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Best book club ever ❤️
(Art by Astrid Sheckels)
#BookChatWeekly
Some mermaid enchantment for your day by one of my favourites —John Waterhouse. Here is his ‘A Mermaid’ & his preparatory studies, circa 1900 🧜♀️ #MermaidMonday
I think we all need a cozy weekend after such an intense week. Here’s to huddling together & resting this weekend. Hugs to you ❤️✨
(Art by Astrid Sheckels)
Scotland is rich in ghostly lore. It is said that the ghost of Lady Blanche Drummond haunts the halls of Castle Fraser. She was murdered in its Green Room in 1874. Its secret staircases & trap doors befit her spectral presence. Clad in a long gown, she haunts 😱#SuperstitionSat
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.”
—Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
🎨 John Tenniel
#BookologyThursday
Wyrd Wed explores death this week. So let’s visit the German children’s book, ‘Struwwelpeter,’ or ‘Shockheaded Peter,’ of 1845. Tortuous amputation happens to the unruly Peter -ie for sucking his thumb -by the Scissorman! Hoffman’s book still frightens 😱#WyrdWednesday
Victorians did demonic bat costumes with gusto🦇
#31DaysofHaunting
‘The Old Churchyard,’ by Henry Mark Anthony, circa 1846 #FaustianFriday