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"All the fell powers
Are with the wolf.
From the south comes Surt
With blazing fire-brand,—
The sun of the war-god
Shines from his sword.(...)
The sun grows dark,
The earth sinks into the sea,
And high flames play
’Gainst heaven itself"

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2023-03-02

“Yea—for a dream.
Last night methought I saw
That maiden Saint who stands with lily in hand
In yonder shrine." (Tennyson)

🎨 Schiavoni (1841)

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2023-03-02

‘Freaks’ portraits by Gail Potocki painted in the style of an ‘Old Master’ https://t.co/U7qywvGz8x

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2023-03-02

That steady old Väinämöinen heads south across the ice and snow on a sledge from his exile in the frozen wastes of Pohjola and attempts—without success—to flirt with the lovely lady alive in the sky. 🖼️N.C. Wyeth

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2023-02-27

'High over ocean hangs my home
And when the moon is clear
I stare and stare till fairy foam
Is music in my ear'
-Robert W. Service

🎨Amelia Jane Murray

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2023-02-23

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"Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens."

Louise Erdrich

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2023-02-17

"Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

🎨 Walter Schnackenberg

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2023-02-17

“The world has always been the same -
An endless farce, an antic game,
A universal masquerade!” (Goethe)

🎨 AbigailLarson

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2023-02-16

"Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades." (Isak Dinesen)

🎨 Hofer

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2023-02-14

“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?" (Kierkegaard)

🎨 Eri Nakagawa

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2023-02-13

"It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear... I don't have such dreams now - but the memory of them will never leave me." - H.P. Lovecraft


🎨 by Zdzisław Beksiński

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2023-02-10

Atropa belladonna is named for Atropos , one of the three Greek fates. After her sisters spun and measured a persons life thread, Atropos would cut it signalling the end of their life. Another name is Deadly Nightshade.
🖼️Elia Mervi

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2023-02-03

Rind of a cheese made on the day of the Feast of Brigit from milk of a "guileless cow" fed on pearlwort protects after 12 months from the "wiles of the fairies of the mound". (Carmina Gadelica)

🎨 IrenHorrors

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2023-01-30

Snowdrops have some lovely folklore, but there are many dark superstitions about them as well. Clusters can be seen as omens of death and bringing them into your home is guaranteeing your own ill-fortune
🖼️Will Gist
📔Degenesis, NOVAK

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2023-01-30

The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting.

—Sean Terrence Best
art by Hidayet Üstün

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2023-01-29

“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying” (Ted Hughes)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-01-29

"After dinner my father asked him if he played the piano. He said, "Yes, I can a little," and he sat down at the piano. Then he played a Hungarian csardas - wild, rhapsodic, wonderful. That is the music which makes men mad." (Stenbock)

🎨 Nikolay Samokish

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2023-01-26

Nachzehrer (lit "after-drainer") are a Vampire variant from the German-speaking countries with the technical advantage of not having to leave their graves to sap the strength of the living.

🎨 So Pine Nut

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2023-01-23