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All the infections that the sun sucks up
From fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His hear me
And yet I needs must curse. —The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

🎨Edmund Dulac

5 19
2021-10-31

Originating in ancient English folklore and later all over Europe & North America, a 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' is a ghost-like light seen by travelers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.

Art from:
Hermann Hendrich, 1823.
Arnold Böcklin, 1882.

4 26
2021-10-24

Day 22 - Swamp Hag

 • Witches that live in Swamps, bogs, and marshes, Swamp Hags are usually solitary and tend to live deep into the dankest and nastiest parts of the swamp.


17 53
2021-10-22

Day 16 - Will-O'-Wisp

 • The ghostly fire-like beings that appear to travelers at night, Will-O'-Wisps can be found in swamps, marshes, and bogs.


7 46
2021-10-16

Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.


Barbara Hurd

12 41
2021-09-12

an old sketch for last week's with ! a silent guardian of the bogs ...

3 24
2021-08-16

TAROT WITCH OF THE BLACK ROSE (MR) COVER A
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(W) Jim Balent (A/CA) Jim Balent
Tarot battles a Werewolf, a Vampire, a Mummy, and a Creature from the bogs at a Halloween Party Massacre, as four partygoers are possessed and transformed

https://t.co/HmAPQgzZfX

0 0
2021-07-23

These are some of the pieces that I produced for our piece “Love Our Bogs”. Visit the exhibition here to see and read more! https://t.co/k5GEM0jlUT

6 12
2021-07-02

When you ignore all the marauding beasts, ruins, dark bogs, and treacherous power-hungry leaders, is actually


(don't ignore them, though, they're cool)

15 50
2021-06-19

Speaking of which, these are Bubbletubers. Dotted with openings covered with a film of thick sap, their speedy metabolism results in large pockets of air inside their tubes, which are released via the openings. They’re responsible for a lot of the bubbles in the bogs!

2 14
2021-06-14

It is said the more surreal elements appearing in the folktales of wild, isolated, desolate areas like the fenland were due to fever dreams from Malaria caused by undrained bogs & swamps. These were enhanced by the opium in the poppyhead tea that they took to cure it

3 19
2021-06-13

Sometimes at night a delicate flickering lights can be seen in dark forests or over the marshes, bogs and swamps. Those are the souls of dead that were unable to leave this world.
Ignis Fatuus will be the next miniature for 75Dreams range by Ignis Art.
Pre-sale starts in June!

0 6
2021-06-12

Onto the Bubble Bogs. Cover your nose - the stench of the stink lilies can be quite pungent! This soupy quagmire lies in the darkest part of the ‘Weald, where the silt has thickened to sludge, & gaseous reactions underneath the drek bubble to the surface in globulous plops.

2 14
2021-06-12

Slow down, Observe, Learn, Love! Thanks for a great conversation today , , on Citizen Science, Marine Plants and the Beauty of Bogs. Gorgeous photos of tiny bog creatures by . Become a Citizen Scientist here: https://t.co/HR9y5dFY7Q

6 30
2021-05-15

The Colt-Pixy is the name for a mischievous fairy, which takes the shape of a horse and neighs to the horses of travelers, leading them astray into bogs. In this painting I've re-imagined the Colt-Pixy as a bit of a steampunk, taxidermy contraption. https://t.co/lmx1yJXLLJ

0 0
2021-04-29

Originally known as Bogs Field, the Valley Gardens in Harrogate were originally open land with many natural sulphur and chalybeate springs. The land was protected from enclosure in 1770 and the gardens were laid out in the late 19th century. Previously the The Royal Bath Hospital

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2021-04-20

Hardenshipping but they met fighting at the super market over cranberry bogs and got super domestic after

1 5
2021-04-08

Do you enjoy dark swamps which are overflowing with bogs, mushrooms, and most importantly frog people? Then has got the one-shot for you. Head on over to https://t.co/fErGK0hOrN and download Blight of the Bullywugs for free. We promise you won't ribbit it.

2 4
2021-03-28

Happy international women’s day! Here’s to all our ladies who live in bogs and cast hexes on men 🤙

6 22
2021-03-09

In Hampshire, England, a mischievous, sometimes deadly fae equine called a colt-pixy was thought to lead the horses of travelers astray into bogs, taking the owners with them. It also attacked children who stole apples from orchards.

4 13
2021-02-12