The Moon And Jupiter

Der Sturmnacht (1890) - Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Wilhelm Kotarbiński (1849–1921) - Dark Star, c. 1900

As locations for spiritual interaction, churches are quite naturally 'places betwixt' where the 'Otherworld' and its presences may be particularly palpable. The churchyard, as a burial ground, is a particularly potent 'place betwixt' and thus highly useful to the witch; the graves being employable within traditional charms and rites of 'get rid of' magic, healing, protection and turning. Their dust or earth have their old uses within curative charms, acts of blessing and of cursing. As the centre of a web of 'corpse roads' and 'spirit paths', converging from across the landscape, the churchyard is a place of spirit contact, the sight, and gaining useful information of the past, present and the future. It is to the churchyard the traditionally minded may travel to enter into rites of witch-initiation.

Gemma Gary, The Devil's Dozen: Thirteen Craft Rites of the Old One

Paul Caponigro (1932–2024) - “Entrance, Reefert Church, Ireland”

gelatin silver print, 1989

It was as if something was perpetually tugging her downward, toward the underworld, the mess, the dirt, and the filth, as if she was unable to feel disgust when others did and was overwhelmed by fascination instead.

Ia Genburg, The Details, tr. Kira Josefsson

armor composed of 1.074 plates / Polish, 16th century

From Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1611).