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Pale student of unhallowed arts. Likes blue birds - #ofdarkandmacabre host and #WyrdWednesday Mother. Now on Instagram ⬇️

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1 year

"This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!" (Monty Python) 🎨 Jouch #ofdarkandmacabre #TwitterXtinct #twitterx

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2 years

"For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind." (Ray Bradbury "the Autumn People") #ofdarkandmacabre #Gothtober

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“Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?" (Kierkegaard) 🎨 Eri Nakagawa #owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #31daysofhaunting

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"The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams." (Claude Debussy) #ofdarkandmacabre

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"The Library is a wilderness of books." (Henry David Thoreau) 🎨 Marlowe Lune #ofdarkandmacabre #bookologythursday

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Today is "Waldmännchentag", Day fo the Bugbear, in parts of Germany and Berchtoldstag in Switzerland. Traditionally an unlucky day, one of the "Rauhnächte" (the "Bleak Nights"), the darker continental variant of the Twelve Nights, when the Wild Hunt rides. #FolkloreThursday

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"A Katzenmann (cat man) lingers in the corn... clearly such satyr-like beings fill the life of the fields, the meadows, and the forest." (Mannhardt) 🎨 Jorge Mascarenhas #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #caturday #Superstitiology

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2 years

“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” (Dylan Thomas) 🎨 Mildred Anne Butler

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“Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!" (Mehmet Murat Ildan) #owlishmonday #dontgointothewoods

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"There are many rhymes about magpies, but none of them is very reliable because they are not the one the magpies know themselves" (Terry Pratchett) #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #gothicspring

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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails." (The Once and Future King) T.H. White was born #OTD 1906 🎨 Alan Lee

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"To romanticise the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite." (Novalis) 🎨 Tuesday Riddell #bookchatweekly

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“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails." (T.H. White) 🎨 Alan Lee #bookologythursday #ofdarkandmacabre

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“They say I killed you, haunt me then. Be with me always. Take any form, drive me mad, but do not leave me. Not in a place where I cannot find you.” Emily Brontë was born #OTD 1818 🎨Rovina Cai #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Wolf, dear companion, you used to wander along the byways of the forest and through the glades with me: ... Harsh hunger has weakened both you and me. You lived in these woods before me, and age has turned you grey first" (Geoffrey of Monmouth "Vita Merlini") #BookWormSat

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The Poe Toaster made his last bow #OTD 2009. For over 60 years a mysterious black-cloaked figure visited Poe's grave in the wee hours of Poe's birthday, toasted the dead poetaster with a glass of cognac (not sherry, mind you), left the bottle, 3 rose bouquets & cryptic notes

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"When the party of weird-sisters passed to the witch-meeting they used the magic words, Thout, tout, throughout, and about; and that when they departed they exclaimed, Rentum, Tormentum!" (Walter Scott) 🎨 Eugène Grasset #FaustianFriday #BookChatWeekly

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#Walpurgisnacht from Goethe’s "Faust" established the idea of witches from all over the world coming to the Blocksberg to celebrate the years’ most important Witches Sabbath, dancing and making merry among themselves & with the creatures of the netherworlds #FolkloreThursday

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"And night is long And cold is strong In bleak December." (Christina Rossetti) 🎨 TheGorgonist #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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“The sleep of reason produces monsters” Francisco de Goya was born #OTD 1746 #ofdarkandmacabre

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“If you would always live with us... then you must first go into the woods and hear what the birds say. When you shall have lurked, listened, and learned what the sparrow, magpie, and owl say, then come back into our arms" (Heine) #FaustianFriday #Gothicspring #bookchatweekly

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“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ” Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD 1850 in Edinburgh 🎨 Arthur Rackham "The Storyteller" (1904)

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"Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood" (Shakespeare) 🎨 Bill Mayer "The Black Sun" #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

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“Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits.” (Tennyson) 🎨 William James Webbe "The White Owl" (cropped, 1856) #OwlishMonday

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"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” (William Goldman) 🎨 Thomas Edwin Mostyn #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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"Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow." (Robert Frost) 🎨 Ian MacCulloch

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“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.” (Federico García-Lorca) 🎨 Sarah Sheil #ofdarkandmacabre

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“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow Bent in emptiness over emptiness But flying” (Ted Hughes) 🎨 Andrew Davidson #ofdarkandmacabre

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“Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been... whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?” E.T.A. Hoffmann was born #OTD 1776

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"...he saw a new world that was the haunt of owls" (Shahnameh) 🎨 Ferdinando Noulian #owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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“O, a story about the Black Man... How he haunts this forest" (Hawthorne) 🎨 Dan Hillier "Fount" (2022) #dontgointothewoods #wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

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"... but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." Lewis Carroll was born #OTD 1832 🎨 Arthur Rackham (1907)

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Your daily #Wunderkammer - #scaryfairies special “Redcap (are) ... that class of spirits which haunt old castles. Every ruined tower in the south of Scotland is supposed to have an inhabitant of this species” (Walter Scott) Marvel at one of the most malevolent of the fae!

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"On Midsummer Day, it was and still is in many parts of Europe the custom to go out to the woods, cut down a tree and bring it into the village... to bring home... the blessings which the tree-spirit has in its power to bestow" (Frazer) #FairyTaleTuesday #dontgointothewoods

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4 years

@drguidoknapp @Hystri_cidae Der erste dokumentierte Hamsterkauf in der Geschichte.

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“’Tis the aged grey willows deceiving thy sight." (Goethe) Julius von Klever "Erl-King" (1887, cropped) #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

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"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." (G.K. Chesterton) 🖼️ Gustave Surand "St George and the Monster" (1888) #FaustianFriday #StGeorgesDay

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Around 1400 at the foot of Mt Etna: In a severe thunderstorm Queen Giuvanna & 100 knights all sheltered under a methuselah of a tree, the more than 2,000 years old “Hundred Horse Chestnut”. It's still there, one of the oldest living beings in the world. #FolkloreThursday

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“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.” (Friedrich Schiller) A couple of Swedish Gilded Age master John Bauer's trolls gathered to celebrate a trollish #WyrdWednesday

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"The worst kind of wolves are hairy on the inside, and when they bite you, they drag you with them to Hell!" (Angela Carter) 🎨 Aimee Cozza #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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"snow falling-- a crow caws at the darkness of deep winter" (Issa) 🎨 Ohara Koson

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"I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. It is a hard thing to speak of, how wild, harsh and impenetrable that wood was, so that thinking of it recreates the fear. It is scarcely less bitter than death" (Dante) #WyrdWednesday #dontgointothewoods

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"...for you do not know how soon something may happen to oblige us to be in the forest after nightfall.” (George MacDonald) 🎨 Emmi-Riikka #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” (Oscar Wilde) 🎨 Alexander Wilke #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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The constellation Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a goat-fish hybrid since the Bronze Age, when the Babylonians used MULSUḪURMAŠ The Goat-Fish" as a symbol of their god Ea #MythologyMonday

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“Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.” (T.H. White) 🎨 Caspar David Friedrich “An Owl on a Bare Tree” (1798)

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"It was the moon that had made her so pale, and there was something from the gods that enveloped her like a subtle vapour. Her eyes seemed to gaze far beyond terrestrial space.” (Flaubert) 🎨 Lobel Riche #bookowrmsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Children are warned against entering the corn-fields because Death sits in the corn" (Frazer) ... and in the rye, haunted by a multitude of Feldgeister, field spirits, notably the fertilising, punishing, shape-changing, child-stealing Kornmume, the rye aunt #FolkloreThursday

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"But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera.“ ("Dracula", 1897) Bram Stoker was born #OTD 1847 🎨 Dracula - Front Cover 1919 Edition

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“He is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself" (Mervyn Peake) 🎨 Rösch #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.” Gaiman & Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch A trio of Waterhouse witches for #FairyTaleTuesday

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"Go to the house of Hades and of dread Persephone to consult the ghost of the seer Teiresias" (Homer) 🎨 Read #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #gothicspring

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"In a forked glen into which he slipped at night-fall he was surrounded by giant toads, who spat poison, and were icy as the land they lived in, and were cold and foul and savage." (Becuma of the White Skin) 🎨 Arthur Rackham (1920) #FairyTaleTuesday

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2 years

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” (Lewis Carroll) 🎨 Rien Poortvliet

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“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” Charles Baudelaire was born #OTD 1821 🖼️ Robin Isely #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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“I have put my soul and trust in flowers. Occult flowers, flowers of premonition.” (Paul Valéry) 🎨 Tuesday Riddell #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #bookchatweekly

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"Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Poe's "Raven" was first published #OTD 1845 in New York Artist palette Gustave Doré (1883)

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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.” (John Greenleaf Whittier) 🎨 Erik Desmazières #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” (W.B. Yeats) Urban fairy glen.

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“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time" (Ray Bradbury) Carrying nine different types of wood during Advent season allows you to see witches. 🖼️ Anton Mauve "The Wood Gatherers" (c 1850) #GothicAdvent #YuleFolklore

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“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” Bram Stoker was born #OTD 1847 🎨 John Coulthart #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths." Gothic talespinner Sheridan Le Fanu was born #OTD 1814 in Dublin

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"...and from the verge of the wood came the “who-oo, who-oo, who-oo” of the owls, a wild strange sound that mingled with the whirr and rattle of the night-jar, deep in the bracken" (Arthur Machen) 🎨 Lidija Paradinovic #owlishmonday #dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Winter solitude— In a world of one colur The sound of wind." (Basho) 🎨 Ohara Koson

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"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants." (Dorothy Parker) 🎨 Tristan Elwell #bookwormsat #gothicspring

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"THERE was once an old castle in the middle of a vast thick wood ; in it there lived an old woman quite alone, and she was a witch" (Grimm) 🎨 Rackham #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #bookchatweekly

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"In nooks and corners Cold remains: Flowers of the plum" Edo-period painter & poet Yosa Buson was born #OTD 1716 in Kema, present-day Osaka. 🎨 "Two Crows" (c 1750)

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"The fondness of goats for straying in woods and nibbling the bark of trees... is an obvious and perhaps sufficient reason why wood-spirits should so often be supposed to take the form of goats." (James Frazer) #dontgointothewoods #ofdarkandmacabre

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"What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!" (Shakespeare) 🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "Winter Landscape with a Church" (1811) #GothicAdvent

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"As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight." (Walter Benjamin) 🎨 Francisco de Goya (1799) #OwlishMonday

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“The lonely church, right out on the marshes, with graves round it!” (Charles Dickens) 🎨 Stephen Gammel "The Church" (1981) #swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Seven parsons were summoned to lay her ghost. They met under an oak-tree that still thrives. But one of them was drunk and forgot the proper words, and all they could do was to ban her into the form of a white owl"(Baring-Gould) #owlishmonday #Superstitiology #ofdarkandmacabre

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"Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves." (Sylvia Plath) 🎨 Fiona Watson "The Puddle Bathers" (2015) #ofdarkandmacabre #BookChatWeekly

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"Enki, the lord of abundance and true word, the lord chosen in wisdom who watches over the land" ... and his symbol was a goat-fish as Sumerian god of water, knowledge, mischief, crafts and creation. The Romans later redeployed him in the Zodiac as Capricorn #FolkloreThursday

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"I know what you want!" said the sea-witch. "It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, as it will plunge you into misfortune, my fair princess" (Andersen) Little Mermaid meets dark mirror of the wish-granting fairy godmother 🎨 Harry Clarke #FairyTaleTuesday

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"There is no Irish name for the Magpie... Many queer tales are narrated of this bird, arising from its quaint ways, its adroit cunning and habits of petty larceny. Its influence is not considered evil, though to meet one alone in the morning when going a journey is an ill omen"

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“The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes” (William Holman Hunt) #FairyTaleTuesday

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“HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE" Terry Pratchett was born #OTD 1948 in Beaconsfield 🖼️ Paul Kidby (2014) #WyrdWednesday

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"I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star." (Nietzsche) 🎨Albrecht Dürer "Melencolia I" (1514) #BookwormSat

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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” (Edgar Allan Poe) 🎨 craww #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat

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"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses." (Jorge Luis Borges) 🎨 Sebastian Pether #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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“Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.” (Arthur Schnitzler) 🎨 William Ladd Taylor "The Old Clock on the Stairs" (c 1905) #ofdarkandmacabre

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3 years

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” (Terry Pratchett) 🖼️ Arthur Rackham "Jorinde & Joringel" (1925) #Caturday #InternationalCatDay

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2 years

"You've been feeling tired, haven't you? If you're ready, we might go along now" (Richard Adams "Watership Down" ... quoth the Black Rabbit of Inlé to brave Hazel when his quest was finally done. #mythologymonday #ofdarkandmacabre

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2 years

"The moon fills the place with her silvery light, And the churchyard like day seems to glow. When see! first one grave, then another opens wide, And women and men stepping forth are descried, snow-white and trailing" (Goethe) 🎨 Ph. Gough #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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2 years

“I shall not let myself be frightened away by the sarcasm of owls.” (Elizabeth von Arnim) 🎨 Kay Nielsen #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday

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2 years

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa was born #OTD 1763 🎨 Ohara Koson

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4 years

Your daily #Wunderkammer (still in #GothicSpring mode) ...presents you on a wing-themed #MythologyMonday the scientifically preserved fae from the Merrylin Cryptid Museum, London, to marvel and wonder at - read more here 🔽

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2 years

"But the nixie, speaking with a soft voice, called him by name and asked him why he was so sad." (Grimm) 🎨 Fritz Hegenbarth (c 1900) #swampsunday #ofdarkandmacabre

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2 years

"It is universally held that the unicorn is a supernatural being and of auspicious omen." (Jorge Luis Borges) 🎨 Arnold Böcklin "Silence of the Forest" (1885) #fairytaletuesday #dontgointothewoods

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3 years

“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth-penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words" Prophet of the thousand-faced monomyth Joseph Campbell was born #OTD 1904 #FaustianFriday

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2 years

"Midsummer Eve is called the Witches' Night; and still in many places on St John's Eve they make fires upon the hills" (John Aubrey, c 1650) 🎨 Luis Ricardo Falero "La Sorcière" (1882) #SuperstitionSat #SummerForGoths #ofdarkandmacabre

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2 years

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows." (E.M. Foster) 🎨 Catherine Hyde #owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

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1 year

"To live in a place where I am not, and in a time that is either past or not yet come." (Heinrich von Kleist) 🎨 Macchiati #ofdarkandmacabe #bookchatweekly #bookwormsat

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1 year

"Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may" (Stoker) 🎨 Guy Davis #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre

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1 year

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?” (Dickens) 🎨 P.J. Lynch #faustianfriday #bookchatweekly

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2 years

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.” (Gustave Flaubert) 🖼️ Juris Efneris #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods

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1 year

“My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims...” (Gérard de Nerval) 🎨 Charles Santore #FaustianFriday #Bookchatweekly

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2 years

"That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.” (Ray Bradbury) 🎨 Frank Frazetta #ofdarkandmacabre #Gothtober #31DaysOfHaunting #bookchatweekly

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1 year

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night." (Rainer Maria Rilke) 🎨 Otto Marseus van Schrieck #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #gothicspring

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1 year

"But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him." (Rudyard Kipling) 🎨 Sam Wolfe Connelly #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre #Caturday

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