strange magnetism

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"The poet's curse also played an important role in traditional Irish society. In former times, poets were attributed mystical and even prophetic powers. The glam dicenn was a form of cursing ritual used by poets in ancient Ireland."

-- Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature, Jane Garry, Hasan El-Shamy

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"(W.B. Yeats) devoutly believed that words were magic charms, endowed with an innate, transcendent power to raise poet and reader directly into a higher realm."

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"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (via mrsclarkkent)

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easter vigil.

photos by http://www.annecroninphotography.com

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from James Schuyler’s “The Payne Whitney Poems”

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"The Merry Cemetery," Romania 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Cemetery

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Putting a Hex on Hitler: LIFE Goes to a ‘Black Magic’ Party in 1941 Read more: Adolf Hitler Gets Hexed: Photos From a ‘Black Magic’ Party in 1941 | LIFE.com http://life.time.com/curiosities/putting-a-hex-on-hitler-life-goes-to-a-black-magic-party-in-1941/#ixzz2z8El0mJ0

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Mothman?

http://the10mostknown.com/10-explanations-about-the-mothman/

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"The Morgue, whose name comes from an archaic verb meaning "to stare..."

- Vanessa R. Schwartz, "Cinematic Spectatorship before the Apparatus: The Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris"

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Salt Farm at Night 

dragging like dead men on the river

  darkness falls on the salt farm

  island shadows are carried on the wind

  soaked fish in water

  white snow fogging the surface

  through a scrapped vessel’s window, the reflection of the river’s darkness

  a stain seagulls left on the cabin floor

  water at night peeling off the scales of fish

  the collarbone of the clouds reflect the distant light of a house in mourning

  eyes come to see the ebbing tide blur the salt farm

and at night evaporate to white

  as a man placing a stone on his injured horse

  sinking it into the river and returning

  here is the landscape that wind might have painted

  spreading the white sound of water like words from the dead

  inside the sea without light, why don’t we call that sound the soul

  red doesn’t spread across the sky, red crosses underwater

  for many thousands of years watch the bitter light of the river rolling

  the water’s internal organs to see

- Kim Kyung Ju, trans, by Jake Levine + Jung Hi-Yeon 

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source: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/st-valentines-many-skulls-assorted-parts

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Melancholics have big bones that contain little marrow, like vipers. They are excessively libidinous and, like donkeys, overdo it with women. If they desisted from this depravity, madness would result. Their love is hateful, twisted and death-carrying, like the love of voracious wolves. They have intercourse with women but they hate them.

St. Hildegarde (via spoliamag)

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is this a goth trick?

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O Afflitissima Madre Maria

A Venetian engraving of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, referred to in the prayer on the right as Most Afflicted Mother Mary