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Alone in the woods I felt
The bitter hostility of the sky & the trees
Nature has taught her creatures to hate
Man that fusses & fumes
Unquiet man...
- Stevie Smith
Painting by Thomas Cole
Van Meter, IA. 1903, there were reports of a terrifying creature with bat wings & beams of light from its forehead. Residents chased it to an abandoned mine where they found not one, but two, of the beasts which fled down the mine.
Art by Pernastudios @ https://t.co/YOB2A4toUt
One Sabbath, Rabbi Loew forgot to remove the parchment from the Golem’s mouth & b/c the Golem was a creature of magic, he became an abomination. Raging, the Golem killed many people before the Rabbi was able to disable the monster.
Illustration by Maurizio Quarello
In #Wicked, the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, is a crusader on behalf of Animals rights, but is ostracized for her unflinching ethics. #WitchWednesday #witch #witches
Illusrated by Douglas Smith
The 38-year evolution of the bullywug
@Wizards_DnD #dnd #dungeonsanddragons
"I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song."
#Faerie #Keats #FaerieAbduction
Cronos had consumed each of his children to prevent their insurrection. When Zeus was about to be born, Rhea asked Gaia for help in saving him. Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Crete, handing Cronos a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he promptly swallowed. #MythologyMonday