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Sir Kenelm Digby’s 17thc remedy for rapier wounds: a mix of earthworms, pigs' brains, iron oxide & mummified corpses. Digby claimed this “Powder of Sympathy” would heal the wound by sympathetic magic if applied to the blade that caused the damage
🎨NC Wyeth

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2022-05-20

According to Tacunium Sanitatis, leeks stimulate urination and influence coitus 🤔

🎨 from Tacunium of Vienna,

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2022-05-20

Radical herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper believed medicine was a public asset rather than a commercial secret & "no man deserved to starve to pay an insulting, insolent physician". In his opinion, examining "as much piss as the Thames might hold" didn't help diagnosis

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2022-05-20

"Then she got scared and wanted to throw the red shoes away, but they stuck fast, and she flung off her stockings but the shoes had grown onto her feet. Dance she did and dance she must, over fields and meadows..." Possessed 👠👠

🗨️H.C. Andersen
🎨 Adrienne Segur

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2022-05-14

In 'Vasilisa the Wise', Baba Yaga's servants appear as disembodied hands flying in midair. Vasilisa wants to question the nature of those hands, but her doll advises against it. Knowing too much about the underworld is dangerous and can "make one old too soon."

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2022-05-13

'Man Proposes, God Disposes' by Edwin Landseer depicts the aftermath of the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition. It is covered by a Union Flag during exams at Royal Holloway, Uni. of London, as students believe they will fail the exam or go mad if they look at it.

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2022-05-13


Is cursed? It’s frozen many in their tracks for the duration w/some giving its origins to the date Eve bit the 🍎👀
Still, others embrace this day, ruled by Venus (known for love, beauty & grace) & as a portal to change in one’s life.

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2022-05-13

When Mimi loses her lover and her village by the goopy hands of monsters, she ends up entering a dangerous faustian bargain

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2022-05-10

Happy Mine is coming back from hiatus on June

When Mimi loses her lover and her village by the goopy hands of monsters, she ends up entering a dangerous faustian bargain

https://t.co/h6IoEWZRJ8

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2022-05-10

Hi ! "The Ballad of the Witch Doctor" is my dark fantasy comic that follows a magic plague doctor and his Faustian quest to find the cure to a plague. You can read Act I on https://t.co/GLxNge5kFC and on
https://t.co/dPcwWe89PB

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2022-05-10

Bluebeard: a French folktale of prohibition: despite being warned not to, Bluebeard’s wife opens a secret chamber only to find it flooded with the blood of his former wives. The myth is reworked into a trope of Gothic literature, from Ann Radcliffe to Le Fanu.

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2022-05-06

Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here
And a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers.

-Michael Moorcock The Black Corridor

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2022-05-06


BRAN CASTLE🏰
..a brooding fortress, with a very, dark past, set high on a hill in deepest Transylvania. There is a secret passage, connecting the first floor, to the third floor, the stairwell was super dark and, led to a hideaway for Vlad the Impaler..

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2022-05-06

oooh yes, that's so spicy! of course this being a half baked idea I'm not entirely sure where the Faustian bit of this bargain comes in and what, exactly, the catch is but god knows it's gonna be something that makes aymeric just go

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2022-05-05

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2022-04-30

Any Old Fairy Tale, Arthur Wilde Parsons, 1919.

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2022-04-30

In 1940's Texas, a girl attended her school dance, altho she'd been warned by her pastor not to go. She danced with a handsome man dressed in black. He spun her so fast, a cloud of dust formed around them. The girl disappeared in the dust & was never seen again

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2022-04-29

The Dance of Witches by Isaac Levitan

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2022-04-29


🖤🖤🖤
There's a Scottish tale about a Lady of a House who kept a dark secret...
One morning a stable boy woke up (in the stable where they slept) to find his little brother sleeping beside him battered & bruised. He woke his brother & asked what had happened! ...

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2022-04-29

In Cumbrian dialect, fellon-wood is deadly nightshade. As the name suggests, it's one of our most poisonous plants. Giving witches the power of flight, add it to a potion that includes bats blood and the fat of a child.


🎨 William Holbrook Beard

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2022-04-29