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Hurricane at the Sea (1850) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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letchworth state park ⋇ 23 oct

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Study of Flowers by Leonardo da Vinci

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by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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doing folklore studies on spooky shit is a bit contradictory to my background

I'm like "well this popular haunting story can't be true because if you cross-reference birth and death records from the BlahBlah County Archives with their digitized property records, no little girls died of a FireMurderDrowningPlague in the house between 1880 and 1920"

or "there's no evidence of this supposedly ~traditional~ belief about times for ghost sightings to happen until the 1960s, and that was in published fiction"

or "come on now, that device is just a motion detector and you've got it set up in an abandoned building crammed with hard-to-see flying insects, at midnight, with minimal lights on"

and you might think I'm a skeptic! I get that! makes sense given how I talk about these things!

but joke's on you I'm actually just the most obnoxiously research-oriented hardcore believer there ever was

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Lodgepole pine in the fog

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A Moonlit Night (August Piepenhagen, 1791 - 1868)

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The Dream of Faust (August von Kreling, 1874)

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The Witches’ Sabbath (Eugène Delacroix, 1831-33)

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A Castle in a Winter Landscape (John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1844 - 1906)

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"How like a winter

hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! [...]" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 97

- Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow

"The cold earth slept below;           Above the cold sky shone;                 And all around,                 With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow                 Beneath the sinking moon [...]" - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The cold earth slept below

- Ivan Aivazovsky, Moscow from Sparrow Hills

"And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air." - C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

- Vincent van Gogh, Landscape with Snow

"I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. [...]" - Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush

- Walter Moras, Snowy Forest Landscape

Snow, However Cold - still winter

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'Road in Autumn'. Santiago Rusinol. 1888.

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An Orchard on the Banks of a River by Frits Thaulow

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View of Constantinople (1849) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Figure in a wooded landscape by Joseph Thors

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— Nikita Gill

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The Riverbank at Petit-Gennevilliers (1875) by Claude Monet