#ofdarkandmacabreさんのイラストまとめ

A wise woman counselled the hunter's wife to summon her husband back when a nixie had drowned him in her pool: with a comb, a flute & a spinning wheel. A success, but the pond's waters rose, almost drowned them, were they not turned into toads

#FairyTaleTuesday #darkgreenweek

"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Happy Birthday, #SwampSunday!

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1908) https://t.co/sodigLboVa

"Whatever up the mountain came,
I killed and gobbled it for game,
As Tazzelworm" (Scheffel)

Hatched from a black egg laid by a rooster, tazzelworms are half dragon, half cat creatures with poisonous fangs haunting the Alpine regions

🎨J. Saarenpää (2020)

#Fairytaletuesday

A girl sleeping in a fairy rath on May eve was carried off by the Aos Sí, leaving only a shadow body, was reclaimed with proper rituals, complains she:

"...it is all gone, and you have brought me back, and I shall never, never see the beautiful palace more”

#SuperstitionSat

The belief that witches can shape-shift is present in many cultures.

In the Scottish Highlands, for example, people used to believe that a witch could take the form of a hare.

🎨 Annie Stegg "The Rabbat" (2020)

#mythologymonday

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality" (Virginia Woolf)

Darklings,

Tell your tales and share your images of

“Visions and Mirages"

tomorrow for #FaustianFriday

RTs commence between 10 am - 10pm CET

🎨 El Greco "The Vision of St John" (1614)

"It has been found again! What? Eternity.
It is the sea mingled with the sun..."
(Arthur Rimbaud)

🎨 Victor Karlovich Shtemberg "Sirens by the Sea" (c 1900)

#BookWormSat

"Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth" (Alice K. Turner)

The Wicked bid you welcome to a serpentine #FaustianFriday

We RT between 10 am and 10 pm CET

🎨 Jessica Roux

Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

🎨@Lacrimal_Nerve

#dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre

"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

The Scholar Queen, @INeveenBadr
is with you for the next firey two hours of #FaustianFriday

(Art: https://t.co/3t6HldkBkG)