wormwood witch

(Met Museum)

Taken April 2022

camille vivier

Protective-Charm Associated with Edward Lovett (1852 - 1933) 1870 - 1930 Known as the ‘Hand of Naples’. It is a hand-shaped, hollow copper alloy charm, with the two outer fingers extended. It has a blue bead strung on the wrist, a wire ring on the small finger, and an ornate cuff and a hole at the wrist for attaching a chain. It was used for warding off the ‘evil eye’. Charms of this type are used all over the Mediterranean. Obtained from a soldier in a London regiment.

Flower of the Dark Sun. Oil over watercolor on paper, 3 x 3 inches. © 2013 by Sheryl Humphrey.

David Axelbank

the land/ the great war 1914 (Nº 333)

see also: #altar, #summer

Drew Angerer, A storm closes in on Paducah, Texas, on May 10, 2017.

Working a stitching ritual for @msgraveyarddirt

under the black sky/ The White Road

Nocturnal Marshland, 1918 by Józef Rapacki (Polish, 1871–1929)