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you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

Ken Follett
World Without End


🎨C.F. Tunnicliffe

11 45
2023-03-04

"As for Inchanters and Charmers...some of them
doe take in hand to bind the divell himselfe by their
Inchantments."

- Anatomie of Sorcerie by James Mason, MA

14 29
2023-02-26

‘The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.’ ~
Charles Baudelaire

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2023-02-26

Alice's cat was Dinah, whom she remembered often during her adventures in Wonderland.

“Dinah’ll miss me very much tonight, I should think! I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me!"

8 47
2023-02-21

The Pied Piper of Hamelin was hired to rid a town of their rat problem using his magic flute- however he was refused payment so he waited till the adults were at church and returned dressed in green to lure all the children away.
🖼️Kate Greenaway

6 29
2023-02-20

“In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”-Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

3 16
2023-02-12

‘I had a dream of something black coming round my bed, and I awoke in a perfect horror, and I really thought, for some seconds, I saw a dark figure near the chimney-piece’ JS Le Fanu, Carmilla

🖼 IrenHorrors

15 78
2023-02-12


How blessed are some people,whose lives have no fears,no dreads,to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well,here I am tonight,hoping for sleep,and lying like Ophelia in the play,with 'virgin crants and maiden strewments.'

15 83
2023-02-11

“It could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.”

― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
BookWormSat

2 8
2023-02-11

Love often betrays, but a friend rarely does.

Amit Kalantri
Wealth of Words


🎨Ryder

5 45
2023-02-04

'It was the last night in December. In my little valley, I was drinking from a pool of cracked ice, like a cat - crouching down, my hands flat.'
Susan Fletcher ~ 'Witch Light'

🎨'Snow Kitty' - Soo Beng Lim.

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2023-01-28


“The inn at Kinlochaline was the most beggarly vile place that ever pigs were styed in, full of smoke, vermin, and silent Highlanders.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped

13 43
2023-01-28

‘…I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.’
—Edgar Allan Poe

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2023-01-22



‘Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

🖼 Gustave Doré

21 73
2023-01-22

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

11 47
2023-01-21

‘Wynter wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare;
Ofte I sike ant mourne sare
When hit cometh in my thoht
Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.’ ~ Anon.

17 62
2023-01-14

upon Helvellyn
lichen-covered
boulders beckon
winter's snow

(4-line)


art: Fresh Snow on Helvellyn by Elijah Walton 1876

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2023-01-14

Thank you to everyone who is accompanying and for a stroll through imaginary snow! We return tomorrow.

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

11 57
2023-01-12

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

~Italo Calvino

10 68
2023-01-11