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Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ North Literary Agency With an host of furious fancies, whereof I am commander,...' L.A.M.F

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The 'Wild Woman' is apparently the female equivalent of 'The Green Man' & a fertility symbol. Sadly she's represented far less, despite being rather beguiling with her leafy crown and luxuriant hair. Not to mention the unicorn. (German engraving, 1465)

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A warning to little girls who treat their dollies badly, 1885.

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'The Haunted Lady' (Punch ) depicts a seamstress reflected in the mirror who worked herself to death making the lady's dress. The plight of underpaid seamstresses in wretched conditions was highlighted by Thomas Hood's harrowing poem 'The Story of a Shirt' based on a true case.

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Old women who lived in the once dense forests of Sweden were thought to have supernatural powers which included being able to control wolves. They were known as Wolf-Crones or Vargamor.

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Fidelma Massey's 'Hare Queen' sculpture reminds us that in Celtic culture, the hare was seen as a prophetic creature. Before going to war against the Romans, Queen Bodicca let loose a hare from beneath her cape to study its movements & divine a positive outcome.

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German Supermodel Veruschka, who was one of the most photographed women in the 1960's-70's, began experimenting with body-art & morphing into her surroundings, leaving behind a fascinating, groundbreaking collection of images.

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Uta of Naumburg (1000-1046) was said to have been the most beautiful woman of the Middle Ages. Despite waiting out the centuries in Naumburg Cathedral, her statue is still remarkably well-preserved. There have been no reports of night walks.

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I can't take the credit for this and rarely retweet but couldn't quite resist...

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These massive Griffin heads used to guard the old gates of the City of London. They have since retired to the lawns of Wallington House, in Northumberland.

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15th Century Bat in a hat.

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#Caturday Hats off to Larry, No 10's Chief Mouser,who keeps his seat at Downing Street.

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#CatsLivesMatter Read the words on the gravestone & you'll understand why ; 'Comfort in Aloneness & Pain.'

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@RollingStone Those poor people, as if they didn't have enough to contend with.

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It's a nice day for a Gothic wedding? From a 1920's catalog for brides to be.

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💔 Tears & Trash: The bond that existed between the boys who were once Dolls still holds firm; Sylvain's walking out on the other side of the stage now,back with his kindred rock n' roll spirits. In Syl's words 'Sleep baby Dolls, you did fine, now.' 💔 (image: Bob Gruen)

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Listening to birds, photograph by John Dumont, 1892

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#ValentinesDay Mr Johnny Thunders as 'Johnny Valentine' in 'Mona et Moi'. Sweetest smile & super style.

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In rural Ireland, people building a new house would be wary of blocking paths used by the Fae & Spirits of the Dead. To avoid upset, they would place 4 stones in each corner of the proposed site. If the stones were left undisturbed over night, building could safely commence.

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London is full of hidden myths & mysteries - it would be quite something to catalog them all, including this noble statue of Father Thames facing East, outside Hammersmith Town Hall.

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Can the real Morticia stand up: Charles Addams wife Barbara Barb (actual name) was the model for the original cartoon of 'Morticia'. Addams had a thing for strange skinny women dressed in black.

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In pre-18th century Cornwall, Bats were referred to as 'Airy-Mice'.

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The Somnabulist bids you all an expressionistic goodnight. (art Herbert Warm, 1920)

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Grow your own: Cemetery Terrarium

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A Season in Hell: Did Rimbaud mean the nightclub? The Parisiennes anticipated Goth a century before we did with their taste in macabre night spots.

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#Caturday A little shadow merging into the night. (art: Buffy Robinson)

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Saddened to hear of the passing of 'Brother' Wayne Kramer, whose powerhouse guitar riffery enervated The MC5 & the short-lived but legendary Gangwar, featuring Mr Johnny Thunders. A true figurehead of the American Counter Culture when it meant something.

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Remembering Johnny on his birthday, pictured here in happier times, in Sweden with girlfriend, Susanne & baby Jamie. (Had Johnny lived, he would have been 71 today) Always Missed & Never Forgotten 🎸✨💔

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#FolkloreThursday These early 18th century Cornish 'Round Houses' were constructed by the Reverend Jeremiah Trist so that the devil had no corners to hide in.

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A little night reading, 1979. The allure of vintage booklets, the yellowing pages, old type face and rusting staples, someone's dream on the way to the next stage of their life. One copy left, under a mountain of more purposeful items but all doomed for a charity shop clean out

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Marks the spot of the Eildon Tree ( a type of Hawthorn) where Thomas The Rhymer met The Faerie Queen. The tree - Eildon meaning Uncanny or weird - survived until 1804, when a gale finished it off. Locals poured wine on the roots to try and revive it but to no avail.

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Christine Silver as 'Titania' 1913 from a stage production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. She can see right through you.......

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Sleep Tight on this night of torrential rain.....(art: Felix Labisse 1902 -1982)

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'The Messiah Machine' created by John Murray Spear in 1854 at the behest of spirits. Run on nature's magnetism, it was going to save the world until a lady said it had stolen her spirit. A fearful crowd smashed it to pieces. A second machine has just been discovered in Colorado.

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#HowIFightDepression Sometimes you can't.......its like your shadow but like shadows, it will dissipate when the sun returns. That's the bit you have to hold on to.

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Sublime Decay: Ornate mausoleum in the grounds of Chateau Du RaRay where Cocteau filmed 'La Belle et La Bete.

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Can't work out if this is an advert for a Magic Lantern Show or a book cover. Either way, the publisher, Griffith & Farran give their address as 'the corner of St Paul's churchyard.' Mystery never dies.....

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We all leave behind the ghosts of our childhoods, in daisy scattered fields, at the foot of stairs that once seemed mountainous, in playgrounds grown rusty & drab, in runic scribbles in once favorite books & we all smile or weep at the dreams we keep.

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Bottlebush Down: Prehistoric spectral sightings are rare but the Bronze Age horseman who haunts this lonesome way is one of the most substantiated ghosts on record, seen by noted archaeologists and walkers alike...

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#animalsinchurches Youch! Imp gets feisty - Salisbury Cathedral

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#FolkloreSunday The belief that witches could change into foxes was as popular as witch- into-hare lore. Welsh people thought it lucky to see a single fox. but unlucky to see a pack of them. If the sun shines while it rains, country folk believed that a fox was getting wed.

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'Ornithomancy' means divination by studying the movements of birds. As they are able to fly, they were considered semi-divine beings by the ancients. Many old families had legends attached to them of birds paying a flying visit shortly before a death.

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Feb 2nd was traditionally 'Candlemas Day' when old candles where thrown away & newly blessed Candles distributed throughout the community. A day of celebration, candlelit processions, ale drinking & an opportunity for kids to stay up past bedtime.

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A Furry Flying Fairy Mongoose (possibly called Gef) Bids you all goodnight. (art: Leonora Carrington)

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There is no greater realm than that of the imagination. Though some say the Faerie's Mist, the gathering of souls by the Elf King and his spectral minions was as real as moonbeams.

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Glorious portrait of controversial author, Anais Nin, 1903-1977, by Natashia Troubetskoia circa 1930's.

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#FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay2019 Shocking that female illustrators of the Victorian era were not recognized for their contributions to the fantasy realm. 'Morgan Le Fay' by the gifted Dora Curtis, of whom there is little info except a voyage to Siberia in 1914.

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RIP Walter Lure. Sad to hear that 'The last man standing' of The Heartbreakers is no longer with us. Impossibly tall & an impossibly gifted guitarist, Waldo never forgot his old band-mates, Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan & Billy Rath. Time for that reunion gig in the sky.💔🎸

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#blackbird 'The Meeting' Jean Brady.

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Another Noir London photograph from 1934 - The Sphinx has been there since 1867, eternally projecting mystery.

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#AdoorableThursday Sci-Fi Ladybug entrance, Belgium, created in 1968 by Thierry Lenchaunteur. More intriguing than enticing.

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Why are old fashioned masks so scary? Could it be that they come from a time before Disney softened reality? This is a rogue's gallery of sinister smiles & thinly veiled mania, marketed for adults rather than children., a world in which 'cute' doesn't exist.

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#Caturday From 'The Adventures of A French Cat' Granville 1877

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#Caturday Memories aren't made of this. A disconcerted child forced to hold the paw of a rather alarming 'Felix' on Margate beach in the year of who knows when. There seems to have been an outbreak of 'Felix' figures running rampant in the UK, not all of them welcome.

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In case you missed the glorious images of the Milky Way featured in yesterday's Guardian, here is John Looten's photograph taken in Dordogne, France. Fairyland Exists!

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Spectral shroom, known as 'The Veiled Lady'......must look like a little phantom bride after nightfall......

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Somerset Folksong: 'Ellum do grieve, Oak he do hate, Willow do walk, if Yew travels late.' Meaning: If you chop an Elm tree down, the one next to it dies of grief but Oaks will wreak vengeance if they can. Willow trees uproot & will hunt you down if you trespass on their ground.

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Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the death of Johnny Thunders in 1991. The years have sped by but thankfully Johnny's influence & memory still burn brightly. Some people change the world without even trying. He was one of them. God Bless Johnny💔🎸✨🥀 image Ebet Roberts.

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A Yorkshire thatcher places protective talismans against low-flying witches on a roof #folklorethursday

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I'm Cramped - that's me the blonde with bootees on the stage transfixed by The Cramps at Eric's Club, Liverpool. Thank you to @mudkissphotos for finding them, I don't know who took them.

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#FolkloreThursday if the Barley in the field starts to sway yet there is no breeze, it's the Elf King & his cohorts riding through the crops....

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#FolkloreSunday Books such as 'Irish Wonders' capitalized on the Celtic Revival & were popular among Irish emigres to the U.S.A. This particular volume is still available albeit with a different cover but with most of the illustrations remaining.

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'The Future's Uncertain, the End is always Near.....'

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#FolkloreThursday The famous 13th century 'Crooked Spire' of Chesterfield. Some say the warping happened when the devil, overcome by clouds of incense issuing forth during Mass, began sneezing & clung to the spire for support.

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It's just another Mandrake Monday.....

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'Art In the Middle of The Night' Adrienne Adams. Or is that Addams?

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Some paintings do not rest easily in their frame. If captured skillfully enough, the subjects become silent, brooding entities, outliving the centuries. (art: Cesare Ferro Pragheira (1900)

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#FolkloreThursday The Green Man pub, Edgware Rd, was built over a healing spring. The publican made sure to have bottles of the restorative water behind the bar, which was free to anyone who asked. Sadly, with the advent of the tube station nearby, the spring was cemented up.

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A particularly striking 'Bat Woman' costume by designer Alfredo Edel Corona 1856-1912, to carry you away to the land of dreams.....

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'Shall we make an abominable snowman?'

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Johnny Thunders: Gone but never forgotten. RIP on this day, 1991. 💔🎸✨😢🥀 'Sweetest breath & clearest eye Like perfumes go out & die; And consequently this is done As shadows wait upon the sun' (lyrics: John Webster)

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The Cautionary Carrot admonished Mary: 'You silly girl, it's Tarot reading not Carrot reading! (art Mary Frances)

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How many birds still sing in Stump City, since eco-vandals @SheffCouncil decided nature was a nuisance & began felling mature, healthy trees? The fight to @SaveSheffTrees continues.....let's hear it for the birds, the bees, the beautiful trees & Sheffield's tree guardians.....

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Hibiscus 'Black Rainbow' Gothic without trying....

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Jobs that no longer exist part 3: Carnival sideshow human-spider-woman with prophetic powers.

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Night's strange fancies; reason is silenced in the realm of sleep. Who knows what puzzles of eternity wait for us as we finally depart the day & set sail for dreams. (art - unknown)

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Moonage daydream: Nice Carnival, 1910

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Have you ever had one of those days where nothing makes sense? Everything appears the same yet it is unsubstantial, a front for some greater truth that isn't yet ours to know. Perhaps there are times when the borders between reality & the intangible are more visible?

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Haunted by Books - these little beauties are not alas mine but I'd like them to be!

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The morning after the fright before........

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For all the strays, animals & human, flesh & fur, everywhere. Kindness never goes amiss.

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As its #WorldDraculaDay here's less known vamp, Countess Elga, Romanian nobility. Castle destroyed by angry peasants. Portrait : Hans Makart (1840-1884) survived, people claimed it stole their vitality, whilst others saw her materialize through the frame!! Wonder where it is now

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Cats still know the secrets of the ancient world.

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'The Guardians of Notre Dame' by Sergei Chepek (1953-2011) bid you all a restful goodnight.

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'Paranormal Funfair' A century old 'Paranormal Funfair' in Paris, that looks as if was constructed by the same people responsible for the remarkable exteriors of the 'Heaven' & 'Hell' nightclubs.

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UnConchious: Courtesy of Life photographer Nina Leen who was capturing images of old sleep cures

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Happy Birthday to me - If I had a Victorian Beach Hut in Felixstowe, you'd all be invited for afternoon tea.

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Grigori Rasputin, mystic, monk & madman, died on this day in 1916, following numerous attempts to bump him off. Also immortalized in song by Boney M as 'Russia's Favorite Love Machine.' Those eyes still have the power to hypnotize.

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For those who have tired of garden gnomes : The impressive Apennine Colussus, Villa di Pratolino-Tuscany.

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Girls In The Hood: Azores National Dress, structured by whale bones & dyed dark blue from woad.

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Edward Gorey captured beneath one of his Dracula designed theater posters.

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'The End'.......

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#uksnow ice crystals and snow flakes...

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'The Hobbit' isn't one of my favorite books but different editions & translations have conjured up some divine designs such as this one by Sangorski & Sutcliffe Zehansdorf, who have been book binders since 1840.

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Filmposter for DH Lawrence's 'The Fox' featuring an illustration by celebrated fantasy artists, Leo & Diane Dillon.

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Big Mother so different to Big Brother.......

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Yesterday I had the pleasure of a woodland walk with a wise 6 year old who happily informed me that 'tagged' trees mean that fairies live in that particular tree & the silver disc is the house number. Who was I to dissuade her of such lovely personal folklore? 🧚

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Many of the places where faeries are seen have an eerie aspect, Kingheriot Farm is no different. In 1907, 3 blackberry picking schoolgirls witnessed a troop of tiny men in Robin Hood caps, playing in the grounds. 50 years later, their stories, told to the BBC still tallied.

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#AnimalsInChurches Fiddle playing cat, Wells Cathedral, Somerset

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The ancient Saxon legacy of 'The Wild Hunt' lingers still in Wistman's Woods, where Woden's hunting dogs, the 'Wist or Wisht Hounds' can still be heard faintly baying at noon on a Sunday. Described as 'Witchery in broad daylight' attempts were made to exorcise their presence.

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#AdoorableThursday Doorway of the sunken moon - the dust of bohemian dreams......

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