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Some of Valentine Hugo's brilliant surrealist art for Her self-portrait, Spirit of the Sunflower and Portrait De Paul Eluard.

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2021-08-27

The first time you see a crescent each month, take any spare coins out of your pocket & put them in another pocket. 🪙 This will ensure good for the next month.

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2021-08-21

Full moons always baffled us. Luna was the Roman moon goddess from which we get the word lunatic. For throughout history, lunar cycles were seen as causal to crime. In England, a criminal charge could be lessened via a lunar defence. The moon made me do it! 🌝❤️#FaustianFriday

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2021-08-21

"The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here."

Sylvia Plath, 'The Moon and the Yew Tree'

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2021-08-20

In Brothers Grimm collected tale "The Seven Ravens", a sister is seeking for her seven brothers who were cursed to be ravens. On her travels she passes the moon who craves the human flesh, the sun is non the better. Images by Oskar Herrfurth

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2021-08-20

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, waterbenders derive their powers from the moon, growing particularly powerful under the full moon. On a full moon night, Katara learns, from Hama, ‘the puppetmaster’, a technique which horrifies her: bloodbending.

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2021-08-20


In old times it was believed that the different phases of the moon caused a form of intermittent madness, thus the origin of the word 'lunacy'...ask the werewolves, if you don't believe me...💀
Pics wikipedia

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2021-08-20

The blackthorn is guarded by moon fairies - the Lunantisidhe. They are rumoured to leave their post on a & so this may be the safest time to cut the wood, but never approach on May 11 or Nov 11 (old Beltane & Samhain) as they will curse you!

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2021-08-20

A Danish mermaid could be glimpsed in the summer sea mists. She would bring the wild weather and later visit the fishermen's night fires, taking those around her down to the watery underworld...

🎨Leeke

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2021-08-13

With the recent rain, the grass is growing well again this summer! But have you heard of hungry grass/féar gortach?! It is a patch of cursed grass! Also known as fairy grass, anyone walking on it is doomed to perpetual & insatiable hunger! Spooky! 🌱🌿🍃

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2021-08-13


' Come away, come away death,
And in sad cypresslet me be laid,
Fly away, fly away breath,
I'm slain by a fair cruel maid...'
Twelve Night by William Shakespeare
Pic John William Waterhouse 1900

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2021-08-07

“Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”-Kokoro, Natsume Sōseki

🖼: T. Shuho

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2021-08-06

‘The rain set early in to-night,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.’ Browning, Porphyria’s Lover, pub. 1836.
🖼 Melancholy, Edvard Munch, 1894.

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2021-08-06

In Greek mythology Hypnos & his brother Thanatos are the gods of sleep & death respectively. They reside in the underworld realm of Hades, Hypnosis in the light & Thanatos in the dark.

🎨'Sleep & His Half-Brother Death'-John William Waterhouse, 1874

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2021-08-06



Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?

-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet and longest serving poet laureate born in 1809.

🎨 John William Waterhouse

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2021-08-06

A beautiful woman without match, an appetite without equal, and a man out of sorts: different Japanese villages have different stories, but the tale of the Jorogumo always has a secret: the seductive woman is a spider who wants nothing more than to devour her love

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2021-07-31

The shameful secrets carried by a woman are like a black blanket that cuts her off from her unconscious & healing. In the tale 'Golden Hair' a woman is killed & buried but her hair (her life force) keeps growing revealing her murder (the secret) & restoring her.

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2021-07-30

At Samhain, Fand flying as a sea bird with her sister Lí Ban, when Cú Chulainn threw stones at them! Return as otherworldly women & beat him with horsewhips until he fell ill & bed bound for year! Eventually recovers & agrees to help her fight! Even become lovers!

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2021-07-30

J.S. Le Fanu’s Carmilla is a bit of a trickster: she plays mind tricks. She tells Laura: ‘Twelve years ago, I saw your face in a dream, and it has haunted me ever since.’ But it’s a trick, to persuade Laura her own experience was a dream and assuage her fear.

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2021-07-23

Little Red Riding Hood. (Perrault, 1922. Achille Devéria, 1830)

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2021-07-23