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Image by Edmund Fitzpatrick
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Image is from the "Tacuinum Sanitatis," a medieval handbook on health.
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Just as people used to inform their bees of a bereavement, the same courtesy was shown to favored plants. A little scrap of black cloth would be fixed to the stem so they could grieve rather than pine away waiting for the person who would not return. art Elizabeth Keyser
GHOSTLY & VAMPIRIC BRIDES image from La morte amoureuse (The Deathly Lover), 1836; Mihály Zichy - A kísértetek órája (The Ghost Hour), 1880 #GothicSpring
UNDEAD WEDDNG In 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (1992) Lucy Westenra is buried in her bridal gown; thus she undergoes a death wedding awakening as the bride of Dracula; the Victorian mourning gown itself uncannily resembled a bridal dress in reverse, complete with veil #GothicSpring
#FairyTaleTuesday #GothicSpring
'Apple tree, apple tree, hide me,
So the old witch can't find me
If she does she'll break my bones
And bury me under the marble stones'.
(From 'The Old Witch: Joseph Jacobs/art William Wiesner)
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
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FAIRY BRIDE In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. A decadent nod to the power of the fae #GothicSpring #FairytaleTuesday
Image is a Sami sun symbol.
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Image by Angel Dominguez
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Image is a pinax (votive tablet) from Epizephyrian Locris, Italy.
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Image by Sasha Silvala
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THE DUSKY BLUEBELLS
In and out the dusky bluebells
I am your master
Bluebell woods are hazardous and full of fairy woven spells. You may be pixy-led or may never come out again. Is there not something sinister in the words of this Scottish singing game about bluebells? #GothicSpring
🎨Froud; Rheam
Image is Finnish actress Mimmi Lähteenoja as Louhi.
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Image by Jean-Baptiste Monge
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Photo by Ansgar Koreng
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Image is foot tracks and teeth marks allegedly made by Gef.
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THE MAN WHOM THE TREES LOVED ~ W. Graham Robertson's illustration for the story in Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories, 1912. Depicts man in communion with trees in forest.
‘Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.’ ~ The Man Whom The Trees Loved, Algernon Blackwood.
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"By some curious trick of the imagination the whole scene came to life before him... the ancient streets were filled with shadowy figures."
— Algernon Blackwood, Ancient Sorceries (1908)
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"It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils... that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
#GothicSpring
