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The word witch dates from around 800 AD. It referred to men who practised witchcraft, but 200 years later it referred to female magicians and sorceresses. Later it meant women who cooperated with the devil
Source: A Glossary of Witch Words https://t.co/Te05z7g6YG

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2022-08-26

"Is that all true, Mère Pinquèle?" he said.
"Oh, quite true, and not only that, the best part is yet to come; for they take a child and—" Here Mère Pinquèle showed her fang-like teeth.
"Oh! Mère Pinquèle, are you a witch too?"
— 'The Other Side' (1893) 3/3

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2022-08-26

Wishing everybody a fabulous

Nymphs Dancing to Pan’s Flute, by Joseph Tomanek, c.1920.

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2022-08-26

Darklings!

Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with

🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH

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2022-08-20

A vampire-like creature apparently stalked the streets of Alnwick, England in 1196, spreading plague in its wake. Two local men dug it up and attacked it with a spade before destroying the monster, thus ending its reign of terror [My AI Image]

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2022-08-20

Cerberus, three-headed, snake-tailed dog of Hades, guarded the entrance to the underworld, to prevent the souls of the dead from ever leaving...

🎨William Blake

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2022-08-20

In 'The Were-Wolf' (Clemence Housman, 1896), a family living in the woods waits for one of the eldest sons to come home in a snow storm. As they huddle together, they're haunted by a quiet voice at the door calling "Open, open; let me in!" 1/5

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2022-08-19

A vampire can be prevented from leaving its grave in the first place by stuffing the entrance with woven linen. It has to remain behind to disentangle and straighten the threads...

🎨Wiertz

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2022-08-19

Some replies to a All Hallow's Eve invitation from the girls at Colwall Court (1935-1958), School of Domestic Economy (finishing school, day & boarding), Pages Avenue, 1939.

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2022-08-19

Train station and school bathrooms are a hot spot for Japanese school kids playing with ghosts, going in at dark or after school on hopes of drawing the attention of train-split Teke-Teke or bpood-draining Aka Manto, sometimes speaking to them.

🖼: M. Meyer

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2022-08-12


Alongside Satan and Moloch, Belial is one of the only named demons in the Bible. He is a fiend of worthlessness and lawlessness who is especially deceitful. He is also a miserable coward who is especially afraid of God and His judgment, but is too lazy to repent.

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2022-08-12

In Romanian lore, if one cut oneself in a churchyard at night and the blood flowed onto a grave, the corpse inside could become a revenant...

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2022-08-12

"It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found"
(D.W. Winnicott)

Welcome Darklings to faites votre jeu morbide,

We RT between 10 am - 10 pm CET

🎨 anotherdamian (2013)

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2022-08-12

In Anatolian fortune-telling tradition, water readings involve inviting djinns, who can reveal the unknown. Tellers tend to be eccentric. If a teller can't be found, a child might be recruited to summon djinns and divine the future from a bowl of water 🧿

🎨Alt

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2022-08-06

Magician William S. Marriott came across Gambols With Ghosts: Mind Reading, Spiritualistic Effects, Mental and Psychical Phenomena & Horoscopy (1901), a secret catalog for mediums that offered items like fake ectoplasm, self-playing guitars, ghostly figures
(1/2)

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2022-08-06


🎨Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost, by Theodore Chausseriau (1819-1856)

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2022-08-05

James Tissot attended a séance where he contacted his deceased lover through a spirit guide. He created this painting in 1885 to immortalize the moment.

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2022-08-05

Druid Animal Lore - A wildcat dwells in The Otherworld. Called ‘Little Cat’, it guards a vast treasure. For a any would-be thief, Little Cat transforms into a flaming arrow, reducing said thief to ashes 🔥


art: Decadia

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2022-07-29

My boat is swift & beautiful… We drive along this bay under the summer moon until earth appears another world… I could say with Faust to the passing moment, ‘Remain, thou, thou art so beautiful’.

—Shelley https://t.co/mcjsV6RlG6

🖼️by Aivazovsky

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2022-07-29

'This I do vow & this shall ever be; I will be true despite thy scythe & thee'
(Shakespeare Sonnet 124) Art Charles Robinson

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2022-07-23