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Mercury glass Christmas tree ornaments in the shape of owls to symbolise wisdom (or perhaps the desire for it.) #Yulefolklore
#OwlishMonday #GothicAdvent

“And particles of gold, like fine grains of sand,

Spangle dimly their mystic eyes.”
(from Cats by Charles Baudelaire, translation: William Aggeler)
🎨Two curious felines on gold by Muramasa Kudo (b.1948, Japan)
#caturday

@MariaStrutz I really love that image... and this 'snake lady' image too: amongst my favs 🐍 with an art nouveau/ lalique vibe

“Susan Seddon Boulet’s figures are out of our dreams, those that flee from us upon awakening, those which are dispersed like dew at dawn, those which fall apart between our fingers like dust-roses." (Anais Nin) #unicorns #FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997)

In Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry a young prince leaves his asteroid (& rose), visits 6 planets each inhabited by one odd individual: a subject-less king, a narcissist, a drunk, a businessman, a lamplighter, a geographer. On earth he meets a fox...
#WyrdWednesday

Answer:
Odin riding on Sleipnir

🎨from Edda Oblongata (c.1680)
Arthur Rackham (1910)

“There exists close to me an invisible being that lives on milk and on water, which can touch objects, take them and change their places...
...and which lives as I do, under my roof”
(“Le Horla” by Guy de Maupassant)
🎨 Anna&Elena Balbusso
#ClassiclitSaturday #31DaysOfHalloween

A couple of beasts from the 18thc grimoire Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros (c.1775)
Author Unknown. Held in the Wellcome Library, London
#FaustianFriday
#31DaysofHalloween

The Scott sisters Harriet (1830-1907) & Helena (1832-1910) of Ash Island NSW (Kooragang Wetlands) are admired for their beautiful & scientifically accurate paintings of local Australian insects & plants. The Scott homestead is no more, reclaimed by mangroves #SwampSunday

Illustrations from alchemical manuscript Clavis Artis. The title page states it was written in 1236 by 'Zoroaster' on the skin of a dragon and the book was produced in the late 17thc. There are 3 known editions of the Clavis Artis, 2 illustrated #31DaysofHalloween #WyrdWednesday