pieces of my own wonderland

Italian girl, pagan, nerd, gamer, in love with nature, books, comics, art, cinema, witchy stuff, TV series and music.

[whimsigothix]

𝓞𝓱 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[bebs-art-gallery]

Curses of the Heart

— by xis.lanyx

[bebs-art-gallery]

Vampire Coven by the Phantom Painter

[abby-30]

dark academia 🍂🌙

[kwistowee]

BRANDON LEE as ERIC DRAVEN THE CROW (1994)

[joyfulseasons]

marty.jz

[suhana-safar-deactivated2024031]

[autumn-mabon]

[atimburtonfan]

Edward Scissorhands.

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[girlwithouthands-deactivated201]

“In Russian, Baba Yaga’s name is not capitalized. Indeed, it is not a name at all, but a description—“old lady yaga” or perhaps “scary old woman.”  There is often more than one Baba Yaga in a story, and thus we should really say “a Baba Yaga,” “the Baba Yaga.” We do so in these tales when a story would otherwise be confusing. We have continued the western tradition of capitalizing Baba Yaga, since the words cannot be translated and have no other meaning in English (aside perhaps from the pleasant associations of a rum baba).  There is no graceful way to put the name in the plural in English, and in Russian tales multiple iterations of Baba Yaga never appear at the same time, only in sequence: Baba Yaga sisters or cousins talk about one another, or send travelers along to one another, but they do not live together.  The first-person pronoun “I” in Russian, ‘ia,’ is also uncapitalized. In some tales our witch is called only “Yaga.” A few tales refer to her as “Yagishna,” a patronymic form suggesting that she is Yaga’s daughter rather than Yaga herself. (That in turn suggests that Baba Yaga reproduces parthenogenetically, and some scholars agree that she does.)  The lack of capitalization in every published Russian folktale also hints at Baba Yaga’s status as a type rather than an individual, a paradigmatic mean or frightening old woman.  This description in place of a name, too, could suggest that it was once a euphemism for another name or term, too holy or frightening to be spoken, and therefore now long forgotten.”

— Sibelan Forrester, from her introduction to Baba Yaga: The Wild Witch of the East in Russian Fairy Tales

[jabberwockypie]

I feel like this suggests that - with much dedication and study - you, too, could go out into the woods and be a baba yaga.

[roach-works]

my long term retirement plans kinda hinge on it, yeah

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Witch’s Grave by Artem Demura

This artist on Instagram

[ur-daily-inspiration]

choose your fighter

[witchyautumns]

museumofappalachia.org

[joytri]

Neil said, "I was good. I was really good."

[blumenundpoesie]

craving some spooky weather