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(1/2) In an the magistrate's wife is summoned in her dream to assist an elven birth. While there, she furtively dabs her right eye with a magic ointment which allows her to see through that eye.

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2022-04-02

Winifred Knights: The Deluge (1920) depicts an apocalyptic flood with figures fleeing to higher ground while Noah’s distant ark glides away. The ark is more sinister than benign, sliding silently past as men, women (incl Knight) & children flee the rising waters.

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2022-04-01

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality" (Virginia Woolf)

Darklings,

Tell your tales and share your images of

“Visions and Mirages"

tomorrow for

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🎨 El Greco "The Vision of St John" (1614)

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2022-03-31

Takshaka was a great Nagaraja who was mentioned in the Indian epic, Mahabharatha. He was known for his great powers, knowledge and wisdom. He gained a lot of popularity among other NAGAS. He is the friend of the Lord Indra Deva.

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2022-03-26

Chinese myth tells the story of a female white snake demon who lives underwater but takes human form as Madame White, or Bai Suzhen. After Bai falls in love with and marries a mortal man, Xu Xian, a Buddhist monk, Fahai, reveals her true identity to her husband.

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2022-03-26

13thc Scottish legend: a man who stole a taste of broth made from a magical white snake became a great healer & gained the ability to foretell events, read minds, understand the speech of animals. He became known as Michael Scott the Wizard
🎨Jeff Pfeil (b.1981)

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2022-03-25

"Long green train of her skirt thickened and grew solid, and seemed to be all one piece with the writhing green pillar of her interlocked legs.... The great serpent which the Witch had become, green as poison, thick as Jill's waist...."
- C S Lewis, "Silver Chair"

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2022-03-25

Snakewoman by Ray Harryhausen

The Naga in Harryhausen's film "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" is a dancer with four arms and is just called the Snake Woman.

In and nagas are snake human hybrid beings who can assume either form.

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2022-03-25

Mowgli felt Kaa's back grow broader as the python hissed like a sword drawn from a scabbard:
"I have seen all the dead seasons, & the great trees & the old elephants, & the rocks that were bare & sharp-pointed ere the moss grew. Art thou still alive, Manling?"

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2022-03-25

"Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth" (Alice K. Turner)

The Wicked bid you welcome to a serpentine

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🎨 Jessica Roux

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2022-03-25

An old superstition about the mandrake is that it 'shines like lightning until approached' - a feature noted by multiple Roman scholars. In reality, Mandrake leaves are particularly attractive to fireflies, which would well explain the mystical vanishing lights.

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2022-03-19

The Priestess of Delphi,
John Collier, 1891.

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2022-03-19

The Cumaean Sibyl prophesied by singing the fates and writing on oak leaves. She would place these in the entrance of her cave. She lived for about 1000 years.She asked Apollo to live for as many years as a handful of sand in exchange for her virginity… 1/3

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2022-03-18

'And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.'
— (Rev. 12:3–4, KJV)
🎨William Blake

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2022-03-18

In the tale "The Girl Who Changed Her Fate" a girl is cursed w/ a bad fate & so everything she does ends badly. So, she climbs a mountain where all the fates live & gives a gift to hers - which is ragged & wild - & by doing so restores her relationship with it.

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2022-03-18

“The sheep shall eat the men.” During the Clearances, families were driven from the Highlands by the landowners & the land they farmed given over to the grazing of sheep. North Sea oil was also predicted: “A black rain will bring riches to Aberdeen.”

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2022-03-18

Amabie has become well known over the past few years for its ability to protect people from disease, but it is also said to deliver prophecies about good harvests. Often appearing as a glowing light out to sea, it has long hair, three legs, a beak and the...

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2022-03-18

King of Ulster's chief druid, Cathbad, prophesied that an unborn Deirdre would be the most beautiful girl in Ireland. So...warrior would kill warrior, 3 of noblest sons of Ulster would be exiled, Ulster would be torn to pieces. Known as 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'.

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2022-03-18

In ancient Greek Mythology,Enyo was the goddess of war and destruction. She is connected with Ares who was the war god. She was usually shown as the sister and companion for Ares the God of war. Sometimes she was called the “Sister of War”or the“Sacker of Cities.”

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2022-03-12

There's been quite a fuss about the arrival of a Japanese spider in the East Coast of North America: the Jōrogumo, an actual species of orb weaver, is in Japanese folklore a craven hungry monster masquerading as a beauty with eyes only for you.

🖼: IrenHorrors

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2022-03-12