In Middle Eastern lore, the devil sneaks the serpent into Paradise by appealing to the peacock's vanity. In this image of Adam and Eve's expulsion, the peacock is seen giving Adam a ride out from Paradise🐍🦚Behold the devil himself on the lower left corner😈 #FolkloreSunday

The mythical bird #Simurgh on an island, surrounded by water🌊✨ #FolkloreSunday 🎨from a 13c beastiary from modern-day Iran

Originally, #Tarot decks for designed for card games, not divination 🔮✨ 🎨The #devil card from a 16c deck😈#MythologyMonday

#Mars and #Jupiter are in #Gemini, approaching a rare #conjunction✨For Geminis, this is no time to be wary and prudent. It's time to be bold and win your battles🔥 🎨from a 14c Arabic ms. Jupiter is in yellow (lower left) and Mars is the warrior with the severed head👹

Each night of the week, Bahram Gur visits one of his seven lovers and receives spiritual guidance as well as carnal love💞On Saturdays, he is to be found at the black pavillion, governed by Saturn🪐🖤 🎨16c illustration for Nizami's Khamsa #FairyTaleTuesday

Mortals on the Sirat bridge to paradise✨The righteous will cross and the rest will fall into the flames of hell🔥 🎨from a 17c Ottoman eschatological text 👹#WyrdWednesday

Queen Bilqis in the court of Suleyman, surrounded by angels and djinns; beasts and birds🦚 🎨from a 16c Persian ms from Shiraz #FolkyFriday

Rudaba lets of down her hair for her lover Dal from her beautiful palace ✨#SacredGeometry #FolkyFriday 🎨from a 16c illustration for Firdawsi's Shahnama🖤

The #fullmoon in #aquarius tonight✨ 🎨shows Aquarius; from a 14c Arabic treatise on #astrology #ManuscriptMonday

In a Turkish folktale, a djinn gives a man an apple and tells him to share it with his wife, so they may have the child they long for. Thinking this is nonsense, the man eats the whole apple and gives birth to a donkey-head 🍎✨ #FairyTaleTuesday

After Alexander the Great had djinns build a wall around Gog and Magog, he left behind two men to make a racket so that Gog and Magog wouldn't try to infiltrate the earth, fearing that there's still an army outside🎷🥁#WyrdWednesday

A page from a 15c Turkic ms shows the Prophet visiting hell with the angel Gabriel✨Sinners are shown in flames, being fed poison by hell's guardians🔥 #LegendaryWednesday

In Anatolian lore, jins are said to inhabit thresholds, especially those that open to bathrooms. To be on the safe side, always step over the threshold 🧿✨ #FolkloreSunday 🎨 From a 19th c Persian book of wonders😈

In Middle Eastern lore, the inhabitants of the mythical Saksar island have human bodies and dog heads🐶 🎨from a 13c Arabic book of wonders✨ #MythologyMonday #ManuscriptMonday

Behold the sinister trio in the lower right corner--devil, serpent, and peacock 😈🐍🦚 The story goes that the devil tricked peacock to allow him access to paradise which he entered hiding inside the serpent's mouth #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday

A femal djinn emerges from the roots of a sacred tree 🌳#FolkloreSunday 🎨from a 14c Persian book of wonders✨

Those who lay their eyes on the Serpent of Laughter (Mar-ı Kahkaha) laugh themselves to death🤣😵‍💫 🎨from a 16c Ottoman book of divination shows people approaching the serpent with a mirror that is supposed to offer protection✨#FairyTaleTuesday

The sleep paralysis demon 😈The symbol on the upper left side denotes his spell✨#FolkyFriday 🎨from a 16c Ottoman manuscript on divination and fortune telling✨

Arab geographers placed the mythical island of Waqwaq in the Sea of China🌴The island was inhabited only by women who reproduced by growing on trees✨ 🎨from a 14c Arabic book of wonders✨ #MythologyMonday

The devil kissed the demon-king Zahhak on his shoulders, and two serpents issued from the kisses 🐍🐍If cut, the serpents would grow back, and Zahhak was forever cursed💔 🎨detail from a 16c illustrated Shahmanah from Tabriz✨ #FairyTaleTuesday