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.

4 12

this guy's a 10 but he never got over his childhood crush. also he tricks humans into selling their souls in faustian deals https://t.co/DYWrLSo8QE

0 9

if i had a nickel for every time the dorky protagonist sacrificed himself for the woman he loved after making a faustian pact to impress her, all while putting on a play, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's epic that it happened twice

0 3

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

11 32


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.

3 7

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...

27 111

During a very dark night, a farmer returned from the pub in Lengenfeld to his home in Stoffen.

During this trip, a white poodle with a black spot on his chest followed him, and constantly muttered along the way:

"Night is not day."


https://t.co/DKt2xLkWxU

3 14

"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)

3 21

Hello! Crystal the gem based magical girl here! So I destroyed the world once and the faustian gods weren’t pleased with it so they sealed me away but because of people in this recovering world and maybe from other worlds calling for me to return I’m back at level 1 but still!

0 1

Hello! The gem based Magical Girl Crystal here! Destroyed my world once faustian gods punished me by sealing me away, and people from my recovering world and maybe other worlds broke the spell by wanting me around and now in between helping the world recover I give others hope!

0 0

It's always annoying when humans regret their Faustian Bargains and plead for their Sanity and Soul...

Like... my Brother in Tentacles you *ASKED* for this... smh

23 106

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

6 36

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)

9 39


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

8 27

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.

24 86

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

11 39

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

19 59

Fauster's name is likely derived from the titular character of the Faustian legend.

11 59

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

7 32

According to a Galician medieval chronicle, a lord entered the Cova da Coruxa ('the owl's cave') with his soldiers. They saw a wide river, and handsome people singing and dancing on the other side. Both the lord and his companions died over the next year...

14 46