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‘I have gone out, possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night’
—Anne Sexton

🎨 O’Malley


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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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The Graeae Sisters, from Greek mythology, are Deino (dread), Enyo (horror) and Pemphredo (alarm). Between them, they shared one eye and one tooth. The magical eye was imbued with wisdom, though the tooth was merely for chewing.

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The Latin phrase "omne trium perfectum" means "everything that comes in threes is perfect".

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In Hindu myth, a makara (meaning "water monster" or "sea dragon") is some combination of fish or seal with a stag, deer, or elephant. They ferry the river goddess Ganga & the sea god Varuna across water, & guard entrances to throne rooms & temples.

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In "The Hobbit," Bilbo references were-worms living in the Last Desert. Some Tolkien fans have interpreted "were" to mean snakes with human intelligence (as not all Middle Earth werewolves are shape-shifters), but others imagine snakes or dragons that become human.

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In Batak folklore of North Sumatra, Orion constellation is called Hala Na Godang; a dragon so big its head reaches the sky and its tail the earth. The stars of Orion's Belt represent its three giant eggs.

My favorite tale for 1/3

📷: Rogelio B. Andreo

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The abaia is a great freshwater eel from Melanesian myth who usually have gentle dispositions. However, an abaia considers all the animals within their lake their children, anyone who dares fish in an abaia’s lake is in serious trouble.

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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky was likely based on the Sockburn Worm [Dragon] folktale.

In Burton's film, the Jabberwocky is a huge dragon under the control of The Red Queen.



Alice in Wonderland, 2010
dir. Tim Burton

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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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In certain cultures Death is perceived as female. For instance, Marzanna in Slavic mythology, or Santa Muerte in Mexico.

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The Hand of Glory, made from the severed & preserved hand of a hanged felon, could be a magical charm to open locks. A candle of his fat placed in it as in a candlestick and lit could render people asleep or immobile, so you could undertake your dark deeds.

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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, natural folk magic is used to fight the vampire: the mountain ash, the garlic, and the wild rose are equally powerful weapons against evil, and magic, religion, medicine, and technology are all brought together.

🖼 Abigail Larson

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What kind of flower is so particular that it must only be watered with stars by a horned being with tiny human hands while tilting his head? I ask you, but secretly I know all the best flowers are that picky.


by Kathleen Lolley

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Eating fellow practitioners of the unhallowed arts at least in parts to absorb their talents is an ages old custom - Jealous Earl Heinrekr orders the heart of young Drauma-Jón brought to him for consumption to acquire his gift of divining dreams

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Hypatia of Alexandria was reputed to be a brilliant teacher of philosophy, astronomer and mathematician, with some indications that she may have understood heliocentrism. Her brutal murder was one of history's tragedies. https://t.co/J4nEQe7HK6

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was a gifted polymath: she was a naturalist, botanist, entomologist, & scientific author/artist. She was one of the first people to ever study insects closely. She studied the life cycles of over 200 species in South America

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In Stoker’s Dracula, Mina breaks many conventions, using the tools of modern science & technology to fight the vampire. She is the one who bids Van Helsing to use hypnosis on her, perceiving that it can help locate the Count through their psychic connection.

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🌬️🌬️Do you ever wonder what those faceless phantoms are trying to tell you when they knock your window? Voices, rising... But you can't catch the wind (From The Wind song, part of my illustrated music book "The Underliving"). My own art too https://t.co/VmCRhjbSla

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