# 31daysofhalloween pirateloreweek dnd autumn



"My father, my father, he seizes me fast,
Full sorely the Erl-King has hurt me at last."—Goethe

The Erlkonig by Schubert



🎨Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Moritz von Schwind, Albert Sterner

https://t.co/4hUbyDoYlA via

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2021-10-08

In Britain, the distinction between fairies and ghosts is ambiguous. When King Arthur stole a cauldron from Fairyland, he also confronted the ghosts of Welsh folk heroes. Likewise, sometimes a fairy king leads the Wild Hunt, but other times it's Arthur's ghost.

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2021-10-02

Ghost said to priest:
'In life, love gnawed my skin
To this white bone;
What love did then, love does now:
Gnaws me through.'

-Sylvia Plath-

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2021-10-01

Stumbled upon the Pirates with their links with the Templars.

Edward Blackbeard Teach who got his nickname from having a thick black beard & his fearsome appearance.

He apparently tied lit fuses under his hat to intimidate his enemies even more https://t.co/ZHAQgKBnqP

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2021-09-25

"All night I heard along the coast
The sea her grief outpour;
And with the dawn arose a ghost
To haunt the furrowed shore.

And when from out the gray mist rolled
The sun above the town,
A shipwrecked sailor came and told
Of how the ship went down." F.D. Sherman 🖤#FaustianFriday

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2021-09-25

”The hero observed that swamp-thing from hell,
the tarn-hag in all her terrible strength,
then heaved his war-sword and swung his arm:
the decorated blade came down ringing
and singing on her head.”
—Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf 🖼 J. R. Skelton

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2021-09-25

Scylla is a sea monster from Greek mythology featured most famously in the Odyssey, where she kills 6 of Odysseus's men. The witch Circe transformed her out of jealousy into a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads on long necks with 3 rows of shark-like teeth each.

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2021-09-24

'Watson and the Shark' by John S. Copley, 1778

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2021-09-24

This also happens to be a fantastic idea for necromancers in ! We would love if Bards could get this spell as well and command their army of undead as they play their instruments (the concentration element)! We need more Necromancer Bards!

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2021-09-18

“Remember death.[...] There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

(Art: Death and the Maiden, George Clark Stanton)

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2021-09-18

"There is an 'even-tide' in the year - a season when the Sun withdraws his propitious light - when the winds arise, and the leaves fall, and nature around us seems to sink into decay."
Alison, Guardian, 11th Nov 1840
🍂🍄

🎨Paul Nash, "Swan Song" (c.1928)

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2021-09-17



Autumn, life’s golden season:

“Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”—Robert Frost

🖼EDeMorgan

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2021-09-17

Warm and cozy cottage aesthetic from the children's book of 1980s.
Illustration for Autumn Story (Brambly Hedge ), Jill Barklem

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2021-09-17

Teiresias foretells the future to Oddysseus [painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli/ John Henry Fuseli, c. 1780–85]
vs the Blind Seer's prophecy in 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' by Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000

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2021-09-10

The crystal ball was very popular in the mid C19th as fortune tellers strove to stay within the law by shaking off the vestiges of folk magic. It was used by clairvoyants to scry for images of the future & by occultists to get in touch with angels & the dead.

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2021-09-10

Archimedes defended his home of Syracuse against the Roman invasion with a number of inventions, among them supposedly a death ray. When the Romans won, they came for him: he asked they not disturb the circles he made in the dust.

🖼: S. Terry

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2021-09-03

'Michael Scot, the Wizard' was born in the border regions of Scotland and northern England in 1175.
He was a mathematician and scholar. His writings dealt with astrology, alchemy, and the occult sciences.

Medicinal Alchemy 1512

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2021-09-03

The Pumpkin girl marries the Mayor's Son and they live happily ever after! The story is comparable to Japanese folktales which also play on the themes of childless couples being given surreal/magical children that they love and cherish for what they are.

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2021-08-27


A few surrealists faves...
Pics Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory, Pablo Picasso's Guernica & Man Ray' s Le violon d' Ingres

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2021-08-27