Silver Cup With Depictions Of The Goddess Freya (1000 AD),

Histoire de la Magie, 1870

Abraham Saur, Witches’ Brew, 1582

"Witches' Night" is here!

May Day Eve (Apr 30) is Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgis Night) across parts of Europe.

Known as "the other Halloween", it's a time when witches and evil spirits take to the skies for a little mischief.

Self-Portrait with Magic Scene (detail, ca.1635-7) Pieter van Laer 

Pan and Bacchante, 1834, by James Pradier.

𝔱𝔦𝔱𝔩𝔢: “Photography of St. Sebastian’s Cathedral” 𝔟𝓎 Klim Musalimov // 𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫: b+w

The solar eclipse of June 29, 1927. Photo by H. von Kluber in the Lapland region of Finland.

(Cambridge University)

Kostnice u sv. Jakuba (Ossuary at the Church of St. James)

Brno, Czechia

Feb. 2023

'16th-century english devil, applying cosmetics' in masks - jamie shalleck (1973)