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Bibliomancy: the art of reading the future in books.

Bibliomancy is one of the divination methods that has best resisted the attacks of rationalism, precisely because it offers concrete material for interpretation. Unlike what happens with other mancies, through which the officiant must interpret viscera, reflections, smoke, traces of coffee and other infusions, shadows, polygons, rare geometric symmetries, Bibliomancy uses an element that inhabits almost all the houses of ...

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Gothic novels

Gothic novels. In this section of we will give an account of the best Gothic novels in our library; from classical gothic to southern gothic, passing through dark romanticism and other associated subgenres. Some of these novels have become true classics of Gothic literature; others, perhaps, were forgotten, but all, without a doubt, collaborated to forge the parameters of the ...

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Nix: the Greek goddess of the night.

This goddess sometimes called Nicte or Nix (Νύξ), a Greek word meaning “night”, or Nox, in Rome, with the same meaning, is probably one of the most elusive inhabitants of Olympus. Hesiod comments in his Theogony that Nix was born from Chaos, that is, from an uncertain deity who perhaps represented the first phases of the universe, when the division ...

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Andras: the Basque demon

Andras, the Basque demon. Andras is an ancient Basque divinity, originally feminine due to the double Basque etymology of the root andrawhich means both “lady” and “strength”). Andras has the appearance of an angel, however he usually appears carrying a drawn saber. Perhaps because of this bisexual fusion of violence and justice; she is considered the protector of fanatics and ...

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“The Being in the Moonlight”: HP Lovecraft; story and analysis

“The Being in the Moonlight”: HP Lovecraft; story and analysis. The Thing in the Moonlight It is a horror story by the American writer J. Chapman Miskeoriginally published in the January 1941 issue of the pulp magazine Bizarre Magazine, and later reissued by Arkham House in the 1944 anthology: Marginalia (Marginalia). The interesting thing about Being under the moonlight is ...

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Bestiary: dictionary of mythological beings

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Modernism love poems

Modernism love poems: Love (LoveDelmira Agustini) Love in the hospice (Love in the AsylumDylan Thomas) word of mouth (word of mouthDelmira Agustini) From afar (From afarDelmira Agustini) Devil incarnate (Incarnate DevilDylan Thomas) The intruder (The intruderDelmira Agustini) The Vampire (The VampireDelmira Agustini) It was in passing (It was in passingDelmira Agustini) Inextinguishable (InextinguishableDelmira Agustini) Intimate (IntimateDelmira Agustini) Intimate (IntimatesD.H. Lawrence) ...

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The best poems of WB Yeats.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great Irish poets; as well as a mystic strongly interested in the epic and Celtic mythology of his land. It is impossible to approach the poems of WB Yeats without clarifying that this author was the exclusive figure of the Irish literary renaissance of his time. Among other interests, he was a ...

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“Only” Edgar Allan Poe; poem and analysis

“Alone”: Edgar Allan Poe; poem and analysis. Alone is a cursed poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), composed in 1829. Solo was never published during the lifetime of Edgar Allan Poe. The original manuscript is dated March 17, 1829. In February of that year, just a month before its composition, his adoptive mother had died. Edgar Allan ...

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