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Thank you to everyone who is accompanying and for a stroll through imaginary snow! We return tomorrow.

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

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2023-01-12

'He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.'
-Robert Frost

🎨Alexandre Calame

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2023-01-10

"Erect in his armor, a tall man carved from stone
Was standing at the helm and cutting the black flood;
But the hero unmoved, leaning on his rapier,
Kept gazing at the wake and deigned not look aside"

(Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades")

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2023-01-08

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask." (Melville)

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2023-01-07

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."
(Wallace Stevens)

🎨 Eyvind Earle

22 112
2023-01-06

One of the scariest winter folklore characters is the Stalo from Sami folktales. Bigger and more viscous than trolls, they are known to eat everyone and everything. (Art by Fradga).

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2023-01-04

"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
(John Ruskin)

🎨 Charles Livingston Bull

2 14
2023-01-02

Darklings!

This week's theme for the remaining five of the Twelve Nights is

"Wild Hunts & Wintry Horrors!"

Tag your bleak and chilly tweets with for a RT and remember, the themes are not exclusive but here to inspire you!

🎨 Henri Lievens

15 77
2023-01-01

"We were immured in ice and should probably never escape" (Mary Shelley)

🎨 Bernie Wrightson

17 86
2022-12-23

"... it is as if a door stands open for the sorrowful gods of the underworld" (Macrobius "Saturnalia")

🎨 Alice Pike Barney "Ceres" (1901)

9 35
2022-12-20

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at

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2022-12-17

If one heard a pitiful “meow”
Something evil would happen soon.
Everybody knew he hunted men
But didn’t care for mice.

🖼️ Mia H ()
📜 "The Yule Cat" by Johannes ur Kotlum

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2022-12-15

E. T. A. Hoffmann´s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King illustrated by Gennady Spirin

28 85
2022-12-14

Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley’s face.

~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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2022-12-14

In Flanders it was said not to go for wintry walks in the forest at night. Around that time the only beings wandering in the woods were werewolves and they would force you to carry them.

🎨Rovina Cai

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2022-12-11

"Ah, distinctly I remember
it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember
wrought its ghost upon the floor. "
~ Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

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2022-12-09

The Ahiarmiut people told the story of Paija, a cannibal spirit with one leg, and flowing, black hair. She hunted in the long winter nights, looking for those caught in blizzards to devour...

🎨Aleks Sennwald

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2022-12-08

Ardat Lili, is a wild-haired, winged, screech owl demon of the night, her name means Maid of Desolation. She harms all humans she meets, enticing them to the lonely places to attack them...

🎨Edvard Munch

23 71
2022-12-08

"Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark
Her sails are full, though the wind is still,
And there blows not a breath her sails to fill."
(Thomas Moore)

🎨 Ferdinand Leeke

16 53
2022-12-07

🖤🖤🖤

"May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon."

Lisa Kleypas


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2022-12-05