J. Van De Velde II, A Witch At Her Cauldron Surrounded By Beasts, Wellcome Collection, 1626

photographs from the u.s. naval observatory total solar eclipse expedition, may 17, 1901.

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934

1912 ~ Anton Robert Leinweber (1845-1921)

“To be eaten and to be married to the god might not be so different.” — Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis.

art: Norman Lindsay - The South Wind, 1928

Polaris, The North Star

Masahisa Fukase, Ravens, 1979

Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.

Maria Sibylla Merian - Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum - 1678 - via Beinecke Library