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“Finally, the flying witch wants to make her way through the air, and the ballon, following this route of the birds, carries us farther than the eagles and higher than the clouds…”

— Charles Louandre, La sorcellerie


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2022-08-09


'The unearthly are abroad, & weary & spent,
With rush extinguished, to their dreaming go,
& world & night & star-encrusted space
The glory of beauty are in one enravished face'
(Nightfall - Walter De La Mare)

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2022-07-30

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance…”🔥

— Charles Baudelaire



🌙 Peter Wedel

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2022-07-30

My boat is swift & beautiful… We drive along this bay under the summer moon until earth appears another world… I could say with Faust to the passing moment, ‘Remain, thou, thou art so beautiful’.

—Shelley https://t.co/mcjsV6RlG6

🖼️by Aivazovsky

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2022-07-29

Illustrations from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Parasite' (1894). In this tale, a man is the test subject in a study of mesmerism conducted by woman w. strange abilities. This becomes disastrous for him when the woman begins to abuse her powers

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2022-07-25

I'm not sure if David McConachie's painting 'July Ghost' is based on A.S Byatt's book of the same name. Regardless, it's a reminder that ghosts are for all seasons. However, it is with the summer that the most poignant of all shades, the child ghost, returns.

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2022-07-17

Never urinate in a fairy ring! If you do, your body will be covered with pustules, and you’ll be urinating blood for weeks.

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2022-07-14

Falling in love with this Kazakh artist!

🌙 Rim Bitik about her artworks: “Each piece is a visual story from the past, where I have come from, as well as a preview of the future, where I am going”


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2022-07-10

Everything you need to know about Percy Bysshe Shelley’s vegetarianism. 🥬 https://t.co/Q6W0tE1kNQ

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2022-07-09

Cheating a bit today in the — I painted this in 2019 from my own photo taken in the Paris Catacombs 💀

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2022-07-03

Pity the last to die in a cemetery subsequently decommissioned. As there was no one else to take their place as the graveyard 'watcher' they would be forced to remain on duty as a ghostly gate-keeper until the end of time. (art: Julius Von Kleever)

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2022-06-27


Edvard Munch's Vampire or Love & Pain

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2022-06-25

And here I found Her,
(Or was it She who found me?)
My darling faery Mélusine,
Once worshipped as the Faerie Queen...

—My Mélusine Illusion,

https://t.co/BCu6JNA3PF


🎨Illustration from History of Magic, Émile Bayard

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2022-06-24

“When it was their Sabbath nights, they used to put besoms or three-legged stools in bed beside their husbands;
so that if these deluded men should wake before their return,
they might believe they had their wives safe as usual”

(collected by E. Lynn Linton)

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2022-06-21

Today, on the first Thursday of Green Week, is the day when the Rusalki celebrate their Easter festival on the banks of the waters of some regions.

🎨 Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-06-17

STRAWBERRY MOON: 14 June marks June's full moon, the Strawberry moon, named after the ripened fruit. In Europe, this moon was also called the Rose Moon after the plants which flowered at this time.This will be the first supermoon of the year.

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2022-06-15

“Sometimes his genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart. But mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously”

... on Friedrich Hölderlin, arch-Romanticist poet & philosopher, who died 1843

🎨 Ehsan-safavie

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2022-06-08

“Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”
― Haruki Murakami

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2022-06-06

In Flanders it's said that a woman who was cursed flew in the wind. She only appeared during the summer months and destroyed cornfields. She also threw everything that was in her way into the wind.

🎨Henri Fantin-Latour

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2022-06-04