# superstitionsat 31daysofhalloween faustianfriday pirateloreweek dnd autumn

The Ethiopian Crocotta/ Leucrotta is a hybridized were-animal that can mimic human voices to lure their prey. If the creature looks at you three times then it will root you to the spot.
🖼:

13 43
2021-10-09

Book ghosts haunting the library

4 40
2021-10-09

The waters around Hopeless Maine are cursed with monstrous sealife, angry tides and dramatic rocks, which tend to prove fatal.

2 15
2021-10-08

We visit 's extremely haunted attic for (I expect it's cursed as well, and a bit messy)

3 18
2021-10-08



"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

5 18
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.

5 17
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-

8 50
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

1 2
2021-09-25

On a grim prison hulk on the Thames the beautiful song of a unseen nightingale was a herald of a death, sometimes one of release, sometimes one of violent revenge...
from Wonder tales of the Thames and Estuary by R Hallmann.

Art self for the same book

3 25
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

14 82
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

4 22
2021-09-25

Back in the old days, those lived on Fugloy (the easternmost island in the Faroe Islands), encountered sea trolls (or "beach trolls" as they called them) several times.

Unlike other trolls, the beach trolls were covered in seaweed and pebbles.

40 176
2021-09-24

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.

9 32
2021-09-24

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

10 34
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!

0 4
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)

13 36
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)

10 44
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

5 18
2021-09-17

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

2 16
2021-09-17