Explore tweets tagged as #GothicSpring
Balder (ᛒᛅᛚᛏᚱ [ˈbɑldz̠]), Norse god of joy, light, and summer sun. He is known for being friendly, attractive, and impervious to harm, though mistletoe proved to be his Achilles’ heel. #MythologyMonday #gothicspring
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FAIRY WEDDING In 1915 Frances Evering & Dotty Buchanan married in full fairy garb. What a wonderful way to celebrate #GothicSpring and the power of the fae! #FairytaleTuesday
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Don’t kiss the beautiful woman who offers you a meal and a bed in her sumptuous chateau hidden deep in the woods. By morning light she'll be a monster, and her house but a pile of rocks and bones. —Terri Windling #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #bookchatweekly
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#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
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A Woman at a Fountain With Rising Moon (1866) by Ferdinand Knab (German artist, lived 1834-1902). Romantic ruins. #gothicspring
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For #WorldPoetryDay some lines from Coleridge’s ‘Ancient Mariner’: Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. #GothicSpring 🖼 G. Doré
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SPOOKY TREES inspire their own folklore; 'The Screaming Tree', Epping Forest; 'Enchanted Pixie Tree', Cheshire; 70ft Beech tree, Bury St Edmonds, nicknamed 'The World's Scariest Tree' #GothicSpring
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My winter wolf leaves no prints in the snow. He waits for my heart to thaw. #ofdarkandmacabre #gothicspring #worldgothday #bookchatweekly
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WIDDERSHINS means moving counter clockwise; this inversion of the natural order was associated with the devil and witchcraft. Witches delight in flying widdershins around North Berwick church in this image #GothicSpring
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WEREWOLF GARGOYLE Amongst the chimera at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Moulins is this sublime #Werewolf gargoyle cheekily baring his teeth and dating back to the 14th Century #gothicspring @reviewwales
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#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
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SNAPDRAGON SKULLS who knew snapdragon seed heads resemble tiny skulls! Just found the ones I saved in the autumn; perfect for #gothicspring #botanicalgothic
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MAY DAY marks the Celtic festival of BELTANE; half way between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. The veil between our world and the shadow world will be extremely thin and it's exactly half way to Halloween🎨Rheam 1903 #GothicSpring #MayDay2024 #WyrdWednesday
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