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49. Dracula Now this one's a classic. The epistolary format, the clash between superstition and science, the old vs. new, the monstrous villain, the issues with sex and gender on the edges of the narrative - well you can see why it worked, why it kept on working, and why it still does.

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DMmikedavis.bsky.social

12. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Modernity and superstition fight, neither of them win. Often imitated, rarely duplicated. Having personally lived through an industrial revolution, Twain wasn't 100% sure of its benefits - but didn't think the past was so great either.

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As fun as real Vamps would be it was tuberculosis. We've all heard of witches in Salem but New England also experienced a widespread Vampire panic caused by superstition and misunderstanding TB. (3/3)

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ADalexdrace.bsky.social

Religion especially targeted (apostol, călugăr, creştin, păstor, proroc, sluji, staroste), also superstition (basm, zodie), traditional family structures (cumătru, cuscru) and the feudal order (breaslă, clacă, conac, crai, haiduc, logofăt, mazil, vornic)

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[CW: abuse, COCSA, grooming, ableism, bigotry, misgendering, harassment ] I'm just.... how do I describe my emotions right now... feeling not exactly happy... ah well, it's yet another story.... Superstition time: one particular furry character is responsible for my academic success and holy […]

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Dstuallen.bsky.social

He played the drums on superstition. If he can’t see a bit he is a god.

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Annual Halloween warning: DO NOT LET YOUR BLACK CATS OUTSIDE!!!! There are many cases of black cats going missing or ending up severely injured during the October months due to superstition. It's not worth the risk! #cats#blackcats#staysafe#psa#catlover#animals#pets

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Hhelioscopepdx.bsky.social

PORTLAND: Guy Colwell book release and signing! Sunday Oct. 13, 4-6pm Floating World Comics @floatingworld.bsky.social#pdxcomics

Flyer for the signing
An obsessive painter, working away for years in near secrecy, now reveals a magnum opus to the world — author and subject, intertwined. We are excited to host a book release for Guy Colwell's first full graphic novel in 33 years - Delights.
We see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latter's most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Bosch's life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych "The Garden Of Earthly Delights," are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Bosch's time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce.

In Colwell's version of Jheronimus van Aken (Bosch's real name), he is an artist paid well by local dukes to paint a vision of the world before the fall, but will the religious leaders of his village see it as celebrating God's creation, or fatally corrupted by sensuality?
WHO: Guy Colwell
WHAT: Delights book release and signing
WHEN: Sunday Oct. 13, 4-6pm
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 1223 Lloyd Center

"Painter and underground cartoonist Colwell turns the commissioning of The Garden of Earthly Delights in late 15th-century Netherlands into an epochal struggle between faith and doubt, superstition and reason. ... a thought-provoking venture into a time when art had life-or-death consequences." — Publishers Weekly
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