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The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥

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2021-06-24

Of course bookworms (Gothic & other sorts) are insects - they're the larvae of moths or various kinds of beetle - so we're delighted you'll be devouring our bug book. Thanks so much for your support.

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2021-06-24

"Tell him, silvery moon, that I am embracing him. For at least momentarily let him recall of dreaming of me” (Dvořák, "Rusalka")

Darklings! Celebrate with tales of water spirits, uncanny things that haunt midsummer nights & a few - we'll RT daily! https://t.co/fi71qWZwA5

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2021-06-21

THE LOUSE AND THE FLEA: A Grimm tale ('Household Tales' [1812]), a flea mourns the loss of his spouse, the louse. His grief causes inanimate objects to cry as well, until a spring overflows killing him. (Illus: Arthur Rackham, 1909)

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2021-06-08

In the era, Vauxhall glassworks produced souvenir jewelry for Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, like these fly jewels sold to to courting couples. Flies are symbols of pestilence, decay, Beelzebub... and secrets. What are these love tokens meant to symbolise?

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2021-05-24

In Beatrix Potter's 'Mrs. Tittlemouse' she tries to keep her house tidy but insect intruders keep making a mess. The other insects are shooed away but when she tries to pull out the bee nest they buzz fiercely at her and force her to flee!

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2021-05-19