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Selkies were thought to be able to shapeshift into a human form every seven years.
The number seven frequently appears in Selkie mythology, as it was thought that their bodies housed condemned souls. Some believed them to be fallen angels. #FaustianFriday
🌊 A.M. Sartor
The Japanese mermaid, the Ningyo, is much more fish-like than the European imagining, but with an extra caveat: its flesh gives those who eat it immortality. Yet this comes at an untold, often tragic price: will you pay it? #FaustianFriday
🖼️: P. Piereth
Small Press/Indie Creators!
Has YOUR OC (or one that you know of) made a Faustian pact with a supernatural entity within their comic?
Links/pics appreciated
#comics #indiecomics #webcomics #smallpress #comicbooks
"I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall" (Shakespeare)
Darklings!
Welcome to a salty, sea-serpentine #FaustianFriday
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🎨 Hans Christiansen (1897)
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 #Lovecraft
#FaustianFriday #ofdarkandmacabre
#Cthulhu #TheGreatOldOnes
@CryptoPopPunk @Cletelcharnal Faustian bargain by @Eva_Ng3lical
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The Romans consulted the Sibylline Books during times of turmoil, for these Greek prophecies offered suggestions on how to navigate crises. In the 4th century the general Stilicho had them burned, for reasons unknown: the city of Rome soon fell. #FaustianFriday
A rare book dealer is hired to find the last two copies of a text that holds the key to summoning the devil, and subsequently finds himself at the heart of paranormal events
#faustianfriday #mystery #film
The Ninth Gate, 1999
dir. Roman Polanski
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.
#gothicspring #GothicBeauty #superstitiology #bookworms #Ofdarkandmacabre #LegendaryWednesday #BookChatWeekly #FaustianFriday
Fate and prophecy are the dominion of the Morrigan, a warrior goddess associated with shapeshifting, crows, and death. She is her own singular goddess, yet also represents her and her sisters, a three-in-one yet one alone goddess. #FaustianFriday
🖼️: Mikadze
"For when St. Patrick cast this serpent into the lake he bade him be chained to the rock till La-an-Luan (The Day of Judgment). But the serpent mistook the word, and thought the saint meant Luan, Monday" (Speranza Wilde)
🎨 Rackham
#faustianfriday #bookchatwekly
The harp, symbol of #Ireland, is said to have been invented by the #Irish goddess of music, inspiration & dreams, Cana Cludhmor, after she realised the wind on a beach drifting through a whale’s skeleton created beautiful music. #StPatricksDay #FaustianFriday #BookChatWeekly
In Roman mythology it was said that the noble & white caladrius was a bird that lived in the king’s palace & could absorb & banish illness from a sick person ✨
#FaustianFriday #Superstitiology
#FaustianFriday
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"... alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. "
James Joyce (1882-1941)
"Faustian bargain" available on @foundation
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When you’re in hell, only a devil can point the way out
Link below 👇😉
You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.
~Elizabeth Hand, Illyria
art John William Waterhouse (1903)
#faustianfriday #bookchatweekly
#botd 1863, author Arthur Machen; an influential figure in the development of fantasy and folk horror
@StephenKing described his tale The Great God Pan, as:
"Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language"
#faustianfriday #horror #folklore
#art: Stephen G. Rae
"'The persistence of tradition never surprises me,' Ambrose went on after a pause. 'I could name many an English parish where such traditions as that girl had listened to in her childhood are still existent in occult but unabated vigour." (Arthur Machen)
#FaustianFriday