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The Sun stared long and hard at his eldest daughter. Under his angry gaze her golden dress melted, her ruby boots became mere goat hoofs, her lovely head, sank into her shoulders and her whole body grew over with black fur.


🎨D. G. Rossetti

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2022-09-15

Does the woman who has your eye have hooves? La Diablesse does, and soon, she'll have your soul, too. Seducer of men on multiple Caribbean islands, her tell is men catching sight of her hooves under her dress as she leads them away from towns.

🖼️: A. Silva

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2022-09-15

In many legends, the fairy folk are gorgeous, but in others that is an illusion to feed their own egos and entice mortals. Their true forms are ugly, perhaps even horrific. When the Welsh saint Collen realized this, the fairies he was talking to vanished into mist.

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2022-09-14

Echidna is the Mother of Monsters, spawning more monsters in Greek myth than any other. With the tail of a snake, she produces beasts such as Scylla, the Hydra, the Chimera, Cerberus, the Colchian Dragon, and more.

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2022-09-14

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“For hatred, my stepmother cast
A curse on me that, once begun,
Misshaped me, until I had won
The love and with it, sovereignty
Of any knight, of such degree
Surpassing others of good name.”

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2022-09-14

"As witches gathered one by one,
And knelt at Satan's feet,
With faces some all worn and wan,
And some with features sweet..."

Goblin Tales of Lancashire: Satan's Supper | James Bowker (1878)


🖼️Joseph Tomanek (1889-1974)

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2022-09-14

In JS Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’, Laura falls for the mysterious and beautiful Carmilla. It is revealed however that her beauty is misleading, as the elusive lady turns out to be a vampire, feeding on Laura’s blood. Carmilla is found floating in a coffin full of blood.

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2022-09-14

In his book 'The Way of Silence' Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast writes: "The intellect sifts out what is true; the will reaches out for what is good. But there is a third dimension to reality: beauty. Our whole being resonates with what is beautiful."

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2022-09-14

Though Pan's appearance seems monstrous, the ancients understood each part of his body symbolically -- his hooves were the solidity of earth, his hairy flanks the animal world, his horns the sun and moon.

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2022-09-14

Beauty takes many forms. 'Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess' (2021), an animated film directed by Mamoru Hosoda.

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2022-09-14

In Galician folklore, a "moura" (fairy woman) often appear in the form of a terrible serpent. The boy who wants to disenchant her must be able to give her three kisses on the forehead or take with her own teeth the carnation the serpent has in her mouth.

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2022-09-14


Celtic Vampire-lore Scottish Baobhan Sith means “fairy woman”who appears as a red-head beauty with a flowing Green gown that covers her deer hooves, in-place of feet. This deadly night creature drinks human 'blood' and sleeps in the day.

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2022-09-14

The 1958 movie Screaming Skull was loosely based on a 1908 short story by Francis Marion Crawford. Crawford wrote several novels and other works but was known for his supernatural fiction. M. R. James praised Crawford as he was influential to many writers after him

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2022-09-08

The German author, librarian, archivist, and apothecary Ludwig Bechstein penned many volumes on the folk tales of Thuringia, Franconia, Austria, ans Germany as a whole.


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2022-09-07

Maian ginja means 'the killer' or 'bringer of death.' It's an evil spirit in Aboriginal Tasmanian mythology.

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2022-09-07

Puss in Boots visits the castle of a rich ogre, who intimidates the cat by turning into a lion. Taking advantage of the ogre's pride, Puss tricks him into transforming into a small mouse. He then eats the mouse and claims the castle for his own master.
🎨Doré

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2022-09-01

For all his wisdom Merlin's downfall is caused by his desire for two women. He lies to Arthur to protect Morgan le Fay. Later his pupil Vivien (Nemue) spurns his advances unless he teach her sorcery, then uses enchantments against him to entomb him in the forest

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2022-08-31

Ah, so this must be the very first grandfather that was put into clock form...


by Anthony Clarkson

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2022-08-31

"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!
Think how thou stabb'dst me in my prime of youth
At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!" (Shakespeare)

The ghosts of his victims come to haunt Richard III on the eve of his last battle.

🎨 Darley

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2022-08-31