Witch Krafting with Kat

Best wishes to all my blog readers this Summer Solstice.  Kat 😊 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times  -  Saturday 12 July 1856 To view this page please visit.  https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/summersolstice

  The frog prince (1913) Welcome to part three of my Arthur Rackham gallery. My galleries are just a tiny collection of the amazing body of work he created in his lifetime. As he had produced so many wonderful pieces of artwork I promise to post more of Arthurs work in the near future. Until then here are some more beautiful images for you to enjoy.  Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman (1927) The Frogs and the Well (1912) Mother Goose Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up! (1927) The Gnat and the Lion (1912) The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the duke’s daughter into a white hind (1927) ‘Well!’ she chuckled, ‘I am in luck!’ (1927) The witch Sycorax Tree of mine! O Tree of mine! Have you seen my naughty little maid (1927) Witches and warlocks, ghosts, goblins and ghouls (1911) Images and info sourced from ARTVEE. All images are in the public domain.  Thank you for visiting my blog. Witchy Wednesday returns next wee...

Val Thomas made this quilt panel depicting Elizabeth Bradwell, one of the women hanged as a witch Please visit BBC news for full article.   Pilgrimage remembers women condemned as witches

Damselflies found in my garden and on local walks June 2025.  I found this interesting article online about the folklore of Damselflies which I will be looking more deeply into.  Folklore Dragonflies hold a dark and unfair reputation in European folklore; in Norway, they are referred to as Eye Pokers, and in Portugal, Eye Snatchers. Several English vernacular names for dragonflies misleadingly allude to them having powerful stings, with Horse Stinger and Devil’s Darning Needle among the most alarming. They are often associated with snakes, as demonstrated by their Welsh name, Gwas y Neidr, or Servant of the Snake. Such serpentine superstitions even span the Atlantic Ocean, where in North America, the Dakota people claim dragonflies to be witches’ familiars and the Pueblo and Zuni People believe Dragonflies to follow snakes beneath the Earth to heal them.  For the full article please visit  https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/llanelli/news/gwas-y-neidr-servant-of-t...

  Wishing you all a lucky Friday the 13th!  There are some fabulous articles on the History website including some on Friday the 13th and superstitions.  https://www.history.co.uk/articles/when-is-the-next-friday-13th https://www.history.co.uk/articles/why-friday-the-13th-was-the-unluckiest-day-for-the-templars

  Let us go to the shore, and I'll tell you my history. From Alice in Wonderland. Welcome to the second part of my blog feature about illustrator Arthur Rackham. This week I am mostly concentrating on posting a collection of some of my favourite drawings. Each one beautifully captures characters and atmosphere from some of histories most captivating stories and folk tales.  For a history of Arthur Rackham please visit my previous posting.  https://witchkraftingwithkat.blogspot.com/2025/06/welcome-back-witchy-wednesdays-arthur.html I shall be posting the Third and final gallery next week.  Design for cover of Cinderella (1919) Mother Goose. A carrion crow sat on an oak (1906-1921) Ophelia; from Rackham’s Illustrations to Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare [Hamlet] (1906-1921) The Witch’s Pool (1904) Milton’s ‘Comus’. Sabrina rises (1906-1921) A Terrible Fellow, Little Brother and Little Sister interior illustration (1917) A chrysanthemum heard her, and said pointedly, ‘Hoi...

  A full Strawberry Moon will appear in UK skies this week coupled with a rare phenomenon not seen in almost 20 years. On 11 June, stargazers in the northern hemisphere will be able to spot the full Moon sitting very low in the southern sky, making it appear much larger than usual. Caused by an event known as a 'major lunar standstill', the opportunity will not arise again until 2043. Please visit link to see the full article.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/strawberry moon

  Spooky 'Witchy' episode from Tales of the Unexpected entitled Death in the Morning.  Enjoy! 😊  https://youtu.be/Tales of the unexpected

  From a pressed specimen of a dead bat, to a 19th-century photograph of gothic ruins, to an AIDS awareness poster from the mid-1990s, explore the legacy of Bram Stoker's classic horror story 'Dracula' across the V&A's collections. Published in 1897 at the height of Gothic literature, Stoker's shocking portrayal of the suave and seductive, yet deadly Count Dracula, soon came to embody popular representations of the vampire in art, literature and film. Join us as curators Lydia Caston and Ruth Hibbard unbox objects from our Prints, Posters, Photography and Drawings collections to reveal Dracula's haunting presence and lasting influence as a symbol of death, decay, degeneration and contagion.

Please visit my crafting blog for my new tutorial  Katherine Hazelton : Little Kat Make Tutorial, painting embossed leaves. :   Welcome to the first of hopefully many more little 'Kat Make' tutorials by yours truly. My first one is how to make these pretty o...

  The artwork of Arthur Rackham part one. Arthur Rackham is one of my favourites artists. I thought my first encounter with his work was a very old dusty copy of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol which was beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham which I found on a visit many years ago at York Library. But over the years I released his imagery has both influenced and enchanted me since I was a small child having seen his illustrations, but not realising the significance of his work, in old books of Peter Pan, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. Something I had and still have a great love of.  A bit of History on Arthur .  Born in London in 1867 Arthur became an English book illustrator during the golden age of British book illustrations. Especially known for his beautifully detailed ink drawings combined with watercolours he created a magical artwork depicting fairies, Witches, and illustrations of some of the best known characters in literature.  He lived all his l...