In the 1700 and 1800s, vampire legends had quite an influence on political, social and economic discourse. Karl Marx, who enjoyed reading horror tales for relaxation at bedtime, wrote: "Capital is dead labour that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks." He also referred to "the were-wolf's hunger for surplus labour" and stated that "the prolongation of the working day quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour." In an eerie prediction of 'Dracula' , Marx compared industrial relations to the relationship between peasants and "the Wallachian Boyard". The boyard (or aristocrat) he had in mind was none other than Vlad Tepes - otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler, the model for Bram Stoker's Count Dracula. #Gothic #literature #folklore #weird #marxism #socialism #history #books #vampires #vampire #horror

Hier offenbart sich eindrucksvoll, wie sich geologische Prozesse und Erosion über Jahrtausende zu einer eigenen Skulpturenlandschaft geformt haben. Die hellroten und weißen Tuffsteine stammen aus vulkanischem Material, das durch chemische Reaktionen verfärbt wurde.
06.03.2026, #travel #Bulgaria #KardzhaliProvince #Rhodopes #Kardzhali #Zimzelen #PetrifiedWedding #StoneWedding #rockformation #rock #stone #folklore #nature #geology [4]

„steinerne Hochzeit“ nahe des Dorfes Zimzelen
in diffusen Licht wandere ich zur Felsgruppe „Petrified Wedding“. Über den bizarren Säulen ziehen feine Nebelschwaden, und für kurze Augenblicke scheinen manche Konturen menschliche Gestalten anzudeuten. Nach einer alten Legende erstarrte hier eine ganze Hochzeitsgesellschaft zur Strafe für ihren Spott gegenüber der Braut.
06.03.2026, #travel #Bulgaria #KardzhaliProvince #Rhodopes #Kardzhali #Zimzelen #PetrifiedWedding #StoneWedding #rockformation #rock #stone #folklore #nature #geology [4]

More folkloric art of Theodor Kittelsen

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Gennady Dmitrievich Pavlishin, illustration for ‘Folk Tales of the Amur’, 1975
#art #folklore
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