I'm sorry it's been quiet around here. I have so much I want to talk to you about, but my brain isn't cooperating. I'm starting with some new medication next week, so hopefully it will help to lift the fog and I can get back to blogging every day. In the meantime, I want to… Continue reading Nordic Darkness : The Art Of Einar Martinsen
I am smitten with this statuette by Rumtucket Trading Co of Elly Kedward from The Blair Witch Project. In the film and "documentary", we were given lots of hints, allusions, and backstory for the Witch, but never got to see her. I loved how that allowed me to invent her in my head, making her… Continue reading An Interpretation Of Elly Kedward
When I was done with my previous post, I felt compelled to return to Etsy and look for more Baba Yaga's House inspired artworks and jewellery to share with you. Here are my favourite discoveries. Freyja Jewels / Enamel Pin Witchy Sticher / Cross Stich Pattern Little Ghouls Art / Art Print Freyja Jewels /… Continue reading Baba Yaga’s House Part II
I've been wanting to write to you and write to you and write to you until my fingers are bloody and my heart is full, because that is what I do, that is why I'm here. But I can only manage a few words today. You see, I'm on a different sort of medication now… Continue reading Art Of The Depressed
When I first encountered the art of Sigrid Rødli, my life was bleak. Very little could lift me out of my pit of despair...but Sigrid's art managed. Her artistic style lifted my mood and her experimentation with different mediums nurtured my own curious and creative spirit. I soon found myself prompted to embrace art again,… Continue reading Interview : Artist Sigrid Rødli
I'm currently writing a song called 'The Witch That Wouldn't Die...' inspired by this self-portrait. In my head she's saying, 'are you even done trying yet? Can I go and live out my life in the woods now and hex all of your stupid asses?'
2019 so far? Honestly, what the fuck was that? Every month for me has had its nasty troubles, and I find it somewhat remarkable that I’m still here writing to you. (There are some fantastic memes that have helped me through the quagmire of 2019 so I think I’ll do a post just for them… Continue reading Queen Of Wyrd
I got to thinking about mermaids the other day when I was reading into sea glass – something for which I’ve developed quite the obsession – and I discovered that, in sailors folklore, sea glass is said to be mermaid’s tears. The tears are supposedly shed as a result of Neptune’s jealous wrath when a… Continue reading Dark Art Of Mermaids & Other Sea Folk
So I was beachcombing on Saltburn beach the other day - if you're interested, my previous post is all about it - and I found a particularly fantastic little piece of driftwood shaped something like a claw. A view of the claw before it started its transformation. From the moment I picked it up, I… Continue reading DIY In The Dark : Beachcombed Claw Necklace
I feel somewhat ashamed that it’s taken me until the age of thirty-two to read into Black Annis. My attention in the sphere of folklore has, for the most part of the past fifteen years, been elsewhere, predominately Scandinavia. Little did I know that one of the most fearsome folkloric creatures was actually extremely close… Continue reading Art Of Black Annis
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 