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I've had trouble concentrating while writing lately, so I made a writing app to help me focus. As someone with ADHD tendencies, that means more stimulation and feedback. I thought it might help other writers like myself so I put it on itchio as donationware! It's called StimuWrite. The app lets you set a word count goal and has a progress bar that fills up and emojis that appear as you write for a visual reward and feedback. There are 9 backgrounds to choose from and a light and dark mode. Plus a full screen mode, adjustable font, and fun typing sounds! StimuWrite by Eve Harms (click through for more)

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The Serafim or "Fiery Ones" are serpent-like fire angels of incomprehensible size with six wings and sixteen faces. There is one for each of the four winds and they are reborn each new day from the river of light that flows from the Throne of Glory. In Kabbalah they are the higher angels of the first created divine realm of Beriah where they continually burn themself up into nothingness. Image: Tamarah Hayardeni (click through for more)

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Engravings of hybrid monsters from Opera nela quale vi e molti mostri de tutte le parti del mondo antichi et moderni or "Work in which there are many monsters from all parts of the world, ancient and modern" by Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri, 1585. Image: Wellcome Collection (click through for more)

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Kaitar is a demon whose name may be derived from the Hebrew word for summit and is found around mountains and other high places. He serves the demons Magoth and Kore who are described in Mather's edition of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. Image: Eve Harms CC-NC-BY-3.0 (click through for more)

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In Malay and Indonesian mythology, the Langsuyar is the vampiric reanimated corpse of a woman who died while pregnant or giving birth. Described as beautiful women with ankle length black hair, green robes, and incredibly long hands and nails, they feast on the blood of newborn children. (click through for more)

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Depictions of dreams of a patients in Jungian analysis by M.A.C.T., 1970s. Source: Wellcome Collection (click through for more)

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The Antikamnia Chemical Company created these morbid calendars in the late 19th century and early 20th century to promote their pain killers to druggists. While their products were effective, they were revealed to contain a banned—and poisonous—ingredient, acetanilid. Images: Wellcome Library (click through for more)

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Catacomb saints are the lavishly decorated bodies of early Christians that were exhumed from the catacombs of Rome by the Vatican and placed in towns throughout Europe between the 16th and 19th century. The bodies were covered in gold and precious stones and acted as relics. Images: Neitram, Dalibri & Dbu (wikimedia commons) (click through for more)

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The Hand of the Philosophers is an alchemical symbol first appearing in Isaac Holland's Die Hand der Philosophen, 15th century. Each feature of the hand corresponds to a quality, element and/or ingredient of the alchemical process. The thumb features a crown & quarter moon and represents the chemical saltpetre, which Holland calls "The King & Lord of all salts." The index finger features the star with six points, the meaning of which is only available to initiated alchemists, and the salt Roman Vitriol. The middle features the Sun, and represents Sal ammoniac. Above the ring finger is a lantern, representing alum. The little finger represents both the lock and key of the "hand" as well as common salt. In the palm, the fish represents Mercury, and the fire is just fire. Images: Sammlung Alchymistischer Schriften, 18th century, Die Hand der Philosophen, 15th century (click through for more)

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Woodcuts from Des Circkelsz und Richtscheyts, Heinrich Lautensack, 1618. This book was meant as a guide for painters, sculptors, stonemasons, goldsmiths, and others to better understand perspective and the human form. Source: Embassy of the Free Mind (click through for more)

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Engraving from Speculum Sophicum Rhodostauroticum ("The Mirror of the Wisdom of the Rosy Cross"), 1618, an early manuscript on the esoteric order of Rosicrucianism by Theophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, a likely pseudonym of the alchemist, physician, and astronomer Daniel Mögling (click through for more)

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Faust's Höllenzwang, known as The Book of Hell's Charms, is a legendary book kept in a church in Zellerfeld. If you're unlucky enough to be able to read it, it summons the Devil. If he is summoned, pray that you're able to read it backwards or he may take your soul. (click through for more)

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The Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul was comprised of 9 parts, one being the human body that was left behind. This is partially the reason for mummification, to preserve this piece of the soul and act as conduit to deliver offerings to the rest of it. Photo: Gary Todd (modified) (click through for more)

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Betel is a gentle demon described in the Grimoire of Armadel, who is best summoned alone in a forest or secluded garden. He can teach the knowledge that God imparted to Adam, and the virtues of all living things and the laws and uses of those virtues. Image: Eve Harms (click through for more)

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Phyrexian Angel by Sweenoy

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The Book of Thoth is a name given to a number of books purported to be written by Thoth, the Egyptian God of Knowledge. One version of the book is described in the ancient story Setne I. In the story, the book contained two spells—a spell to speak to animals, and one to perceive the gods. The book was originally hidden at the bottom of the Nile, locked and guarded by serpents, until it was retrieved by Prince Neferkaptah. As punishment, he was driven to suicide and entombed with the book. Years later, Prince Setne Khamwas retrieves the book from Neferkaptah's tomb. The prince is seduced by the illusion of a beautiful woman who convinces him to kill his children, and make a fool of himself in front of the Pharaoh. Prince Setne returns the book in fear of further punishment. Image: Hunefer's Book of the Dead, detail with Thoth (click through for more)

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