Spiritus Loci

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

[lascitasdelashoras]

Kai Ziehl

[wanderthewood]

Meat Cove, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada by Tim Foster

[throatoftheworld]

Laura Benson

[nomeusstuff]

[aurevoirmonty]

« Ce n’est pas parce que les choses sont difficiles que nous n’osons pas, c’est parce que nous n’osons pas qu’elles sont difficiles. »

Sénèque

[oniri-que]

Théorème (1968)

Pier Paolo Pasolini

[the-owl-poet]

I am looking for A place to worship And oh, You bring me to My knees What right (Rite) Do I have to do What I long to do To show you The divinity Of you I feel I must Dip my hands in Holy water Just to touch you

~ Sacred; 3/2/25

[squeakowl]

X

[looselambinajungle]

[last-picture-show]

/ Dain L. Tasker, X-ray Photography, 1930-35

[prozrel]

From the series “Phantasmagoria” pigment printing. 2026

[miamaimania]

Hands of Jean Cocteau ~ Paris (1927) by Berenice Abbott — Portrait of artist's hands

[sistersbyfreya]

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[oxydenoir]

Oxyde Noir - I_XI_MMXXVI

[smsomah]

Cree; Saskatchewan, Canada, around 1930. Paul Coze

[iamtheweirdomister]

[throatoftheworld]

Patrick Valenza

[questcequecestqueca]

Nancy Cunard - Curtis Moffat