Hagazussa in Glasgow

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Art historian, quarrelsome dame, and folk witch in Scotland. Slowly emerging from the broom closet 🧹🫖🔮 *hagazussa: an early medieval word for witch, later evolving into hex. Cognate with other early words that developed into hag and, possibly, hedge.

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Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· 26d

Easy-to-access, affordable Soprafino tarot remake: Soprafino Dellarocca by Da Brigh #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot Cons: keywords (I ignore) + the artist smoothed out the original engraved lines, causing some loss of detail Pro: Exquisitely captures the shimmering nature of the original pastel shades!

Close-up image of the tower card, showing the beautiful white, blue, orange-yellow, pink pastel colours of this deck

Counter clockwise from top right: the sturdy, telescopic box featuring the Temperance card, purple and gold ornate card backs, the Devil card, 5 of Coins, and 3 of Batons

From left to right: Temperance and Tower cards

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jul 14

"Another witness swore, that she had seen Julian Cox fly into her own chamber window in her full proportion; and that she very well knew her, and was sure it was she." #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory #illustration From the trial of Julian Cox, condemned for witchcraft in 1663 Image source in comment ⬇️

A woodcut illustrating an accusation from the witch trial of Julian Cox (d. 1663). In the image, above woman flies through the air toward a house.

The text above the image reads: "Fourthly, another witness swore, that she had seen Julian Cox fly into her own chamber window in her full proportion; and that she very well knew her, and was sure it was she

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jul 13

More feral, wicked, and wild witches, please. The Round of the Sabbath or Witches' Sabbath, Louis Boulanger, lithograph, 1835, The Met Museum, public domain #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

A witches' sabbath inside a cathedral. A swirl of witches and demons fly in from above and surround a pope-like figure on the cathedral floor.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jul 9

It's high time for some more witches of the fierce, frightening variety. 'Buen Viage (Bon Voyage)', Francisco Goya, etching and aquatint, 1799, Manchester Art Gallery (©Manchester City Galleries, CC BY-SA 4.0) #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory

An image of a winged witch with a bat-like face, carrying four other spirits or witches on her back through the night sky.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jul 7

Mother Goose looking very Frau Perchta/Holle-esque with a retinue of geese and elven spirits, magicking goose feathers to fall to the ground as winter snow 'Mother Goose,' Arthur Rackham, fairytale illustration, later 19th-early 20th century, The New York Public Library #WitchSky #art #illustration

Mother Goose as a bony, witchy-looking older woman riding a goose. Geese and impish beings surround her in the sky. One of them brushes down goose feathers with a broom, which fall to the earth on a winter scene of families in the snow below.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jul 1

Emmanuelle Iger's reproduction of the famous 18th-century Nicolas Conver deck (mini size). A lot of Conver repro decks put me off due to the particular shades of yellow and green that are most common. However, Iger's instead emphasises the beautiful, powdery blue colours! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

The ornate blue box, card backs with a dotted blue on white design and gilded edges (latter not shown in photo). King of Swords, 7 of Swords, and Tower cards

Right to left: the Fool, 2 of Swords, and Temperance cards

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 29

The Weird Sisters are aghast at Macbeth's very spiffy armoured shorts #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory #Shakespeare Actually, no: Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed head, by Henry Fuseli, oil on canvas, 1793, public domain, Folger Shakespeare's Library digitalcollections.folger.edu/img4536

A fanciful 18th-century painting of Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed head (the disembodied head in a helmet at the bottom right), which the three witches (at the centre, pointing at the head) summon with their magic. Macbeth (on the left) is not dressed particularly appropriately for Scotland.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 25

IT IS TOO HOT EVEN IN SCOTLAND! 🥵🔥 OK. A woman is arrested and led away by two men, while another looks fearfully over her shoulder, about to enter a cottage on the left. #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory And She Was A Witch, George Fuller, oil on canvas, c.1880, The Met, public domain

A woman is arrested and led away by two men, while another looks fearfully over her shoulder, about to enter an overgrown cottage on the left

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 21

On Ukrainian Ivana Kupala night (21-22nd/23-24th June) an enchanted flower blooms from a fern. The one who finds gains all sorts of magical powers including the ability to talk to animals *Also a ready-made folkloric excuse for young folks to canoodle in the forest unsupervised #Midsummer #WitchSky

The Fool card of Tania Andrushko's Flower of the Magic Fern Ukrainian Tarot, featuring the glowing, enchanted flower blooming from a fern in a nighttime forest.

The 7 of Fire card (showing a couple jumping over a bonfire), Fool card with the fern flower, and кохáння (Love card) from the aforementioned tarot.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 21

A fairy queen for a Midsummer's Day #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory 'Morgan Le Fay', Spencer Stanhope, later 19th century, Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo...

Morgan Le Fay in a reddish-orange dress, with a dark sash tied around her waist and torso. She raises one arm over her head in a languid pose.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 21

'Flaming June,' Sir Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas, 1895 #Midsummer #Solstice

A woman sleeping on a patio, on a bench under a canopy. She is almost monumental in scale and draped in a flaming orange dress. Sunlight glints like gold on the sea at the horizon behind her

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 21

Photos from my last visit (varenyky, borshch, pastry, gorgeous art and decor)

A table with Ukrainian food (varenyky top left, borshch (soup) and various pastries, plus tea and coffee)

Art on the walls depicting women in traditional Ukrainian dress, including flower crowns

The ceiling, covered in cloth flowers and lights

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 19

Book cover for The Amber Witch, by William Meinhold, 1903, public domain www.flickr.com/photos/inter... #WitchSky #BookSky #art

An antique hardbound book cover (The Amber Witch, William Meinhold on the spine). On the front cover, within a framed space against a gold and dark-coloured floral background, a witch stands before a smoking cauldron, staring it with a stick. Frogs watch at her feet while bats fly above her. Her clothing and hair swirls around her as if in a wind.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 16

'Tarocchi di Marsiglia' by Italian publisher De Vecchi. This is a reproduction of the same historical deck that actually inspired US Games' 1974 Tarot Classic (instead of the Claude Burdel tarot as previously incorrectly thought). Historical deck and sources⬇️ #TarotTuesday #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

The Tower card, held in my palm to show the deck's mini size.

The box, with a gold on black title ('Tarocchi di Marsiglia'), card backs with a beige imitation marble design, and Two of Swords card. Below that, from left to right: Ace of Cups, Fool, and Justice cards.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 14

Another adorable early modern woodcut: 16th-century view of elves as satyr- and demon-like human-animal hybrids. 'Nocturnal dance of elves', in the Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, 1555, Cornell University Library Digital Collections, link ⬇️ #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory #illustration

An early modern book illustration depicting dancing, music-playing elves as human-animal hybrids, some like satyrs or fauns, and others with claws and bird feet.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 13

A horde of witches and demons fly overhead above a praying couple. 'Na klek', Hinko Smrekar, drawing, 1907, Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hi... #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory

An endless line of witches and demons (disappearing in the far distance the background) fly above a man and woman, who kneel and pray on the ground below in apparent fear. The witches are laughing and grinning, and riding on various forms of transportation: a goat, brooms, a basket, and in the foreground, what appears to be a sleeping man suffering from sleep paralysis.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 12

Ukrainian folk magic practice (also seen in other Slavic cultures): a red thread knotted around the left wrist (ideally by a loved one) wards off the evil eye and malicious spirits. Red is the colour of life, strength, family, protection, and magic... #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky

A photo of my hand while I sit on the bus, showing a red thread tied around my wrist and matching the red garnet in my ring

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 12

Folk witch novel alert! The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe PhD student Connie moves to her grandma's ancient, formerly abandoned cottage in Salem and discovers a mysterious old book. Features folk divination practices (sieve and shears, book and key)! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky

The ebook cover of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe, showing a skeleton key and flowering plant on brown background

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 11

A coven of witches brewing their flying ointment, getting anointed, and zooming off into the night. 'Witches' Kitchen', Frans Francken the Younger, painting on wood, c.1610, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory ©KHM-Museumsverband, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, www.khm.at/en/artworks/...

A 17th-century painting of a kitchen scene full of witches and demons. On the left in front of the fireplace, witches and demons are brewing a flying ointment in a big cauldron over a fire. In the righthand foreground, two stylishly dressed witches begin undressing to be anointed with the ointment. Behind them, an older witch is spreading the ointment on one of her compatriots. In the far left background, an anointed witch flies up the chimney. On a table and all around on the floor are frogs, reptiles, and other ghastly bits and bobs.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 11

When I was a child, my grandpa would put a plate of pyrohy (see ⬇️ for terms) in front of me and say in his thick Ukrainian accent, "You will eat, and you will like." A stern command, never a suggestion. But always spoken with a hint of a twinkle. I will definitely eat and I will DEFINITELY like.

A plate of boiled pyrohy (aka varenyky) or Ukrainian dumplings, with butter and pepper on them. NOM NOM NOM!!!

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 9

Affordable, beautiful historical Italian tarot alert (links ⬇️)! The Soprafino deck (1835) by engraver Carlo Dellarocca and printer Ferdinand Gumppenberg, republished by Lo Scarabeo as 'The Classic Tarot' This deck inspired scores of others throughout the 19th century #HistoricalTarot #TarotSky

The sweet-faced Page of Cups, in a beautiful pink and grass green tunic, with a flower crown over his flowing auburn hair.

Cards from left to right: Justice, the Moon, and Queen of Batons

The box featuring the dancing couple from the Sun card (with Lo Scarabeo's Spanish title 'El Tarot Clasico', because I happened to purchase it in Spain), and three sample cards from left to right: 3 of Cups, Devil, and 3 of Batons.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 8

'A witch summoning devils' Illustration from Richard Burton's The kingdom of darkness: or, The history of daemons, specters, witches, apparitions, possessions..., 1688. Cornell University Library Digital Collections, digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:5... #WitchSky #art #illustration

An early modern print illustration of a witch summoning devils into a magic circle in front of her. Some devils are animals (cat and dog) while others are small, horned human-like beings. Another witch looks on from a colonnade in the background, with a rather footloose and fancy free style of dress. In the far background, we see a townscape.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 7

'A Horned Witch', portrait, artist unknown, 1700s #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory

An early modern portrait of an unknown young woman, depicted as a witch. She wears an ornament black dress with a low, gold coloured, bejewelled neckline and elaborate, caped, pointed headers. Her powdered white hair is decorated with pearls and twisted into two, horn-like points at her forehead.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 6

This witch is rarin' to go to the witches' sabbath! She's almost entirely transformed herself into a goat as she floats up, except for her left foot 'Aguarda Que Te Unten (Wait until you've been anointed)', Francisco Goya, etching and aquatint, 1799 (credit in comment ⬇️) #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory

Two emaciated-looking witches sit on the ground while another, mostly transformed into a goat, floats or leaps into the air. The witch in the foreground holds onto her still-human left foot, while dipping a brush or other implement into a bowl with the other hand. This sitting witch has long, pointed, animal-like ears. Handwritten text below states "Aguarda que te unten" (Wait until you've been anointed)

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 5

I don't work with dirt (I'm an indoor cat), but Ukrainian diaspora witch author Madame Pamita tells how cossacks carried a clod of earth from home on their campaigns for protection and to connect them to their ancestors in the grave if they died on the battlefield (see ⬇️) #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky

A painting of Ukrainian cossacks mounting up and leaving their rural village on the Ukrainian steppes, to head out to war. In the foreground, a young cossack tries to comfort his wife or girlfriend as she bends double, sobbing in distress. She is wearing a traditional patterned skirt and apron combination, and he is balancing a long spear over his shoulder. Behind him, his chestnut pony turns to look at the viewer. In the background, a family of elders, women, and children reach up for another cossack who has just climbed onto his horse.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 4

In an East Slavic land in the Middle Ages, a dark presence begins to endanger the land and its people. The young heroine Vasilisa's nurturing relationship with her household spirits holds one key to combating it #WitchSky #BookSky #Folklore @witchways.bsky.social I thought you might like this book!

The cover of Katherine Arden's novel, The Bear and the Nightingale. Against a swirling midnight blue background, a small brown bird sits on a red flower stalk. Behind her, a line of wooden houses and churches sits in heavy snow.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 3

Unguent, unguent, send me to the walnut tree of Benevento, under the water and under the wind, under all bad weather Folklore going back to at least the 1200s tell of janaras, or witches, traveling by night to a walnut tree in Benevento, Italy, for their sabbats #WitchSky #Art #ArtHistory #Folklore

A painting of a witches' sabbath at the legendary walnut tree of Benevento. The huge walnut tree is illuminated by a chandelier-like form of lights materialised in the pitch-black night sky, around which fly a swarm of witches and spirits. Below, around the three, witches dance in large concentric circles. A rider on a white horse looks down at the scene from a ridge in the left foreground of the painting.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 2

The Marseille at Night Tarot by Printagrams on Etsy. If the colours of Marseille decks are too intense for you, you may find the midnight-and-muted tones of this version pleasing. Based on the Nicolas Conver deck (1760). Satin card stock with delicious buttery, waxy finish #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

Cards from left to right: the Tower (La Maison Dieu), 2 of Swords, and Temperance.

The card box (showing part of the Moon card and the title, "Marseille at Night"), card backs with a white on black cross-and-dot design, and the 8 of Coins (top left), and Cavalier of Batons and Wheel of Fortune.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 1

In addition to Morgan Le Fay and Medea, Ms Gray is depicted in Sandys' 1863 painting of the Arthurian sorceress, Vivien. Image courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery, CC BY-SA 4.0, ©Manchester City Galleries: collections.manchesterartgallery.org/collections/...

Sandys' painting of Keomi Gray as the Arthurian sorceress Vivien. She is wearing red coral beads and earrings, and her dark curling hair is swept back from her face and down her back. She is looking off to the left, through a window, with her hands on the ledge. She holds flowers, and is haloed by a background of peacock feathers.

Hagazussa in Glasgow@hagazussainglasgow· Jun 1

June is the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (please see discussion of terms ⬇️). The British Pre-Raphaelite painter Frederick Sandys is well known, but few people can recognise Keomi Gray, the Romani woman who was his model in some of his most famous paintings (here as Medea) #WitchSky