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Gothtober comes to end

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2022-11-01

WILD HUNT In Celtic & Germanic folklore a furious bunch of of the restless dead, which ride through the sky on their phantom horses accompanied by spectral hounds, shrieking & making wild noises; reported as late as 1940 in England on All Hallow's Eve

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2022-11-01

"Hangdog Souls" by Marc Joan: ambitious metaphysical Gothic



https://t.co/UhZoeHLPe6

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2022-10-30

In Ireland if death was near, lots of bread was brought into the house so that evil spirits would be drawn away to eat and let the soul of the dying leave in peace...

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2022-10-28

The Cheval Gauvin is an evil horse that haunts eastern France & the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. According to legend, it is a harbinger of death found in forests & cemeteries, killing those who ride it by drowning or tossing them off into chasms.

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2022-10-27

Vintage French postcards 💀

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2022-10-25

gothtober girl 4 shes from minecraft you can tell because of the minecraft roses

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2022-10-24

Bezkost is a boneless vampire from Slavic folklore. A flexible mass of skin and flesh, it can squeeze through cracks in the walls or under the door to gets to its victims. As it feeds, it fills up with blood like a balloon.

Art by J. Puciłowski

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2022-10-20

"I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!" (Poe)

... the sister returns shrieking, though, scaring her brother to death before she ultimately expires and the House of Usher vanishes in the lake

🎨 Clarke

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2022-10-19

A Flemish folktale says a woman who conferred with devils died when hundreds of them decided to strangle her. In another tale a girl whose soul became the devil's property after she read a book was found suffocated between two mattresses.

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2022-10-19


Celtic Vampire-lore Scottish Baobhan Sith means “fairy woman” who appears as a red-head beauty with a flowing Green gown that covers her deer hooves in place of feet. This deadly night creature drinks human 'blood' and sleeps during the day

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2022-10-18

"Ich fürcht' den Tag" (I fear daylight)

🎨 Hans Wechtlin (c 1500)

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2022-10-17

"The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk." (Hegel)

🎨 IrenHorrors

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2022-10-17

“From time to time strange cries as of lost and despairing wanderers sounded from across the mere. They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound” (MR James)

🎨Grottger

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2022-10-16

Spooky queen of the day is Sam Manson from Danny phantom 💜🖤✨

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2022-10-16

In the Norman Bessin, sorcerers are known to transform people into black dogs and send them to the city of Bayeux as Rongeur d'Os, bone gnawers.

Seeing one means certain death.

🎨 Kastelkreuz

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2022-10-16