© Nona Limmen {Via Instagram}

“Hallow Ground”

© Babs Webb

armor composed of 1.074 plates / Polish, 16th century

~Traditional Witchcraft, Gemma Gary The Red Serpent of the East Road The White Hare of the South Road The Grey Toad of the West Road The Black Crow of the North Road

Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

L'angelo, la morte e il diavolo (detail), Roberto Ferri, 2018.

Venezia, october 2013

photo: Max Kuiper

Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl - Death and the Maiden, 19th century.

Hand and a half sword, Germany, circa 1510

from The Victoria & Albert Museum