John Brosio (American, 1967) - Evening Dancer (2003)

Resting in a summer afternoon (_　_)ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

or something like that

forest floor, 2011

Exquisite 19th-century seashell herbarium from the sold archive of my antique shop, GHOST ERA ANTIQUES

"Mushrooms and Rowan" by Kh. Yakupov (1980)

Тихая ночь. Сергей Данчев, 2020

I knew something was wrong

the day I tried to pick up a

small piece of sunlight

and it slithered through my fingers,

not wanting to take shape.

Everything else stayed the same—

the chairs and the carpet

and all the corners

where the waiting continued.

-Dorothea Grossman

by nicoles_moments

an anthropomorphic mandrake being dug up with the help of a dog tied to its feet/roots

in "pseudo-antonius musa: de herba betonica", latin manuscript, late 9th century

source: Kassel, UB, 2° Ms. phys. et hist. nat. 10, fol. 34v

I hate reading a cool piece of folklore and tracking down its location, only to find out the location has long since been paved over >:(

According to legend, the legendary Danish hero Holger Danske once got a pair of magical glasses from a witch that would allow him to see through anything. He tested them on Nørre Fælled, a well-known right outside Copenhagen, where he laid down and saw straight through the Earth. But when he stood up again, two big holes were left behind, which later filled with water and became lakes.

This map was made in the 1600s, where the glasses-lakes are clearly visible

Nowadays there's just a big dumb hospital in its place, and no sign left of Holger Danske or his witch glasses >:(