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In tombs of gold & lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men & women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.
—WB Yeats, Oil & Blood.
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How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?
–Anne Rice, The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)
🎨Angelina Zhogina
#FairyTaleTuesday In Galician lore, the "meiga chuchona"(sucker witch) enters houses every night to suck the blood of children, so that they become weaker and weaker. And the "chuchasangues" (blood sucker) hides in dark alleys in winter to kidnap children and suck their blood.
The Dance of the Baobhan Sith
art/Erin Claire #FairyTaleTuesday
#ofdarkandmacabre🍂
También ha colaborado con distintas tiendas, convirtiendo sus diseños pomposos y coloridos en fantásticos cosplays.
No os perdáis a Akuo en La Farga de L'Hospitalet los próximos 29 y 30 de Octubre, donde podréis conocerle en su stand. ¡Os estaremos esperando! 💗
Freyja Fairy cosplaying #freyjafairy #costumes #cosplayergirl #cosplayers #FairyTaleFlash #FairytaleTuesday
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In #Wales the spectral #CwnAnnwn - Hounds of Hell - prowl during the hours of darkness collecting the souls of the damned ...... their eerie howls are loud in the distance, but get ever quieter the closer they get to their prey ....
Freyja Fairy cosplaying #freyjafairy #costumes #cosplayergirl #cosplayers #FairyTaleFlash #FairytaleTuesday
#fairytaletuesday "The Underliving" is my own illustrated album (2011) about invisible presences from an otherworld that influence our thoughts, dreams and perception. "We're not living nut we do feel alive" --> main theme 🎵 and my art https://t.co/hAQjTmL0a8
If Snow White must be the kind who sings sweet nothings to forest creatures, I'll take this one:
#art by Cory Godbey
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BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF
It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF
7 sisters werewolf myth popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 #FairytaleTuesday #Gothtober
Irish legend talks about the feared & magical shapeshifter Pooka/goblin/spirit/sprite that lives in the mountains and it is said to show up in November to warn people of upcoming unpleasant times.
🎨 Arthur Spiderwick's Field
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“Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments”
🎨📚 Brian Froud
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In the French tale "The Goblin Pony," three boys ignore their grandmother's warning not to go out on Halloween night. They decide to ride a black pony who, unbeknownst to them, is a shapeshifting goblin in disguise. The goblin runs into the sea & drowns them. #FairyTaleTuesday
In the murky ponds on the floor of the Glow Forest , a plethora of creatures creep and crawl about their daily lives while trying to avoid the pond’s top predator - a massive leviathan blindly devouring everything in its path.
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"You humans build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!"
creepy art by Belarussian artist Valery Slauk
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Not all werewolves were bad! The Wulvers, from the Shetland Islands of Scotland, were known to be kind. They spent their days fishing, never bothered anyone, and often left fish on the windowsills of poor families.
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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
~ Alexandre Dumas
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