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We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

—Gerald Hausman

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2022-11-28

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

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2022-11-27

'But where in the world is the path for me
Except the river that runs to the sea!'
-Zoe Akins

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2022-11-27

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s fabulous hashtag fun with our pals at and

(art bySei Koyanagui)

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2022-11-26

'The sun, that fills with light each glistening fold,
Shall set, and leave thee dark and cold'
-William Cullen Bryant

🎨Wilhelm Bernatzik (detail)

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2022-11-23

Darklings!

A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for too) and RTs your dark gems!

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2022-11-21

"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows." (Schiller)

🎨 Aivazovsky

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2022-11-19

“They were making a riotous noise, but it was much more like music" (C.S. Lewis)

🎨 Tiffany Bozic

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2022-11-17


Hekate is the triple Goddess, ruling over Earth, Sea and Sky/ past, present and future and the Moon, Earth, and Underworld.

She is honoured at the beginning of sunset on November 16th until sunset of the next day each year in the “The Night of Hekate”.

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2022-11-17

“There is a mortal amongst us,” they said. “Let us drown him.” (Lady Jane Wilde)

Ireland's fae folk has a downright malevolent streak and it often needs more than one supernatural agent to save a stricken human from their mischief

🎨 Bauer

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2022-11-13

Funeral carriage for the Duke of Wellington, who’s funeral took place in 1852. Made especially for the occasion and cast from over ten tons of bronze cannon captured at Waterloo, it took six foundries employing over 100 men a total of 18 days to make.

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2022-11-11

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night" (Milton)

🎨 Henry Fuseli

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2022-11-08

"This forest is a dangerous place," said the birds in unison.
"Now that I'm here, it most certainly is."

Quote and Art by Asya Yordanova/Tumblr

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2022-11-08

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2022-11-02

"Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums" (Maurice Maeterlinck)

🎨 Pauhami

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2022-11-02

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"The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. ..."

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

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2022-10-31

In some parts of Anatolia, it's believed that the newly dead walk for seven days. Day wander around the crowd at their own funeral, asking "Who died?" 💀



🎨Wladimir Petroff

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2022-10-27

Delightfully wicked fairy tale witches by Arthur Rackham.

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2022-10-26

According to a Persian scientist ابو علی حسین بن عبدالله بن سینا (Avicenna), your soul can affect other people’s bodies the same way it affects yours.

For example, a malevolent glare of your eyes can cause curses and deceases.




🌙Lera Whoami

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2022-10-24

“... go stand by the gate of heaven till the Judgment Day..." (Lady Wilde)

Cursed the girl her dead lover, haunting her thrice, regretted it immediately, prayed she might be reunited with him, died within the year and found him waiting there

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2022-10-23