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The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (c.1824 / oil on canvas) | Louis Daguerre

Art by Bill Crisafi

Theodor Kittelsen

We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula Le Guin

𝔓𝔬𝔭𝔲𝔩𝔞̈𝔯𝔢 𝔑𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔦 ℜ𝔢𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔢

𝔙𝔬𝔩. 1 ℨ𝔬𝔬𝔩𝔬𝔤𝔦𝔢

Charles Baudelaire, from The Flowers of Evil: Poems; "A Former Life,"

‘Death Dawns Not on Hearts Aflame’ screen print by Adrienne Rozzi // Poison Apple Printshop

3rd printing. Limited edition of 50, hand signed and numbered by the artist.

Available exclusively at PoisonApplePrintshop.com

Illuatration from Ab¯u-Masar Gafar Ibn-Mu.hammad ; Engel, Johann [Hrsg.]; Johannes [Übers.]: De magis conjunctionibus annorum revolutionibus ac eorum profectionibus octo tractatus Albumasar. Johannis Angeli correctione (Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 31. März 1489)

© Nona Limmen {via Instagram}

An abracadabrangle (1726).

The famous abracadabra typographic triangle makes an appearance in Pierre Guarin’s Grammaticae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae, ex optimis quae hactenus prodierunt, nova facilique methodo concinnatae, tomus II (Paris: Typis Jacobi Collombat, 1726-1728).

Philosophia imaginum id est sylloge symbolorum amlissima, 1695

“SKULL AND CROSSBONES” ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE // 1983 [gelatin silver print | 38.4 × 38 cm.]

The solar eclipse on Wednesday, April 17th, 1912, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"Witches' Night" is here!

May Day Eve (Apr 30) is Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgis Night) across parts of Europe.

Known as "the other Halloween", it's a time when witches and evil spirits take to the skies for a little mischief.

Magic is an expression of power and an expression of how that power relates to you, your environment, and your ancestors. Magic is the interface of the land and Divinity; it is the power of the elements around you, the power of the sun and moon, the air that you breathe, and the language of the unseen beings, both benign and malicious, that are living alongside you.

Josephine McCarthy, The Magical Knowledge Trilogy

The middle finger from the right hand of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is a secular relic in the collection of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.The finger was removed from his body after his death and is encased in a gilded glass egg.

Nosferatu, 2024.

Grotesques of the Amiens Cathedral, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

antique silver dragon chainmail clasp purse

Pendant with a bat and stars, 1920s

"The rational mind seeks clarity, but clarity often comes only after we surrender to the unknown." - Carl Gustav Jung