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"There is no lack of ditches in the forest to bury fools in, and the stones and the trees have no tongues to tell what they see." (George Sand)

🎨Francois Cachoud (1914)

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2022-07-31

The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.

—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger

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2022-07-29

"When again in heaven dawned the day,
They bore three dead from the tower away
And the dance goes so quickly through the forest" (Heine)

Old Danish folk ballad about Sir Olof who danced himself to death with the fae in the woods

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2022-07-29

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

“The moon is full, and even the stars are scared of me…”

— Brenna Yovanoff, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft




🌙 melaniedelon

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2022-07-27

Illustrations from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Parasite' (1894). In this tale, a man is the test subject in a study of mesmerism conducted by woman w. strange abilities. This becomes disastrous for him when the woman begins to abuse her powers

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2022-07-25

"... reveries revolving around history and fairy tales never stopped haunting me..."

Viktor Vasnetsov died 1926

🎨"Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom" (1884)

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2022-07-23

'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

'About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.'
-Virginia Woolf

🎨Constantin Meunier

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2022-07-21

"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk" (Baudelaire)

🎨 H. Privat-Livemont (1896)

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2022-07-20

“… some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” (Poe)

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2022-07-20

Billy Butcher’s vision of the key post-punk, goth and new wave musicians from the late '70s/early '80s 🦇

https://t.co/0Ysi8cnY2o

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2022-07-20

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Where am I here?
Suffocating!
Oh omnipresent fear!
Struggling!

Claustrophobia overwhelms
and just a bit of light!
Who condemns
me to this world of ghost white?

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2022-07-18

“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek."
―Mark Richard, Fishboy

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2022-07-17

"The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.
Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense
That the birds, intoxicated, fly
Deep into unknown spume and sky!" (Stéphane Mallarmé "Sea Breeze")

🎨 Tissot (c 1878)

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2022-07-16

‘Haunted’ from The Tatler, circa November, 1927 😱

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2022-07-16

“So mickle was this storm that the men said it was the work of enchantment” (Heimskringla V)

Scottish weather wizards raise a storm off the Hebrides and send King Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1263) and fleet on his way back to Norway

🎨 Waterhouse

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2022-07-14

In Hungarian folklore, sárkány is a blind dragon that carries around hail clouds on its back.

They dwell in mountains and forests, and snack on everything they can catch (even humans).

It’s said, sárkány can swallow the Sun.



🌙Attila Gallik

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2022-07-14

"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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2022-07-13

“And tears are heard within the harp I touch.” (Petrarch)

🎨 Michał Elwiro Andriolli c 1880

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