AristocraticRaven

I am fond of all that is dark, lacy, and perhaps a tad gaudy. My hobbies include reading, writing, studying the ancient past, and playing my beloved violin.  Ave Satanas!

[fallbabylon]

2024 Yokai Night Parade- TOEI studio park, Kyoto Japan

[dahmerskitchen]

~ ALL ARE LUNATICS, BUT HE WHO CAN ANALYZE HIS DELUSIONS IS CALLED A PHILOSOPHER ~

[deathandmysticism]

Witch in the tower room, St. Nicholas magazine, 1873

[vangoghcore]

by k.catherine03

[comparativetarot]

Fern Flower. Art by Mariya Tobischek, from the Ukrainian Night Tarot.

[charnel-grounds]

“Crown of Thorns” by Bob Carlos Clarke

photogravure/heliogravure, c. 1980–85

[requiem-on-water]

(1) Luke Miller (2) Joshua Woroniecki (3) Mihai Alexandru Grecea (4) Yevhenii Kariavka

[nocturnalnoire]

[witch-breaker]

[charnel-grounds]

Momijigari | 紅葉狩 | 1899 | dir. Tsunekichi Shibata

Nobleman Taira no Koremori fights a demon Momiji

[charnel-grounds]

The skull of Maria Domin, c. 1823. The Charnel House a.k.a. ‘Bone House’ in St. Michael’s Chapel in Halstatt, Austria

source

[requiem-on-water]

(1)Miroslav Škopek (2) Joel Swick (3) Matthew Stephenson (4) Brandon Green

[heartsnmagic]

[funeral]

Death is what we are and what we live. We are born dead, we deadly exist, and we are already dead when we enter Death.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[charnel-grounds]

Vincent Proce, “De Nuce Maga”

oil on canvas, 2024

“Unguent, unguent, send me to the walnut tree of Benevento, under the water and under the wind, under all bad weather”

[charnel-grounds]

“The Mourning Star”

© Jasmine Worth, 2023

oil on board

[xphaiea]

Nathan Reidt