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#WyrdWednesday In Sarah Perry’s rewriting of Maturin’s novel, Melmoth is envisioned as a lone, cursed female figure wandering the earth by herself. She seeks not to exchange her fate but to draw others in to share and ease her loneliness, feeding on their despair and guilt.

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(1/2) Charles Baudelaire’s ‘L'Héautontimorouménos’, (‘The Self-Tormenter’) plays on themes of self-vampirism:

‘Je suis de mon coeur le vampire,
— Un de ces grands abandonnés
Au rire éternel condamnés
Et qui ne peuvent plus sourire!’

In English translation:

#WyrdWednesday In Irish folklore, the Banshee is often represented with red eyes, reddened by her continuous weeping, while also looking menacingly terrifying. Hearing her screech and keening is believed to be a certain omen of death.

🎨IrenHorrors, The Cry of a Banshee

#WyrdWednesday ‘Ring a Ring o' Rosie’ is a nursery rhyme & playground song first published in 1881: ‘Ring-a-ring o' roses, /A pocket full of posies, / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! /We all fall down.’ But its reference is dark: the Black Death (the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak in London.)

@karen_and_rosie @Loukas_doula Missed my chance 😆 🍀

#FaustianFriday Bluebeard: a French folktale of prohibition: despite being warned not to, Bluebeard’s wife opens a secret chamber only to find it flooded with the blood of his former wives. The myth is reworked into a trope of Gothic literature, from Ann Radcliffe to Le Fanu.

#FaustianFriday In Greek mythology, Demeter is the chthonic goddess of harvest, associated with the earth and its crops; but she presided also over sacred law, and over the cycle of life and death. The wrecked ship in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, the Demeter, shares her name.

The Irish reply to Punch’s hostility to Irish nationalism was swift: ‘The English Vampire’ appeared in The Pilot on Saturday, 7 November 1885: the image shows the National League as a woman chasing off the vampiric English rule.