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wertlovehorror · 4 years

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Beatriz la fantasma en la nivela "Del temor a los vivos" fue concebido como una especie de Lydia pero con caracter traquilo, la tragica historia de su suicidio esta basado en una historia real que no revelare por respeto a la familia y no contare hasta el momento de ese capitulo. https://wertlovehorror.blogspot.com/2018/03/del-temor-los-vivos-parte-1.html Si no pueden ver el link no duden en entrar a mi perfil y ver mi blog #writer #escritor #blogger #ghosthistory #cuentosdefantasmas #gothgirl #goth https://www.instagram.com/p/B9PgztEJoKQ/?igshid=1pjz90eqquok4

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huntaphobia · 4 years

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Part 1 is now out and part 2 coming out later tonight!

Baileys Bridge/Sewells Bridge - Voices Throughout The Night

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fueledbyghost · 10 years

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Here's most of the shows Ghost Town has done I think I'm missing a few but most of them are her. :) And there's some shows that haven't happened yet like some of the UK dates and the AP music awards boat party show. Are you ghosts fans of any of these bands they have done shows with?

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ofgraveconcern · 2 years

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Latest Orders completed (part two) Thank you to everyone who ordered over the weekend! at the Darksome Black Sheep Holiday Market @darksomecraftmkt Go to www.ofgraveconcern.com for your own gothic art inspired from history 1348 - 1848 #christmasghost #christmasghoststories #ghosts #ghosthistory #ghost #strangehistory #darkhistory #weirdhistory #artshowcase #christmashistory #historyofchristmas #gothicchristmas #gothchristmas #darkchristmas #darksomevirtualmarket #darkart #darkartandcraft #darkaesthetic #christmasmarket #christmasmarkets #uniquechristmas #halloweeniseveryday #gothicmarket #gothshopping #morbidmacabre #macabreart #macabreartist #oddities #odditiesandcuriosities #odditiesforsale https://www.instagram.com/p/CXMIefsgX09/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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October 5th 1713, birth of French philosopher, writer, and prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment Denis Diderot, best known as editor, and contributor to the ‘Encyclopédie’ founded in 1751 alongside Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The ‘Encyclopédie’ was the first to include contributions from a wide field of authors on a variety of topics. Its skeptical and secular tone with regard to religion, became both a rallying call for the forerunners of the French Revolution, and saw bans by the French Government and Catholic church. From 1759 to 1765, Diderot was the sole contributor, authoring 7,000 articles on a variety of topics. Dying in 1784, his remains were unearthed nine years later by graverobbers, who stole his lead lined coffin, and dumped his corpse, his remains were then transferred to a mass grave. On the same day in 1789, near riot over the lack of bread available in Paris, thousands of women began to march on Versailles, demanding that the royal family including Louis XVI return to Paris, which bowing to the pressure of the march did so, in the process ending the royal privilege of the ‘ancien régime’, which had existed in France since the 15th century. The event is seen as a defining moment in the beginnings of the revolution that Diderot sowed the seeds of. October 8th 1774, death of German Phantasmagoria pioneer, illusionist, and occultist Baron Johann Georg Schropfer. The horror theatre shows later named Phantasmagoria were first developed by Schröpfer in the form of entertainment séances, and the use of magic lanterns to project the appearance of ghosts. Schröpfer would invite audiences into his Leipzig coffee house, where after preparing a magical punch of his own recipe (Continued in the comments). #ghost #history #historymemes #phantasmagoria #gothictales #frenchrevolution #tarothistory #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #mortalsmarket #illustrationdaily #gothicillustration #guillotine #gothichistory #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #ghosthistory #ghostsighting #macabre #macabreart #enlightenmentistherevolution #ageofenlightenment #denisdiderot #sceance #magiclantern #scéance #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #gothictheatre https://www.instagram.com/p/CUxhE47FIDW/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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18th September 1709, birth of English scholar, lexicographer, and one time Ghost investigator Samuel Johnson. Although best known as the author of ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’, published in 1755, Johnson was also the most prominent member of the committee which investigated the 1762 London sensation of the Cock Lane Ghost, in which strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported. William Kent the lodger in the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Regular séances were held and Cock Lane was often made impassable by the throngs of interested bystanders. The house was visited by Samuel Johnson and also Horace Walpole, author of the ‘Castle of Otranto’, the first Gothic novel which was published in 1764. A pamphlet named ‘The Mystery Revealed’ which explained the details of the case was also published the same year, its authorship likely attributed to Johnson’s friend playwright and poet Oliver Goldsmith, best known for his 1770 poem ‘The Deserted Village’. 20th September 1803, birth of English novelist, story writer and playwright Catherine Ann Crowe, writer of The Nightside of Nature, published in 1846. Inspired by German writers, the book gives the reader chilling anecdotes of ghostly events, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena. The book became her most popular work, attempting to find a scientific, or, ‘psychic’ explanation of supernatural sightings and occurrences, during the height of the spiritualism movement. In February 1854, Catherine Ann Crowe was discovered naked in Edinburgh one night, (continued in the comments). #ghosthunting #ghostart #ghostartwork #ghostsightings #ghosthistory #darkhistory #ghostbooks #gothichistory #gothictales #gothicvictorian #victoriangothic #victoriangothicstyle #regencygothic #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #darkromantic #darkromanticism #historicalillustration #gothicillustration #historymemes #macabremonday #macabremondays #samueljohnson #castleofotranto #horacewalpole #candleart #candleartist #poltergeist #halloween #halloweendecor https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDKuZyFlfQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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August 9th 1799, Abner Blaisdel of Machiasport, Maine, first hears knocking noises coming from his cellar. By the following January, the knocking has progressed into a female voice which proclaims, “I’m the dead wife of Captain George Butler, born Nelly Hooper.” The ghost of Nelly Butler became the first documented ghost case in America, and by February was being witnessed regularly by the Blaisdel family and visitors from the surrounding towns, including Nelly’s father. One witness described her appearance as “a mere mass of light. Then it grew into a personal form, about as tall as myself…and the glow from the apparition had a constant tremulous motion. At last, the personal form became shapeless, expanded every way, and then vanished in a moment.” By the end of 1799, she had appeared in front of 100 witnesses, who all swore testimonies to her paranormal existence. Her last appearance took place in July 1806, when she appeared to the Rev. Abraham Cummings, who had disbelieved the sightings, and had discouraged members of his congregation in believing the existence of spirits. Once Nelly Butler had convinced the skeptical preacher, she was heard from no more. Cummings recorded his experiences in “Immortality Proved by the Testimony of Sense : In Which is Contemplated the Doctrine of Spectres and the Existence of a Particular Spectre Addressed to the Candor of this Enlightened Age”, published in 1859. All art shown is for sale on the website: www.ofgraveconcern.com Follow @ofgrave.concern for more gothic tales from history #ghostart #ghoststories #ghoststory #18thcentury #18thcenturyhistory #ghost #ghosting #18thcenturystyle #gothicromance #gothictales #paranormalhistory #ghosthistory #phantasmagoria #paranormalsightings #paranormal #paranormalactivity #mainelife #mainehistory #ghostsighting #ghosting #ghostly #ghostillustration #gothiccandles #gothicillustration #darkillustration #historicalillustration #ghosted https://www.instagram.com/p/CShUvj5H4z6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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Over the weekend I stayed at the 1680 house built by John Brewer In Ipswich MA. Having no paranormal encounters to relate, and questioning why some houses despite being hundreds of years later than this 17th century New England house, have activity; I came upon an incidental explanation recorded by the homeowner when the building was being restored. The home owner related finding 17th century shoes in the floorboards, and being advised to leave them there, as they would stop the spirits who owned them from roaming the house. I had heard of the use of buried iron, and witch bottles hidden in houses to ward off evil, but never shoes in the floorboards. Was this a common practice? Yes it apparently is, a practice that the Puritan’s who settled in Ipswich in 1634, brought with them from England, continuing a practice that by the 17th century, that was already three hundred years old. Evidence of this comes from a shoe that was found in the choir stalls of Winchester Cathedral, which were installed in 1308. The practice continued from this time up until the end of the 19th century in Britain, and upto the 1930’s in the United States. The question is therefore why? The placing of shoes is a form of ‘Apotropaic’ magic, the transference of energy into an object in order to deflect or ward off evil, or misfortune. The practice is thousands of years old, and by the time of the Black Death, forty years after the shoe was placed in the choir stalls of Winchester Cathedral, a burial rite at the time involved lining the coffin with ash, possibly from the fire of the victim’s home before placing the corpse inside. This ash practice has been found in Black Death cemeteries in London, (continued in the comments) #ipswichma #newengland #newenglandhistory #17thcentury #puritan #puritans #colonialhouse #folklore #shoehistory #apotropaic #folkmagick #folkmagic #folkcustom #folkcustoms #ghosthistory #hauntedhouses #historicalhouses #ghostsightings #witchhistory #newenglandwitches #salemwitchtrials #witchtrials #witchart #witchartist #witchbottle #folkloreart #folklorearts #strangehistory #oddhistory #weirdhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CNknjdWHY5b/?igshid=17qct3f5n1mg1

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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3rd April, 1783, birth of American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat Washington Irving, best known for his short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which is one of the earliest examples of American fiction, written in 1820. The influence for the story began in 1798, during an outbreak of yellow fever in Manhattan, where his family sent him to Tarrytown, New York. It was in Tarrytown he became familiar with the nearby town of Sleepy Hollow, with its Dutch customs and local ghost stories. Four years after writing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irvine was in London, where he met Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. They both shared the friendship of the American actor John Howard Payne, who offered his hand in marriage to Mary in 1826, but she refused. Payne then tried to persuade Irvine to propose to her, although there is no evidence whether this proposal took place. Mary never married after the drowning of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley despite numerous proposals, and so it is likely that Irvine’s proposal would have also been rejected. 4 April 1774, death of Irish novelist, playwright and poet Oliver Goldsmith, best known for his novel ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ (1766), and his poem ‘The Deserted Village’ (1770). Attending Trinity College in Dublin, he was expelled in 1747, along with four fellow undergraduates, for the attempted storming of the Marshalsea Prison in London, known for its incarceration of the poorest of London's debtors. Settling in London in 1756, Goldsmith held various brief jobs as an apothecaries assistant, and a hack journalist in Grub Street, known for its impoverished writers and artists. Continued in the comments. #gothichistory #washingtonirving #sleepyhollowcemetery #thelegendofsleepyhollow #ichabodcrane #maryshelley #olivergoldsmith #thedesertedvillage #tarotillustration #theloverstarot #thelovers #ghosthistory #horacewalpole #cocklaneghost #ghoststories #londonhistory #tarrytown #theheadlesshorseman #sleepyhollow #darkhistory #maryshelleysfrankenstein #gothicliterature #18thcentury #19thcentury #historic #farmscene #shadowartwork #gothiclit #classicliterature #ghosthistories https://www.instagram.com/p/CNK8o20nQ1M/?igshid=15rxbaof771qu

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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12th January 1762, first public séance to investigate the validity of claims of a knocking ghost in Cock Lane, London. The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. Several accounts of strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported, William Kent the lodger in the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Regular séances were held and Cock Lane was often made impassable by the throngs of interested bystanders. A committee was also formed to investigate the claims, the most prominent member being Dr Samuel Johnson, more famously known as the author and compiler of his English language dictionary. On or about the 25th of February, a pamphlet called ‘The Mystery Revealed’ was published, most likely written by Oliver Goldsmith. Settling in London in 1756, Goldsmith had held various brief jobs as an apothecaries assistant, and a hack journalist in Grub Street, known for its impoverished writers and artists. A lifestyle which earned him the moniker of ‘inspired idiot’ by Horace Walpole, author of the ‘Castle of Otranto’, the first Gothic novel which was published in 1764. Horace Walpole had also visited Cock Lane at the end of January. Continued in the comments. #londonghosts #ghostillustration #ghostartwork #ghosthistory #illustrationwork #historymystery #historymysteries #strangehistory #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #hiddenhistory #historicalmystery #historicalmysteries #darkhistory #oddhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #gothicliterature #gothicstyle #darkillustration #illustrationartwork ##historicalillustration #macabreillustration #ghostsighting #olivergoldsmith #horacewalpole #thecastleofotranto #paranormalhistory #ghoststories https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIR9dXHjmL/?igshid=riiv70bak85z

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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👻 12th January 1762, first public séance to investigate the validity of claims of a knocking ghost in Cock Lane, London. The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. Several accounts of strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported, William Kent the lodger in the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Regular séances were held and Cock Lane was often made impassable by the throngs of interested bystanders. A committee was also formed to investigate the claims, the most prominent member being Dr Samuel Johnson, more famously known as the author and compiler of his English language dictionary. On or about the 25th of February, a pamphlet called ‘The Mystery Revealed’ was published, most likely written by Oliver Goldsmith. Settling in London in 1756, Goldsmith had held various brief jobs as an apothecaries assistant, and a hack journalist in Grub Street, known for its impoverished writers and artists. A lifestyle which earned him the moniker of ‘inspired idiot’ by Horace Walpole, author of the ‘Castle of Otranto’, the first Gothic novel which was published in 1764. Horace Walpole had also visited Cock Lane at the end of January. Continued in the comments. #londonghosts #ghostillustration #ghostartwork #ghosthistory #illustrationwork #historymystery #historymysteries #strangehistory #weirdhistory #macabrehistory #hiddenhistory #historicalmystery #historicalmysteries #darkhistory #oddhistory #historicalstories #historicalstory #gothicliterature #gothicstyle #darkillustration #illustrationartwork ##historicalillustration #macabreillustration #ghostsighting #olivergoldsmith #horacewalpole #thecastleofotranto #paranormalhistory #ghoststories https://www.instagram.com/p/CKG_S48nz-X/?igshid=16om23ta3i6yd

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ofgraveconcern · 4 years

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Act II: Part Two: Fantasmagorie to Spiritualism Etienne-Gaspard Robert. 1799 Influenced by the phantasmagoria shows of Paul de Philipsthal, the Belgian physicist, stage musician and painter Étienne-Gaspard Robert, would combine all of his skills into the most elaborate and convincing of all the phantasmagoria illusion shows. A professor of physics specializing in optics, Robert developed a performance based around rear projection onto wax coated gauze, projecting actors in scripted scenes, and through the use of ventriloquism, creating a convincing impression of the appearance of ghosts. He also used smoke and mirrors to further disguise the mechanisms behind his performance. Performing his first show at the Pavillon de l'Echiquier on the 23rd January 1798, the audience was convinced that they had seen real ghosts, with many left terrified by the performance. By 1799 Robert was performing in the apt abandoned convent ‘Convent des Capucines’. The Nightside of Nature. 1846 At the height of the spiritualism movement, The Nightside of Nature was written by the English novelist, story writer and playwright Catherine Ann Crowe. Inspired by German writers, the book gives the reader chilling anecdotes of ghostly events, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena. The book became her most popular work, attempting to find a scientific, or, ‘psychic’ explanation of supernatural sightings and occurrences. The 19th century would revisit the themes of ghosts and the supernatural, culminating in the populism of spiritualism and séances, which would last into the beginning of the 20th century. In February 1854, Catherine Ann Crowe was discovered naked in Edinburgh one night, convinced that spirits had rendered her invisible. #ghost #ghosts #ghostart #ghostsighting #ghostaesthetic #gothicstyle #gothicart #gothichistory #ghosthistory #macabreartwork #dark #darkart #strangehistory #darkhistory #illustration #illustrationartist #darkillustration #darkillustrations #halloween #halloween #mythical #halloweenart #halloweenart #halloweeneveryday #phantasmagoria #gothicliterature #fantasmogoria #horrortheatre #gothiccandles #candleart https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-NS0TAxyN/?igshid=pibf0rpvi3ee

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ofgraveconcern · 4 years

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Ghosts and Phantasmagoria: 1572 - 1846 Act I: From Shakespeare to the Gothic Sublime All art shown is original, or are reproductions of the original publications, alongside original artwork, and based upon the history and historical accounts listed. All the books are reproductions with original artwork, and are made from actual antique salvaged books, which are presented to be hung on a wall for a unique display. All art is also for sale on the website. See link in bio. ⚰️Of Ghosts and Spirits Walking by Night. 1572 Written by the Swiss theologian Ludwig Lavater in 1569, ‘Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght’ was an early work upon the existence of ghosts. Translated into English in 1572, the book became the most frequently printed demonological works of the period. In the work Lavater came to the conclusion that ghosts or apparitions were not the souls of the deceased, but "either good or evil angels”. As seen by the plays of William Shakespeare, especially in Hamlet written between 1599 and 1602; the existence of ghosts and their ability to visit and affect the fate of the living, was an exceptionally popular idea during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods; alongside the reemergence of alchemy and the occult. Cock Lane Ghost. 1762 The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. The location was a room in a building in Cock Lane, London. Several accounts of strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported, William Kent the lodger of the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Continued in the comments: #ghost #ghosts #ghostart #ghostsighting #ghostaesthetic #gothicstyle #gothicart #gothichistory #ghosthistory #macabreartwork #dark #darkart #strangehistory #darkhistory #illustration #illustrationartist #darkillustration #darkillustrations #halloween #halloween #mythical #halloweenart #halloweenart #halloweeneveryday #hamlet #gothicliterature #williamshakespeare #shakespeare #cocklaneghost #samueljohnson https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5KmoEg1GH/?igshid=peoqrr6n3kxl

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ofgraveconcern · 4 years

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Tomorrow’s dose of Halloween History! Appearing in the feed tomorrow. Follow to see lots more Gothic and macabre History! #ghosts #ghoststories #ghosts #ghosthunting #ghostart #ghostartwork #ghosthistory #macabreart #history #historymemes #hiddenhistory #strangehistory #darkhistory #weirdhistory #halloweeneveryday #halloween #halloweenart #halloweenartwork #ghostsightings #illustration #illustrationartists #skeleton #skeletons #gothicliterature #gothichistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2mQ5Ogysc/?igshid=15vrqpxk06h3q

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ofgraveconcern · 4 years

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Ghosts Invisible but recorded 18th September 1709, birth of English scholar, lexicographer, and one time Ghost investigator Samuel Johnson. Although best known as the author of ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’, published in 1755, Johnson was also the most prominent member of the committee which investigated the 1762 London sensation of the Cock Lane Ghost, in which strange knocking sounds and ghostly apparitions were reported. William Kent the lodger in the building claimed that they were the ghost of his dead wife, named ‘Scratching Fanny’ from the supernatural scratching sounds that were allegedly heard from the room. Regular séances were held and Cock Lane was often made impassable by the throngs of interested bystanders. The house was visited by Samuel Johnson and also Horace Walpole, author of the ‘Castle of Otranto’, the first Gothic novel which was published in 1764. A pamphlet named ‘The Mystery Revealed’ which explained the details of the case was also published the same year, its authorship likely attributed to Johnson’s friend playwright and poet Oliver Goldsmith, best known for his 1770 poem ‘The Deserted Village’. 20th September 1803, birth of English novelist, story writer and playwright Catherine Ann Crowe, writer of The Nightside of Nature, published in 1846. Inspired by German writers, the book gives the reader chilling anecdotes of ghostly events, hauntings and other paranormal phenomena. The book became her most popular work, attempting to find a scientific, or, ‘psychic’ explanation of supernatural sightings and occurrences. In February 1854, she was discovered naked in Edinburgh one night, convinced that spirits had rendered her invisible. #ghosts #ghoststories #ghosts #ghosthistory #candles #gothiccandles #gothicliterature #castleofotranto #horacewalpole #samueljohnson #phantasmagoria #history #historical #historicalfacts #hiddenhistory #macabre #macabreart #gothic #gothicstyle #ghoststyle #dark #darkstyle #tarot #tarotcards #tarotart #tarotartist #18thcentury #victorian https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXDTzYgKB0/?igshid=m7zc6s0jh6st

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ofgraveconcern · 3 years

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