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‘If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.’
—Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

🎨 John Tenniel

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2023-02-25

On the Isle of Man, it was once tradition to leave water out at night for the fairies. Failure to do so would anger them, and they would drink the blood of those sleeping in the house instead.

Sometimes they would bake the blood into a cake.

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2023-02-25


He is Obatala, an Orisa of the Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin, Togo). Drunk on palmwine, he created humans with disabilities and so is the patron of the disabled and people with genetic disorders or congenital defects. His devotees are forbidden palm-wine.
🎨: (?)

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2023-02-25

“Coal Face – The Devil in the Smoke.”

A fantastical faustian monster story set against a backdrop of social strife, absent parents, escapism and video games.

A morally complex fantasy adventure for young adults and older readers alike.

- Global release. March 6th. Via Amazon.

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2023-02-23

The Carnival of Venice began in 1162 as a victory celebration. Over the centuries, it evolved into a Saturnalia style revelry where different classes of Venetian society could mix together behind the anonymity of masks.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1759-1797)

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2023-02-17

Well hey there! You know me. As Satan’s second in command it’s my job to trap mortal men in Faustian bargains, taking their souls for myseERRhmmm I mean do his bidding and usher passing souls destined for damnation to hell. :) I hope you like kneeling!

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2023-02-14

To sleep is to come close to death, a truth acknowledged as far back as the Greeks: Hypnos is the brother of Thanatos, making Sleep and Death twins. Both dwell in the Underworld in dark, lightless locales, though Hypnos also has an island up top.

🖼️: HanoOide

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2023-02-11

Sleep paralysis is a disorder causing hallucinations/ supernatural feelings while your body is paralysed between sleep and awareness: shadows beings, buzzing, out of body perception. And the origin of many legends
My song / art "Nightmare"
https://t.co/zl3MFklhu1

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2023-02-10

A selection of engravings by Abigail Rorer for 'Mimpish Squinnies: Reginald Farrer's Short Guide to Worthless Plants' (2007), based on Farrer's 1919 descriptions of real flowers he disliked, which you can read here (and I urge you to do so)
https://t.co/MCJeUzoKQ5

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2023-02-04

Sorcerer’s Herb (Ground-ivy or Mugwort, depending on locality) gathered on Midsummer was believed to dry-up cows' milk when thrown over grazing land before sunrise but small bags were also placed under house roofs to attract misfortune to people and their animals.

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2023-02-03

🌿💔🌿Folklore from the Welsh border counties said that lilac trees would fall into mourning if any of their kind were cut down nearby, and would show their sorrow by not flowering in the following year.

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2023-02-03

In Cumbrian dialect, 'fellin-girse' is green hellebore. It was grown on farms as a cure for numerous livestock ailments, but in folk magic it's used to call forth demons and curse enemies


art: Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

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2023-02-03

Atropa belladonna is named for Atropos , one of the three Greek fates. After her sisters spun and measured a persons life thread, Atropos would cut it signalling the end of their life. Another name is Deadly Nightshade.
🖼️Elia Mervi

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2023-02-03

Deadly Nightshade – Hallucinations,Lightness & the Sensation of Flying
Deadly nightshade is linked to witchcraft; on Walpurgis night,it was thought that the spirit of the deadly nightshade emerged while witches were preparing their covens https://t.co/Kh6WnS2WgE

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2023-02-03

THE FUTURE RULES!!! And so does this frightfully faustian Future Devil print from ! He'll be making his debut next month at Anime Lubbock. Hope to 👁 you there! 🔮 😈

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2023-01-30

Some have speculated that the evil behind this 'curse' in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is a long history of incest or family inbreeding within the Usher line & that Roderick and Madeline are suffering the consequences https://t.co/GslbpCTnym

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2023-01-27

"Those are the eyes of the dead, truly,
No loving hand has closed their void" (Goethe)

🎨 Fritz Roeber (1910)

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2023-01-21

Did this inspire Otfried Preussler's Krabat, (The Satanic Mill)? I own the Dutch version, Master of the Black Mill. It's poetic and brilliant. The Mill is a school for black magic; every year the Miller sacrifices one apprentice. Until one day.. Recommend! https://t.co/l0cIYBkAR2

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2023-01-20

In the hillfort of the Muro da Cidade de Medeiros (#Galicia), a warrior married a "moura" (an Otherworldy woman). After giving its inhabitants the vine plant as a gift, she moved with her husband to Quinta do Peru, giving rise to a rich family.

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2023-01-20

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you. Oh, God, it is unutterable! I can not live without my life, I can not live without my soul”.
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
🖼️Rovina Cai

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2023-01-20