[theinternetarchive]

compass and sun dial of silver; overall: 6.4 cm; germany c. 1700-1750.

[thebellavita]

[juunipupu]

Knights in Love, wholesome version

[ketubahring]

Jewish Water Demon 🌒

Drinking from natural bodies of water at night can trigger a terrifying danger linked to sudden blindness, caused by a demon called שברירי, Shavrirei.

The Talmud gives a very serious warning against this, but if you absolutely must drink, these are the instructions to do so as safely as possible:

If someone is with you, you are told to speak out loud and name yourself as you ask for water.

If you are alone, the text provides a protective incantation that shrinks the demon’s name step by step:

שברירי ברירי רירי ירי רי

The demon can be weakened by shrinking it into nothingness through sound.

This Shavrirei warning appears as part of a larger Talmudic “danger instructions” cluster, where the rabbis preserve very practical sounding steps alongside demon language, which is part of what makes it feel like a real folk manual embedded inside a legal text.

The remedy matches the fear so perfectly. The danger is invisibility and confusion in the dark, and the response is to force clarity into the moment by speaking out loud, stating who you are, and then doing something that feels like verbal exorcism by dismantling the name itself until it is too small to hold power.

Shabbat Shalom.

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"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.

The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."

from @dustseasons on instagram .

[alex-or-lex]

i wish i was a beautiful woman (remembers i am a beautiful woman) i wish i was a CONVENTIONALLY beautiful woman (remembers normative beauty is boring) i wish i had powers

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[randyhag]

A study of my little Parisian angel

[woodlandwanderland]

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

[blksouthernfemme]

Lebohang Kganye’s Ke Lefa Laka: Her-Story, a series of digital photomontages where she has inserted herself into old photographs of her mother who has passed

[sonimage1965]

Sergio Larrain

Valparaiso（1963）

[wildflowerdaysi]

The first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker, published on May 26, 1897

[restourchemistry]

Biceps are fun 👀😂

If you ask me, there is nothing better 🫡

[disgustinggf]

[enchantedbook]

"The Silence of the Forest" (Das Schweigen des Waldes), by Arnold Böcklin, 1896.

[jamesusilljournal]

This is Where it Ends, Mats Tusenfot, 2012

[mioritic]

"Your little Wifey's hand"

Cabinet card, via thanatos.archive on Instagram