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Famous for its graveyard of shipwrecks, Skeleton Coast, Namibia, is one of the most unsafe beaches in the world & was known to the Portuguese as "The Gates to Hell". It's name comes from the skeletal remains of whales left on the beach from whaling...

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2022-08-24

Odin enjoys descending to our lowly Middle-Earth realm and wandering alone like a hobo 🖼 Hermann Hendrich

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2022-08-18

Sorry, I had to take down the other Carroll post as it’s a misquote.
But I love the kinship between these lone ones: Alice & the Cheshire Cat. 💜🌳

“Oh you can't help that,"
said the cat.
“We're all mad here. I am mad. You're mad.”
-Lewis Carroll

🎨 Tenniel

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2022-08-18

A page from the that I am proudly working on with . Keep watching for more info soon, until than stay

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2022-08-18

A teacher in France in the 1800s, Emilie Sagee moved from job to job frequently, never staying in one place for long. In each school in which she taught she was plagued by her own ghost, her doppelgänger. This eerie double was seen by every class that she taught.

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2022-08-17

In Sarah Perry’s rewriting of Maturin’s novel, Melmoth is envisioned as a lone, cursed female figure wandering the earth by herself. She seeks not to exchange her fate but to draw others in to share and ease her loneliness, feeding on their despair and guilt.

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In the mountains of southern Philippines is the markupo: a gigantic serpent with two tusks, a forked tail, and a red crest. It's said it sings on cloudless days. Its poisonous breath kills animals and plants; and its shadow is just as fatal.

Image: Tumblr

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There are scarier than riding a red-eyed deer...


by kAt Philbin

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2022-08-17

Few people are as lonely and solitary as the night soil man.

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2022-08-17

In the  of the Anglo Scottish Borders, the "Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains" is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of wild animals. His dress is the colour of winter bracken and he sports red frizzled hair.


art: Amanda Moffet

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🌖🐇🌘Any solitary, unusually large and pale-coated Hare was said to be a shapeshifted Witch.

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When hunters Oulani and Oulamba realize the old woman in the bush is the Buffalo of Do, the animal they’ve been sent to kill, they are shocked! Their alliance with her set in motion the chain of events which lead to the birth of Sundiata Keita of the Mali Empire.

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2022-08-04

Rome 1810, a group of German painters living in an abandoned monastery & wearing biblical costumes were known as
The Brotherhood of St Luke, aka the Nazarenes.

London 1848, Millais, Hunt & Rossetti were inspired to
create the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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2022-08-04

Colbumatuan-kurrk are evil female spirits who kills people by throwing tree limbs at them in Australian myth. I'm not sure if they themselves are treelike but probably. If anyone knows anymore, please share!

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According to some sources of the time, the black horse that William the Conqueror rode in the famous Battle of Hastings (1066) was a gift from his ally, the King of

📸 Tapestry of Bayeux

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2022-08-03



‘We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
‘Even longer,' Pooh answered.
—A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh.

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2022-08-03


Wyrd Sisters is a 6 part animated TV Fantasy adaptation of the book by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films, broadcast on 18 May 1997. It follows the plot of the novel, which stars 3 witches who own a very nasty cat named Greebo plus a young witch.

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2022-07-28

The amazing Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940) was directed by Wilfred Jackson. Chernabog was animated by Ukrainian artist Vladimir Tytla...

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2022-07-27

Studio Ghibli's magically weird film 'Howl's Moving Castle' is loosely based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones. It is creative genius Hayao Miyazaki's favourite of his films and incorporates his views on the futility of war and the positive aspects of ageing.

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If you love cats, Ghibli films, and really weird films, you should definitely check out 'The Cat Returns.' It is a bizarre but magical tale that includes talking cats, nocturnal cat parades, and an entire kingdom of cats that act like humans.

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