“Nearly all had one leg which was longer than the other, or very long arm.”
The city curious. 1920.
Tag: horror
Cecilia Campironi (Italian, based Rome, Italy) – From Many Mani series, 2016
QUELL
[verb]
1. to suppress; put an end to; extinguish
2. to vanquish; subdue.
3. to quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.).
Etymology: from Middle English quellen, Old English cwellan, “to kill”; akin to Old Norse kvelja, “to torment”, German quälen, “to vex”.
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Original: Quiet the Night by Brooke Shaden
This feature: “Serpents”
Several works of Henry Justice “H.J.” Ford, highlighting pieces where dragons, snakes, and other serpents are present.
Illustrated for various volumes of Andrew Lang’s “Fairy Books.”
From Der Letzte Bombardier by Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, 1886.
“Blood. Mad blood. A blood so strange and feral replaced the one I had.”
— Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “Transfixed,” c. 1936
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