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Тополя (Poplar Tree) | 1996 | Valentina Kostyleva | Ukraine

Based on the poem by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. A young girl falls in love with a Cossack who goes off to war. She waits faithfully for his return, but as time passes, he does not come back. Heartbroken and despairing, she fears he has died or forgotten her. The villagers pressure her to marry someone else, but she refuses.

In her sorrow, she seeks help from a traditional Ukrainian village witch/folk healer, begging for a way to preserve her love and avoid an unwanted marriage. The witch casts a spell that turns the girl into a poplar — tall, slender, and always reaching toward the distance, as if still looking for her beloved.

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🪶 Bird witch 🪶

It is a bit more autumn themed buuuut at least it's something. I also was able to test this paper more, it can handle a lot of water and layers.

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happy birthday evermore 🌲 alef vernon

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As Halloween approaches, I’ve been seeing many very talented makeup artists recreate the face of the bride in Tim Burton’s “The Corpse Bride.” I thought this would be a good oppertunity to make some art and remind one and all that the “The Corpe Bride” (known in some tellings as “The Finger” or “The Demon in the Tree”) is a beloved Jewish folktale. Folklorist Howard Schwartz traces the orgins of “The Finger” to 16th century Levant. Aftrer hundreds of years of retelling, the story, like all folktales, has undergone many iterations and also became highly informed by the violence of life in the Pale of Settlement (specifically towards women and young brides).

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Natalia & Sebastian ↟ Black Dog Studio ↟ Mix Media Artist

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Wood Elf

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Moss Bags \\\ by out.dump

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Little Horned God by Polina Kupriyanova

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Nabil Anani, Palestinian Folklore, 2020.

Acrylic on canvas, 110 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Zawyeh Gallery.

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leppä

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The walnut tree of Benevento is a legendary ever green tree presumably located of the Riverbank of the Janaras, the place on the bank of the Sabato river. According to folklore the tree was an ancient, leafy walnut tree consecrated to the Germanic god Odin situated near Benevento where a community of Lombards settled in territories originally inhabited by the Samnites.

Legend has it that witches, called Janaras, at night anointed their armpits or chests with ointment and took flight by uttering a magic phrase riding a sorghum broom to reach the Benevento Walnut Tree, where sabbaths and pagan rites were held.

Legend traces its origins to earlier pagan cults existing in the area, particularly the cult of Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic, whose worship had spread in Roman times through syncretism with other goddesses such as Diana and Hecate.

Other origins of the legend are linked to the Lombard cult of the god Wotan, according to which it was customary to hang the skin of a goat from the branches of the sacred tree so that worshippers could gain the god's favor by frantically running around the tree on horseback, tearing off shreds of skin that they then ate.

Benevento's Christians would have connected these frenzied rites with their existing beliefs about witches: in their eyes women and warriors were witches, the goat was the embodiment of the devil, and the shouting was orgiastic rituals.

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I have a lot of scatterbrained design notes for each of them but generally I wanted them to look similar to their original designs but with different themes. I also imagine that they have the same inscribing tools as their original counterparts but just use them differently (i.e. Magnificus paints animals, Leshy takes pictures of people as they're dying/about to die, I'm not sure what the magic equivalent for P03 would be besides maybe a spellbook that copies the essence of things, and Grimora's quill would either "write" code or write directly onto the hardware of robots).