The Cloisters Museum, NYC

Gustave Dorés’ beatific vision, from Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.

Hex! Museum of Witchcraft-Ribe, Denmark

from the late 1800’s

Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.

It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen." — Shannon L. Alder

Axel Torvenius

Diana with a Stag and a Dog by Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1687)