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Journalist. Author. Cultural adventurer. Writes about the arts, history, opera & the uncanny. PhD researcher in the Gothic. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast.
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Happy Autumn Equinox!
Day and night will be roughly equal length today, then the nights will draw in.
The leaves will fall, the air will chill, and the land will be bathed in a golden glow.
Dig out the pumpkins, it's witching season!
🍂🎃

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2021-09-22

Today is the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist, which commemorates the saint's martyrdom as depicted in these brutal "before and after" paintings by Caravaggio.
"The Beheading of SJTB" (1608, Valletta) "Salome with the Head of SJTB" (1610, London)

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2021-08-29

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
Art: Maggie Vandewalle

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2021-04-22

Happy
Having trouble sleeping? Rhiannon, a major character in medieval Welsh tales the Mabinogion, can help. Her magical birds - Adar Rhiannon - are supernatural in nature and their sweet song can awaken the dead or lull the living to sleep for 7 years

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2021-03-09

Happy St Dwynwen's Day/
Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus!

Today is the feast day of Dwynwen, the Welsh patron saint of lovers.

Her church on Ynys Llanddwyn is a pilgrimage site steeped in folklore & a shrine for the "lovesick".

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2021-01-25

"Some black cats are witches in disguise. Some witches are black cats in disguise."
Folklore of Wales, 1909

Maggie Vandewalle

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2021-01-13

Nadolig llawen is trending.
NADOLIG LLAWEN IS TRENDING!!

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2020-12-25

RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES:
Arthur Rackham's incredible illustrations to Richard Wagner's equally incredible "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung).

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2020-11-04

If Dracula had a black cat...
(Art by cottonvalent)

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2020-10-27

“List, list, O list!”

Ghosts from the plays of William Shakespeare by William Blake (1806):

👻 Hamlet encountering his father’s Ghost
👻 Richard III assailed by the ghosts of his victims
👻 Brutus and the ghost of Julius Caesar

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2020-10-25