@hagazussainglasgow
Art historian, quarrelsome dame, and folk witch in Scotland. Slowly emerging from the broom closet 🧹 *hagazussa: an early medieval word for witch, later evolving into hex. Cognate with other early words that developed into hag and, possibly, hedge.
It's ok to not feel ok.
It's ok if your antlers haven't grown in yet.
It's ok if you can't shape-shift into a raven.
It's ok if you haven't haunted the night for a while.
I know you're doing your best, and that's all any of us can do right now.
Betye Saar's etching of an ethereal sorceress and her bird familiars.
Betye Saar, 'Sorceress with Seven Assorted Birds', etching and aquatint, 1964, NY MoMA #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory
The god pan looks over an industrial landscape with smoking chimneys and satanic mills (as it were) In the foreground. wild roses bloom. Pencil, watercolour wash, chalk and white paint on toned paper. Colour applied.
Good morning.
Or to advertise support for Napoleon III's actions in Italy, obv.
The Temperance card, depicting the winged Virtue pouring water between two jugs.
From left to right, the box, beige card backs with a dotted design, Two of Batons card, and Empress card (showing the Empress seated on a throne and holding a shield upon which the double-headed eagle symbol of the former Habsburg dynasty is not-so-convincingly blacked out.
The 6 of Swords, Moon, and Ace of Cups cards from left to right. The cards are oversized, reproduce the aging and stains from the originals, and are printed in this 1994 French language edition on textured art card stock.
Edoardo Dotti's tarot from mid-19th-century Milan, republished by Laura Tuan/Editions de Vecchi. Dotti's tarots drew from the style of the earlier printer Gumppenberg's famous Soprafino tarot, but with the Habsburg eagle images removed, so as not to piss off Napoleon III #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
'May I give this Ukrainian bread to all people in this big wide world' Maria Prymachenko, 1982
The nature around her, everyday life, celebrations, fairy tales & folk songs are part of Prymachenko’s painted world, expressed in pictures & poetic titles
Prymachenko Family Foundation
Three witches sit on or grip a stang (forked stick) as they fly upward through the air. They have human bodies and animal heads (a dog, bird of prey, and sheep or goat). Behind them, a storm cloud pours rain onto a stand of trees.
Woodcut illustration of warlocks and witches flying on a stang (forked stick), while partially transformed or in the process of transforming into animals.
From Ulrich Molitor, De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus, 1489. Printed by Johann Otmar. Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #ArtHistory #Illustration
5k training with the ghosts of legionnaires from fhe old fort.
Reader comment:
There should be no hyphen in 'art historical'. An edit button, Bluesky, if you please!
A witch flies high over the city of Florence at night on a dark, winged horse.
'A Witch', Edward R Hughes (1851-1915), watercolour and bodycolour with gold paint, source: www.rct.uk/collection/4...
#WitchSky #art #ArtHistory
Source: Print made by unknown artist, Grandpapa's Story or The Witches Frolick, 1838, Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960, B1995.29.2.
An etching of a scene from The Ingoldsby Legends, in which three witches fly through an interior on brooms, surprising the occupants, who have emerged in their nightclothes with a candle (on the left) to stare in shock at the scene. The witches are in the act of flying up and out the chimney, and one looks back over her shoulder at the watchers with a smile.
I'm a folk witch and medieval art historian in Scotland (an escaped academic, now gone independent for better work-life balance). I post about my art-historical and witchly sources of true joy: art depictions of the witch, historical tarot, witch books, and more. Welcome! 🧹🖤🔮📖 #WitchSky #ArtHistory
A Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is shown perched on a weathered wooden fence post during a light snowfall. The owl is captured in profile, bowed forward with its head tilted down toward the ground, highlighting its characteristic heart-shaped face.
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Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some Zen to the feed.
'The Witch', Jean-François Portaels, oil on canvas, 19th-century (c. 1840-1895)
"I shall go intill a cat, with sorrow and syt and black shot, and I shall go in the Devil's name, ay while I come home again."
Accused Scottish witch Isobel Gowdie's chant for turning herself into a cat, according to one of her confessions made during interrogations in 1662 #WitchSky #Caturday
Latin declensiouns and
Bookes yn libraryes;
Arcana and poemes
And portals to Faërie;
Long midnighte talkes about
Cool goblin kynges:
Thes ben a fewe
of my favourite thinges.
A painting of the Delphic Sybil (pre-dating the Pythia aka Oracle of Delphi). She is dressed in an orange, fanciful imagining of an ancient Greek dress and sandals, with cloth tied around her hair. She holds laurel leaves and stands in an interior space in front of a tripod altar, from which orange incense smoke is rising.
Sibylla Delphica, Edward Burne-Jones, oil on canvas, 1868, Manchester Art Gallery, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory
Black and white print of an old witch in a robe and hat riding a broom in front of a giant full moon and tall trees.
Concerning Witchcraft (1915)~ Maxfield Parrish
Oooh, aaah!!! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
in Scots Gaelic lore, faeries were regarded as either fallen angels, non-human nature spirits, or spirits of the dead. They live in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation. from the upcoming: 'Folklore of Scotland' by Stephen G. Rae art: Yuliya Litvinova
#FaerieFriday in Scots Gaelic lore, faeries were regarded as either fallen angels, non-human nature spirits, or spirits of the dead. They live in 'faerie mounds' awaiting reincarnation.
from my upcoming: 'Folklore of Scotland'
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Yuliya Litvinova
Or afternoon now, technically!
Good morning! 😊🧙♀️🧹
Even the frog is having a ball! 😊🐸
Two witches, a devil and a frog are jigging back to back in a circle. The two witches are wearing skirts, waistcoats, and a shawl and frilly cap on their heads, respectively. The devil has the legs and head of a horned goat, the torso of a man, and long, clawed fingernails. He is holding a long taper with a flame burning from the end with a bright light. The frog has a rather goofy facial expression.
Two witches, a devil, and a frog shaking their groove thing at the witches' sabbath.
An illustration by Louis Le Breton for 'Danse du sabbat', in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863. Wikimedia Commons, public domain #WitchSky #illustration #art #ArtHistory
A beautiful linoprint of a medicine lady under a tree, with her trusted familiar
Witch, hare and herbs linoprint by my mum, Jo, from my short story collection Help The Witch (now republished by Swift Press after a period out of print due to the Unbound disaster).
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The threshold sings a song of seduction. Shoreline. Riverbank. Wood edge. The witch hears it as summoning, as a promise of magics. It is a kiss in her ear, a pull upon her her bones. The witch is one who answers the call of wonder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
A woman sleeps, head upon a table covered with playing cards lit by the table lamp.
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
AnneSexton #BookWormSat
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~Jules Verne
🎨 Lionel Lindsay (1924)
#caturday
