Witches' Sabbath By Francisco De Goya, 1798 [x]

Enceladus, Icy Moon

Vitány Castle, Vértessomló, 1913. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

from the late 1800’s

“…the heart is an organ of fire.”

— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

H.P. Blavatsky, from The Secret Doctrine

Text ID: The primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine wisdom and perfection, and had always stood for psychical regeneration and immortality.

Petunia-like […] like crushed-velvet black blood.

— ALICE NOTLEY ⚜️ The Descent of Alette, (1996)

𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔲𝔯𝔢 – 𝔄 𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱

Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves The bloody chamber, and other stories

FUSELI, John Henry Swiss painter (b. 1741, Zürich, d. 1825, London) Romanticism The Nightmare 1790-91 Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt

Fuseli did a total of four variations on The Nightmare, probably his best-known theme. The example in Frankfurt is the second variation. Though the motif was not inspired by any specific literary model, it would be unthinkable without a knowledge of ghost stories, especially English ones. The figure of the woman lying asleep or unconscious is extremely elongated and distorted, not because Fuseli could do no better, but in order to visualize the horrible oppressiveness of the gnome crouched on the woman’s breast, a nightmare and incarnation of unconscious terrors. In the gap between the curtains in the background appears the ghostly head of a blind horse, which anticipates the demoniac aspect given this animal especially in later French Romanticism.