@wunderkammertales
Storyteller, Mother of #WyrdWednesday and your purveyor of daily little #darkspringtide tales for the next weeks. For those of you who feel artsy or litsy in general - find my blog here: https://wunderkammertales.blogspot.com/
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Lykke til!
"And one May eve, in the whispering, auspicious dark, she walked into the trees and did not return.
They did not speak of what might walk back out eventually.
But now, in March, it was here."
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They called her bonne femme when they needed her, far, far worse things when they thought they didn't... and then, there was her goat.
Our 11th #darkspringtime story is a witchy tale from Burgundy on the brink of the Great Revolution - read it below.
🎨 Dappermouth
Louis Wain #art
Cat's nightmare (1907)
💙🔥💙Circe the Enchantress - by Edmund Dulac
#MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday
And a bit more from yours truly about William Etty, who was indeed a bit more than a party piece for latter day art historians, can be found on my blog below
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“I affirm that the simple undisguised naked figure is innocent. "To the pure in heart all things are pure."
First significant British painter of nudes William Etty was born #otd 1787 in York.
🎨Hero and Leander (1829)
Brownish drawing of a skeletal death with a quiver of arrows at his side, touching a bagpiper on the hat and piercing his bagpipe with a dart of death.
#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead #InternationalBagpipeDay
Death stabs the bagpiper with his dart of death.
De Kapelle der dooden, 1741
An illustration of a cat sat on top of a skull. There are potions and books and paper strewn around, and a knocked over bottle of ink with some little inky pawprints leading to the culprit.
The witch’s apprentice 🐾
Cupid on a pile of skulls - because that's what love always comes to in the end. Thank you for that cheering thought, Gustave.
#MorbidMarch #GustaveDore #gothic #skulls
Wren and Snowdrops, woodland, painting.
🖼️ Raymond C Booth
"There’s a song in everything,
sleeping things that dream and dream.
Make the world strike up and sing!
Simply say the magic meme."
("Wünschelrute")
High Romantic homme de lettres Joseph von Eichendorff was born #otd 1788
🎨 Eduard Leonhardi “Waldeinsamkeit” (1859)
Acrylic painting of a barn owl with a human third eye, sitting in a hole in a tree.
An oldie from 2017, another tiny painting. Utilizing the third eye again, a human eye, referencing our connection to nature.
"Sight"
Acrylic on canvas
4" x 4"
#art #painting #surrealism #owls #birds #nature #contemporaryart
A Ghostly Skeleton Trying to Strangle a Sick Child; Representing Diphtheria
A Ghostly Skeleton Trying to Strangle a Sick Child; Representing Diphtheria
#Art by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1912
a silhouetted young girl leads a massive (like really massive) black dog/wolf over a sharp red landscape and a black sun
pet
Standing bug talks to man wearing a suit across cloth covered table, has one leg of some kind of tea cosy, tea cabin table, patterned carpet floor, illustration
Hello Tuesday.
'I am the Bahum Bug,' it declared. Edward Gorey.
"Once, when the frost melted, Penn woke, the God residing on top of Mount Penna. Cruel summers followed ice and snow, back then, when the Liguri worked iron in the valleys and traded with the Etruscans.
So Apuana, Dama d’Inverno, was given a task old as time"
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Winter was long, winter can be cruel, but summer can, too, and on the slopes of Monte Penna in Liguria, a lone figure plays the flute each year, melancholic over the passing snows of yesteryear.
Meet Apuana, Dama d’Inverno in our 10th #darkspringtide tale and read her story below
🎨 Cambellotti
This vibrant woodblock print by the renowned artist Bakufu Ohno (1888–1976) depicts three red sea bream (tai) swimming gracefully among underwater rock formations. In Japanese culture, the red sea bream is a celebrated symbol of good fortune and longevity, often served at weddings and auspicious occasions. The two larger fish occupy the upper and middle sections of the composition, while a smaller one swims near the craggy, lichen-covered rocks at the bottom. Ohno’s mastery of the shin-hanga style is evident in the delicate color gradations on the fishes' scales, which transition from a deep, rosy red near the fins to a pale, silvery pink along the bellies. Tiny blue speckles adorn their backs, mimicking the natural shimmer of the species. The surrounding water is rendered in a soft, atmospheric cream tone, with delicate white tubular sea anemones or corals emerging from the dark, layered rocks. The artist’s signature and seal are visible in the upper left corner, completing this elegant and serene study of marine life.
A woodblock print titled "Red Bream" (Tai), created by the renowned Japanese artist Bakufu Ohno (1888–1976).
Art by • Mark Zug
I keep my eyes peeled for this one at the moment:
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“ Monsters & Dames”
🎨 Mike Mignola (2019)
Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
~T.S. Eliot
🎨Tuesday Ridell
Shaun Tan
'Owl' - Yukio Katsuda, 1973.
#OwlishMonday 🎨'Owl' - Yukio Katsuda, 1973.
Wyrdlings!
It’s Douglas Adams’ 74th birthday and we take you to all the nice ones, with:
“Wyrd Travelogues and Going Places Wynderful"
as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic.
Don’t Panic!
Come, gather and tell us tales of journeys into the unknown, from myth, lore and lit!
Any time soon! The place has some rather charming other inhabitants as well... saw even terrapins there... marooned by someone, probably.
A squiggle of toads might be? We put it to the test... next time I'm up there I try to capture one on camera :-)
No idea, unfortunately. But they seem to have a partner and doing quite well otherwise, too! Haven't seen any hawks here in the parks so I suppose a cat or a marten came too close at some point.
