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"many-horned", and (cerastēs), "possessing horns"; a specific creature, of Greek Legend; actually a serpent, incredibly flexible; said to have no spine.

Cerestae, have either two large ram-horns ;or four pairs of smaller horns: 🐍

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2020-06-10

Future Times Past

How life in the year 2000 was imagined in the 19th Century

https://t.co/vwRZLqDl8r

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2020-06-11

A few of the beasts illustrated in the "Book of Hours" attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th C.

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2020-06-03

Odd Nerdrum is a Norwegian figurative painter. The figures in Nerdrum's paintings are often dressed as if from another time and place. Rembrandt and Caravaggio are primary influences on Nerdrum's work, while secondary influences include Titian and Leonardo da Vinci

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2020-06-03

For it seems entirely possible that this is exactly the group of people who might want to hold their virtual meetings in Hopeless, Maine. We can help with this.

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2020-05-20

1809 Theodore Hook made a wager he could make 54 Berners St the most infamous house in London. He sent there chimney sweeps, wedding cakes, doctors, lawyers, priests, fishmongers & more! Onlookers gathered. The city stood still. The Berners St Hoax was a success!

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2020-05-20

Some oddness for this week.
'Athletic Contests of Turtles' - Harada Keigaku. 🐢

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2020-05-06

A HOBGOBLIN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive in The Snow Queen. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters their heart it will turn to ice 🎨 T. Pym, 1883

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2020-04-29

“ derived from a circumstance which happened about 200 years ago, almost too ridiculous to be credited, an ancient possessor being said to have slain a noxious, cockatrice”

Mythical creatures of Cumbria: https://t.co/K2jKznwomk

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2020-04-29

Macbeth, the three witches, Hecate, and the eight kings, in a cave. Stipple print by R. Thew after J. Reynolds.

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2020-04-23

It's *that* time of the week again...

Get head-spinningly wyrd & wynderful and share your stories, images and... things with tomorrow &
will RT them after 0900 AM GMT.

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2020-04-15

“Tommy’s Cousins” (1873) a short sister story to Kingsley’s The Water Babies for ✨🦞 The sea-anemones bowed & waved their fringes to the mermaid & welcomed her home. “I have here a poor little urchin who has been naughty & has been punished.”’ 🐡

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2020-04-08

It's *that* time of the week again...

April Fool's Day and - We'll RT things tomorrow after 0900 AM GMT.

Warning: Sharing Corona-related hoaxes with this # gets you cursed until the thirteenth generation of your race will have disappeared!

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2020-03-31

“I suppose it was a romantic way to perish, for a mouse.” (L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”)

Welcome to the 3rd with Swiss artist Margaretha Dubach's 22 dioramas telling the wyrd & wynderful adventures of Otto Maus.

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2020-03-18

In Japanese folklore, tales are told of yonaki-ishi or night-crying stones. These stones cry loudly at night and it is believed to be because they are possessed by a spirit, usually of someone who has been murdered and is seeking revenge.
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2020-03-11

The 3 witches are characters in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'.They hold a striking resemblance to the 3 Fates.Their origin lies in 'Holinshed's Chronicles' (1587), a history of England, Scotland and Ireland. Other possible sources include treatises on witchcraft.

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2020-03-04