Coffin Boffin
@DrSamGeorge1
Associate Professor of Research @UniofHerts; Convener @OGOMProject; Botanist & Gothicist: Vampires, Werewolves, Angels, Yōkai. Gothic Fairies, Wolf Children
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MARI LYWD (Grey Mare/ Holy Mary). A Welsh skeletal horse - hard to out goth that for Yuletide!! A horse's skull atop a sack cloth; this wonderful figure accompanies groups of wassail-singers as they travel door-to-door #GothicAdvent
FALLEN ANGELS According to St Thomas Aquinas, one third of the heavenly host (133, 306, 668 angels) are fallen. Angels fall through pride, envy or lust. Images T H. Thayer; Evelyn De Morgan #GothicAdvent
THE INVISIBLE PRINCE The story of a Prince whose love is captured by Genii; she is only visible through a mirror. To free her he has to overcome his rivals, the Princes of Fire, Sea and Air. Exceptional image from H.J.Ford; Yellow Fairy Book, 1894 #FairyTaleTuesday
I am introducing this wonderful eco-gothic talk on Wed 12th: 'Reservoirs, Ecogothic and Climate Crisis: The skeleton of a drowned community arises'. You can join us UniofHertsLiterature free on Zoom at 1.30. All welcome. Details below!!
BEFANA the good Christmas witch delivers gifts down the chimney to Italian children on Epiphany Eve, in a similar way to St Nicholas or Santa Claus. Effigies of her made of rags are hung up & placed in windows by on Twelfth Night #GothicAdvent
Victorian STONE ANGELS; the Christmas decorations inside this gothtastic unitarian church are a bit Jacob Marley! #GothicAdvent
Gorgeous setting for Coffin Boffin ‘s Gothic Yuletide talk. Candles and the sunlight fading through the stained glass definitely made the atmosphere! Thank you 🌲❤️
GOTHIC YULETIDE Join me for a dark journey through Christmas folklore & seasonal mythology at Guys Hospital Chapel, Saturday the 9th December 2023 at 3:00. Looking forward to welcoming you to London Month of the Dead Gothic Christmas!
TAXONOMY OF ANGELS
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
First order: Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones
Second order: Dominions, Powers, Virtues
Third order: Principalities, Archangels, Angels
#GothicAdvent 🎨Evelyn De Morgan's fallen angels
WINTER LORDS
CHYS KHAN, a winter Lord of the Sakha Republic of Northern Siberia dressed in his robes & staff, and DED MOROZ a slavic 'Grand Father Frost' often accompanied at Yuletide by Snegurochka the 'Snow Maiden' #GothicAdvent
KRAMPUSNACHT is here it's 5th Dec. KRAMPUS is the dark other of the kindly St Nicholas. A kind of demonic man goat; this horned Yuletide figure of Austro-Bavarian folklore captures children rather than bringing them gifts! #GothicAdvent 🎨vintage Krampus card