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In Shakespeare’s day, ghosts were serious business. The religious turmoil in Elizabethan England meant that when he penned the scene, of Hamlet facing his avenging, ghostly father on the ramparts, it would be bone-chilling. 😱
🎨Gould, Delacroix, Fuseli

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2021-04-16

As well as Viy there is 'The Terrible Vengeance' ' Strashnaya mest' by Gogol - a story about evil spirits and the antichrist. It evokes folklore but seems to be his own paranoid invention. Cossacks do not fear sorcerors! Powerful illustration by Barry Bruner

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2021-04-16

Lavandeiras are beings from Galician Folklore, which also appear in the North of Portugal. They ask for help to twist their towels stained with blood, if help is denied, for fear or lack of solidarity, the outcome could be death. Seeing them isn't a good omen...

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2021-04-16

Oiwa is a Japanese ghost, the vengeful spirit of a young woman betrayed by her husband. He disfigured her face in an attempt to get rid of her so he could marry a younger woman. She cursed the pair on her death and returned to haunt all who had betrayed her.

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In Norfolk you can find the ruins of St Mary’s church. It has an oak tree growing from its nave called The Witch’s Finger. But, it is less a finger, more of a leg. A witch with a wooden leg was buried alive under the nave and resurfaced to destroy the church.

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"Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name."
—Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

The Scholar Queen,
will be with you for the next two hours of

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2021-04-09

Young Woman with Unicorn, Raphael c.1505 & Unicorn, Maerten de Vos c.1590. At this time the was generally believed to be real & its “horn” sold as a cure-all against poison. Elizabeth 1 had a unicorn horn to keep her safe from harm.

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2021-04-09

A selection of my drawings from England's Dark Dreaming, because it's and they seem appropriate.

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2021-04-09

A new piece for based on an old favourite movie of mone, The Last Unicorn.

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2021-04-09

Did you know that the unicorn is Scotland's national animal? Scottish artist has two pieces featuring this fantastic creatues, so I thought I'd share them for & Visit or https://t.co/D16gvLGfV2 for more art & info.

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In some versions of Persian folktales, Kardakann was a gentle soul and like other western unicorns it had ability to purify water simply by immersing it´s horn into a stream, lake or a pond. It could also change it´s shape at will.

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2021-04-09

Unicorn-like creatures in Indian folk tales is rsya that looks like a water buffalo with horns on its forehead .Ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata even mentions human-like being called Rsyasrnga who also had a horn in his forehead.

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2021-04-09


Bluebeard marries many women who end up missing. His final bride enters a secret room in the house & discovers the corpses of his previous wives. Through trickery, she & her siblings end up killing Bluebeard & she ends up a wealthy widow, marrying for love.

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2021-04-02

'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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2021-04-02

'Scary Fairy Tales Told by Grandfather Egor a Peasant of the Former Cherdynsky Uyezd of the Perm Province' written by Vasily Tihov, who in fact is a local historian Vasily Shumov. The Russian folklore book is wonderfully illustrated by Arkady Amirkhanov in 1993.

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2021-04-02

More images from Vladimir Konashevich of the horror story for children about the attack of the household items. And the eventual meet-up with the scary crocodile. Don't forget to maintain your hygiene!

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2021-04-02

On the street, the boy meets a crocodile who gets angry at him, for being so dirty, that the boy runs back home to wash. Many artists have drawn Moydodyr, here are images by Vladimir Konashevich from 1939 and the previous was by Yuri Uzbyakov from 1950's

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2021-04-02

The Pied Piper blew a tune into his flute and danced merrily away, the rats of Hamelin streaming after him. When he returned to get paid he was turned away, so he blew a tune again and this time all the children of Hamelin danced away after him into the woods.1/2

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2021-04-02

Two mermaids (Havfruen) by Danish painter Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann from 1863 and 1873
The Examiner apparently described the mermaid's face on the left as 'dark with the grief of womanhood made monstrous and cast adrift from all sypathies by which a woman lives'

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2021-03-27