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In Polish folklore, Turosik is a dangerous forest demon that lures people deep into the woods or into a swamp, and leaves them there to die.
Usually, he’s depicted as a deer or aurochs with golden horns.
#SwampSunday
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🌙Eugene Kot
"If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms." (Shakespeare)
🎨 Harry Clarke
#BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre
"I have a feeling only for shadows"
Odilon Redon was born #OTD 1840
🎨 "Caliban" (1881)
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#MythologyMonday #OfDarkandMacabre The Penobscot of Maine believed that a giant White Hare ruled in the North over a horde of smaller hares who had originally been men whose brains had been eaten by witches before shuffling to his lair to be transformed
https://t.co/rcRRZQLPkp
“There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.”
-Richelle Goodrich #ofdarkandmacabre
🎨Dream Keeper by Nadezda
“It’s so odd to be a bat and wander from house to house, and sleep in the trees…” 🦇
— Inger Hagerup
#batappreciationday
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🌙 Alfredo Edel Colorno
Moses and the Brazen Serpent by Ford Madox Brown
This is a #sketch for a stained glass design, which I believe was never made, of an Old Testament story in which the Israelites are punished with a plague of poisonous snakes.
#ofdarkandmacabre #art
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments.
—Zeena Schreck
art by Alessandra Maria
#dontgointothewoods
#ofdarkandmacabre✨
Christiaan Huygens, credited as the inventor of the Magic Lantern, was born #OTD 1629. A lifelong sufferer of severe depression & melancholy, his original sketches for magic lantern projection were of Death removing its head.
#GothicSpring #FolkloreThursday #OfDarkAndMacabre
‘Witchcraft and Black Magic’: Surreal occult fantasy paintings by Jan Parker https://t.co/KAb91P4gS4 via @DangerMindsBlog #ofdarkandmacabre
Each spring the widows returned to gaze across the moonlit water. After a hundred years, they still hoped to glimpse the ghosts of their husbands who had long been lost at sea.
Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana (1872-1950) #GothicSpring🥀
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#ofdarkandmacabre The 2018 adaptation of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1967) offers new insights into the characters' backgrounds and leans into gothic atmospheres/imagery, with girls kept in a dark tower, ghostly figures, eerie encounters and hidden pasts
According to Cæsarius von Heisterbach’s “Dialogus Miraculorum”, thunder-storms are arrributed to the Devil.
#MythologyMonday
#GothicSpring
#ofdarkandmacabre
🌙Caspar Wolf
In a Flemish tale a farmer woke up to discover that his sheep were lying on the ground with snakes around their necks. He also found flower wreaths underneath the doors and windows. It was thought that witches were responsible.
🎨Franz Stuck
#GothicSpring #OfDarkAndMacabre
“I am the vampire at my own veins.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal #BookWormSat #ofdarkandmacabre #GothicSpring
🎨Georges Rochegrosse (colorized) & Carlo Farneti
There are a lot of beliefs about mavkas, nyavkas and rusalkas in Slavic folklore.
One of them is that rusalkas can steal the bodies of unbaptized babies from their graves.
#SuperstitionSat
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'Oh! Death will find me' by Christopher Le Brun, 1995-6
Inspired by Rupert Brooke's 1909 sonnet with the same name.
You can read it at https://t.co/i947NXlrIL
#ofdarkandmacabre #poetry #art #painting
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. #ofdarkandmacabre #GothicSpring
...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.
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🎨1. Abigail Larson
2. Matthew Meyer
3. Julie Sakai
4. Vincent Proce
5. Megami Tensei games
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