She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Anti-AI.
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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz
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friends, the time has come... i must depart these plague-stricken lands and return to the moors where i shall become a banshee
In art, literature and lore spectres and staircases are frequently linked as the latter are liminal places connecting zones in homes, in gardens, in minds, in nightmares...
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Published earlier this week 'Rhymes With Orange' from Hilary Price and Rina Piccolo. These two always make me smile.
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“I have seen phantoms that were as men
And men that were as phantoms flit and roam.”
- Thomson
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In Irish folklore, the dullahan is an evil spirit that appears as a headless man, often with his severed head under his arm. Sometimes the dullahan rides a black horse, and sometimes he drives a death coach from the graveyard to the door of someone soon to die.
🎨 F. O. C. Darley
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idea for the future: sell tickets to the destruction of that fucking ballroom and retire the national debt. an extra fee to actually swing a ball peen hammer myself & knock down a section? Don't mind if I do!
Thomas Rowlandson, 'Giving Up The Ghost', 18th Century. Always good fun, Rowlandson. I'm not sure who the One Too Many is - the physician who may have incompetently poisoned him, the undertaker (?) or Death himself. Can anyone make out the words on the label and floor?
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In Chinese folklore, the tides are not moved by moonlight alone. They are pushed by the drowned.
Known as Tide Ghosts or Tidal Workers, 潮鬼 / 潮工, these spirits were once people who died in the water. After death, river gods record their names and bind them to the waves. 1/2
