Folk Horror Magpie 🥀さんのイラストまとめ

International posters for folk horror ur-film The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). While tending his field a farmer unearths a strange deformed skull with tufts of mysterious fur and one eye still attached, and things evolve, or devolve depending on your inclinations, from there…

With *everything* being *what it is* it's hard to know what tone to strike for the new year. So here's a bunch of inscrutable victorian new years cards, take your pick.

While John is away fighting in the Crusades the worm grows, sneaking out of the well at night to devour livestock. Soon it is too big to hide; its length becomes such that the worm could coil itself seven times round what would become known as Worm Hill.

One day in the town of Woolpit, Suffolk two children appeared as if from nowhere. They were not known to anyone that much was clear, as they had a distinction that would make them hard to forget. Their skin was entirely green.

Almost unnoticed in each picture is a small red leaf, symbolising hope of a better day tomorrow.

There is a whole realm of birds in folk horror; the screeching owl or murder of crows usually get top billing. But I want to make a case for the robin. In Welsh legend the robin got its famous red breast from getting singed by the fires of hell. Making the robin metal as fuck.

Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell'arte, whose origins lie in the late 17th century Italian troupe of players who performed to great acclaim in Paris. The most famous actor to portray Pierrot and almost synonymous with the figure, is Jean-Gaspard Deburau

For those deep fir forests conceal wicked creatures and vengeful Gods returned to upon the earth, circling the night and all too ready to swallow the careless wanderer. Warsaw-based photographer Marcin Nagraba‘s 2018 series 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 gives form to these nightmares.

All kids in the UK know this fact: that all the swans in the country belong to the Queen and it's illegal to kill one. Where does this come from?