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Amoureux de la nuit et de ses profondeurs.

(In love with the night and its depth.)

— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ La Muse Noire, (1883)

I will implant in thee […] dark desires.

— ERIC STANISLAUS STENBOCK ⚜️ Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems (Ed. David Tibet), (2018)

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.

'The Witch' by William Mortensen, 1900s

Hex! Museum of Witchcraft-Ribe, Denmark

“Witches, with hearts like a wild song,”

— Charles Guérin, tr. by David Paley, from Poems; “The Bridal Night,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

From Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1611).