The Devil's Rejects

21 year old music student from Sweden.

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Martin Ålund (Swedish, b. 1967), Chemistry 1 : 9, 2013. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.

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─ A graveyard at night with an owl perched on a branch by Robert Paterson (active, 1870-1889)

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George Shiras (1859–1942 American) • Albino Deers

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“To see the devil hugging a witch is strange indeed.” The world turned upside down. 1820?

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A witch holding a plant in one hand and a fan in the other. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.

Image: Wellcome Library, London.

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Woodblocks taken from The History of Witches and Wizards: Giving a True Account of All Their Tryals in England, Scotland, Sweedland, France, and New England … Collected … By W. P. (1720)

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Black Phillip, Black Phillip, a crown grows out his head. Black Phillip, Black Phillip, to nanny queen is wed. Jump to the fence post. Running in the stall. Black Phillip, Black Phillip, king of all. 

The Witch (2015) dir. Robert Eggers

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Deer in the Woods, Elizabeth Strong

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Someone recently asked me where the skull from the title is from. 

It is a print made by the relatively-obscure Josef Ferdinand Fromiller (Austrian, 1693-1760)  in 1722. Every one of my followers should know this #vanitas!

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häxan: witchcraft through the ages (1922) 

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Émile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891)

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Oravský Zámok, Slovakia.

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I’ve visited this place, this is the Capuchin Crypt of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome, Italy. It consists of six rooms, five of which are decorated with bones from approximately 4,000 former friars who died between 1528 and 1870 (some are still buried in the soil). All the rooms have different meanings and have been decorated with different bones. There isn’t much info or good pictures of the rooms online but I think these are from the Crypt of the Three Skeletons, the Crypt of the Skulls and the Crypt of the Pelvises. The rooms are fairly small and the ceilings are low, so you can see the bones and the mummified bodies really well.