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NIGHTJAR: These birds migrate to the UK in spring. Also called 'lich fowl' or corpse bird, they are nocturnal. It is said that the souls of unbaptised babies wander as nightjars until Judgement Day.
(Art: Adam Burke)

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What you go searching for and what you find aren't always the same.

—Andrew Michael Hurley

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2023-03-09

LILITH:
Long associated with witchcraft and vampires, Adam's first wife is often associated with owls. In some accounts, she is depicted with owl's feet.

(🖼: https://t.co/wR8dCMD7Yw)

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2023-03-09

"A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing." (Bret Harte)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-03-09

Cuckoo, how long shall I live? - "Kuckuck in Hewen, wo lang schall ik lewen"

The calls of the brood parasite do not only herald Spring, its number heard from the wood indicate how many years one has left on this Earth.

🎨 Ede

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2023-03-07

'Have the birds come back, my darling.
The birds from over the sea?'
-Alice Cary

🎨Natasha Newton

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2023-03-07

"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here" (Emily Dickinson)

🎨 Leon Spilliaert

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2023-03-06

"For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn."
(Walter de La Mare)

🎨Félix Buhot

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2023-03-06

Bringing wild thyme into the house was thought to bring death to a family member...

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2023-03-05

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at and

(gif by tigercryrocks)

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2023-03-04

“Yea—for a dream.
Last night methought I saw
That maiden Saint who stands with lily in hand
In yonder shrine." (Tennyson)

🎨 Schiavoni (1841)

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2023-03-02

THE DARKNESS OF DAISIES The habit of dressing children in daisy chains comes from a desire to protect them against malevolent FAIRIES. Daisies are a sun symbol and therefore protective magic! 🎨J.J Grandville; Fairy Angel, Highgate

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In Basque mythology, the eguzkilore (eguzki=sun and lore=flower) is a quite mystical flower. Amalur, the goddess of the land, gave the eguzkilore to men to protect them from the evil spirits and the sorginak (witches) who would get out at night 1/3

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2023-03-01

Darkest Dearlings!

White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!

A dragon-lagomorph for Good Luck! on the month's first, properly shaped for a wyrm-themed and here to guide you into a delightfully darksome

Follow the White Rabbit!

🎨 azukioohashi

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As credited in the text, this chilling line is borrowed from Gottfried August Bürger's 'Lenore', in which a lady mounts a horse with someone who resembles her missing lover, only for him to reveal himself as Death 1/3 https://t.co/cPp510wFUk

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2022-05-25

'As the Emperor Moth sat one evening in May,
Fanned by numberless wings in the moon’s silver ray,
While around him the zephyrs breathed sweetest perfume,
Thus he spoke to his dwarf with the Ragged white plume..' 'The Emperor’s Rout' https://t.co/Vmu1vsPbK5

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2022-05-19

Illustrations from Emma Frances Dawson's collection of supernatural tales ‘An Itinerant House and Other Stories’ (1896), drawn by Ernest C. Peixotto. You can read this collection in the Victorian Gothic Library here: https://t.co/swY79vwvo9

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2022-05-12

ROGUE'S GALLERY OF FUNGUS or what not to put in your basket (leave to the fairies). I love how gothic their names are: Destroying Angel (white fungi); Death Cap; Jack 'o' Lantern (orange with gills that glow in the dark); Satan's Bolete

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