illustration / art / eldritch things / folk horror / weird fiction
Pitch-Eyed Peter is a loyal witch’s familiar. He smells earthy and damp, an odour of petrichor lingers about him at all times. His cold boney fingers crack like twigs and his voice is raspy and soft like a sickly child. Only the most experienced of witches can summon this demonic servant.
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The Tomb of Morning Zai, by Sidney Sime. Illustrated for the story “The Secret of the Gods,” by Lord Dunsany, from Time and the Gods (1906).
“Oh, Morning Zai, oh, oldest of the gods, the faith of thee is gone, and yesterday for the last time thy name was spoken upon earth.”
William B. Kerr & Co, Octopus chatelaine, 1900. Sterling silver. Newark, New Jersey. Via flysfo
La Ronde du Sabbat (The Round of the Sabbath or Witches’ Sabbath)
1828
Louis Boulanger (French, 1806–1867)
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she’s like a beautiful norse god come to life and she controls the cows
she’s actually Swedish artist and singer Jonna Jinton and she’s singing Kulning, an ancient Swedish herding call
the clanking of the cowbells and the fog are just perfect omfg
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