steph

“Christina Rossetti, 'Goblin Market' (1862)
→ highly erotic, Victorian, cautionary-tale poem about temptation and lust: totally Pre-Raphaelite!” - Rebecca Marks, Substack

persephone and the pomegranate

“oleanders are poisonous, she remembered; could they be guarding something?” (Haunting of hill house)

pomegranate seeds

pomegranate

“In English folklore, fairies are mysterious, sensual, and morally ambiguous. They wreak havoc on humans by playing tricks, infiltrating their dreams, and even making them fall in love (or lust).”

amanita pantherina mushroom — poisonous