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Dracula: May 5 , by

"One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's "Lenore":
— "Denn die Todten reiten schnell"— ("For the dead travel fast.")"
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🎨 Horace Vernet & 🎞️"Bram Stoker's Dracula"

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2022-05-06

Wormwood is said to have sprung up in the track of the serpent as it left Eden...

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2022-05-06

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes;but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities,necessities and structure.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Carmilla

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2022-05-05

GOREY BATS characteristic pen-and-ink sketches from Edward Gorey (1925–2000) showing his dark humour including Dracula as bat 1977; bat doodle and Doubleday's 1987 bat cover for Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories ed. Alan Ryan

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2022-05-03

takes place on the night of 30 April, Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany, & hold revels with the devil. This year it coincides with the rising Img: Joseph Tomanek, c.1920

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2022-04-29

“One recess, particularly grand and solemn amongst the towering cliffs…might have served for a Druid’s haunt...where light-footed elves would gladly have danced their airy rounds.”

—Mary Wollstonecraft, born in 1759

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2022-04-27

GOTHIC MUSHROOMS
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth
Our foot's in the door
(Sylvia Plath 'Mushrooms' )

Images: Froud, Fitzgerald

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2022-04-25

FAIRY ENCHANTMENT the fae cast an enchantment over woodland animals and birds; bird-riding fae are commonplace in folklore as seen in the fantastical world of French author and illustrator Jean-Baptiste Monge and his delightful transport

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2022-04-25

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
🎨The Triple Hecate, 1795. William Blake

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2022-04-24

In North Germany, it was said if you wish to see witches on May-day, go into church on Good Friday, but be sure not to stop to hear the benediction...!

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2022-04-15

Christiaan Huygens, credited as the inventor of the Magic Lantern, was born 1629. A lifelong sufferer of severe depression & melancholy, his original sketches for magic lantern projection were of Death removing its head.

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2022-04-14

Each spring the widows returned to gaze across the moonlit water. After a hundred years, they still hoped to glimpse the ghosts of their husbands who had long been lost at sea.

Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana (1872-1950)

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2022-04-12

In a Flemish tale a farmer woke up to discover that his sheep were lying on the ground with snakes around their necks. He also found flower wreaths underneath the doors and windows. It was thought that witches were responsible.

🎨Franz Stuck

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2022-04-10

“I am the vampire at my own veins.”

― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal
🎨Georges Rochegrosse (colorized) & Carlo Farneti

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2022-04-09

VICTORIAN EASTER CARDS After all, nothing quite says Easter like a creepy egg family on an egg hunt, babies hammering chicks-in-shells, multiple babies born from an egg or rabbits disguised as pace eggs.

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2022-04-09

A Lady, the wonder of her kind,

Whose form was upborne by a lovely mind

Which, dilating, had moulded her mien and motion

Like a sea-flower unfolded beneath the ocean,

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2022-04-08

When is a bike like a witch's broom? In Julian Hawthorne's 'Absolute Evil' (1918), the narrator enjoys nothing more than discussing the occult, speculating on her Salem ancestry and riding her bike, all while hunting a vicious werewolf on holiday

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2022-04-07

According to Argentinian folklore, a 7th born son will turn into a on the Friday after his 13th birthday. Curiously, there is also an Argentinian tradition in which the President adopts 7th born sons & daughters as his godchildren!

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2022-04-07