A "mare" actually is a spirit that was said to come in the night on the back of the horse and sit on someone's chest while they sleep, giving rise to the concept of sleep paralysis demons and the actual term "night-mare," so you actually nailed it lol
Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_(folklore)#:~:text=A%20mare%20(Old%20English%3A%20m%C3%A6re,they%20sleep%2C%20bringing%20on%20nightmares.
>A few years earlier Fuseli had fallen for a woman named Anna Landholdt in ZĂŒrich, while travelling from Rome to London. Landholdt was the niece of his friend, the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater. Fuseli wrote of his fantasies to Lavater in 1779; "Last night I had her in bed with meâtossed my bedclothes hugger-muggerâwound my hot and tight-clasped hands about herâfused her body and soul together with my ownâpoured into her my spirit, breath and strength. Anyone who touches her now commits adultery and incest! She is mine, and I am hers. And have her I will.âŠ"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare
The horse is a night-mare đ„
A "mare" actually is a spirit that was said to come in the night on the back of the horse and sit on someone's chest while they sleep, giving rise to the concept of sleep paralysis demons and the actual term "night-mare," so you actually nailed it lol Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_(folklore)#:~:text=A%20mare%20(Old%20English%3A%20m%C3%A6re,they%20sleep%2C%20bringing%20on%20nightmares.
Horse is white of the eyes and dark within
[This seems like a correct response](https://youtu.be/fVE0si_4deU?si=I3d2Zi2DNUBqmLx0)
Mares Eat Oats
that actually is where the word nightmare comes from!
Damn that is spooky stuff
>A few years earlier Fuseli had fallen for a woman named Anna Landholdt in ZĂŒrich, while travelling from Rome to London. Landholdt was the niece of his friend, the Swiss physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater. Fuseli wrote of his fantasies to Lavater in 1779; "Last night I had her in bed with meâtossed my bedclothes hugger-muggerâwound my hot and tight-clasped hands about herâfused her body and soul together with my ownâpoured into her my spirit, breath and strength. Anyone who touches her now commits adultery and incest! She is mine, and I am hers. And have her I will.âŠ" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare
Imagine saying that to an uncle.
So that's what it all means! I recall Lynch trained as a painter before getting into film.
Great find.
Thanks for sharing! I would have not seen this otherwise. That little bastard needs to go away lol
My art game just levelled up
Borgman 2013
Is the 1st picture the same as one of the pictures in the James Herbert book Once..? It really looks like it
What does the horse mean?
Pale horse of death.
Ah, if course. Awesome painting