#FolkyFriday. Illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Sheridan Le Fanu's story Carmilla. Le Fanu predated Dracula by about 25 years. Interesting psychological #ghoststories.

#FolkloreSunday - One of Henri Fuseli's paintings - The Debutante at the Tate...1807. These women might be high class prostitutes/courtesans. The woman sewing, appears tethered by a lead round her neck. Swiss-born, spend most of his life in the UK. #paintings #PainterOfTheNight

Old mustanger cabin in REMOTE Colorado. #ColoradoHistory #MoffatCounty

Gosh - trying out "X" - formerly known as twitter, and my post won't load! Regardless...if this works...this is the gravesite of Marie Contassot - murdered prostitute. #Denvehistory #ColoradoHistory #WildWest

Story recommendation! NO QUARTER by Kathleen O'Neal Gear. what sets this story apart is the POV of an enslaved woman during the Alamo. @GearBooks #HistFict #books

#FolkloreSunday Queen Anee's Lace - At the center of the flowerhead, is a tiny cluster of dark red flowers, like someone pricked their finger while working lace. Queen Anne (1702-1714) lost 17 children of her children, and sewed to comfort herself.

On the way home from @Western_Writers Conference in Rapid City - stopped by this roadside point of interest. Must go back to this part of Nebraska again soon. #Nebraska #WildWest

#FolkloreThursday Will-O-the-Wisp and Snake by Hermann Hendrich - Romanticism style. The streaks of light, also called “ignis fatuus,” Latin for “foolish fire”. Not sure what the snake adds...but OK....#FolkloreThursday

"Ramblers" in #GoldenColorado approx. 1890. #ColoradoHistory. The Old Golden Courthouse which was on Washington. Golden sure has changed...a lot!!

William Orpen's Rocky Coast of Howth - born in Stillorgan in 1878 - this is a fabulous and moody portrait. He taught painting in Dublin, becoming a famous WWI depicting the war and especially the Somme. #Ireland #Dublin #Howth #Paintings #IrishArt #Artists

@FolkloreThursday - On an art kick lately. "Three Living and Three Dead" 15thC. 3 noblemen suddenly come across 3 corpses, in varying states of decay, but still animated. The dead admonish them to consider the transience of life and to improve their behavior before too late.

#FolkloreThursday #Art - Allegorical Painting of a tired Queen Elizabeth I by Barthel II about 1610. Shows Old Father Time at her right and death over her left shoulder-implying death is near. She actually died in 1603, but showed it later to avoid problems. #Paintings #UKArt