The Knotted Mind

"The sky is thus the mirror of the human soul, and when we think that we are reading the stars it is in ourselves we read."

-Eliphas Levi, Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie Part II

Moss and mushrooms

soft winter sunrise

by Stephen & Brett

"No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." -Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

The Boat (Virgin with Corona) (Odilon Redon, 1898)

What I’ve always longed for is a kind of soft silence. The kind one finds in the midst of green fields.

I hate reading a cool piece of folklore and tracking down its location, only to find out the location has long since been paved over >:(

According to legend, the legendary Danish hero Holger Danske once got a pair of magical glasses from a witch that would allow him to see through anything. He tested them on Nørre Fælled, a well-known right outside Copenhagen, where he laid down and saw straight through the Earth. But when he stood up again, two big holes were left behind, which later filled with water and became lakes.

This map was made in the 1600s, where the glasses-lakes are clearly visible

Nowadays there's just a big dumb hospital in its place, and no sign left of Holger Danske or his witch glasses >:(