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The Northern Antiques Fair opens this week at Harrogate Convention Centre from 4-7 October

Among the BADA members exhibiting will be Sussex based British Paintings specialists Rountree Tryon Galleries

View additional works and at https://t.co/7QbmXnYICT

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2018-10-02

This is a lil' gift art I made for of Matteo.
He's Loreto's demon sweetheart 😍😍😍

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2018-09-30

A new character design I made for myself!
They're name is Loreto

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2018-09-28

"Nyurgun said that without the help of the spirits, the shaman is no different than a child trying to play the komuz: its strings will produce sounds, but not music.
The teacher is the path, but it is the spirits who form the taiga."
🌙https://t.co/IqGSuha4aR

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2018-09-27

Queen Nehalennia (aka Nehellenia) might be based on Nehalennia, a Celtic or Germanic goddess venerated by seafarers. Images of her seated with a dog at her feet were found on votive altars in Zeeland.

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2018-09-28

No doubt you've heard of the genie in the bottle, what about 'The Bottle Imp'? Inspired by the Grimm tale 'Spiritus Familiaris' and based on R.L. Stevenson's 1891 story, 'The Bottle Imp': 'Der Flaschenteufel' (1952) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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2018-09-28

Crystal gazing was practiced by ancient civilizations in North and South America, Egypt, Persian, China. Pliny the Elder tells of Celtic Druids of Gaul, Britain, &Ireland. Burne-Jones uses spheres as the home of unrealized worlds and possibilities.

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2018-09-27

This mark your calendars, because we're going to celebrate the only way we know how...

With a kickstarter to collect the entire lot...

Trick...or...treat?

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2018-09-27

In Māori mythology, Punga is the ancestor of sharks, rays, lizards and all distorted, ugly things. It is said that all deformed things are Punga’s children.

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2018-09-27

in Japanese folklore, sandals that have been forgotten or mistreated by their owners become Bakezori; sandal spirits that awaken at night and run about the house at night causing mischief.

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2018-09-27

As well as carrying the devil’s curse on all those who eat them after blackberries can protect your home against vampires. If planted nearby, a vampire gets distracted by counting the berries & forgets his harmful intentions.

Image - Cicely Barker

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2018-09-27

Fun day working on this inspired illustration featuring Elizabeth Bathory!

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2018-09-24

Few.... finally finished digitalising this drawing of mine. I didn't want to leave you without any new drawing of mine so here it is. It's my first attempt in shading a drawing like this so I hope you'll like it.

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2018-09-22

In Sailor Mars' "Evil Spirits Begone" attack, quick shots of Acala (अचल), a Buddhist dharmapala, are seen. In Japan, he is called Fudō Myō-ō & is revered in Shingon, Tendai, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism & Shugendō traditions. He is 1 of 5 Wisdom Kings.

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2018-09-21

Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen

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2018-09-21

*Harvest* comes from Old English and means "Autumn". Harvesting (and reaping) with William Morris and the Limbourg Brothers. [ Left: Rossetti tiles based on Morris & Co. Labors designs. Right: Autumn tiles Tres Riches Heures Labors]

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2018-09-21

With the spirits trapped in the chestnuts, one has to wait until first snowfall. Then you have a choice to either roast the chestnuts or to take them out into the woods& leave them, ether way the the malice of the spirits will be cleansed, giving them peace. 2/2

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2018-09-21

More punishments of the damned: hail and firestones, flames, and (for the usurers) boiling wells.

MS. Douce 134, fols 103v, 105v, 121r: https://t.co/Zr1RBzqPRv

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2018-09-21

Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?

MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5

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2018-09-20