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„The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb…”

—  William Shakespeare, Henry VI,
Second Part, Act III, scene I. The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund's.

#ShakespeareSunday
🌙Teagan White

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole…”

— C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Signum Noir for your #baturday 🌸🦇

“It difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly”✨🐈‍⬛✨

— Theophile Gautier, Ménagerie intime

#bookchatweekly
#caturday

🌙Dillon Samuelson

According to Scottish lore, fairy songs are always full of bitter sweetness and melancholy.

But to us, humans, their manner of singing sounds like an unearthly murmur.

#SuperstitionSat
🌙Clayshaper

According to an old Bashkir legend, a long-dead black horse once escaped its burial cave and galloped down all the way to the White River (Agidel), in which it disappeared.

Being followed by a mountain stream, that horse created the Black River (Karaidel).

#FaustianFriday

Teodor Jewłaszewski mentioned in his notes an encounter with a ghost: in 1566, on his way back from Vilnius, Jewłaszewski stayed in a barn where, just before the sunrise, he was visited by a fiery man.

After that night, he began to suffer from sleep paralysis.

#folklorethursday

According to a Persian scientist ابو علی حسین بن عبدالله بن سینا (Avicenna), your soul can affect other people’s bodies the same way it affects yours.

For example, a malevolent glare of your eyes can cause curses and deceases.

#mythologymonday
#ofdarkandmacabre

🌙Lera Whoami

In the lore of Zakarpattia, the restless souls seek help from the living.

The words “Every living breath praises the Lord” can help identify whether they are malicious or not: an evil specter will disappear, but a good one will respond “and so do I!”.

#superstitionsat

According to East Slavic folk-calendar, October 14 is the last day when the Leshie roam their woods before hibernation.

Therefore, these forest spirits become very aggressive, and even animals avoid them.

#gothtober 🍂🦇🍂
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙Aleksandr Nikonov

“There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea.
And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light…”

— Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts

#ofdarkandmacabre
#bookchatweekly