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I wonder if shapeshifting counts as dressing up? To this purpose I present the Irish goddess The Morrigan. Her rôle as a symbol of imminent death, and to influence the outcome of war, was achieved by appearing as a crow flying overhead.

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2022-02-25

Uncanny and exquisite aesthetic

Sinister and gloomy art by Japanese artist Takato Yamamoto.

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2022-02-26

"Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called."~Remy de Gourmont 

🎨Tristram,1080,#OfDarkAndMacabre.

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2022-02-28

“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night” (Shakespeare)

🎨 Johannes Figlhuber's concept art for "Ori and the Blind Forest" (2017)

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2022-02-28

Leshy is another important creature of Ukrainian folklore.

In some tales, hunters offer their souls to this forest spirit, and in return, he lures animals into their hands.

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2022-03-01

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

—Molly Ringle

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2022-03-04

"I felt the spell that held my breath
Bending me down to a living death."

Fragment of a Ballad | Elizabeth Siddal


🖼️Altered by endocathexis: The Spring Witch, Persephone, by George Wilson (c 1880)

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2022-03-07

Selkie Guard
▫️Seb McKinnon

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2022-03-08

A Flemish tale says that a lawyer who had died walked out of his coffin. The gravediggers filled his coffin with stones because they didn't want to scare the people. The lawyer haunted until someone bricked up the ghost and banished him to a cellar.

🎨Wiertz

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2022-03-09

"I fear nothing. Your hands on fire, it's burning me..."

Spanish Baroque playwright Tirso de Molina who staged the first dramatisation of the Don Juan legend, died 1648

🎨 Charles Ricketts "Don Juan challenging the Commander" (1928)

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2022-03-12




There is a coal-black Angel
[…]
And he dwells (like the hunted and harried)
In a swamp where the green frogs dip.
[…]
He breathes with a breath that is blastment
And dooms by a far decree.
[…]
There’s a scream that screams up to the zenith

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2022-03-14

"One night... I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. ... The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill" (G. Tartini)

🎨 J Marshall "Tartini's Dream" (1862)

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2022-03-16



Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise
Three times, 'tis said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode,
Where hope and he part company-

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2022-03-20

Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In gentleness of heart; with gentle hand
Touch—for there is a spirit in the woods.

— William Wordsworth

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2022-03-23

“Open your eyes, Ambrosio, and be prudent. Hell is your lot; You are doomed to eternal perdition; Nought lies beyond your grave but a gulph of devouring flames.”

~Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk,🎨James Christopher.

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2022-03-24

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

Mythomaniac Joseph Campbell was born 1904

🎨 Ulpiano Checa "El Rapto de Proserpina" (1888)

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2022-03-26

“Modern folk-lore, like mediæval legend, has its stories of the inter-marriages of natives of this world with those of the other-world, often located underneath a lake” 🌙

– Edward Anwyl, Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times


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2022-04-03

“I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.” (Lorine Niedecker)

🎨 Irenhorrors "Swamp Thing" (2018)

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