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In 'The Were-Wolf' (Clemence Housman, 1896), a family living in the woods waits for one of the eldest sons to come home in a snow storm. As they huddle together, they're haunted by a quiet voice at the door calling "Open, open; let me in!" 1/5

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2022-08-19

“If you would always live with us... then you must first go into the woods and hear what the birds say. When you shall have lurked, listened, and learned what the sparrow, magpie, and owl say, then come back into our arms" (Heine)

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2022-08-15

"The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!" (Shelley)

🎨 San'Ok (2021)

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2022-08-04

It’s not the forest animals you need to be afraid of. The most dangerous creatures are the greedy politicians.

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2022-08-04

In a legend from the Ardennes Forest a farmer forbade his daughter to marry the son of a fairy. The fairy took revenge. Hundreds of snakes crawled on the farm and sucked milk out of cows. No-one ever lived there again.

🎨Franz Stuck

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2022-08-01

"There is no lack of ditches in the forest to bury fools in, and the stones and the trees have no tongues to tell what they see." (George Sand)

🎨Francois Cachoud (1914)

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2022-07-31

The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.

—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger

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2022-07-29

"When again in heaven dawned the day,
They bore three dead from the tower away
And the dance goes so quickly through the forest" (Heine)

Old Danish folk ballad about Sir Olof who danced himself to death with the fae in the woods

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2022-07-29

“The moon is full, and even the stars are scared of me…”

— Brenna Yovanoff, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft




🌙 melaniedelon

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2022-07-27

"Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.'
-Oread, H.D.

🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-07-23

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better.

—Amy Tan
art by Blaz Porenta✨

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2022-07-19

Are all the giants dead?
And are all the witches fled?
Am I quite safe in bed?

—Mary Norton, old bedtime poem
art by Brian Froud

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2022-07-16

“There is something waiting for us at the edge of the woods, and it is our fate to meet it…”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves



🌾 JustinONealArt

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2022-07-14

Gothic butterfly

by David Aguirre Hoffmann

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2022-07-12

"... and then I shut my eyes, and put my hands over them and whisper the word, and the Alala comes. I only do this at night in my room or in certain woods that I know, but I must not describe them, as they are secret woods." (Arthur Machen)

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2022-07-12

Sharing a bit of old CDC stuff for

🍄The Rot Prince has ruled over the Bleakwood for countless mortal lifetimes. Some say it was once a creature of flesh and bone, but all that now remains is a mildew-blackened heart at its core.

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2022-07-11

In East Slavic folk-calendar, tonight is Kupala night — the darkest night of the year when forest and water critters become especially active.

To protect themselves from such otherworldly guests, people used to put nettles and thistle on windowsills.

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2022-07-06

According to old East Slavic beliefs, a lot of magical herbs can be found only on Kupala night (the night between 6 to 7 July).

One of them is “the herb of invisibility”.



🌙 MoonSpiralart

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2022-07-04

"But goblins, bogies, and spectres issue forth from earth and rock and cloud for their annual carousal in the darksome forest...children dare not cry aloud, lest the witches, hearing them, should spirit them away to be served up at their terrible orgies!"

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