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#FaustianFriday Cerberus: in ancient Greek mythology, the hound of Hades. Often depicted with three heads, he is the guardian of the gates to the Underworld, preventing the dead from leaving.

🖼 Cerberus, by William Blake

#FaustianFriday In Avatar: The Last Airbender, waterbenders derive their powers from the moon, growing particularly powerful under the full moon. On a full moon night, Katara learns, from Hama, ‘the puppetmaster’, a technique which horrifies her: bloodbending.

#FaustianFriday J.S. Le Fanu’s Carmilla is a bit of a trickster: she plays mind tricks. She tells Laura: ‘Twelve years ago, I saw your face in a dream, and it has haunted me ever since.’ But it’s a trick, to persuade Laura her own experience was a dream and assuage her fear.

#MythologyMonday In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the evil twin trope. But there’s a twist: the good rational self and the monstrous double, it turns out, inhabit the same body. The evil twin, then, is a physical manifestation of inner evil.

#FaustianFriday Le Fanu often plays with the Death and the Maiden motif. A. Milbank argues it’s fundamental to his theology. It forces us to see death materially and face its monstrosity. Carmilla is a clear example. So is Laura Silver Bell, seduced by a sinister fairy lord.

#MythologyMonday Katabasis: a descent of sorts, often a trip into the underworld. Odysseus descends into the realm of Hades to consult the prophet Tiresias. He performs a ritual of necromancy, offering libations: a dreadful process, which ‘drained the blood from [his] cheeks.’

#FaustianFriday Belladonna, or deadly nightshade: a poisonous herb. Mixed with morphine from the opium poppy, it would induce the anaesthetic ‘twilight sleep’, believed to have been used by Queen Victoria during childbirth. Symbolism: silence, death, falsehood.

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In Le Fanu’s ‘The Familiar’, Barton is haunted by the spirit of a sailor in whose death he played a part. Finally, it finds him in the shape of a sinister owl, which kills him. It is described as an ‘ill-omened’ bird, uttering a ‘spectral warning’ #WyrdWednesday

🎨Brian Serway

#MythologyMonday The each-uisce is a malevolent water-horse in Irish folklore. It emerges from the depths in November. Sometimes humans saddle them. But if they see salt water, they submerge the rider and consume them, apart from the liver, which later floats to the surface.