wormwood witch

mercurial in the literal sense. folk magic from the flatlands. plants, poisons, prayer.

[boneandpapyrus]

Coins with symbols of the zodiac, an idea the emperor recorded in his journals.    Minted in India during the reign of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–27).

(Met Museum)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Dark skies on the drive into Lincoln, Nebraska

Taken April 2022

[sentimental-obsessions]

camille vivier

[singingmountainwitch]

[bellisvintage]

[ducissatenebrarum]

Protective-Charm Associated with Edward Lovett (1852 - 1933) 1870 - 1930 Known as the ‘Hand of Naples’. It is a hand-shaped, hollow copper alloy charm, with the two outer fingers extended. It has a blue bead strung on the wrist, a wire ring on the small finger, and an ornate cuff and a hole at the wrist for attaching a chain. It was used for warding off the ‘evil eye’. Charms of this type are used all over the Mediterranean. Obtained from a soldier in a London regiment.

[sherylhumphrey]

Flower of the Dark Sun. Oil over watercolor on paper, 3 x 3 inches. © 2013 by Sheryl Humphrey.

[yan-wo]

David Axelbank

[drpajchiwo]

the land/ the great war 1914 (Nº 333)

[msgraveyarddirt]

Handmaidens of Summer

suas gach cnoc is síos gach gleann [up every hill and down every glen] cailíní maiseacha bán-gheala gléasta [beautiful girls, radiant and shining] – the gloaming, ’samhradh samhradh [summer summer]’

Feeling enough like myself to begin scheming again.

RIP to the 10 beautiful girls who don’t even know they’ve been selected to be a handmaiden of summer. Hoping to have everything wrapped and sent within the next 72 hours.

(“We have brought the summer in…”)

see also: #altar, #summer

[flashofgod-deactivated20190121]

Drew Angerer, A storm closes in on Paducah, Texas, on May 10, 2017.

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Working a stitching ritual for @msgraveyarddirt

[sniffingglue]

[drpajchiwo]

under the black sky/ The White Road

[oldpaintings]

Nocturnal Marshland, 1918 by Józef Rapacki (Polish, 1871–1929)

[shakyfoot]

[prairiewitchy]

surprisingly good signs from the oracle on a problem that feels intractable. a little tough to believe, but maybe this'll pan out ok in a few more months....