Le Véritable Dragon Rouge et La Poule Noire, early 19th century
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Le Véritable Dragon Rouge et La Poule Noire, early 19th century
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All hell broken loose: the devil’s demonic minions..
Osculum Infame, kissing the devil’s anus, 18th century
happy pride month once again, here’s a redraw of this iconic medieval art
someone has already posted this but buffy was definitely the funniest example of american tv using irish as a magical language for spells and the occult. mostly because this passage was very obviously copied and pasted from an article about a new bus lane
WIZARD COUNCIL 2021 APPROVED SPELL LIST:
Inverted pentagram of summon bus lane
@randomitemdrop if this hasn't been reblogged already
Spell: Glyph of Summon Bus Lane. When placed in any location the Glyph magically transforms the area into a bus lane connected to local service and a bus will arrive in 10d100 minutes
Happy Superb Owl Sunday. Hail Stolas!
thanks, Stolas
solomonic tomato soup 🤭
(credits to @BluehairCoffee on twitter)
I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER
This is so much fun. I love the spirit. I unironically love the solomonic tomato soup array.
Wait a second I recognize this line work @will-o-the-witch is this fucking you???
Demonology and witchcraft by Walter Scott, 1830
I can’t believe that some people have never seen Daily Lives of High School Boys
Here’s the illustration of Belphagor from the Dictionnaire Infernal btw
Meanwhile at the Oriental Institute in Chicago, a demon is trapped at the centre of an Aramaic curse written on an incantation bowl. You can almost hear the tiny, indignant squawking.
HE SO ANGY
Movie grimoire rant
Speaking as a collector of this sort of thing, it's rather annoying to watch horror movies that feature old dusty grimoires that tell you exactly how to summon the ancient evils and get all the mystic magic powers, and cast fireball, because those books just don't exist and never did. They just never, ever did and nothing even close to that ever existed, because that's just not how books were back then (if books even existed yet at the time referenced, hello schmoob it's called A SCROLL) and if you look through "spooky" books that were from even just four hundred years ago they are almost always
In French or Latin
Actually about astrology
Even when you're absolutely sure it's not about astrology, it's about astrology
It's definitely about astrology
Not illustrated
If they are illustrated the illustrations are all astrological
The few books that are close to being "grimoires" in the more Hollywood sense are the same five books every other mage on Earth has already got a copy of and read because they're mass-produced in reprint now. Everybody already knows the books don't summon Satan to give you a solid gold guitar for learning how to pronounce French half-assedly.
75% of the books' content is devoted to describing which spirits and sigils will help you find "hidden treasures" because they were written back when it was way more common for people to bury their money and valuables underground to keep it safe.
The "original books" aren't bound in human skin or anything and they're really in no condition to haul around on an adventure or into a graveyard. They're in preservation rooms with humidity control. If they were left in an ancient cave or an abandoned shrine they'd probably become a pile of tatters and mold before any hapless protagonist could read anything in them.
And even if they could read anything in them all the information inside would be about astrology anyway!!!
I was drawing a bunch of pentagrams in my notebook during math class because I was bored and I think I drew 150 pentagrams in total before a devilish-looking guy wearing a red suit broke down the door of the classroom and yelled “wHAT the fUCK do you wANT?!”
this username escapes me every single time
i cant stop thinking about this post
world heritage post
A vain woman looks for herself in the mirror and sees a devil’s anus instead
Albrecht Dürer - Flamboyant Woman at the Mirror (1498) aka the Devil and the Coquette, copy of an illustration from ‘Der Ritter von Turm’, Augsburg
“Leonard, can you not?”