Illuatration From Ab¯u-Masar Gafar Ibn-Mu.hammad ; Engel, Johann [Hrsg.]; Johannes [Übers.]: De Magis

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“I found myself, in truth, on the brink of the valley of the sad abyss that gathers the thunder of an infinite howling. It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths.”

Dante, Inferno.

Prophetess [...] Of blood seared by the venomous spells and prestigia of desire exciting in the bend of your nocturnal throat the voracity of vampires, vast dance of nuptial gravitations.

— ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE ⚜️ BLACK MIRROR: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, transl. by David Rattray, (2010)

“Witches, with hearts like a wild song,”

— Charles Guérin, tr. by David Paley, from Poems; “The Bridal Night,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Leo constellation, from Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia, part of Prodromus Astronomiae (1690) by Johannes Hevelius

Clearest image of Venus, taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter.

The Alnwick Poison Garden is pretty much what you’d think it is: a garden full of plants that can kill you (among many other things). Some of the plants are so dangerous that they have to be kept behind bars. [x]

'16th-century english devil, applying cosmetics' in masks - jamie shalleck (1973)