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Colin Self, artist, Power and Beauty no. 6, Tate Modern, London.

Grayson Hall as Magda Rakosi in the 1897 storyline on Dark Shadows.

Her Power is to open. Hail Sheila-na-gig!

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Actual Salem Witches react to the arrival of the latest train-load of tourists during "Spooky October." Meanwhile, all the retail Witches in the town rejoice to the nonstop beeping of their charge pads.

Evil Incarnate. Annabelle's fave.

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Lady Circe and Lady Sintana. Date unknown--1970s??

As seen on the interwebs. Caption: "It's been a while since Beelzebub has issued a warning so here he is reminding you that he requires treats. Don't forget, the children who rode him are dead."

Excelsior!

The Goddess Inanna speaks: "My Bridegroom, make Your milk sweet and thick. Fill my churn with honey cheese."

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Mellow morning in Hull.

Beet harvest a couple of autumns back.

Not all Witches are cute and cuddly. Illustration by unknown artist for one of the Phyllis Naylor Witch novels.

Hail Inanna! Ishtar Vase, the Louvre.

The impact of "AI" and hyperdistraction on high school teaching today. Bloodchilling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rplb...

Barbara Steele, an iconic presence in films.

Justice card, Tarot de Paris, early 17th cent. (?).

Thanks to everyone who's supported our 60th Anniversary Dark Shadows charity fanzine Daytime Gothic. Here's a look at the contents – 160 pages of interviews, features, essays and fiction celebrating the TV's supernatural soap opera. Order yours from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/dayt...

Anything can come to monstrous life in Japan, including vegetables. In one legend, a pumpkin monster called Sunamura no onryō appeared in the neighborhood of Sunamura night after night, terrorizing people by chasing them around #FolkloreThursday

Blessings of the Autumn Equinox!

Remembering High Priestess Eleanor Bone who crossed the river on this day in 2001. Nothing is forgotten. Blessed be.

Remembering Victor Anderson, Grandmaster of the Feri Tradition, who passed Beyond on this day in 2001. Hail! Art by Michele Jackson.

Art by Anastasia Kashian from her Baba Yaga series.

Bela Lugosi rehearsing. England 1951. Halloween is coming!

A rather poignant excerpt from a longer film. Poet Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1995. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSpo...

Kali Durge, Namo Namah! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGc...

Labor Day 2026

I arrived in Abbots Bromley at 07:20 sharp ready for the unshackling of the 1000 year old horns stored all year round in the village church. Some pics from the day of dancing..!

Lake Ontario now and forever!!!

Interesting discoveries. The article which is quite short doesn't discuss how these finds and the likely cult fit into the pattern of women's mystery cult associations in the Roman imperial diaspora. www.discovermagazine.com/120-ancient-...

The Magus, painting by Lady Frieda Harris for Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Photo by Robert Place.

Uffington Horse, inverted.

I will be away for a little while, travelling back home for a few weeks. In the meantime, have a comet fox (the brown of the fox is rosehip ink) See you in a few weeks 🦊🌿🌠

Another prophetic moment from 1975. Ralph Richardson plays the librarian, but all books have been removed because a super computer has "summarized" them all for your convenience. But there's one big question "Zero" won't answer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjYv...

Further progress on my submission to @skullsandsheets.bsky.social brilliant fundraising auction for domestic violence charities. Not at all how I’d imagined it, ended up using pieces of a doily rather than sewing onto the figures I added to the vintage embroidered cloth* *Grumpy old cat not included

Cool cover art, and I think this one is forthcoming. According to the blurb it includes 45 pathworkings which is a huge number. The author got a testimonial from Shani Oates which for some would be the opposite of a recommendation.

Jamie Fisher's new book all about Elliott Smith is here and it's thoughtful, beautiful and heartbreaking. She interviewed 140 people who knew Elliott! An extraordinary work.

Dunno how everybody is feeling today, but let's have some happy pictures of Elliott, hope it cheers somebody up!

Druid Throne commissioned by the late Dylan ap Thuin of the Insular Order of Druids, work by the great artist, much mourned, Bel Bucca. A new acquisition for the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle.