Spiritus Loci

History, folklore, religion, mythology, design and all things queer and magical. Rarely sits with the popular kids.

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

[sardens]

Alex Katz - Black dress

[spiritusloci]

[athegr8]

[boubasinspiration]

[urgetocreate]

David Wyatt, Winter Beech Whisperer, ca.2020, Illustration

[sleepnoises]

he sells prints!

[enchantedbook]

'The Original Folk and Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm' illustrated by Andrea Dezso.

[sex-under-ecstasy]

[sylvain1970]

[enchantedbook]

«The Adventures of Baron Munchausen» Illustration by Sergey Alimov.

[ontheedgeofdarkness]

Unknown photographer

Partial dematerialization of the medium Marguerite Beuttinger, 1920

[enchantedbook]

"The Shooting Star" (L'Étoile filante) by J. J. Grandville, 1849.

[limitlesslfgt]

[beauxenfantsdumonde]

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Errol Le Cain - illustration of ‘Thorn Rose’, a version of Sleeping Beauty.

[azspot]

“If only the fear of fascism were greater than the love of money.”

— Anat Shenker-Osorio

[saintmarc]

[radical-revolution]

The Buddhist scholar John Peacock offered a challenge that I believe is especially relevant. He wrote: “If our quest for personal flourishing in this world, through the study and practice of Buddhism, doesn’t lead us to question the structures that give rise to hunger, inequality, prejudice, and injustice, then our Buddhism exists in a rarefied atmosphere divorced from the struggle for existence of billions of beings on this planet.”