Hist & HistFict & Western Neo-noir Writer-DARK RANGE SERIES, BAD OLD DAYS OF COLORADO and MORE. Interests: hist. preservation, mourning jewelry, storms.
Denver, CO
Joined June 2015
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#FolkyFriday. Illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Sheridan Le Fanu's story Carmilla. Le Fanu predated Dracula by about 25 years. Interesting psychological #ghoststories.
Old mustanger cabin in REMOTE Colorado. #ColoradoHistory #MoffatCounty
#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.
Here's an article I did a while back - the Headless Horseman is more than a #Halloweentale, but has roots in #history #Americanhistory #AmericanRevolution #AmHist
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
@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
#WyrdWednesday - Witches Market in #LaPazBolivia. Still very much a part of everyday life - llama fetuses are buried under the foundations of many Bolivian houses as a sacred offering to the goddess Pachamama. #Witch #Magic #Spells
#FaustianFriday #WalpurgisNight #paintingoftheday #Art Fabulous painting by Anshelm Schultzberg Walpurgis Night in Bergslagen, Grangärde in Dalarna (1896). #Sweden. Traditionally believed to ward off evil spirits April 30th
#folkloreThursday #Oxford May Day Performers in 1916 as WWI raged on...actually, I'm not sure what to make of this. I'm glad for the fun, but the time was so catastrophic. #WWI
I never heard this before - interesting!!! And I visited Bolivia for two months.
During the Spanish conquest, some Bolivian natives believed white missionaries were “k'harisiri”, witches who’ve made a pact with the death god Supay, who could put natives to sleep with their church bells and then kill then and devour their body fat. #Folklore #FolkloreThursday
View from the #SteelworksCenteroftheWest #Museum #Pueblo #ColoradoHistory. These old structures have always fascinated my ever since I recall seeing them as a kid...dark, hulking structures that provided work for a large cross section of Colorado. Great city!
#FolkloreThursday #AmWriting #FortuneTellers Fortune Telling or clairvoyance was a way for Women (and men) to earn a living outside of the traditional boundaries of society. Some had the gift, others...not some much.
#folklorethursday - The Dark Hedges-planted in 1775. Haunted ...altho by whom? The Grey Lady travels the road. Perhaps she is "Cross Peggy" the owner's daughter-a maid who died mysteriously or a spirit from an abandoned graveyard beneath the fields? #Ireland #Antrim #haunting
