The Red Key

[derangedrhythms]

Yet I am waiting—longing for the most dazzling light of all: the coming of the Devil.

Mary MacLane, I Await the Devil's Coming

[pmamtraveller]

Departure of the Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush

[deathandmysticism]

Minerva Britanna, or, A garden of heroical devices, 1612

[deathandmysticism]

Ouija and Witches Clubs, Tatler, 1912

[pmamtraveller]

Dreaming of the Blue Tiger by Jester Pepita

[dame-nostalgique]

To be opened under the moonlight 🌙

[hildegardavon]

Carlo Sarrabezolles, 1888-1971

Centaure et Sirène, ca.1951/52, pair of stone sculptures, 136 cm/u.

Private Collection

[foxeia]

Roberta Mazzone

[slipng]

[seasonofhorror]

GINGER SNAPS

2000, dir. John Fawcett

[livesuffer]

[red-lipstick]

Steve Adams - Moongazer (A hare staring at the rising moon in Kimberley Nottinghamshire), 2012    Photography

[women-of-the-epic-cycle]

Iphigenia, Clytemnestra, and Agamemnon mosaic. 5th-century CE.

— Antakya Archaeological Museum

[frostedmagnolias]

Robe à la française

c. 1770-1775

French

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[twistedingenue]

“Dionysos finds his Maenads among women who can’t stand any longer being locked into the domestic enclosure. They become wild women who break their chains in order to follow Dionysos the Liberator.”

— Ginette Paris, Pagan Grace: Dionysus, Hermes, and Goddess Memory In Daily Life

[frostedmagnolias]

Fur-trimmed, Black Velvet Carriage Boots

c. 1875-1885

Velvet, leather, rabbit fur, grosgrain ribbon

Albany Institute of History & Art

[hoopskirtsociety]

Wedding Gown ca.1907