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Metropolis (1927 film. directed by Fritz Lang)

......delusional Freder imagines the false-Maria as the Whore of Babylon, riding on the back of a many-headed dragon. (→ https://t.co/LlOqXP5z2D )

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2020-07-01

Fairies and Fatal Women

Henry Fuseli, Queen Katherine’s Dream exhibited 1781

The subject is taken from folklore and literature. A sleeping shepherd is assailed by fairies, while his dog takes watch.

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2020-07-01

Gustav-Adolf Mossa

①The Fates
②Satiated Siren
③David and Batsheba
④Gorgon

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2020-06-30

Marcel Roux (1878- 1922) was a French artist, known for his paintings and illustrations. His style was marked by the image and symbolism of the devil.

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2020-06-27

"The Mysteries of Udolpho"
By Ann Radcliffe
The gothic story of the orphaned Emily St. Aubert, who is subjected to cruelties by her guardians, threatened with the loss of her fortune, imprisoned in a number of castles but finally freed and united with her lover

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2020-06-26

The world of fairies as imagined by Swiss artist
Ernst Kreidolf (1863–1956) in his books ‘Sommervoegel’ (1908) and ‘Der Gartentraum’ (The Garden Dream, 1911)

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2020-06-25

"Berenice" 30x40cm, oil on panel
"Berenice! -- I call upon her name -- Berenice!... Ah! vividly is her image before me now..."

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2020-06-23

In Shamanism, bat medicine is tied to the shaman’s ability to walk between worlds as the bat represents both life & death. It's a common folkloric belief that bats get entangled in human hair; some think only thunder & lightning will drive them out.

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2020-06-19

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF FROM BIRTH It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them ONE is of necessity a WEREWOLF. The Seven sisters werewolf myth was popularised by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865

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2020-06-19

HERNE Spectral Huntsman of English lore; leader of the wild hunt, nocturnal procession of the dead, & haunter of Windsor Forest; As an antlered & horned God he's linked to Pan. Image Symbaroum, RPG, Sweden; Franz Von Stuck, The Wild Hunt, 1889

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2020-06-16

In German folklore,the Roggenmuhme ("rye aunt") is a female corn demon with fiery fingers.Her bosoms are filled with tar,and may end in tips of igneous iron.She is known for stealing children and for replacing them with changelings
🎨Igor Krstic

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2020-06-11

MOONLIGHT FAE Nocturnal Fairies & crescent moon inspired by William Allingham (1824 - 1889); Owl-Riding Night-time Fae, Amelia Jane Murray, 1800-1896

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2020-06-10

Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to guide them.

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2020-06-06

The Nazgûl are characters in Tolkien's legendarium. They succumbed to Sauron's power through wearing Rings of Power,which gave them immortality but reduced them to wraiths. The prophecy that the Lord of the Nazgûl would not die by the hand of man echoes 'Macbeth'

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2020-06-05

One of the suggested etymologies of the term "Nosferatu" is that it comes from the Romanian Nesuferit ("abominable").Bram Stoker believed it meant "not dead" in Romanian.Another proposed etymology is that the term came from the Greek nosophoros("disease-bearing")

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2020-06-04

Thanks to her association with liminal spaces, Hecate is recognized as a chthonic goddess. As the holder of the keys that unlock the gates between realms, she can unlock the gates of death. By the 5th century BC, Hecate had come to be associated with ghosts.

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