Eden in Hades

Witchcraft, legendary universe, disturbing folk...

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Attractive pictorial covers c1900

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Etteilla, The Book of Thoth (Tarot), Paris, 1870.

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[nosolobrujas]

 Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857

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Demon, Konstanzer Weltchronik, Germany ca. 1450 Berlin,

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Stories of Strange Women by J. Y. F. Cooke, 1906

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Armand Rassenfosse

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From The Blue Poetry Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1891.

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Then Halvor cut off the first head.

Lancelot speed, from The Red Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, London, New York, 1890.

(Source: archive.org)

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[kalkydri]

wise as serpents, harmless as doves

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“The witch comes on board,” from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1906.

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Book of the Holy Trinity (alchemical treatise) Frater Ulmannus (?), Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit, Franconia 15th century.

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 598, fol. 2r

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Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist

Valenciennes - BM - ms. 0007, 16th century

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Devil Crystals of Arret

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From Reineke Fuchs by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1857.

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An illustration from Rhyme and Reason by Lewis Carroll (1884).

[monster-brains]

Pieter Soutman - The Fall of the Damned (after Peter Paul Rubens) 1642

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2015/04/pieter-soutman-fall-of-damned-after.html

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Wenceslaus Hollar - Aeneas In The Underworld, 17th century

http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2015/04/wenceslaus-hollar-aeneas-in-underworld.html