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The one place in Europe where grimoires did feature prominently in the witch trials was Iceland. Around 134 trials are known to have occurred in this former Danish territory, and nearly a third of them involved grimoires, written spells, or runes and symbols derived from them.104 Those fortunate enough not be executed were flogged while the pages of their magic manuscripts were burned under their noses. As surviving examples from the period show, the grimoires being used in this northern outpost of European culture consisted of a very distinctive blend of Continental magic, with borrowings from Solomonic texts and the like, and the Nordic runic tradition. There are even some references to Norse pagan deities. Take, for example, the runic farting spell found in a seventeenth-century galdrabo´k or grimoire that had evidently passed through several generations. It instructed the reader to write a series of runic symbols in blood on white calfskin, which

are to afflict your belly with great shitting and shooting pains, and all these may afflict your belly with very great farting. May your bones split asunder, may your guts burst, may your farting never stop, neither day nor night. May you become as weak as the fiend, Loki, who was snared by all the gods. In your mightiest name Lord God, Spirit, Creator, Odinn, þor, Savior, Freyr, Freyja, Oper, Satan, Beelzebub, helper, mighty God, you who protect your followers Uteos, Morss, Nokte, Vitales.

Text and Translation: Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books

Photo: Farting Spell from a 17th Century grimoire in Antikvarisk – Topografiska Arkivet, Stockholm in Angurgapi by Magnus Rafnsson.

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Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires

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MARKUS SCHINWALD

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Waterfalls in tree roots. Opal Creek Wilderness. Image by NaturePunk. 

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Guy Denning (British, b. 1965, Bristol, UK) - Portrait As A Young Man  Drawings: Conte, Chalk on Paper

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Dance with Darkness　oil on canvas　727×530mm　2010

©Yu YASUDA

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Druids Temple - Martin Black

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Yuriy Ibragimov (Uzbekistani, b. 1961, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) - Savage II, 2015  Drawings: Pastels on Paper

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Arturo Leal (Mexican, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) - Anxiety, 2015  Paintings: Acrylics, Charcoal on Paper

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Nicolas Martin (French, b. 1980, France) - Yellow Window, 2014  Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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#‎FilmMuse101 Video Essay as Film School. EP 2.

Nerdwriter - “Blade Runner: The Other Side of Modernity”

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#‎FilmMuse101‬ Video Essay as Film School. EP 1.

Every Frame a Painting - “Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement”

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Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life, 1899-1900, oil on canvas, 129 x 191 cm, Nationalgalleriet, Oslo. Source

In The Dance of Life, Tulla Larsen, Munch’s muse and lover, is depicted as an innocent woman dressed in white, a sensual woman in red, and a grieving woman in black. The couple in the centre seem blissfully unaware of their surroundings, but the severe-looking woman on the right watches them in a way that implies her condemnation of love and lust.

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Madonna by Edvard Munch