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Carrying on my dug out another favoured haunt of mine 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford. Filled with claustrophobia and an unparalleled sense of isolation, Crawford's classic is packed full of tension amidst a sea of cold, black, waves.
(image Scott Plumbe)

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2020-12-08

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes everything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive; thanks to a Hobgoblin; If a fragment enters your eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters a your heart it will turn to ice 🎨Ford; T. Pym

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2020-12-08

Lucy's Latin name Lucia shares the root (luc-) with the Latin word for light, lux. Some traditions incorporate St. Lucy as the bearer of light, her feast day being 13 December. As some versions relate that her eyes were removed, she is the patron saint of the blind

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2020-12-04

Some Christmas Cards by Edward Gorey

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2020-12-04

In traditional Himalayan Yetis are sometimes said to have feet that point backwards to hunters attempting to track their footprints in the snow🏔️👣🦍

Explains why no one's ever managed to find one.

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2020-12-03

“... the Yule-clog and Christmas candle were regularly burnt, and the mistletoe with its white berries hung up..."(Washington Irving)

Join the Dark Queens tomorrow for with your tales and images of

Pagan Christmas Customs

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2020-12-03

At this time of year the soul stealer and sin eater will meet in the centre of Newport at midnight; they play a game of chance for the immortal spirit of those that stumble by.

Who wants to hear a story of that encounter?

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2020-12-03

Scholars have connected the Yule period to the Wild Hunt (a ghostly procession in the winter sky), the god Odin (who is attested in Germanic areas as leading the Wild Hunt and bears the name Jólnir), and increased supernatural activity.

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2020-12-02

Gustave Doré's Hauntingly Beautiful 1883 Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
"Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
https://t.co/tPOTEHCjjT via

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2020-12-01

Choosing to read "The Count of Monte Cristo" for instead of "A Christmas Carol" this year. Then will try to get to a rewatch of both films. 😊📚🎬

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2020-11-30

You either know this one, or you don't.

The wolves are running...

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2019-12-25

24. ‘Curious, if True’, Elizabeth Gaskell,
"all at once I saw a château before me...at the end of what seemed to be an ancient avenue...Large, stately, & dark was its outline against the dusky night-sky...fantastically going up into the dim starlight."

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2019-12-24

Yule cat defeats Krampus.
Postcard design by E.Döcker (Vienna, 1901)

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2019-12-22

GUARDIAN ANGELS The idea that every living being has its own attendant spirit is shared by many cultures. The literature of encounters with is vast; a surprising number of people speak of experiencing angelic assistance or visions Ills Mann; Galli Swinstead

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2019-12-21

A TAXONOMY OF ANGELS
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
First order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Second order: Dominions, Powers, Virtues
Third order: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
Image: Victorian Christmas Card bring trees and Lilies

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2019-12-19

UNCANNY CHILD ANGELS There's a ghostly quality to Julia Margaret Cameron's (1815 – 79) Victorian Angel portraits that fits so well with I love her.

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2019-12-19

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads…
“The Christmas Dream” by French artist-adventurer Jules Tavernier (1844-1889)— the content pre-empting many a contemporary horror film.

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2019-12-18

16. ‘The Open Door’, Margaret Oliphant,
"restlessly wandering to & fro; sometimes the voice dropped, as if throwing itself down, sometimes wandered off a few paces, growing sharp & clear. “Oh, mother, let me in! oh, mother, mother, let me in! oh, let me in!”"

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2019-12-16

To wish someone wealth and prosperity, give them a gift of jewellery. Spiders symbolise reward and recognition for creativity and hard work.

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2019-12-15

Albtei im Eichwald / The Abbey in the Oak Wood, Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1808-1810. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

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2019-12-16