My winter wolf leaves no prints in the snow. He waits for my heart to thaw.
#ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #worldgothday #bookchatweekly
A swarm of wild butterflies and dragonflies danced in the sky, floating and dipping. Spring, the season of renewal, had sprung early ...
~ Samantha Vรฉrant
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๐จDuy Huynh
#Walpurgisnight takes place on the night of 30th April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany & hold revels with the devil. #BankHolidayWeekend #Beltane #FaustianFriday #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat #WalpurgisNacht Image: Joseph Tomanek
A Woman at a Fountain With Rising Moon (1866) by Ferdinand Knab (German artist, lived 1834-1902). Romantic ruins. #gothicspring
#Dracula was published on 26th May 1897. Here are some views of Whitby Harbour where he landed, #BramStoker having been inspired by going on holiday there.
#Art by Atkinson Grimshaw
#WorldDraculaDay #BookChatWeekly #FolkloreThursday #FaustianFriday #Victorian #GothicSpring
One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake.
โ Jack Handy
art by Stephen Mackey
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'When life throws thorns, hunt for roses.' Anonymous
#RoseWednesday #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #BookChatWeekly
The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee...
Emily Dickinson
#WorldBeeDay #BookWormSat #gothicspring
Art by Brian Serway
The Badger Funeral, by Dick Vincent. According to ancient lore badgers bury their dead in an almost ritualistic manner, like a funeral. The badgers themselves make sounds akin to human weeping around the body of their dead brethren. #FaustianFriday #GothicSpring