Just as Lucas was bending over and reaching into the water with his hand, a mermaid grabbed him and pulled him down with her. “I paid a high price for you,” she said.

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For today’s I am reposting an illustration I made of von Schönwerth’s “The Wolves”.

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“The Lord of Block Castle secretly took a woodsman’s very beautiful daughter as his wife and was persecuted for it. So he called upon the spirits of Hell for help and thus became a Knight of Hell. That is how the Wild Hunt was created.”—Franz Xaver Von Schönwerth

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White as Milk, Red as Blood: Sister, 2018, by from "White as Milk, Red as Blood" (Knopf), adaptations of lost fairy tales by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth. On display at "Words and Pictures" at until Jan 13.

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