‘A Sleepless Night’ By Babs Webb

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of syncronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.”

— Charles de Lint

Picta Poesis (1552) Barthélemy Aneau

The Burney Relief ( also known as the Queen of the Night relief ). A terracotta plaque from the Old-Babylonian period, dated between 19th-18th century BCE.

Pendant with a bat and stars, 1920s

Iron Cage Mediaeval Corset by Entity Custom Works

You would have taken my soul spellbound into your embracing arms as into a magic circle.

— FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN ⚜️ Hyperion, transl. by Ross Benjamin, (2008)

Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation