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Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale!

— Moby Dick, H. Melville
(Ahab drowns by his own harpoon line.)

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2022-10-19

The Dance of the Baobhan Sith

art/Erin Claire

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2022-10-18

"Ich fürcht' den Tag" (I fear daylight)

🎨 Hans Wechtlin (c 1500)

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2022-10-17

“From time to time strange cries as of lost and despairing wanderers sounded from across the mere. They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound” (MR James)

🎨Grottger

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2022-10-16

In England and Scotland, once a corpse was laid out, a person would have to touch it to prevent dreaming of it or death...

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2022-10-11

"Poor autumn
Dies in the whiteness and richness
Of snow and ripe fruit
Deep in the sky
The sparrow hawks glide
Above the tiny gentle green-haired water nymphs
Who have never loved" (Apollinaire)

🎨 Malmström

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2022-10-09

'Thousands of faces rise and vanish before me.
Thousands of voices weave in the rain.'
-Conrad Aiken

🖼️Hengki Lee

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2022-10-07

The Singing Bone

A boy is killed by his brother during a boar hunt and his body is thrown under a bridge.

One day, a shepherd spies a bone under the bridge and makes it into a flute. When he plays it, it sings of the brother's betrayal.

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2022-10-04

Anne Boleyn’s spectral carriage has been seen racing past Blickling Hall and each Christmas, Anne’s ghost manifests at Hever Castle, under an oak tree where she and Henry VIII once courted.


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2022-10-04

"... we shall mount on the altan on the roof of the house beside the weather-cock, who will sing us a merry bridal-song, because the owl to-night holds his wedding-feast" (Hoffmann)

🎨 Teagan White

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2022-10-03

The toxic wolfsbane plant was mixed with bait and used to kill wolves in the past. This association with wolves carried on into the future. It was both ingested to treat lycanthropy (many people died) and planted to repel werewolves.

🎨Kiriska

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2022-10-02

To be haunted by the Banshee one must belong to the old Irish families like the MacCarthys, O’Neills, O’Rileys, O’Sullivans, O’Reardons, O’Flahertys.. She never leaves nor forgets them till the last member has been gathered to his fathers in the churchyard.

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2022-09-27

"Here I am lying down to sleep;
No night-mare shall plague me
until they have swum through all the waters
that flow upon the earth,
and counted all stars
that appear in the firmament"

Westphalian charm to ward off a nightmare

🎨 Fuseli

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2022-09-26

Night is my sister, and how deep in love,
How drowned in love and weedily washed ashore,
There to be fretted by the drag and shove
At the tide's edge, I lie —

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay


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2022-09-26

"A second snake crept out of the hole... with three green leaves in its mouth. Then it took the three pieces of the snake, laid them together, as they ought to go, and placed one of the leaves on each wound" (Grimm)

🎨 theartful-dodge

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2022-09-13

On the Île de Sein in Brittany, folk would tell of hearing the Crierien, the bones of drowned sailors whose spirits call out for burial...

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2022-09-12

"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures" (George MacDonald)

🎨 Vasily Ermolaev

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2022-09-10

“So, dream thy dreams, O Faust, until we meet once more!” (Goethe)

🎨 Carl Gustav Carus "Faust's Dream" (1852)

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2022-09-09

The Stikini are witches from Seminole folklore. During the day, they resemble average people. At night, they vomit up their souls and turn into undead owl creatures that eat human hearts.

🎨 Mary Metzger

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2022-09-07