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Kamiike hime (divine pond princess) are yokai with the head of a woman topped with antlers. Their tails hold 3 swords & the sides of their bellies have 6 round jewels. They are prophetic, as are many other aquatic fae, some of which we've seen already.

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2021-08-05

The difference between a dryad and a tree ghost is that one is born that way, the other is


by ZacRetz

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2021-08-04

Trees play an important part in In Shinto they are considered sacred and are believed to possess a spirit. While Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film is a fictitious character, it was no doubt inspired by the animistic beliefs of Japan.

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2021-08-04

One of my favourite films is Studio Ghibli's extraordinary 'Spirited Away.' The train scene is possibly my favourite scene in a movie ever, and the whole film is pure magic! The idea of a world full of spirits, and the possibility of being spirited away is...
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2021-08-04

Both aberrations (basically Lovecraft monsters) in D&D's lore, Aboleth and Ilithid represent two sides of the same coin. Aboleths represent an ancient foe from when the stars were new, while Mindflayers represent a foe you may yet become: both control minds.

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2021-07-28

The gaming industry has spawned a number of notable artists. Both Brom and Tony DiTerlizzi came to fame as the key artists of specific D&D settings (Dark Sun and Planescape) and went on to touch other fields; Tony is more famous now for the Spiderwick stories!

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2021-07-28

I antagonized those hostile Belgian blue ones with all the wrong kind of gnome paraphernalia https://t.co/7pVQzB43tK

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2021-07-22


Jean Delville (1867-1953)
Belgian symbolist painter, poet and occultist.

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2021-07-21

Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. He died in his studio. His remains were embalmed in accordance with Ancient Egyptian burial rites and buried in a vault in the municipal cemetery of Ixelles
Source: https://t.co/v0907HAq3L

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2021-07-21

Inari is a kitsune from Japan. She often associated with rice. She is also described as the fox kami (spirit in Shinto lore). I will cover kitsune & kami in detail in later tweets. Side note, Inari is also the name of the Japanese rice god.

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2021-07-14

French activist Olympia de Gouges wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791 exposing the failures of the 1789 French Revolution to recognise gender equality, but was convicted of treason and executed

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2021-07-14

Jean-Claude Forest (11/09/30 - 29/12/98), was the french creator of the comic book character Barbarella.

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2021-07-14

Ulrich Ruosch's Alchemical Manual, 1680, is a pocket sized manuscript containing an overview of alchemy & the meaning of planets, numbers, letters & elements. Alchemical implements , philosophy & symbols representing each stage of the process are also found inside

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2021-07-07

This is my own drawing of the Green Fairy linked to the green liquor Absinthe back in the XIX which green colour was enhanced originally with copper sulfate and antimony trichloride causing toxicity and poisoning and hallucinations (green fairies, wink)

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2021-07-07

Absinthe Robette (1896), artwork by Henri Privat Livemont. Absinthe as a beverage was banned from sale in Belgium just ten years after this poster's printing.

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2021-07-07

The Green Muse - Absinthe (1895). Art by French painter Albert Pierre René Maignan (14 October 1845 - 29 September 1908).

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2021-07-07


AT THE MOULIN ROUGE🇨🇵
French Artist Toulouse-Lautrec Art 1892, captured the spirited, colourful theatrical life, the decadence, the avant garde life style, of Paris in the late 19th Century..

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2021-07-07

“Whenever the pain becomes too much, I saddle my horse and disappear in the forest... silent as desire, silent as myself. For I am not the cheerful gentleman with whom you are acquainted"

Symbolist prodigy of the Decadent movement Félicien Rops was 1833

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2021-07-07