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Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here
And a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.
-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor #Hawkwind
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BRAN CASTLE🏰
..a brooding fortress, with a very, dark past, set high on a hill in deepest Transylvania. There is a secret passage, connecting the first floor, to the third floor, the stairwell was super dark and, led to a hideaway for Vlad the Impaler..
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Any Old Fairy Tale, Arthur Wilde Parsons, 1919. #FaustianFriday
In 1940's Texas, a girl attended her school dance, altho she'd been warned by her pastor not to go. She danced with a handsome man dressed in black. He spun her so fast, a cloud of dust formed around them. The girl disappeared in the dust & was never seen again
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There's a Scottish tale about a Lady of a House who kept a dark secret...
One morning a stable boy woke up (in the stable where they slept) to find his little brother sleeping beside him battered & bruised. He woke his brother & asked what had happened! ...
In Cumbrian dialect, fellon-wood is deadly nightshade. As the name suggests, it's one of our most poisonous plants. Giving witches the power of flight, add it to a potion that includes bats blood and the fat of a child.
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🎨 William Holbrook Beard
#Walpurgisnacht takes place on the night of 30 April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany, & hold revels with the devil. This year it coincides with the rising #BlackMoon. #FaustianFriday #GothicSpring #ofdarkandmacabre Img: Joseph Tomanek, c.1920
‘Queen in heaven and hell’ ~ Hecate in the Aeneid. As a goddess of boundaries, she is a goddess of liminal spaces. #FaustianFriday 🖼 HEKATE, Maxmilián Pirner, 1901.
🖼 Hecate (Detail of Jupiter and Semele), Gustave Moreau, c.1894.
The skrzak is a little flying imp in Polish and Wendish mythology. Since the earthquakes that have released the gods from the Void, many underground labyrinthine mazes have come to exist. One of the many inhabitants of these tunnels are the skrzaks.
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Norse Night goddess, Nott, rides about the Earth in Odhin’s chariot, drawn by a horse called Hrimfaxi [lit. Frost-mane]w/her son Dagr [Day], making day & night. In *Alvissmal* of the Poetic Edda, Nott is referred to as: The Hood; Lightless; & The Weaver of Dreams
"Orphne ... not the least known of the nymphs of Avernus" (Ovid)
The nymphs of the Underworld, Lampades, companions of Hecate on her wicked forays, carrying torches that could drive a mortal mad.
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#FaustianFriday In Greek mythology, Demeter is the chthonic goddess of harvest, associated with the earth and its crops; but she presided also over sacred law, and over the cycle of life and death. The wrecked ship in Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, the Demeter, shares her name.
A wildcat dwells in the Underworld, called ‘Little Cat’, it guards a vast treasure. For a would-be thief, Little Cat transforms into a flaming arrow, reducing said thief to ashes
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The Devil has a hand in building bridges- for a price of course. Our devilish handyman will aid the locals but only in exchange for the soul of the first being to cross the bridge. In Wales and Italy, dogs were the first ones to cross over!
🖼️ @Yasen_Stoilov
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Hare’s observation that “the bright are sometimes poisonous”, was never truer than with the Black Bryony & its red berries. They appear in early autumn looking alluring, but due to being highly poisonous like the rest of the plant, should be avoided at all costs. #FaustianFriday
"Poppy Time" seems to be a fairly good time in this 1893 painting by Walter Crane, doesn't it?
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An old Romanian practice requires young women find a belladonna plant, and make an offering to it, such as salt, bread and/or brandy. The offering is buried in exchange for the plant’s root, which is worn on the head to cultivate beauty.
🖼Laura Tempest Zakroff
(1/2) In an #IcelandicFolktale, the magistrate's wife is summoned in her dream to assist an elven birth. While there, she furtively dabs her right eye with a magic ointment which allows her to see #elves through that eye.
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