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Would it be rude to suggest a selection of my own this

Exploring 'birth and rebirth' and its lack of inherent existence; and containing elements of Greek, Egyptian mythology; Tarot

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2022-04-06

wynderful art for

one of my favourite painters, Richard Dadd :

Noted for his depictions of faeries and the supernatural. Convinced his father was the Devil, Dadd killed him with a knife. Caught, he was incarcerated.

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2022-04-06

I wanted to make a living studying the Norse ghosts of Åland 🇦🇽 but the norns didn’t preordain it, so now I slowly rot away behind a dumpster in a dank alleyway instead.
https://t.co/SwzT3ARfya

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2022-03-31

One of the most commonly called upon ghosts in Greek myth is the transitive Tiresias, the great intersex seer whose insights even Zeus and Hera sought. Called to offer advice and counsel the living, many trips to the Underworld are just to visit them

🖼: H. Fuseli

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2022-03-31

Buddhism holds that hungry ghosts are the tormented spirits of those who led lives of evil deeds or died in horrible violence. Also, ancestors must be honoured to prevent them from turning into hungry ghosts doomed to forever haunt the Earth seeking remembrance.

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2022-03-30

In Japan there is a famous ghost story about Okiku, a servant who was killed and thrown down a well. Her haunting voice could be heard coming from the well night after night, tormenting her killer in revenge.

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2022-03-30

Ivan, the Terrible, visited by the ghosts of those he murdered by Baron Mikhail Petrovich Klodf van Jurgensburgh

Ivan was the grand Prince of Moscow and its first ruler who declared himself tsar of all Russia.

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2022-03-30

Hopeless, Maine is an island with many ghosts and other barely coporeal beings.

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2022-03-30

Today I have been re-watching the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko. It's all about tanuki, which are real animals but also a shapeshifting trickster in Tanuki are well known for their curious talent involving their magically expandable...

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2022-03-23

Classic Gerald Scarfe artwork for "Pink Floyd: The Wall" (MGM, 1982). The film starred Bob Geldof, and was directed by Alan Parker. Totally weird, totally memorable, saw it on a wet Friday in Belfast at the ABC cinema on its release.

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2022-03-23

Concept art by Brian Froud for The Dark Crystal (1982), depicting a pair of Gelfling astride Landstriders. (Left top)
Character sketches by Brian Froud for Jim Henson’s LABYRINTH (1986).(other pics)

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2022-03-23

It's the Hopeless Maine pub band!

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2022-03-16

I have often wondered the of the marriage between a human and a ghost...


by Alexandra Dikaia

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2022-03-16


Disease-resistant roses seldom have a fragrance. Fragrance is a characteristic passed on by a recessive gene which is lost thru hybridization. I’m sure there’s a spiritual lesson to somehow be learned from this fact.
“Meditative Rose” Salvador Dali

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2022-03-16

The Music of Erich Zann, by Cyril Van der Haegen.

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2022-03-16

Antonio Vivaldi was immediately baptised by the midwife, either due to his poor health or bec an earthquake had shaken Venice that day. Either trauma may've caused his mother to dedicate her red-haired son to the priesthood, where he became known as The Red Priest.

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2022-03-16

"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

If you ever hear music when no-one is around, it could be a koto-furunushi or biwa-bokuboku. These are Japanese instruments which, if played for many years but are then forgotten, can grow resentful & transform into that can move on their own and play...

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2022-03-16

A Village Doctress Distilling Eyewater by Thomas Rowlandson

A rural medical practitioner, is shown using her own urine to create a medicine to dispel 'bad humours of the eye'. Many think this disease was cataract.

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2022-03-16