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Witches have of course long been popular characters here...
An artist named Nataša Ilinčić has come up with a project called 'A compendium of witches'. She explains this way,
See more on her website http://natasailincic.com or on her deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/natasailincic
I'll start with some examples from her series here,
but I'm also taking this as an excuse to dump some topically related images about witches, moon-priestesses, women practicing the occult, and other provocateuses against the patriarchy ...
(don't worry admins I won't be going overboard and spam with endless witch cosplay etc)
The idea being, to focus on the way how artists envision them looking/doing their thing, as opposed to the depictions of them getting their just deserts, which we'll find in threads like Burned at the Stake or Hell of Inquisition etc.
The occasional capture/torture/execution pic might be included as well that is just part of the inherent risk of being a witch but they won't be the focus ... this is the "before" thread, just like warrior girls go to "The last warrior in your last moment" to get stabbed, but "Girls with swords..." / "Fem warriors..." is were they prance about before they get run through....
So first, in the following some of the depictions by Nataša Ilinčić, of witch characters in different times and places:
(Italic text is always hers.)
An artist named Nataša Ilinčić has come up with a project called 'A compendium of witches'. She explains this way,
In 2016 my anthropological fieldwork took me to the rural highlands of Bosnia with the objective of researching and learning as much as I could about traditional female tattooing. I interviewed the elderly women who bear the last of these tattoos, the roots of which are embedded deep within a pre-Christian Illyrian past.
I collected not just symbols, but the stories and wisdom of strong and resilient women that had survived not one, but two wars.
All this made me wonder; if I could talk to the women of the past, what would I learn?
And if I could talk to the wise women of the past – those who were familiar with a wider world, that of the spirits and the invisible forces hiding within nature – then what would they tell me?
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I wanted to meet these witches, to give them faces and voices. Weave their stories in the fabric of history.
See more on her website http://natasailincic.com or on her deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/natasailincic
I'll start with some examples from her series here,
but I'm also taking this as an excuse to dump some topically related images about witches, moon-priestesses, women practicing the occult, and other provocateuses against the patriarchy ...
(don't worry admins I won't be going overboard and spam with endless witch cosplay etc)
The idea being, to focus on the way how artists envision them looking/doing their thing, as opposed to the depictions of them getting their just deserts, which we'll find in threads like Burned at the Stake or Hell of Inquisition etc.
The occasional capture/torture/execution pic might be included as well that is just part of the inherent risk of being a witch but they won't be the focus ... this is the "before" thread, just like warrior girls go to "The last warrior in your last moment" to get stabbed, but "Girls with swords..." / "Fem warriors..." is were they prance about before they get run through....
So first, in the following some of the depictions by Nataša Ilinčić, of witch characters in different times and places:
(Italic text is always hers.)
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