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VICTORIAN EASTER CARDS After all, nothing quite says Easter like a creepy egg family on an egg hunt, babies hammering chicks-in-shells, multiple babies born from an egg or rabbits disguised as pace eggs.

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2022-04-09

...apparently young blood keeps the trees looking vibrant. The only way to tell if a tree is a jubokko is to cut into it, as these yokai trees bleed just like humans.

🎨1. Abigail Larson
2. Matthew Meyer
3. Julie Sakai
4. Vincent Proce
5. Megami Tensei games
3/3

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2022-04-08

End of All Things (1887) by Maximilian Pirner

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2022-04-08

When is a bike like a witch's broom? In Julian Hawthorne's 'Absolute Evil' (1918), the narrator enjoys nothing more than discussing the occult, speculating on her Salem ancestry and riding her bike, all while hunting a vicious werewolf on holiday

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2022-04-07

"I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.”

"First Cubist" El Greco died 1614

🎨 "Laocoön" (c 1610)

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2022-04-07

"... the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs” (O. Wilde)

Poisonous they are, though, and a symbol of dark beauty

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2022-04-04

“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.” (Lorine Niedecker)

🎨 Irenhorrors "Swamp Thing" (2018)

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2022-04-03

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

Mythomaniac Joseph Campbell was born 1904

🎨 Ulpiano Checa "El Rapto de Proserpina" (1888)

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2022-03-26

“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.”

~Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk,🎨James Christopher.

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2022-03-24

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods.

— William Wordsworth

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2022-03-23



Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company-

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2022-03-20

"One night... I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. ... The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill" (G. Tartini)

🎨 J Marshall "Tartini's Dream" (1862)

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2022-03-16




There is a coal-black Angel
[…]
And he dwells (like the hunted and harried)
In a swamp where the green frogs dip.
[…]
He breathes with a breath that is blastment
And dooms by a far decree.
[…]
There’s a scream that screams up to the zenith

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2022-03-14

"I fear nothing. Your hands on fire, it's burning me..."

Spanish Baroque playwright Tirso de Molina who staged the first dramatisation of the Don Juan legend, died 1648

🎨 Charles Ricketts "Don Juan challenging the Commander" (1928)

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2022-03-12

A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.

🎨Wiertz

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2022-03-09

Selkie Guard
▫️Seb McKinnon

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2022-03-08

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

—Molly Ringle

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2022-03-04