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Vintage Halloween postcards, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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  Date 1910 Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, as we are now into October things are getting even more spookier! Each week I shall be posting about things I associate with Halloween! This week its my favourite early 20th Century Halloween postcards. These gorgeous, at times quite weird, postcards became a popular tradition to send to family, friends and love ones. Today these original vintage cards are extremely collectable and due to their age and being mostly copyright free ( please always do your own homework )  great for reprinting and using for art and craft projects. I have added some information to some of the postcards such as age and the artist. I will continue to update if I source additional information. All are original designs, no AI, and sourced from various online libraries and museum archives.  Some great places to do online historical research. https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://digitalcollections.nypl.or...
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Frogs & Toads! A Witchy Wednesday article.

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  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, as we are about to fall into October things are getting more spookier! Each week I shall be posting about things I associate with Halloween! This week it is the frog and the toad. A companion, a familiar, and sometimes an ingredient to some Witches despicable potion!!! Images sourced from Public Domain.  https://pdimagearchive.org/galleries/all/random/desc Witch Feeding Her Familiars with Blood Date 1579 From A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile Hemlock Artist J. J. Grandville Date 1849 From The Flowers Personified Artist Anton Seder Date 1896 From Das Thier in der Dekorativen Kunst Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v2. Tab 72 Artist Mark Catesby Date 1743 Phenakistoscope 1833 Frog rain Artist Conrad Lycosthenes Date 1557 From Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon Plate from Ernst Haeckel's visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature, p...
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Bats! A Witchy Wednesdays article.

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1884 print.  Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week is the start of things which I associated with Halloween and this week its about Bats!  Having just celebrated Batman day (19th September) I have always been a fan of the comic book turned TV and film character Batman, my mind turned to my love of all things Bat related!  Me & the Batmobile screen used car from Robert Pattinson's   The Batman  My love of bats covers many spectrum of interests from real life conservation of bats living in my local area, art, and literature especially Bram Stokers Dracula, his ability to shape shift into a bat always intrigued me. My first Gothic necklace was a bat purchased from Whitby which features in the original story of Dracula!  Nothing gets me more excited to empty my purse than a winter jumper covered in bats or a bat mug! Lol! Anyway it's not just people like myself who are 'bat crazy' Victorian culture was totally obsession with bats! The theme of...
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