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If you run seven times anti-clockwise round Chanctonbury Ring, West Sussex, on a moonless night the Devil will appear and offer you a bowl of soup or porridge🥣 in exchange for your soul #WyrdWednesday
@Eduardo49966486 Yes, looking him up it does look as if it's based on his picture
@HodariNundu It looks a lot more friendly in the picture from the old Dinosaurs magazine that I knew growing up
"There is an 'even-tide' in the year - a season when the Sun withdraws his propitious light - when the winds arise, and the leaves fall, and nature around us seems to sink into decay."
Alison, Guardian, 11th Nov 1840
#FaustianFriday #Autumn 🍂🍄
🎨Paul Nash, "Swan Song" (c.1928)
#WyrdWednesday The surface of Venus is obscured from telescopes by thick swirling clouds which led some writers to suggest that the planets surface was covered in lush tropical swamps, thick forests, and perhaps even inhabited by #dinosaurs🦕
#FolkloreThursday The Lambton Worm from County Durham was caught by a nobleman's son fishing on a Sunday. It was thrown down a well and grew into a giant wyrm It was killed when the son returned from Crusading & fought it in a river so pieces chopped off its body were washed away
'The Oak and the Reed' illustration by J.J. Grandville from the 'Fables of La Fontaine', 1941.
@LadyLiminal1 I've read Redwall, a badger is definitely the one to choose in a fight
And a bonus one, can't miss out his depiction of Baba Yaga
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