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"I felt the spell that held my breath
Bending me down to a living death."

Fragment of a Ballad | Elizabeth Siddal


🖼️Altered by endocathexis: The Spring Witch, Persephone, by George Wilson (c 1880)

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2022-03-07

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

Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

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2022-03-01

“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

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2022-02-28

"Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called."~Remy de Gourmont 

🎨Tristram,1080,#OfDarkAndMacabre.

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2022-02-28

Uncanny and exquisite aesthetic

Sinister and gloomy art by Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto.

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2022-02-26


I wonder if shapeshifting counts as dressing up? To this purpose I present the Irish goddess The Morrigan. Her rôle as a symbol of imminent death, and to influence the outcome of war, was achieved by appearing as a crow flying overhead.

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2022-02-25