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Cottagecore but make it dark

artist Nathalie Lete painted her house full of flowers during quarantine

Toad - Gouache & Watercolour

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Midsummer Eve by Edward Robert Hughes

🕯 𝕴𝖒𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖈 / 𝕭𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖎𝖉’𝖘 𝕯𝖆𝖞 🤍

Luis Ricardo Falero - The Poppy Fairy

Here are some cottages in the forest to brighten your day!

Glasswing Butterfly (Greta Oto), by ceferreira.

Witches going to their Sabbath (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero

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Silviu Sadoschi 

🥀Hags🥀

🥀 These fairies look like old women, and the term is often used interchangeably for spirits as well as for human crones with magical powers. Folklore often holds them responsible for nightmares, and some stories say they sit on sleeping men’s chests, causing a feeling of immobility known as sleep paralysis. In other tales, hags transform themselves into beautiful young women and sneak into men’s bedrooms at night as succubi to have sex with sleeping mortals.

🥀 Hags turn up  in the myths of many cultures, as the Irish banshee, Eastern Europe’s Baba Yaga, and Japan’s Onibaba. Perhaps the most familiar hags in the English-speaking world are three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, who chant “toil and trouble”. while stirring their strange brew. Although folklore acknowledge their powers as healers, sometimes linking hags with Hecate and the nature goddesses of winter, neither mythology nor modern literature has much good to say about these beings. Like witches, hags for centuries have been portrayed almost universally as ugly, evil creatures who consort with the devil and other demonic forces. This misconception may have contributed to the murders of countless human women and children in Europe and the American colonies from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

ART BY: RALUCA LOSIFESCU AT https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ly0ZY

SOURCE: FAIRIES BY SKYE ALEXANDER