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Vincent Price and Debra Paget - The Haunted Palace (1963)

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MINIATURIST, Irish Echternach Gospel Book c. 700 Manuscript (Cod. lat. 9389), 335 x 260 mm Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

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Geometric shapes appear below the Megaloceros, a giant extinct deer, in the Lascaux, France, cave paintings, which are thought to be 17,000 years old.

Credit…Alamy

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(c) Stanislav Lunin

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Illustration of the Serpent of Moses at the church St. Ambrose from the Magasin Pittoresque, 1869

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 El Coco

Many Spanish parents spook their children by cautioning them about El Coco, a monster who snatches children away if they misbehave or refuse to sleep. Its origins come from a man named Francisco Ortega (El Moruno) who was sick with tuberculosis in the early 20th century. He solicited help from a Curandera, who recommended he drink the blood of children. Ortega subsequently kidnapped a child named Bernardo in a cloth bag. Today, El Coco is said to still roam the streets with a black cloth bag, seeking disobedient children. Parents warn their children of El Coco using the popular rhyme,

“Duermete niño, duermete ya, que viene El Coco y te comerá.”

In English it's: “Sleep child, sleep now, or else the Coco will come and eat you.”

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Day 13: Favorite Thriller Movie - The Ninth Gate (1999)

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Medusa and Perseus by Doc Zenith

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Medusa Ring by Sofia Zakia

14k gold

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Mondo concludes its collaboration with THE VACVVM to celebrate A24 with The Witch by Jessica Seamans and The Lighthouse by Nicolas Delort. The screen prints go on sale tomorrow, March 31, at 12pm EST.

The Witch is limited to measures 24x36, is limited to 270, and costs $60, while the variant (pictured below) is limited to 120 and costs $80. The Lighthouse 24x36, is limited to 270, and costs $60.

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“Antinous as Osiris” at the Louvre ( first floor, room 5 )

left photography, right photography

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leo’s 3k celebration ➜ @raspberryfingers​

HANNIBAL (2001)

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ab. 1684 Sebastiano Bombelli - Gerolamo Querini

(Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia)

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How Heavenly Fair

Artist : Harry Clarke (1889-1931)

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ab. 1740-1745 Hamlet Winstanley (attributed to) - ‘Admiral Beaumont’, Thomas Beaumont of the Oaks

(Treasurer’s House, York)

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© Billelis