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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 🧿

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2022-08-06

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
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2022-08-06

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.

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2022-08-05

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

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2022-07-29

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

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2022-07-29

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

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2022-07-29

'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

Where the ancient trackway the Icknield Way reaches Oxfordshire is said to be the end of the world and beyond there, the sulphurous mountains of Hell...

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2022-07-23

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...

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2022-07-22

The river Styx forms the boundary between the earth & the Underworld, with ferryman Charon transporting the souls of the newly dead across the river to the world below. Some believed the Styx had miraculous powers & bathing in it made one invulnerable.

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2022-07-22

"No longer will good men be able with easy conscience to join that indignant “Hush!” by which the evil-doers have hitherto silenced every attempt to make articulate the smothered wail that rises unceasingly from the woeful under-world." 6/6

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2022-07-22

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

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2022-07-16



The Nattmara is a wraith like creature from Scandinavian folklore. She transforms into sand and passes through cracks and keyholes so she can sit on the chest of her victims and plague them with night terrors.

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2022-07-16

Neither death nor Chatterton for The people of were not sleeping well at night. They were afraid. They had reason to be so.

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2022-07-16

I wrote "At the Dream's door" as a song about the last thought we have just right before sleeping. Will we remember it in the morning? Will it shape into what it should become? Will it cease to exist? Here my drawing and LIVE version --> https://t.co/x02MJmlStZ

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2022-07-16

Are all the giants dead?
And are all the witches fled?
Am I quite safe in bed?

—Mary Norton, old bedtime poem
art by Brian Froud

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2022-07-16

Benjy and the Nightmare by Alice Bolingbroke Woodward, 1932

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2022-07-16

Baku are not what they seem: creatures of dreams, they look a little like a discolored ant-eater. They keep evil dreams at bay, devouring nightmares and the creatures that bring them.

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2022-07-15

Plica Polonica or Polish Plait is a medical condition that causes hair to become irreversibly tangled & matted. Some believed its appearance was evidence of a night visit from an elf, mare or witch. Others thought it could ward away illness & was therefore lucky.

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2022-07-15

Gullah people tell of the Boo-Hag, skinless, dark soul of an evil person who "rides" their victims at night, sucking their life energy via their breath. Can take their skin to wear like a suit. They are repelled by indigo blue! "Don't let de hag ride ya!”

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2022-07-15