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Jakub Schikaneder combined his social feeling and knowledge of contemporary European painting reflecting women in hardship, old age, and poverty. Schikaneder's best known works are of structures set in Prague with themes of fate.

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2020-07-05

Few of the marvelous illusions by Edward Gorey.

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2020-07-04

In the Bible, the fourth and final Horseman is named Death. Known as "Θάνατος/Thanatos", of all the riders, he is the only one to whom the text itself explicitly gives a name.

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2020-07-03

Harry Clarke's 'The Last Hour of the Night' (1922), the frontispiece for 'Dublin of the Future'
'Nosferatu' theatrical program book cover illustration by Albin Grau (1922)

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2020-07-01

Metropolis (1927 film. directed by Fritz Lang)

......delusional Freder imagines the false-Maria as the Whore of Babylon, riding on the back of a many-headed dragon. (→ https://t.co/LlOqXP5z2D )

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2020-07-01

Fairies and Fatal Women

Henry Fuseli, Queen Katherine’s Dream exhibited 1781

The subject is taken from folklore and literature. A sleeping shepherd is assailed by fairies, while his dog takes watch.

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2020-07-01

Gustav-Adolf Mossa

①The Fates
②Satiated Siren
③David and Batsheba
④Gorgon

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2020-06-30

Marcel Roux (1878- 1922) was a French artist, known for his paintings and illustrations. His style was marked by the image and symbolism of the devil.

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2020-06-27

"The Mysteries of Udolpho"
By Ann Radcliffe
The gothic story of the orphaned Emily St. Aubert, who is subjected to cruelties by her guardians, threatened with the loss of her fortune, imprisoned in a number of castles but finally freed and united with her lover

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2020-06-26

The world of fairies as imagined by Swiss artist
Ernst Kreidolf (1863–1956) in his books ‘Sommervoegel’ (1908) and ‘Der Gartentraum’ (The Garden Dream, 1911)

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2020-06-25

"Berenice" 30x40cm, oil on panel
"Berenice! -- I call upon her name -- Berenice!... Ah! vividly is her image before me now..."

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2020-06-23

In Shamanism, bat medicine is tied to the shaman’s ability to walk between worlds as the bat represents both life & death. It's a common folkloric belief that bats get entangled in human hair; some think only thunder & lightning will drive them out.

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2020-06-19

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF FROM BIRTH It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them ONE is of necessity a WEREWOLF. The Seven sisters werewolf myth was popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865

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2020-06-19

HERNE Spectral Huntsman of English lore; leader of the wild hunt, nocturnal procession of the dead, & haunter of Windsor Forest; As an antlered & horned God he's linked to Pan. Image Symbaroum, RPG, Sweden; Franz Von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1889

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2020-06-16