Photographs From The U.s. Naval Observatory Total Solar Eclipse Expedition, May 17, 1901.

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota, ca. 1200.

© Nona Limmen {Instagram / Bluesky}

Monstrous witch on a broom, Cornelis Saftleven

Mid 17th century

A Visitation of Insomnia (1970) © Hollis Frampton.

A shot from The Sorrows of Satan (1926). This shot would go on to be the cover of Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

And Art, better than black opium […] an intoxication lulling our scourged hearts to sleep.

— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ Rosa Mystica, (1885)

Picta Poesis (1552) Barthélemy Aneau

Bat lantern from 1930.

‘A sleepless Night’ by Babs Webb