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"Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.'
-Oread, H.D.

🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-07-23

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better.

—Amy Tan
art by Blaz Porenta✨

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2022-07-19

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

Gothic butterfly

by David Aguirre Hoffmann

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2022-07-12

"... and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes. I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them, as they are secret woods." (Arthur Machen)

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2022-07-12

Sharing a bit of old CDC stuff for

🍄The Rot Prince has ruled over the Bleakwood for countless mortal lifetimes. Some say it was once a creature of flesh and bone, but all that now remains is a mildew-blackened heart at its core.

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2022-07-11

"But goblins, bogies, and spectres issue forth from earth and rock and cloud for their annual carousal in the darksome forest...children dare not cry aloud, lest the witches, hearing them, should spirit them away to be served up at their terrible orgies!"

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2022-06-29

Don’t kiss the beautiful woman who offers you a meal and a bed in her sumptuous chateau hidden deep in the woods. By morning light she'll be a monster, and her house but a pile of rocks and bones.

—Terri Windling, Myth & Moor
art by Christian Schloe

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2022-06-27

The woods always look different at night…as if the daytime trees and flowers and stones had gone to bed and sent slightly more ominous versions of themselves to take their places.

—Suzanne Collins

art by Tiffany England

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2022-06-16

“He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.
The font reappearing
From the raindrops shall borrow,
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow!" (Scott "Coronach")

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2022-06-09

Woodland Scene by unknown artist, purchased 1926

I like this primarily because if you zoom on the figures at the back, they are the same figures as the one at the front, making it a bit more like some church murals which show 2 scenes in one 🖼️.

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2022-06-05

In Danish mythology the Nisse, resembling a garden gnome, lives in the homes and barns of farmsteads. Treated properly, they protect people and livestock from misfortune, even doing some chores.

Treated badly however...better run.


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2022-05-30

Mielikki, is the finnish female forest spirit. She takes care of the woods and the animals living in it. Hunters used to beg good hunting luck from Mielikki. The ones who want to pick up berries and mushroom should ask for her permission.
Illust:Cory Godbey.

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2022-05-23

The Tälibudel from Liechtenstein is a dog-like spirit with fiery red eyes said to have chased an alpine shepherd from his hut.
🎨 by Eliane Schädler for 's 2022 stamp theme of Myths & Legends
https://t.co/upPCD5J5HP

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2022-05-23


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Lost

Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,

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2022-05-05

The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting.

—Sean Terrence Best
art by Hidayet Üstün

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2022-05-01

Gathering dark forest treasures✨
art by Mon Jones

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2022-05-01

"They danced wildly in the forest, swaying with the tall trees and the howling wind."

~Kleinbaum N.H., le cercle des poetes disparus.

🎨Thomas Jones,#DontGoIntoTheWoods.

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2022-04-22

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments.

—Zeena Schreck
art by Alessandra Maria

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2022-04-15