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St. Mark's church in Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian vintage postcard

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Dalmatian coast, Croatia, 1944🇭🇷

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✷The Faceless Visitor✷

Marzanna, the Godess of Winter and Death, and Licho, creature representing misfortune, as one being. It's wearing kraboszka - type of masks in rituals honouring the dead in slavic cultures. It is wearing traditional folk clothes from Opoczno/Świętokrzyskie region of Poland with typical pasiak - woollen, striped apron, sometimes used as a coat.

The pagan creature is juxtaposed with a tree decorated in rosaries, sacred hearts, shrines and pictures of Black Madonna of Częstochowa. Sights like that are common is Slavic countries, roadside shrines, shrines mounted onto the trees, crosses by the road or in the fields decorated with flowers and colourful ribbons. Christian amulets that sometimes mark a holy place or object or a place where someone lost their life.

[the-catacombs]

"Oh Allah, against the swastika, enemy of all religions", French Algerian WW2 poster (1943)

[the-catacombs]

1930s Vintage art cover - Maurice Pépin for Le Sourire Magazine

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[the-catacombs]

Photography by Juan Carlos Beltrán

[the-catacombs]

Vincent Price holding a replica of Peter Lorre's head in a publicity still for TALES OF TERROR (1962).

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Pendant earrings of 18-karat yellow gold and silver, enameled set with diamonds and emeralds. © Codognato

Courtesy Alain Truong

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Gnuhr

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[headcruise]

Danielle Zinaich by Steven Meisel

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Butch Belair for Studio Voice (1997)

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