'Look At Those Flitting Ghosts' illustration by John Leech #PhantomsFriday

'I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.' ~W.B. Yeats 🎨'The Silver Apples of the Moon' Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh #BookWormSat

rabbit spirit #joncarling #drawing #art

"... and whatever walked there, walked alone.” (Shirley Jackson) 🎨 Aleksandra Devic #phantomsfriday

Takato Yamamoto, Picture of a ghost, Chilling loneliness in the dead of night, 2020 #PhantomsFriday

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a strange tale of a ghostly sake drinking binge. One day an antique dealer discovered a very realistic painting of a ghost. That very day a customer agreed to buy it for ten times what he had paid, saying he would return the next day with the money. #PhantomsFriday 1/6

Gloriously #Gothic view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey, #Monmouthshire, by Cotman (early 19th C). Here in 1895 a lady visitor said she made contact with the #ghost of a Saxon soldier who'd died nearby fighting for Henry II without receiving a proper burial. [1/2 #PhantomsFriday #NationalGothDay

'O’er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.' ~Thomas Hood 🎨'The Palace of the Spirits' by Romolo Tessari #PhantomsFriday

The Forest Fairies by William M. Timlin

ARE BEES FAIRIES? In Ireland a belief exists that #bees are fairies, who are in turn souls, making connections between fairyland & the land of the dead (Lady Wilde 1887). Wirt Sikes also speaks of 'swarms of bees, which are supposed to be fairies in disguise' (1880) #WorldBeeDay Image: Rackham

🖼️ Dick Twinney

Richly and gorgeously purple, an embellished dress that is beginning to show the signs of transition towards the silhouettes of the #1910s. Art nouveau influences appear in the decorative details #palazzopitti #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Illustration by Henry C. Pitz to accompany the poem 'Faery Magic', 1921.

The Four Strings of a Violin by Edward Okuń, 1914

The threshold is an engine of magics. The threshold is a temporary temple. As a world-stepper, the witch knows this territory as her own. Where others find only the uncertainty of transition, she knows power of possibility. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

The hard-working bumblebee #worldbeeday

Evgeniy Karpenko (Ukrainian Artist, born 1966) "Meditation", 2024. Colour Pencils on Black Cardboard, 50 × 35 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Elsa Lanchester in a publicity still for The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

“The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again…” (Robert Smith / The Cure “A Forest”) 🎨 Liga Klavina #wyrdwednesday

Actress Theda Bara 📷 by H. Mishkin, 1919 #WyrdWednesday

The magic carpet

The Little Magic Bird #joncarling #drawing #illustration

'Mrs Owl taught them the language of all that squeaks, swims, flies or runs. She taught them to listen to the message of the wind, and to see the approach of spring even before the first snowdrop.' 'Children of the Forest' by Elsa Beskow #OwlishMonday

The Witch by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer #Caturday

'This forest looks the way Nightingales sound.' ~Grace Hazard Conkling 🎨The Nightingale by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite #BookWormSat

Nadine's Botanical Tête-à-Tête

Give me paths marked by Fox Brides. Give me feral magics. Give me navigations from shore to hedge to hill where each stepping is a conversation with the spirits of place. – #EmilyCBanting #FolkWitchFriday

Her niche #drawing

'We tread an eerie road across the moor Where shadows weave upon their ghostly looms, And winds sing an old lyric that might lure Sad queens from ancient tombs.' ~L. M. Montgomery 🎨Robert McGinnis #PhantomsFriday

Reposting for #wyrdwednesday

Silence Intérieur by Carlos Schwabe #OwlishMonday

'Summer Is Icumen In' by Herbert Arnould Olivier

'In the green woods that surround me -ding dong… ding dang- the nacreous sea-green mermaids sway and sing.' ~Alfonsina Storni [trans: N Friedman] 🎨Helen Jacobs #BookWormSat

FAERYLAND is often depicted as a shadowy spirit world, one which is said to be in perpetual twilight. Victorian painters understood the appeal of dark fairy enchantment well, as shown in the work of Francis Danby & Gustave Doré #GothicFairies

A Special Seed #joncarling #drawing #art

UFOs, ghosts and archaeology all come together in a great account from #Llandetty parish, in #Powys. It was first recorded in 1813. One night a man saw near a chapel a light 'as big as a Church Tower', which shrank to 'the size of a small star', alternating between the two. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday

'Ghost In Garden', Carel Victor Morlais Weight, 1980. #PhantomsFriday

'Red Vision' by Leonor Fini #PhantomsFriday

✨Night and Her Daughter Sleep by Mary L. Macomber, 1902.

“The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.” (William Holman Hunt) 🎨 Johan Egerkrans "Lady Troll"

The Princess by Hanna Pauli, 1896

Poster for Irish folk horror film 'Fréwaka' (Writer/Director: Aislinn Clarke, 2024)

A Jane Eyre inspired thing… pencil drawing of a Highland path transmogrified into odd Victorian lass #bookillustration

Emma Løffler (Danish, 1843–1929) "Umbellifer and Blackberry near a Field", 1896. Oil on Canvas, 90 × 68 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Daughter of the Fisher King, the Grail Maiden has many names, among them Elaine, Amite, and Elizabeth, and she holds the Holy Grail until one so pure as to claim it arrives. In some tales, she is the mother of Galahad, Lancelot not knowing this. #WyrdWednesday 🖼️: Rackham

Fairy Godmother by Sarah Stilwell Weber #WyrdWednesday

A detail from 'Spring' by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Certain paths are blessed with feral mystery. They pull you along them. Tease with a sense that around their next bend will be ghost collision, sprite glimpse. We walk them without loneliness for we keep step with invisible companions, walk the storied richness of the land. – #CLNolan

Garden in Nara, Shiro Kasamatsu.

GWAENARDEL vampiric #fairy from the Isle of Man who is specifically attracted to poets, feeding off their blood; in exchange she gives them inspiration & a magnificent but short life #gothicspring #vampire 🎨Michael Thomas