pmikos:

Saint Christoph as dog-headed man

St. Christoforos – russian ikon
(Byzantine tradition)

corinthian-girl:

Antoine Bourdelle – Dance of the Hanged Men

tenebrum:

Born today … Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, October 15, 1844, Röcken, Germany.
“I wished to conquer the feeling of a full irresponsibility, to make
myself independent of praise and blame, of present and past”
“Today I learned by
chance what Zarathustra means; star of gold. This chance enchants
me” (Letter to Gast, 20th May 1883).

tiny-librarian:

The “White Lady” is a ghostly apparition of a woman dressed all in white, who is said to appear whenever a descendant of the House of Habsburg is about to die.

According to folklore, she was seen at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna the night before Marie Antoinette was executed. She was also reported to have been seen by some near Mayerling, where crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide, and by his mother, Empress Elisabeth, shortly before she was assassinated.

les-sources-du-nil:

Charles Yarnall Abbott (1870-1938)

The Darker Drink, Autotype (halftone), 1908

The title of the work, alluding to the act of succumbing to death, is taken from stanza XLIII in Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of The Rubaiyát of Omar Kháyyám:

“So when the Angel of the darker Drink
 At last shall find you by the river-brink,
    And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to quaff – you shall not
    shrink.”