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"His playing awakened dark things..." - Sax Rohmer
Virgil Finlay - Tchériapin
(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - July 1951)
#virgil finlay#tchériapin#sax rohmer#famous fantastic mysteries#pulp art#horror art#demons#evil spirits#art#illustration
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Wara ningyô (straw doll) kept at Tono Museum.
Those effigies were once hung on ropes (michikiri) by roadsides and village entrances to ward off evil spirits bringing pestilence (疫病神 yakubyôgami). They were sometimes accessorized, like this one bearing a daishô (katana set) and a fearsome (oni?) face mask.
Waraningyô are also a staple of folk magic alike voodoo dolls, especially those related to eerie uchi no toki mairi ("Ox-hour shrine visits", ie witching hour).
#japan#art & craft#straw doll#wara nyngyô#japanese culture#magic#witchcraft#evil spirits#disease#yakubyôgami#疫病神#uchi no toki mairi#Ox-hour shrine visit#folk culture#ancient belief
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From our stacks: "A tense moment in the Balinese Temple Ballet. The subjects chosen for representation by the temple dancers of Bali are very sensational and highly charged with emotion. The favourite sources of the ballets are the Hindu epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, both of which abound in dramatic situations. One of the girl dancers is here seen in the clutches of a long-haired, long-clawed evil spirit, who in the end appropriately meets with defeat. The performances, usually given in the daytime, are enacted by the side of a temple building or else against a natural background of jungle green." From Manners and Customs of Mankind. An Entirely New Pictorial Work of Great Educational Value Describing the Most Fascinating Side of Human Life. Edited by J. A. Hammerton. Over Fifteen Hundred Photographic Illustrations from All over the World - and twenty-Seven Plates in Color. Volume One. London: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., n.d. (c193-?)
#evil spirits#bali#dramatic situations#in the clutches#books#balinese temple ballet#ballet#tense moment#book#old books#library books#masks#costume#detroit public library
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To celebrate the winter solstice, Latvians disguise as animals, gypsies, or devils, and go house to house singing & dancing. This brings luck & chases away evil spirits.
(Photo via Spekozols)
[Strange Company]
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“Our personal mythologies intermingle with the myths of the land. We become part of a place and its history. And even when we do not originate from a place, dwelling with intention helps us be of a place. We become local. In other words, to dwell with intention is an act of homecoming.”
― Solstice, The Earth Spirit Hearth and Home
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The girls' first meeting with the Carpathian evil spirits (o^▽^o)
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#pulp art#art#artwork#mystery#necromantic#necromancia#spirits#evil spirits#horror#terror aesthetic#vintage pulp art#return of the living dead#apparition
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SPIRITS (1990)
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Something speaking through a group of children
#high strangeness#thepalecrawlers#interdimensional#spooktober#spooky#demonic entity#demons#demon#evil entity#evil spirits#scary stories#scary#demonic possession#collective unconscious#psychic abilities#psychic medium#telepathy#halloween
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#The Shining#1980#80s#Stanley Kubrick#Kubrick#director#filmmaker#master#Stephen King#thriller#horror#ghosts#haunted#evil spirits#redrum#murder#Jack Nicholson#Shelley Duvall#Danny Lloyd#great#awesome#movie#cinema
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#frankincense#evil spirits#green witch#lunar witch#witchyvibes#gemini#witchy blog#magic#witchcraft#baby witch
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Apparently in China peach wood (Along with the rest of the plant) is believed to have properties that repel evil spirits, a little similar to silver in European legends or iron for both European fae and West Asian/Middle eastern Jinn. Taoists sometimes keep swords made of peach wood because of this. This made me realize something. If you took a peach wood stick, and attached studs to it of both silver and iron you'd end up with a club or staff (or mace, flail etc.) that would have the weaknesses of many kinds of supernatural creatures while still retaining effectiveness as a normal weapon (peach is a hardwood and silver's poor edge retention doesn't matter for studs). You could even keep adding new stud materials to get something ridiculous that affects over 120 catalogued folkloric monsters. Since you just need a few little studs you could even get some really expensive materials like meteoric iron (a thumb tip sized meteorite can still cost like 10-20 bucks I think). I could somewhat feasibly make a weapon that affects every monster ever thought to walk the earth, from vampires and werewolves to jinn and jiangshi and even mankind.
#folklore#mythology#evil spirits#text post#monsters#clubs#mace#quarterstaff#staff#flail#clubbing#blunt weapons#peaches#superstition#spirits
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Manuel Breá Rodriguez - Das Schloß der versklavten Seelen
cover art from Geister-Krimi #25, 1974.
#manuel breá rodriguez#das schloß der versklavten seelen#geister krimi#german horror pulp#cover art#pulp art#horror art#demons#evil spirits#art#painting
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In the light of certain events (musings of a German protestant and - protester.)
October has passed and November has come.
Many Protestant Christians, not only in Germany, celebrated Reformation Day.
Many Catholics of today celebrate All Saints Day.
But more and more people focus on Halloween, that has come to us from Ireland via the USA.
Yesterday they knocked at my door again. And loud!
Terrible to look at. But the voices so - childlike.
Seriously:
These days there are completely different spirits that are really threatening.
Arsonists under the mask of respectability.
I have a text for you by the Bavarian artist Simon Pearce.
Read it, like it and pass it on. Thank you!
"The light is still on at Hitler's.
In fact, it has never really gone out.
The window was only tightly closed for a short, quiet time.
Only now and then, almost shyly, barely audible, there was a whisper...
You hardly noticed it and thought to yourself:
“What the hell? There’s still a light on.”
The light is still on at Hitler's. Now they step to the window.
Now you see them, now you hear them... these are not ghosts.
They stand there very proudly and loudly,
lighting fires and crackling.
And their threat is very clear:
“WE’RE GOING TO VOTE AGAIN!”
The light is still on at Hitler's.
Reason, where are you? Where?
Come out and help... and turn it off. ...
otherwise it will set the whole house on fire...
#thoughts of today#thoughts of the day#in the light of certain events#reformation day#all saints day#halloween#spirits#evil spirits#simon pearce#adolf hitler#german history#lessons of history#fascism#our world today#awake#be aware#think about it#watch out
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The Catholic Church has reported a surge in requests for exorcisms. Is this evidence of a rise in demonic possession, or is it simply a media-fueled phenomenon?
#exorcism#demons#demonic possession#evil spirits#mental illness#hysteria#ancient#history#ancient origins
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[ OneeChambara 2 / Zombie Hunters 2 (PS2) - CD Store (NoPlay) ]
#OneeChambara 2#Zombie Hunters 2#お姉チャンバラ#PS2#PS2 music#PlayStation 2#NoPlay#D3 Publisher#Tamsoft#suspenseful VGM#evil spirits#cursed object
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vibrant Halloween pumpkin
#striking#original#striking and original#design#adventure#discovery#vibrant Halloween pumpkin#vibrant#Halloween#pumpkin#horror#rich color palette#blues#purples#soft greens#dreamlike atmosphere#dream#like#atmosphere#evil spirits#jack-o'-lantern#jack o'lantern#mangelwurzel#rutabaga#Jack's wandering soul#halloween pumpkin#Pumpkin design
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