Day 25: Hellhound
Heβs a good boy even tho heβs from hell.
Quick little procreate doodle for today, would have loved to do more linocut this year but time is so tight!
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Anyway, not kidding about the OCD bit. That became very debilitating as a kid for a while.
Such a huge burden to have to carry at that age, to know that the entire nature of reality depends on you holding certain things together.
But it also makes you despairingly stoical. Hellhounds appear & itβs like, Oh you too, OK, sure, why the fuck not.
#hauntedbritain #ocd #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #mentalhealth #childhood #blackshuck #folkhorror #gothic #hellhound #childhoodmentalhealth #folklore
But dogs seemed less trivial.
It wasnβt helped by the fact that my grandparents had a large black dog that liked me, so would follow me around silently from room to room when I went to visit them, to be fair.
The number of times Iβd see it out of the corner of my eye and be like, ThisisnotEastAnglia. ThisisnotEastAnglia.
#blackshuck #hauntedbritain #folklore #ghosts #britishfolklore #folkhorror #mentalhealth #eastanglia #ocd
I'm envious of all the folk at Black Shuck Festival in Bungay this weekend. I'd love to check it out next year.
In the meantime, here is my nod to Shuck with this marvellous ornament I have hanging up by Shuck Zine and Matt Willis
#blackshuck #shuck #demondog #bungay #blackshuckfestival #eastanglianfolklore #blackdog #folklore #shuckzine #folklorenerd
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