gothic Library here: https://t.co/swY79vwvo9 #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring

Sin-Eating is not the only #folklore featured in the story, with Celtic omens such as corpse-lights (and some Gaelic to accompany it).

Fancy reading 'The Sin-Eater'? You can find this story & many other chilling tales in the Victorian Gothic Library here: https://t.co/dmP5kcBeRQ

The story is set during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. This period was also one of the most dire of the European witch trials, with the largest number of fatalities between 1560-1630 3/7

In 'Dracula's Guest', the narrator becomes lost in the German wilderness on Walpurgisnacht, which he describes as the night that “the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened & the dead came forth & walked. When all evil things of earth & air & water held revel.” 4/4

The celebrations are also referred to as 'Hexenbrennen', meaning "witch burning". It's a Christian day commemorating Saint Walpurga bringing Christianity to German villages, thereby banishing the witches & illness. It is usually celebrated with bonfires to ward off witchcraft 2/4

#ofdarkandmacabre The 2018 adaptation of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1967) offers new insights into the characters' backgrounds and leans into gothic atmospheres/imagery, with girls kept in a dark tower, ghostly figures, eerie encounters and hidden pasts

When is a bike like a witch's broom? In Julian Hawthorne's 'Absolute Evil' (1918), the narrator enjoys nothing more than discussing the occult, speculating on her Salem ancestry and riding her bike, all while hunting a vicious werewolf on holiday #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring

"It was an eerie looking face that I had resurrected on this midnight hour of Christmas Eve; in its passive pallidity it looked as if the blood had been drained from the body, and that I was gazing upon an open-eyed corpse."
– 'The Old Portrait' (1900) #wyrdwednesday 7/7

#WyrdWednesday In John Kendrick Bang's comedy 'The Ghost Club' (1894), a man meets the spectres of many famous people at a ghost party, including Edgar Allen Poe. Whilst there, he hears Gottschalk play Poe's weird tales on the piano as Mozart tries his hand at the banjo