Wednesday, June 25, 2014
The Devil Eats the Cure for Human Suffering
The Devil's Bit. Inspired by W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. There is one herb, flat at the bottom, almost as if its root were cut off. It is said that the devil, knowing that part of the root would cure all diseases, bit it off.
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art,
butterfly,
crow,
dark art,
death,
devil,
fairy tale,
fantasy botany,
folk tale,
illustration,
memento mori,
mortality,
painting
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