#witches in books/literature

[apriiciityy]

“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”

Franny Billingsley, Chime, 2011

[shisasan]

Kathleen Kalloch Millay Young, Witch [1896-1943]

[joytri]

the history of magic

[die-rosastrasse]

I've been seeing lots of fascinating animals in nearby forests lately, so I'm doing some evening reading on local fauna 🦋

[geniussloci]

[fallingrealms16]

Witchcore maximalism 🌲✨🖤🍶📚🧚‍♂️🔮

[charliesopus]

This was a labor of love and the most complex piece I’ve ever made.

7096 stitches, 98 hours. 2-strand on 18ct.

I was just so in love with this book cover, I couldn’t not.

The book is Crush, the second installment in the Crave series by Tracy Wolff :)

[janeaustengirl]

Why is it that we are told to fear the witches and not the men who burned them?

[freyatarotreadings8]

Pick a Picture Reading | PAC

Pick a picture 1 - 2 - 3 Hello, sweethearts. It's an unusual reading. I picked quotes for each pile that will give you insights or enlighten you.

Pile 1

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”

— Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

— F. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

”The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Who are you then?”

“I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”

— Goethe, Faust

Pile 2

"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."

— C.G. Jung “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Don’t worry about people. People think what you want them to think.”

— Theodore Dreiser, The Financier

Pile 3

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

— George Orwell, 1984

“To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Hardships make or break people.”

— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.“

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

[literatureaesthetic]

happy halloween 🎃

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The smell of the library always lifted my spirits - that peculiar combination of old stone, dust, woodworm, and paper made properly from rags.

Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

[apriiciityy]

"A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy around problems. Then the problems fix themselves."

Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maiden's Guide to Old World Witchcraft, 2015

[spalanai]

the disappointment of walking into a wardrobe and not finding narnia

[emeraldpotion]

Illustration for H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams in the Witch house - Harry O. Morris, 1972

[lumen-du-reves]

pov: you’re an occult librarian, serving witches, vampires, and other academics of the night 

[fallingrealms16]

Mushrooms are weird but I think that’s why I like them 🍄✨