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DEVILS DAUGHTER

There are days my pain is so elaborate...
that the salt of my tears tastes not of my own
but like that of my ancestors—
and the women who dealt
with this sorrow before me.

Segovia Amil

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2023-04-06

European settlers in N.America believed hummingbirds were a cross between insects & birds & that the 'flying jewels' died in autumn after sticking their beaks into tree trunks, but were resurrected in the Spring
🎨 Kevin Sloan

17 56
2023-04-04

The plip plop call of the Satanic Nightjar was once attributed to the sound it made plucking out folks' eyes...

🎨Renata Grieco

9 30
2023-04-04

"Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off." (Neil Gaiman)

🎨 Alex Dos Diaz

25 95
2023-04-04

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn …

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".

The Call of Cthulhu
HP


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2023-03-31

"Oh, look!" whispered the boy; "there goes a horse-a white horse - the devil must be riding that - how can a horse get to Jevers Island?" (Theodor Storm)

🎨 Helen Plester

20 87
2023-03-29

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence …

Franz Kafka / The Silence of the Sirens

Howard Pyle

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2023-03-29

“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave” (Mary Shelley)

🎨 John Bauer

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2023-03-28

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin (art by Heikala)

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2023-03-28

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
art by Sebastian Giacobino

31 120
2023-03-28

Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

30 141
2023-03-25

"This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Charles Robinson

19 88
2023-03-25

"So when at last the Angel of the drink Of Darkness finds you by the river-brink,
And, proffering his Cup, invites your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff it—do not shrink." (Omar Khayyam)

🎨 Edmund Dulac

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2023-03-23

"Turn each of your thoughts into a bird
And let them fly to the other world.
One is an owl, one is a falcon, one is a crow.
Each one is different from the others
But they are all the same in silence." (Rumi)

🎨 CappuccinoMP3

20 90
2023-03-20

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our scintillating pals at and https://t.co/zw4fuNAPzk

21 90
2023-03-18

One of two drawings for a Savage's gondola, in the shape of a sea monster with gremlins on the front and back; undated, possibly late 19th century.

5 30
2023-03-18

Happy St. Patrick’s Day🍀

Sharing some leprechaun images from my beloved and worn copy of FAERIES by Brian Froud and Alan Lee that I’ve had since I was 12.

27 103
2023-03-17

Mike Mignola, Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others, The Iron Shoes.☘️😈☘️

4 17
2023-03-17

When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.

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2023-03-16

"For sometimes she comes with a hissing noise like a serpent" (Lady Jane Wilde)

Of young mothers, carried away by the fae as nurses for their offspring.

🎨 Sara Litland

21 87
2023-03-16