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“His mind now misgave him; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched." (W. Irving)

Awae' wi' the fae for 20 years, Rip van Winkle discovers that the future did not make his world a more welcoming place

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2022-04-27

"Accursed the heart that does not know restraint"

Heinrich v. Kleist's unplayable "Penthesilea" finally premiered 1876 in Berlin, 65 years after the author's suicide

🎨 Maurice Sendak (1998)

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2022-04-25

The details of Morning star (1898)
by Franciszek Żmurko (1859-1910).

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2022-04-25

In Flanders it's said that a water devil who loved to pull people into a pit with a hook and drown them was responsible for many disappearances. It's also said that the water devil would sit on roofs to laugh at people.

🎨Aleksandra Waliszewska

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2022-04-24

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
🎨The Triple Hecate, 1795. William Blake

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2022-04-24

"If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Harry Clarke

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2022-04-23

"I have a feeling only for shadows"

Odilon Redon was born 1840

🎨 "Caliban" (1881)

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2022-04-20

The Penobscot of Maine believed that a giant White Hare ruled in the North over a horde of smaller hares who had originally been men whose brains had been eaten by witches before shuffling to his lair to be transformed
https://t.co/rcRRZQLPkp

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2022-04-19

“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.”
-Richelle Goodrich

🎨Dream Keeper by Nadezda

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2022-04-19

Moses and the Brazen Serpent by Ford Madox Brown

This is a for a stained glass design, which I believe was never made, of an Old Testament story in which the Israelites are punished with a plague of poisonous snakes.

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2022-04-17

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments.

—Zeena Schreck
art by Alessandra Maria

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2022-04-15

Christiaan Huygens, credited as the inventor of the Magic Lantern, was born 1629. A lifelong sufferer of severe depression & melancholy, his original sketches for magic lantern projection were of Death removing its head.

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2022-04-14

‘Witchcraft and Black Magic’: Surreal occult fantasy paintings by Jan Parker https://t.co/KAb91P4gS4 via

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2022-04-13

Each spring the widows returned to gaze across the moonlit water. After a hundred years, they still hoped to glimpse the ghosts of their husbands who had long been lost at sea.

Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana (1872-1950)

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2022-04-12

The 2018 adaptation of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1967) offers new insights into the characters' backgrounds and leans into gothic atmospheres/imagery, with girls kept in a dark tower, ghostly figures, eerie encounters and hidden pasts

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2022-04-11

In a Flemish tale a farmer woke up to discover that his sheep were lying on the ground with snakes around their necks. He also found flower wreaths underneath the doors and windows. It was thought that witches were responsible.

🎨Franz Stuck

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2022-04-10

“I am the vampire at my own veins.”

― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal
🎨Georges Rochegrosse (colorized) & Carlo Farneti

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2022-04-09

'Oh! Death will find me' by Christopher Le Brun, 1995-6

Inspired by Rupert Brooke's 1909 sonnet with the same name.

You can read it at https://t.co/i947NXlrIL

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2022-04-09