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Commission of Church Grim with spider lillies!

It is a creature is a guardian spirit that protects churches and churchyards. The Church Grim is said to be a friendly and protective spirit, but can also be mischievous towards those who disrespect the church or disturb its peace.

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2023-03-24

Focusing on art for a few weeks before I immerse myself in writing the new book. Here's a glimpse of a current wip: churchyard rook, acrylic on canvas

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2023-02-05

"View of the entrance to the churchyard in winter", 1862 by Edmund Koken (1814 - 1872).

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2023-01-03

The Hardly Tree at St Pancras Old Church, London fell a few days ago. Thomas Hardy planted it among re-sited gravestones when the churchyard was reduced in size. Illustrations drawn in 2015.

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2022-12-31

One of my old street sketches from the early '90s. This shows St Edward's Passage, Cambridge, one of several favourite places to paint. David's the venerable bookshop now only has a shop on the other side of the churchyard and the Arts Theatre restaurant lost all its quirkyness.

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2022-12-30

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.

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2022-12-26

💀We went out into the moonless & tortuous network of that ancient town; a throng of cloaked figures formed monstrous processions up this street gliding across open courts & churchyards where the bobbing lanthorns made eldritch drunken constellations🎨Angelo Inganni💀#HPLovecraft

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2022-12-18

Frenzy in the Churchyard
From the Witches in Ecstasy series

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2022-12-14

Dusk. Old Fox had gone to the village churchyard to leave flowers on the graves of those long forgotten. Michaelmas daisies & the last white roses. And the wraiths came to see him, in their silks & their worsted, & they talked & laughed for a long, long while in the fading light.

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2022-10-29

💀At vesper time on Sunday e’en,
We heard a banshee cry!
Beyond the churchyard dim & dark,
‘Neath whispering elms, & yew-trees stark,
Where our star shone-a corpse-like spark-
Against the wintry sky🖋️Alice Guerin Crist🎨THÉO LEGOUIS💀#Banshee

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2022-10-27

The Hikey Sprite, The Churchyard Mermaid, and The Sea Serpent🪦

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2022-10-07

“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn & hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world; now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet,Act III,Scene ii
🎨Miles Teves

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2022-10-02

To be haunted by the Banshee one must belong to the old Irish families like the MacCarthys, O’Neills, O’Rileys, O’Sullivans, O’Reardons, O’Flahertys.. She never leaves nor forgets them till the last member has been gathered to his fathers in the churchyard.

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2022-09-27

Keep away from the churchyard at night

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2022-09-17

Fox-Hunting Sketches: No. 11. Sporting Parson - "Well! I'm d---, b-b-blest (I mean), if the cunning beggar has't run to ground in My Own churchyard!", Hablot Knight Browne, https://t.co/plGwl1PtKp (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2022-09-07

Cat Patrol
An feline encounter at olde London Wall as seen from the churchyard of St Botolph Without, Aldersgate.
By John Wykeham Archer, April 1848

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2022-08-15

In Romanian lore, if one cut oneself in a churchyard at night and the blood flowed onto a grave, the corpse inside could become a revenant...

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2022-08-12

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 'A philosopher in a moonlit churchyard' (1790)

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2022-08-08

Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888) was a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. He is buried in the churchyard of , Read more in "Chiswick’s Unsung Hero" - https://t.co/NqLIr5z1LC

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2022-08-05