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Here’s my collection of vintage magic and magician imagery.

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Nature does not reveal her mysteries to the idle, but to him who labors her in the furnace of experience.

'La Chute' by Tennessee Charpentier

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Blessed is Dionysos, whose name the very earth whispers, and whose praises are found in the bubbling of streams. Blessed also is Pan, lord of the wild dance, who swiftly treads the forests in search of his next hunt.

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Teatro Greco di Siracusa, Ifigenia in Aulide di Euripide, Agamennone di Eschilo (1918). Duilio Cambellotti. Colour lithograph print on paper poster.

The Greek fleet is about to sail from the port of Aulis, under the command of Agamemnon, to avenge the affront of Paris, the kidnapper of the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus. At the beginning of the tragedy the king tells an old servant that the goddess Artemis, angry with the Greeks, blocks the fleet with a calm and that the soothsayer Calcante has announced that to placate the wrath of the goddess it is necessary to sacrifice Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon.

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Walpurgis, from Jugend Magazine by Adolf Münzer (1909)

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Ding Shilun (Chinese, 1998) - Walpurgisnacht (2022)

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Heinrich Kley (1863–1945) - Walpurgisnacht

illustration from ‘Jugend’ Vol.33 #20, 1928

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Enjoy your Walpurgisnacht!

Donn P. Crane (1878-1944), ‘Walpurgisnacht ’, from ‘The Story of Faust’, from “My Book House” vol. 12, by Olive Beaupre Miller, 1956

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"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."

From John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913).

Mountain Laurel

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Rare Viking ‘Resurrection Egg’, 9th-11th Century AD.

A glazed hollow ceramic egg with a hole to the underside, dragged yellow lines to the outer face, 36mm (1 ¼")

These eggs are usually assigned to Kievan Rus workmanship, however they were found in a wider geographic area. They are thought to represent an early form of a popular Orthodox tradition of painted eggs, or 'pysanka,’ popular during the Easter holiday as a symbol of resurrection. However, the symbolism may be pre-Christian, with connection to the goddess Ēostre and idea of a Cosmic Egg, from which the world was created.

(Source: timelineauctions.com)

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Easter angel, 1896 and 1902.

A feminine personification of Easter brings to my mind the Indo‐European goddess of the dawn, Ēostre/​Eos/​Aurora/​Ushas.

☞ Cover design by Louis Rhead, Worcester Evening Gazette, Easter souvenir, 16 Apr. 1897, previously published in The Evening Telegraph, Easter number, 4 Apr. 1896.

☞ “Easter,” cover design by Albert D. Blashfield, Life, vol. 39, no. 1013, 27 Mar. 1902.

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Sunday Bunday

Night of the Lepus | 1972 | dir. William F. Claxton

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Candle Knight

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Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931), ‘Cadmus Slays the Dragon’, from “Tanglewood Tales” retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1921 Source: https://archive.org/details/tanglewoodtales00hawt

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‘Myths and Legends of Ancient Slavs’, Illustration by N. Bukanova, 2007

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‘Myths and Legends of Ancient Slavs’, Illustration by N. Bukanova, 2007

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Max Ernst (German, 1891-1976), Les peupliers [Poplars], 1939. Oil with decalcomania on paper laid down on panel, 15 ¼ x 11 in.