I’m yet to return fully as I’m a bit overwhelmed with everything going on in the world on top of my own life being a mad carousel of unforeseen events, but thank you everyone so much for your kind words!
I missed you too guys 🪻🖤🪻
Hope to come up with something interesting to post soon! Cheers!
Thank you 🖤
Happy to see you!!!
GHOULISH GARDENS Step inside a 500 year old gothic garden via the mouth of a mythical #monster reclaimed by nature. The Garden of Bomarzo, or The Villa of Wonders is in Viterbo, Lazio; created in the 1600s in the valley below the Castle of Orsini #GothicSpring
And mine 🪻🐊🪻
I’ve been considering giving it a new life.
Even if it becomes a folklore day of the week popular only between the two of us 🤭
This will now take place on 20 May at 1.30. You can still find details on the site below!
Oval carved ivory spectacle case showing a skeletal death with a dart and a scythe held over the head of a doctor with his spectacles in one hand and an hourglass at his feet. A young person in a tunic is at one side of the case and a swaddled baby at the other. The doctor's hand in on the scythe, trying to stay Death's hand.
#MementoMoriMonday #WorldOptometryDay
Death and the Doctor, carved ivory spectacle case, c. 1500
The doctor holds a pair of eyeglasses in one hand and with the other seeks to stay Death's scythe.
wellcomecollection.org/works/bqx6zzue
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Stylised illustration. A forest clearing with a dark blue pond under a moon surrounded by fractured crescents in the sky. And the water swims the figure of a girl with long white hair trailing and four white wolves. Little creatures with multiple branching antlers walk mid the mushroom and snail undergrowth.
Artist: Tijana Lukovic @tijanadraws.bsky.social
Next Tues! Virtual! Free! Let's talk about our favorite spectral women of NYC! Trailblazers, sensitives, reformers & more... A great #WomensHistoryMonth AND #WomenInHorror Month offering thanks to @untappedny.bsky.social!
#WiHM
Between the rocks a woman in green is bent over washing linen in the rock pool.
In Scottish lore, the Bean-nighe (Fairy Woman) was found in all the lonely places washing the linen of those about to die. If a person caught her unawares, she would tell them all what would happen after life. But if she saw them first, they lost the power of their limbs... 🎨Brian Froud #MorbidMarch
New release for March ~
Moss Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology by Robert Dale Rogers
A comprehensive illustrated guide to bryophytes
Also explains how bryophytes have environmental benefits, such as in remediation of our increasingly polluted planet
#Booksky
Indeed 🤭
If you are born here, you are born to suffer
Thank you so much 🖤
And good luck to you too!!! 🔥
Oh, wow! Let me know when they do – I’ll get it!
Nothing is easy here, so the funniest fact: even after you defend you PhD dissertation here, you will be counted only as “a PhD candidate” because if you want to be a doctor, you need to defend 2.
Thank you! But that’s a bit too soon – it’s only the first step! After that, it must be submitted to the state attestation commission and that’s … scary as I write about things not everyone finds comfortable.
Btw, are you a doctor yet?
Yeah, same here! I’ve just submitted my dissertation to our department 😱🤧
Hope, you are alright though!
I miss Bunika!
Thank you for not forgetting about my SwampSunday! 🪻🖤🪻
Photos of Bald Cypress trees in a swamp, Georgia. Photo by Holt Webb from his book "Vanishing America"
Headless ghosts, colorful lights dancing around cypress knees, burial mounds for Giants... These are only a few of the tales from the Okefenokee Swamp. The dark, tannic water flows in my veins. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #folklore #WitchSky
American Alligator laying in swamp water, Wassaw NWR, Public Domain, https://www.fws.gov/media/american-alligator-laying-swamp-water
Known as "Murder-Logs," the American alligator is a staple of Southern rootwork. Their paws & teeth are prized in luck magic—not just for power, but for the dark, resilient energy of a creature that has survived since the dinosaurs. Truly the ancient guardians of the Okefenokee. #SwampSunday
Okefenokee giant pitcher plant (Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis D.E.Schnell) Photographer:Karan A. Rawlins, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
Photo of Floating Bladderwort, Utricularia inflata. Photographer: Alan Cressler
Behind every sweet scent in the swamp lies a deadly secret. Pitcher plants and Butterworts don't just grow; they wait. Their energy is as cunning as their design—a reminder that in the Okefenokee, even the flora has an appetite. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky
Cypress knees along the St Mary's River, Georgia. Photograph: The Swamp Wytch / R.M. Stanford
To walk among Cypress knees is to walk through a living cathedral. These woody protrusions anchor the trees in the shifting muck of the swamp, embodying a deep, grounded resilience. They are the bones of the wetlands, weathered and wise. They are the Ancestors. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Animism
Image of drowning, distress, and damned souls in and around a boat in very rough waters. Death, holding an hour glass, sits at the back of the boat with an upraised arm, seeming to revel in all the suffering.
#ShakespeareSunday #WorldDayforWater #WorldWaterDay
Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood
With that grim ferryman which poets write of,
Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.
Richard III
The Death-Boat of Heligoland, E. Goodall, 1837
Yale Center for British Art
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
In Chinese lore, the “apricot grove” (杏林) became a sacred metaphor for healers through the legend of Dong Feng of the Three Kingdoms. Refusing payment, he asked only for apricot trees from the cured.
The grove flourished, over 100,000 trees strong, feeding the hungry with golden fruit. 1/2
Stormy sea, rolling waves, a cradle floating on the water with a golden haired baby asleep soundly. a startled black and white cat is clinging to one corner desperately maintaining balance.
Cauls (pieces of the birth membrane) were rare and highly prized by mariners who bought them for quite high prices. They were believed to protect the owner from drowning...
🎨Alma-Tadema #MorbidMarch
the skeleton of a narwhale swimming diagonally forward from right to left, their single tusk pointing to the lower left, the spine angled down towards the right corner. White dots in the water behind the skeleton. Linedrawing, watercolours, white acrylic. Shades of bluegreen and white. Maria Strutz
Dream of the Ghost Narwhale 🤍
#animalMarch
#KleineKunstklasse
#WorldWaterDay 💧
The Stench is Unbearable | Clark's Inspection of Bridgend 📝
A blog post about the fear of disease, filthy housing conditions, and a desperate need for a water supply 💧
hellohistoria.substack.com/p/the-stench...
#Wales #History
Be the change you want to see in the world 💚
#MythologyMonday Familiar spirits & devilish imps by @willowwinsham.bsky.social
Owning familiars, or supernatural spirits, was common among accused witches in England, from Margaret Ley of Liverpool to some of the more famously accused witches of history. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/fami...
FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday
Charles Keeping (1924–1988), “Lucy Westenra”
Illustrations to ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker (1988)
Now that’s a good dream 😈
Tatiana 🪻🖤🪻 Hiiiiiii!
And I’m happy you haven’t left!!!