Natalja Saint-Germain 🧛🏻‍♀️🍷さんのイラストまとめ

Annie Stegg’s otherworldly kittens for your #Caturday 🌑🐈‍⬛

#ofdarkandmacabre

“Water devils are those naiads or water nymphs which have been heretofore conversant about waters and rivers.

The water is their chaos, wherein they live... appearing most part in women's shapes”

— Howard Williams

#SwampSunday
#ofdarkandmacabre

“It is a certaine rule, for Witches deny their baptisme when they Covenant with the Devill, water being the sole element thereof, and therefore, when they be heaved into the water, the water refuseth to receive them into her bosome”

— Matthew Hopkins

#SwampSunday

According to an old Danish belief, a valravn is a bewitched man who is forced to live in the form of a raven.

For him, the only way to beak the curse is to drink the blood of an infant.

#FaustianFriday

An old Faroese nursery rhyme:

“A crow sits on the stone
Picks at a bone:
First was a potsherd,
Second – rubbish in a ring,
Third – a bandit at the Ting.
Now (name) should turn round in the ring”

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#FolkloreThursday
#ofdarkandmacabre

In Polish folklore, Turosik is a dangerous forest demon that lures people deep into the woods or into a swamp, and leaves them there to die.

Usually, he’s depicted as a deer or aurochs with golden horns.

#SwampSunday
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙Eugene Kot

Tróndur í Gøtu was a Viking chieftain who was fighting for the freedom of his land — against the royal taxation and christianization of the Faroe Islands.

Once a real man, he got fictionalized and became a hero of numerous legends and ballads.

#WyrdWednesday

“It’s so odd to be a bat and wander from house to house, and sleep in the trees…” 🦇

— Inger Hagerup

#batappreciationday
#ofdarkandmacabre

🌙 Alfredo Edel Colorno

According to Cæsarius von Heisterbach’s “Dialogus Miraculorum”, thunder-storms are arrributed to the Devil.

#MythologyMonday
#GothicSpring
#ofdarkandmacabre

🌙Caspar Wolf

An old Norse tale tells of a peasant who once met Holda, the winter deity and patron of all witches: she gave him a tiny bouquet of blue flowers,
telling that he would live only as long as the flowers did not droop and fade…

#ofdarkandmacabre
#GothicSpring

🌙 Jake Wood-Evans