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"As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus...waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill"
Bleak House, Charles Dickens, 1852 #BookWormSat
🎨Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
And just found the full first day cover art for them both too, complete with Death's-head hawkmoth
"The White Woman" is a harmless being who slowly dissolves into thin air when encountered by children. She is depicted floating through a field of mullein flowers. The mullein stands for fearlessness and protection from evil spirits.
#DontgointotheWoods The Tälibudel from Liechtenstein is a dog-like spirit with fiery red eyes said to have chased an alpine shepherd from his hut.
🎨 by Eliane Schädler for @PostEurop's 2022 stamp theme of Myths & Legends
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#FaustianFriday 'Man Proposes, God Disposes' by Edwin Landseer depicts the aftermath of the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition. It is covered by a Union Flag during exams at Royal Holloway, Uni. of London, as students believe they will fail the exam or go mad if they look at it.
#OwlishMonday 'Barn Owl in the Churchyard' by Robert Bateman (b.1930),
@urbanfantasist @Reddit Already pre-installed, how convenient!
#MythologyMonday #OfDarkandMacabre The Penobscot of Maine believed that a giant White Hare ruled in the North over a horde of smaller hares who had originally been men whose brains had been eaten by witches before shuffling to his lair to be transformed
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