#tony johannot

[charnel-grounds]

Tony Johannot (1803–1852), “Faust & Mephistopheles”

illustration from ‘Le Faust de Goethe: traduction revue et complète, précédée d’un essai sur Goethe par M. Henri Blaze,’ 1847

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[nosferatu-roberteggers]

Tony Johannot, “Smarra” (1845)

“Many Newfoundlanders are familiar with the Old Hag tradition and define it as did a university student about twenty years of age: “You are dreaming and you feel as if someone is holding you down. You can do nothing only cry out. People believe that you will die if you are not awakened”. […] In the definition, the experience is called “a dream” from which the dreamer must be “awakened”. In the narrative, “being hagged” is equated with “having nightmares” […] being hagged is a bad dream. […] “the Old Hag” and often “the nightmare” are understood to be applicable to both an experience and a feature of that experience, that is, the attacker [witches, demons, vampires, etc.]. The experience is understood by many to be a state that is different from ordinary dreams but for which there is no good alternative word.”

A long-standing tradition of [medical explanations] also exists, usually either indigestion or “stagnation of the blood” […] Galen, the great physician of the second century A.D., first explained this experience as a result of gastric disturbances.”

— David J. Hufford; “The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assaults Tradition” (1982)

“Beware his shadow. The shadow covers you in nightmare. Awake, but a dream. There is no escape. Pray. Pray.”

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Tony Johannot - Drawing a funerary portrait, illustration from ' Mademoiselle de Montsabrey' by Jules Sandeau.

[thefugitivesaint]

Tony Johannot (1803-1852), ''Le Diable Boiteux'' by Alain René Le Sage, 1840 Source

[philoursmars]

Il y a une petite quinzaine, je suis allé avec Julien et Katie, au Louvre-Lens pour une expo temporaire : “Animaux Fantastiques”. Une très belle expo ! Ici des sphinx (et des sphinges)

Gustave Moreau - "L'Egalité devant la Mort"

Tony Johannot, illustrateur pour le livre de Charles Nodier - "Smarra - ou - les Démons de la Nuit"

Ernest Christophe - "Le Baiser Suprême"

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[obsidian-sphere]

We [...] fought it out in the middle region of the air. art by Tony Johannot from Le diable boiteux by Alain-René Lesage, 1840.

[weirdlandtv]

Illustration by Tony Johannot for Voyage où il vous plaira (Travel to Wherever You Please) (1843).

[baganslover]

Faust by Tony Johannot