Protect yourself. Protect others if you're able. Protect all creatures, great and small. Protect crumbling ruins and standing stones for elves and fairies. Protect bogs, marshes, and misty moors for wandering witches, wayward spirits, and all of the horrors shambling in the gloom.

The utterly brutal pace of first semester means that I can't post art historical witches as frequently as I'd like, but in the meantime, here's The Tiny Angry Witch trapped under a book! If you've not come across the Tiny Angry Witch before, enjoy! 🖤 🧙‍♀️🧹 #WitchSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3aC...

Le Tarot Minchiate restauré, a restoration of the 18th-century Italian Minchiate Gaetano/al Aquila (the printer's name/sign respectively) by Emmanuelle Iger and Isabelle Nadolny. Colours returned to original richness. The knights are human-animal hybrids! #TarotSky #TarotTuesday #HistoricalTarot

Broom parking only!! #WitchSky

A witchy rider carrying a stang and smoking cauldron 'Fantastic horse and rider', anonymous, drawing, c.1600, likely German, ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London, collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148344... #WitchSky #art #ArtHistory

Tam O'Shanter booking it over the bridge to escape angry witches. Alas, poor Maggie's tail. (Scene from Rabbie Burn's poem, Tam O'Shanter). Tam O'Shanter, Thomas Stothard, oil on canvas, late 18th/early 19th century ©Victoria and Albert Museum, source ⬇️ #WitchSky #poetry #ArtHistory #art

All the Cats are Black. A Willerby Story. While the village sleeps, the cats work. willerby.substack.com/p/all-the-ca...

Witch book recommendation: Ashes & Stones by @allysonshaw.bsky.social. An elegy to the thousands persecuted for witchcraft in Scotland and how their memory lives in the land. Shaw journeys through the places they lived, died, and sometimes were memorialised. "They were just folk." #WitchSky #BookSky

Good afternoon. It is always, always time for witches.

Badgers run like old, neglected footstools who have suddenly discovered their own sentience.

A facsimile of Pierre Madenie's Tarot de Marseille from 1709, by Marianne Costa. Madenie's tarot is known for the delicate, expressive beauty of its human faces and their curling hair, as seen in the Chariot card here. Very matte, slightly larger than normal card stock #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

The wonderful Mascha from Musings by Mascha walks us through the Rosenwald Redux Tarot (link to ongoing Kickstarter in comment!), its history, and imagery. As she notes, the black ink will be darker and the backgrounds warmer and more vintage-y than in the review copy #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #art

A Witch, Edgar Bundy, oil on canvas, 1891, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #ArtHistory

We are excited to announce a charming new addition to our #collection! Long before the Sanderson sisters, #Life featured a beautiful #witch astride a vacuum on their October 1923 cover. This illustration encapsulates a fascinating moment of transformation for the witch in visual culture.

Three witches with a cat, a dog and a bird. Engraving c. 1800, after a woodcut 1619. The original woodcut actually depicted Anne Baker, Ioanne Willimot and Ellen Greene, accused witches from Leicestershire Public domain, Wellcome Collection, source in comment, #WitchSky #WitchAlt #illustration #art

by Edward Gorey

Hello Saturday. #Caturday 🖼️ Edward Gorey

I really hope this Kickstarter succeeds (link in comment)!!! Robby Fowler @tarotkingofms.bsky.social has created a usable and uniquely affordable version of the important Rosenwald Tarot/Minchiate deck from c.1500 (possibly the first tarot of its time made for the masses!) #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

Illustration taken from the 'Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes' illustrated by John Byam Liston Shaw (1901) #Witchsky

"I am NOT climbing in an oven! That happened to a friend of mine once. She had a lovely house too. But she ended up--" (the witch Lilia Calderu, in Marvel's "Agatha All Along") Hansel and Gretel, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, illustration, 1890, New York Public Library #WitchSky #WitchAlt #illustration

Never enough rocks

„Polish Folk Magic: Ancestral Lore & Traditions of the West Slavs” premieres December 9th 2025! Take a peek inside 👹🔥 #PolishFolkMagic #folklore #folkmagic

Got places to be, got things to do! A woodcut book illustration by Ernst Barlach of witches flying on Walpurgisnacht in Goethe's Faust, 1922/1923, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #Art #ArtHistory #Illustration

A tarot by Edoardo Dotti (1865 in Milan), reprinted by Deviant Moon Inc. Edoardo's father, Teodoro, took over Ferdinando Gumppenberg's print shop. Dotti tarots thus are derived from the Soprafino. Scrumptious dark pink and mallard green and blue colours! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #TarotTuesday

As it just was St Martin's Day, a traditional revel of spooky season, I honour my grandparents, whom I miss painfully. My grandfather was persistent in grounding me in our Ukrainian diasporic culture (now I'm the family bearer of stories, recipes and artefacts (like this funny church theatre photo).

A walk in Faskally Forest on a misty day, just 10 miles from Birnam Wood (made famous by Shakespeare's Macbeth). My witchy heart was singing. #WitchSky #WitchAlt

🖼️ Hares, Martin Truefitt-Baker.

The Witches' Flight, Francisco Goya, oil on canvas, 1798, Museo Nacional del Prado, Wikimedia Commons, public domain #WitchSky #WitchAlt #Art #ArtHistory

A new recreation of the Rosenwald Tarot is on Kickstarter! This is the first known historical tarot deck made for the general public, around 1490-1500. Recreation is by Robbie Fowler and the campaign ends on Dec 14th #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #ArtHistory www.kickstarter.com/projects/tar...

'A black cat, without a single white hair, is a witch of the sort that brings luck to the house.' -Samuel Adams Drake 🎨Denise Warren

George Cruikshank, 1909.

I wish there were more pics, but the article about the craft is very interesting mezha.net/eng/bukvy/hu... #folkcraft #folklore #folkloring #textiles #traditionalcrafts

Milk or cheese are also appreciated by the domovyk (Ukraine), though bread with salt is a favourite. Forget this and your keys might go missing as a small warning #WitchSky

Another version of the image of two witches cooking up a storm, here on a title page of Ulrich Molitor's De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus, first published in 1489 #WitchSky #WitchAlt #Illustration Wikimedia Commons, public domain

My worry this BBC show would poorly engage with the human tragedy was unfounded. It was a masterclass in denying cruel, powerful people's control through fear by laughing at them. By the time Reece Shearsmith's Hopkins shrieks "SUSAN!" (2:12) I was 🤣 And Daisy May Cooper's Thomasin was a 🌟 #WitchSky

Two witches cooking up a storm. No info on Wiki Commons other than public domain, but I *think* this may be from or inspired by Ulrich Molitor's treatise, De Lamiis et Pythonicis Mulieribus, published in 1489 in partial support of Kramer's Malleus Maleficarum #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #illustration

The Gassman Tarot facsimile by Vieux Monde Express (linen finish). Photos can't fully convey the deck's stunning beauty: colours seem to glow from within against the peachy background. At some point in history, someone also painted clothes on figures without! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #TarotTuesday

Now is the time of darkness and slumber, of cold gloom and starlight obscured by mist. Now is the time to arm yourself with strong tea, pajama armor, a shield of books, and to stubbornly resist the call to adventure at all costs.

If you are interested in the medieval and Renaissance art history of the Seven Virtues in tarot (Temperance, Strength, Justice) and minchiate (cousin of tarot, also including Hope, Prudence, Faith and Charity), check out this Youtube video by Musings by Mascha! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #ArtHistory

A witch assembles a giant skeleton made out of ghosts and sets it on her enemies... Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre, Utagwa Kuniyoshi, woodblock print triptych, c. 1844, Victoria and Albert Museum collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73119/... #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #ArtHistory

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HECATE CROWNED by Fosco Culto. Wishing our friends a blessed Samhain with this new print in our gallery. 🦇 Hecate Crowned is available as a Fine Art Print on High Quality paper. More infos: www.hexen.fr/books-prints...

This spooky little song is from the English and Welsh folk practice of souling at Allhallowtide (Oct 31-Nov 2), in which people went door to door for soul cakes in return for prayers for the givers and their deceased relatives. Lyrics in comments! #WitchSky #folklore www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Haj...

Dark librarian, check! I did once have spiders dangling from my hair. They kept appearing like this for several weeks, after an egg case of spider babies hatched out of the ceiling lamp above my bed. I think they imprinted on me as their mother. Seems appropriate. #WitchSky #Halloween

Happy Halloween! #WitchSky #Halloween

Happy Halloween/Samhain! Here's another Salvator Rosa painting with witches and ghouls getting up to no good! 'The Witches' Sabbath', Salvator Rosa, oil on canvas, 1635/1654, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Google Art Project, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #Art #ArtHistory #Halloween

'The Witch' by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Illustration from 'Fairyland'

Another Halloween witch in a newfangled flying contraption! "Halloween -- ancient and modern", Clifford Berryman, cartoon drawing, 1909-1910, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-130251 (b&w film copy neg.) www.loc.gov/pictures/ite... #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #illustration

The Witch, Salvator Rosa, c.1646, The Capitoline Museums, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #Art #ArtHistory #Halloween