Victor Delhez (1902–1985) - Dance Of Death VII – Kiss, 1940

Histoire de la Magie, 1870

oooklathemok

Chapelle de l'abbaye de Beaulieu located in Haute-Marne, in France

The Beautiful Woman Soothes the Serpent-King, from Andrew Lang’s The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1901)

Sandrine Pelletier, White snake (2007), created using lace making techniques

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

by Elsa Olsson/Fevernest, 2019

That […] mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real “witches’ brew.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Medusa Reader, transl by Walter Kaufmann, (2013)

Vitány Castle, Vértessomló, 1913. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.