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300 years of New Orleans history of pirates, hoodoo, and good food is in my blood. Historical fiction is my passion. Ghosts always welcome. 🏳️‍🌈

Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Joined February 2009
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Sailors have always loathed the thought of carrying empty coffins aboard ship. This dread was used to great effect by Bram Stoker in his #Dracula as the Count has the Demeter loaded with a number of earth-filled coffins. #SeafaringSaturday #HappyHalloween
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Max Shrek in full makeup on the set of the silent film Nosferatu.
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Victorian revenant amongst the headstones
The Ghost (1898) by Josef Mandl
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The spider and her glistening web are sources of endless magic for we who practice. She draws money to a home and should never be killed or risk ill luck, while her abandoned cobwebs can wrap name papers and hidden to ward off evil intent like malice and gossip #FolkloreSunday
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Untitled work by Vija Cilmens via WikiArt
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Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it. ~ anon. (American Shipping off Gibraltar by Ivan Aivazovsky) #sailingships #goodfortune #quote #SeafaringSaturday
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From ancient times, dogs have been believed to give us a forewarning of Death's approach. So we find in the 14th c Distaff Gospels that one of the speakers warns: "When one heareth a dog to howl and cry, he might stop up his ears for they do death foretell." #FolkloreSunday
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The Dog by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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There is a witchery in the sea, in its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship and the sailors' dress ~ Richard Henry Dana Jr. (painting by Dillon Samuelson) #sailingships #quote #SeafaringSaturday
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My Gran, of Breton descent, would be sure to hand pick her own apples each autumn. She carefully washed the prettiest to offer on her ancestor altar. These fruits she called the Boud an Anaon, Food of the Dead, and we were never allowed to touch them. #FolkloreSunday
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Apple Gathering by Camille Pissarro. Apples have a special place in the culture of Brittany, France going back to the Celtic roots of the land.
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If in the fall of the leaf in October, many leaves wither on the bough and hang there, it betokens a frosty winter and much snow ~ shepherds' proverb (Sundown Over Newport by Childe-Hasam) #proverb #autumn #SeafaringSaturday
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Who ventured permanently to night's obsidian shore on this day, age 40. Sculpture by Stefanie Rocknak, Boston, Mass. An author never truly dies if their books are still read. 🐦‍⬛
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