Saturday, October 23, 2010

witches brewing a storm

There are a lot of interesting stories about the ways in which witches manipulate the weather.  A few in Compendium Maleficarum:
*An 8 year old girl impresses her father by making it rain on the cabbage field.  She digs a hole, pees in it and stirs it around.  Ta-Da!
*Another woman causes a storm using a similar method, only utilizing water instead of urine.

Bill Henson

"Blood Sabbath" - 1972

Jeff Bark

Raoul Ubac

Vania Zouravliov

new initiate

Franz von Stuck - "Sin"

Ferdinand Hodler

Initiation

“An skyclad Blue Brothress invoketh and communeth with the Little People in Cornwall, England”
from Janet Bord’s “Faeries: Real Encounters with the Little People”

Cornish witches

William Blake - Hecate

Hans Baulding - Witches Sabbath

Francois Truffaut - The Wild Child

Sally Mann