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#DarkArt , #GothicLiterature , #Folkhorror - use #ofdarkandmacabre to tag your tweets daily & #FaustianFriday for the weekly topical event. Hosted by @dirkpuehl

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Darkest Dearlings! I can't be online due to an unforeseeable appointment for the rest of the week and #ofdarkandmacabre / #faustianfriady RTs will unfortunately not take place for the time being! I keep you posted! Thank you for understanding & kind, dark regards, Dirk
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The details of "Charon and Passenger Cross the River Styx" by Pandora Young. #FaustianFriday #GothicAesthetics
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"For beings more extraordinary than owls inhabited the old castle." (Knatchbull-Hugessen) 🎨 Gustave Doré #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre
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"Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible." (John Milton) 🎨 Babs Webb #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #owlishmonday
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“We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.” (Arthur Machen) Darklings! While we frolic in #FaustianFriday 's Folk Horror - don't forget to tag our friends #BookChatWeekly , #Superstitiology & #Gothicspring !
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In Central Europe forests dwell the Moosweiblein, moss people. Small, brushy & green, they lead peaceful lives and sing at midnight. Until #Yuletide comes: The Wild Hunt is after them and they have to hide in tree stumps marked by wood cutters with 3 crosses #Yulefolklore
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"We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.” (Hawthorne) 🎨 Harry O. Morris #bookwormsat #dontgointothewoods #31daysofhaunting #gothtober
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An old English proverb: "If you wish to live and thrive, Let the spider run alive." 🎨 Stephen Mackey "Immortelles" (c 2017) #SuperstitionSat
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“How did it get so late so soon?” (Dr. Seuss) December already, Darklings! "White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!!" for good luck. 🎨 Jane Keay
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"Blossom by blossom the spring begins." (Algernon Charles Swinburne) 🎨 Tuesday Riddell #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #gothicspring
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"The wolf, the serpent, the crow, the owl, The demons of sea, of field, of flood, I can run or fly in their forms so foul, They come at my call from wave or wood." ("The Hymn of Heloise" Lewis Spence) 🎨 Athene Noctua #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly
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"What makes night within us may leave stars.” (Victor Hugo) 🎨 Catherine Hyde #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre
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The belief that witches can shape-shift is present in many cultures. In the Scottish Highlands, for example, people used to believe that a witch could take the form of a hare. 🎨 Annie Stegg "The Rabbat" (2020) #mythologymonday
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Darklings! Tomorrow we celebrate #WorldGothDay as one of the High Holidays in the #ofdarkandmacabre -verse and thusly, our theme for this week is (un-)naturally "Listen to Them — the Children of the Night – Gothic Literature" Looking forward to the sweet music you'll make!
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And so ends our week of "Walpurgis, Wichtel, Wolpertinger" with #bookchatweekly , #bookwormsat & #superstitiology - and now go off and celebrate #Walpurgisnacht , Darklings! #ofdarkandmacabre returns tomorrow with a new theme and, of course, another #picturewantsastory game!
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"The Windcats run in the corn, the weathercats are in there" was a Northern German saying when strong winds shook the fields - and they were said to take children who came picking cornflowers. #ofdarkandmacabre #Superstitiology 🎨Maggie Vanderwalle
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Darkest Dearlings! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! for Good Luck on the first day of August, Ernting, as the Germans once called the "Harvest Month", Lughnasa and Lammas tide. 🎨Jane Keay
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Darkest Dearlings! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! for Good Luck on the month's first and April Fool's Day! 🎨 faunabelle
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Darkest Dearlings! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! for Good Luck on the month's first and #MayDay ! 🎨 Mariko Ando
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"The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!" (Thomas Hood) 🎨 Ksenia Vysotskaya #bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre
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Where blackthorn grows near its sister tree, the hawthorn, it is said that a gate to the Otherworld and the fairy realms can be found. 🎨Arthur Rackham (1920) #FairyTaleTuesday #dontgointothewoods
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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, though it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess." (Hans Christian Andersen) 🎨 Ivan Bilibin #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat
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“The people’s dreams are wandering afield; they pass the seas and mountains of faëry, threading the intricate passes led by their souls... they know their way to witches’ chambers and castles of enchantment" (Dunsany) 🎨 Colin Stimpson #BookWormSat
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"High over our heads, high above on the steep cliff stood Sir Kato's castle." (Astrid Lindgren) 🎨 Johan Egerkrans #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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"And thou shalt not lose thy name, but shalt be always called Blodeuwedd" (Mabinogion) 🎨 Erica Williams #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #gothicspring #bookchatweekly
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"So she went on the whole day until she came to the middle of the wood... and there stood a lonely house. Suddenly she heard a voice cry Turn back, turn back, thou pretty bride, Within this house thou must not bide, For here do evil things betide" (Grimm) #bookwormsat
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"This forest is a dangerous place," said the birds in unison. Now that I'm here, it most certainly is" 🎨 Asya Yordanova #owlishmonday #dontgoingtothewoods
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Tales of werewolves having made a pact with the devil to gain their supernatural abilities peaked during the 16th century in Western Europe, along with gruesome tales of mayhem they caused among their neighbours 🎨 Jakub Rozalski #Fairytaletuesday #Gothtober #31daysofhaunting
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In lakes and ponds and wells of Britain’s West, there dwell the asrai, elfin creatures, translucent & beauteous, though some look more like true waterfolk. They lure humans, with gold & promises of love, but coarse language or the sign of the cross drives them off #SwampSunday
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“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.” (Rainer Maria Rilke) 🎨 Xavier Ortiz #bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre
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“This house had been empty for a great while... There were many things said about it, and all were of evil" (William Hope Hodgson) 🎨 Fritz Schwimbeck #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #gothicspring
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Tonight is St Thomas‘s Eve when you can not only divinate your future spouse but are supposed to carouse and celebrate to keep uncanny away. Ghosts walk after dark and the Wild Hunt rides. It’s the first of the Rauhnächte, the rough nights! #GothicAdvent #MythologyMonday
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Attesting the role of owls as harbingers of death as well as their dual nature as spirits since antiquity, Jacob Grimm records several of their more expressive cognomens, such as "Mourn-Mother" or "Corpse Chicken" #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #Superstitiology #GothicSpring
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"Fear and flee the wolf; for, worst of all, the wolf may be more than he seems.” (Angela Carter) 🎨 Mori Raito #bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre
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In Gaelic superstition, kelpies, unlike water-horses, are not vicious and flesh-eating, but tricky. They haunt streams and torrents and do their mischief in a quiet way, such as taking hold of the water-wheel of mills, and holding them still #Superstitionsat #31DaysofHalloween
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In the Carrs, in the North East of England, there dwells the Tiddy Mun. A bog spirit tall as a child with the look of an old man. When they drained his swamp, he threatened all with the plague and the villagers went and filled it up again, came the next new moon. #SwampSunday
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Death dances on #MaundyThursday in Catalan Verges since 1666 - a macabre form of Passion Play with the medieval danse macabre motif actually acted out in the village square by five players in their Dansa de La Mort costumes #Superstitiology #GothicSpring #ofdarkandmacabre
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“There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest" (Angela Carter) 🎨 Irisnawer Art #fairytaletuesday #dontgointothewoods #BookChatWeekly
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In East Slavic fairy-tales, the Owl is sometimes called “Widow Owl”. She lives in the woods, knows everything and has a good relationship with Baba-Yaga. 🎨 Weronika Kolinska #ofdarkandmacabre #dontgointothewoods #OwlishMonday
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"Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest." (John Keats) 🎨 Charles Santore #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #gothicspring
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"A groan right beside his ear - an owl perhaps. Or was it, maybe, the groan of a lost soul" (Andrei Bely) 🎨 Jackie Morris #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #31daysofhaunting #31DaysofHalloween #owlishmonday
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While the Ceffyl Dŵr, the Welsh water horse, seems to be a friendly sort in the North, mixing with local mountain ponies, the further south you go, the more the creature becomes a shapeshifting night terror, assaulting unwary travelers 🎨 Jana Heidersdorf (2015) #SwampSunday
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"Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs, And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;" (Walter de la Mare) 🎨 Franz Wacik #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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Harrison Cemetery in Kinston is haunted by William “Grancer” Harrison, also known as “the dancing ghost”. The specter has a habit to dance alongside his tomb to the sounds of a fiddle that comes from nowhere. 🎨Miles Cleveland Goodwin "Skeleton Dancing" (2021) #WyrdWednesday
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Julegeita (the Christmas goat) is a critter with a goat head and the lower body of a human that lives in the mountains and visits our world only between Christmas and New Years Eve. It likes pooping down kitchen chimneys to spoil people's porridge #GothicAdvent #WyrdWednesday
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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..." (Arthur Machen) 🎨 Karl Strathmann #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #owlishmonday
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"The owl shriek’d at thy birth, an evil sign." (Shakespeare) 🎨 Jan Mankes #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #superstitiology
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There is a tale from Llyn Du'r Ardu in Gwynedd of a local lad's marriage with a Gwragedd Annwn, a water spirit. They met by the lake shores and almost lived happily ever after - until he touched her accidentally with iron and she disappeared. 🎨 Kim Myatt #SwampSunday
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Witches are rumoured to be especially active during #Yuletide and out to harm livestock. For protection, farmers put iron knives in mangers, the goodwife blew into cattle’s nostrils, made the sign of the cross over them and brooms were put before stable doors. #GothicAdvent
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On the edges of the Pyrenees, in ponds and springs, there dwell the aloges, beautiful water spirits. While an aloja is generally friendly with mortals, helping and even marrying them sometimes, they can do harm and abduct men and children to their watery realms. #SwampSunday
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"According to Boguet, writing in 1598, the witches of Eastern France were usually marked on the left shoulder, and the mark was in the shape of the foot or footprint of a hare" (Margaret Murray) 🎨 Clare Lindley #ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat #superstitiology
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"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk- roses, and with eglantine : There sleeps Titania sometime of the night" (Shakespeare) #ofdarkandmacabre #bookologythursday
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Best known as ingredient and namesake of c19’s top artists’ poison, artemisia absinthium, hallucinogenic wormwood, has a long standing relation with myth and folklore, as herb of bitterness, to divinate, to banish and to draw spirits, maybe even green fairies #GothicSpring
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Darkest Dearlings! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! for Good Luck on the first of the month and the Summer heat of the Dog Days in July! 🎨 Anita Inverarity
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"Skilful your arm to wield the sword of death" (Schiller) 🎨 Albert Lynch #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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"And thus the Treasure Valley became a garden again..." (John Ruskin) 🎨 Robert Paterson #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #owlishmonday
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Darklings! Our foray into the Celtiverse end tonight, but we set out for maybe even stranger place tomorrow with a new #ofdarkandmacabre theme and, of course, a new #picturewantsastory game! 🎨 Max Ernst
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"... how the old ladies had got at least on to good terms with the uncanny beings which haunted the castle.” (E.T.A. Hoffmann) 🎨 Lucy Hardie #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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“...through the loveliness and power of her dream world she was now, in her old frock and botched shoes, very likely the loveliest, mightiest and most dangerous person on earth...” (Isak Dinesen) 🎨 Kate Baylay #BookWormSat
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Nowadays we see julenisser as cute Christmas gnomes but not long ago they were taken seriously: An old tale tells of a farmer who forgot to stir Christmas porridge for a nisse, so that nisse didn't notice butter in it, got angry and suffocated all his cattle. #GothicAdvent
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"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries" (John Masefield) Darklings! Welcome to an avian #FaustianFriday on a grey, augurial #GothicSpring morning, full of bird magic! RTs between 10am - 10 pm CET 🎨 Andrew Davidson
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Ceffyl Dŵr, the Welsh Water Horses, certainly has a malevolent streak, drowning or trampling their victims to death. Some even entice lone travellers to ride them, then take off into the air only to dissolve into a mist 🎨InkYami #swampsunday #gothtober #31DaysOfHaunting
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"... the old and holy figure of Romance, cloaked even to the face, comes down out of hilly woodlands and bids dark shadows to rise and dance, and sends the forest creatures forth to prowl..." (Dunsany) 🎨 Sidney Sime #bookologythursday #ofdarkandmacabre #folklorethursday
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Darklings! The Mothers of #WyrdWednesday asks us to dream another little Midsummer Night's Dream with them tomorrow, so let's not disappoint them! And if you are so inclined - your unsummerly #ofdarkandmacabre tweets are likewise welcome here, goes without saying 🎨 Rackham
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Wrydlings! It's the summer solstice this week so on #wyrdwednesday let's explore the wyrd side of summer! Sizzle us with seasonal rituals & lore, tales of wanderlust, midsummer mishaps & strange occurrences that roll in with summertide. We await your findings! RTs begin at 9/10am
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In Sakha, Winter starts when the Bull of Cold gets born from the Arctic Ocean. His huge transparent horns get broken month by month and when the bull dies and his corpse is washed back into the Ocean, spring comes. 🎨 Innokentii Koriakin #WyrdWednesday #GothicAdvent
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Her anger is fierce and harsh as the north wind that whips up the sea, Dark Beira, mother of all the gods and goddesses in Scotland. And she reigns the world in Winter undisputed, an old crone now who once was a maiden in spring. #GothicAdvent #FairyTaleTuesday
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Infamous Habergeiß, a non-seasonal corn demon, is said to take the shape of a tawny owl, along with the latter's role as harbinger of death. 🎨 Anita Inverarity #owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #superstitiology
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Built on a set of swamps, St Petersburg is often believed to be a cursed city, some of its parts even more so than others: Ekateringof, for example, used to be known as “Devil’s wasteland” where people still see strange shadows and will-o'-wisps #SwampSunday #31DaysOfHalloween
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"Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild" (Yeats) 🎨 Tomm Moore #GhoulMoon
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"...he saw a new world that was the haunt of owls" (Shahnameh) 🎨 Carl Strathmann #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #owlishmonday
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"This is a love letter to a nightmare.” (Leonora Carrington) 🎨 Leonora Carrington "Orplied" (detail, 1955) #WyrdWednesday
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2 years
French fairy tale: The youngest daughter of a Green Man agrees to marry the Raven King, but must not look at her husband for 7 years to break an enchantment lying on the royal corvid, fails in the last night and lands the Raven King in even deeper trouble #fairytaletuesday
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For the Darklings! From this day on, #FaustianFriday is #ofdarkandmacabre ! #FaustianFriday is still our main event! And we tweet & RT #Darkfolklore , #Folkhorror , art, literature and all things #Gothic every other day. Tag your beautiful dark tweets with #ofdarkandmacabre !
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1 year
Darkest Dearlings! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit! A dragon-lagomorph for Good Luck! on the month's first, properly shaped for a wyrm-themed #WyrdWednesday and here to guide you into a delightfully darksome #gothicspring Follow the White Rabbit! 🎨 azukioohashi
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3 years
With Death all-to present in the Middle Ages a new artistic genre arose: The Totentanz or Danse Macabre. All walks of life were shown going to the grave or rising from it to dance a memento mori, of how fragile life & how vain all glory is. #31DaysOfHalloween #WyrdWednesday
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1 year
Darklings! #ofdarkandmacabre 's paschal graveyard shift ends tonight! New theme and #picturewantsastory game tomorrow! 🎨 Cassie Allen
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"Suddenly wings began to grow and her nose became horny and hooked and she assumed all the properties of a night bird. Then rising on full wing, with a fearful cawing, she flew out of the window in quest of her lover" 🎨 Naz #owlishmonday #superstitiology #ofdarkandmacabre
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1 year
“Old stories often turn out to be true” Darklings! This poets'-myths-themed week climaxes on Arthur Machen's birthday in “Of Willows and Wendigos – Folk Horror-inspired Tales, Films & other Works of Art” as #FaustianFriday topic! RTs between 10am-10pm CET 🎨 Katsikarelis
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“There is a vast melancholy in the canticles of the wolves, melancholy infinite as the forest" (Angela Carter) 🎨 Adrian Baxter #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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1 year
"Then who shall close my Lady’s eyes And who shall fold her hands? Will any hearken if she cries Up to the unknown lands?" (Elizabeth Siddal) 🎨 Valentine Cameron Prinsep "Il Barbagianni" (c 1863) #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly #prerapahelite
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2 years
In Scotland, it was believed, that if a plant was growing with a twist contrary to the movement of the sun, it had magical powers connected to the devil. #GothicSpring
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“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.” (Samuel Beckett) 🎨 Aubrey Beardsley #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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2 years
“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...” (Shirley Jackson) Darklings, Tell your tales and share your images of “Phantoms and Demons of the Felines' World” tomorrow for #FaustianFriday We RT between 10 am - 10pm CET
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1 year
Darklings! One extra day with "Walpurgis, Wichtel, Wolpertinger" tomorrow, as we climb up Brocken to dance with #bookchatweekly , #bookwormsat & #superstitiology through the night before Monday, May 1st and the new #ofdarkandmacabre theme. 🎨 Adrienne Adams
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2 years
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn” (Rimbaud) 🎨 Pompeo Batoni #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #31daysofhaunting
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1 year
“Then are heard mysterious noises in passages, howls in old, half-ruined towers, shakings of walls” (Alexandre Dumas "The Pale Lady") 🎨 Vania Zouriavlov #ofdarkandmacabre #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly
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1 year
Darklings! With pilgrimages to holy wells being an important part of Lughnasadh customs in the West, #ofdarkandmacabre 's "Lammas" theme this week climaxes into "A Pool Among The Rock - of Bewitched Waters and Sacred Springs" as #FaustianFriday Topic! 🎨Rie Cramer
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1 year
"Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing!" (Edward Lear) 🎨 Michael Thomas #owlishmonday #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly
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2 years
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” (Nietzsche) 🎨 Gustav Klimt "Die Musik" (1895) #BookWormSat
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2 years
"Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest." (William Sharp) 🎨 Barbara Bargiggia #bookchatweekly
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3 years
When the harvest festivities were over, the wolf-shaped Polish corn spirit withdrew to a barn to winter. It came out during Christmas, in form of a man wearing a wolf skin or covered in leaves, or both, known as The Wolf, to collect money & gifts #FaustianFriday #YuleFolklore
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2 years
“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world" (Jane Austen) 🎨 Keizaburo Tejima #owlishmonday #bookchatweekly
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2 years
In some parts of Ukraine, people believed that rusalkas were mortal. According to those stories, they die in winter, and in spring their souls turn into a foam and run down the hills with water, and the wind carries away their bodies turned to ashes. #SwampSunday
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3 years
The Indigenous people of Russia tell legends of those who turn into bears. In one of such tales, known among the Khanty, two old men go into the woods and take the form of bears, so they can hibernate during the harshest time of the year. #YuleFolklore #FairyTaleTuesday
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1 year
"Moreover, they appear as old men clothed in the manner of miners... These are not accustomed to do damage to miners, but they wander in wells and mines and although they do nothing, they seem to train themselves in every habit of laborers" (G. Agricola) #ofdarkandmacabre
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2 years
There is many a malady angered fae can wreak upon mortals, but if a young girl withers away, she is said to be fairy-struck and wanted by a prince in the Otherworld as a bride. 🎨 John Anster Fitzgerald "Nightmare" (c 1870) #FairyTaleTuesday
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1 year
"They have broad wings, a human neck and face, Clawed feet and swollen, feathered bellies; they caw Their lamentations in the eerie trees" (Dante) 🎨 Gustave Doré #ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly #fairytaletuesday
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"Three women were transformed into flowers which stood in a field." (Grimm) 🎨 Harper's Bazar (1904) #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #fairytaletuesday
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2 years
Midsummer Night is a traditional date for Witches’ Sabbaths across Europe! 🎨 Slutfocate #fairytaletuesday #darkgreenweek
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2 years
According to lore from south-eastern Poland, jackdaws resting on a field indicate the devil prepares to snatch a damned soul. #folklorethursday
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"Deadly nightshade is a relative of the tomato; would we, any of us, have had the prescience to decline if Constance served it to us, spiced and made into pickle?" (Shirley Jackson) 🎨 Norman Lindsay #ofdarkandmacabre #bookologythursday
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