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A figure on display by an Indonesian store to drive away evil spirits.
Australian International Tattoo Expo.
Moore Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 12 March 2016)
Seen while bicycling...
This is a strange rural tradition in New Jersey and, apparently, elsewhere in eastern and southern US. Blue bottle trees are said to ward off evil spirits, but I don't know much about this custom. The idea, I've read, is that evil spirits cannot resist climbing inside blue bottles, but once they get inside, they are trapped and can't get out. Then when the sun comes out, they are killed.
My Bottle Tree was a surprise gift from my sister and the men who built our deck. My sister painted it blue, added the copper top, and friends donated the bottles.
“Bottle Trees”, it is believed, originated in Northern Africa during a time when superstitious people believed that a genii or imp could be captured in a glass bottle.They thought that if an empty glass bottle was placed outside the home, the empty glass bottles would capture evil spirits at night and the spirit would be destroyed the next day in the sunshine. This practice was taken to Europe and North America by African slaves.
Europeans adapted them into hollow glass spheres known as "witch balls". Witch balls were brought to the USA by the Pilgrims.
Also, in the USA, during cattle drives or similar activities, if a cowboy died during the journey, his fellow cowboys buried him on the trail and, then, would drink in his memory. Their empty bottles were then hung on a dead tree in his memory.
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The placement of the doll, behind the young girl rather than in her arms, suggests that it is being used to draw away the bad luck of having their photograph taken.
In the Buddhist religion, and in Chinese art, these sacred objects are known as "Foo Dogs" (or "Fu Lion"...called "Shi" in Chinese). Its not uncommon to see them guarding tombs or placed in front of buildings to scare the evil spirits away and thus discourage any wrong doers and demons from entering the place of tranquility. The Foo Dog is embodied in rich Chinese history and tradition and are very popular today in all parts of the world.
Like the Pixiu, Foo Dogs are also male and female. The male Foo Dogs are called "Ky" while the female is known as "Lan." The male is tasked to protect the structure of the home while the female works to guard the dwellers.
I couldn’t believe it when I learned that people actually ‘practised the occult’.
These freaks with white make-up and black robes would come up to us after our gigs and invite us to black masses at Highgate Cemetery in London.
I’d say to them, ‘Look, mate, the only evil spirits I’m interested in are called whisky, vodka and gin.’
— Ozzy Osbourne (I Am Ozzy)
A Raphael Tuck Oilette in the Christmas Postcard series and first issued for Christmas 1906. It shows boatmen delivering Holly to a paddle steamer in fairly rough weather. The tradition of dressing a ship with Holly is an old tradition, Holly represented everlasting life and was used to ward off evil spirits. In the Christian era Holly was seen to represent the crown of thorns and the red berries drops of Christ's blood. I don't know if the tradition survives today as regards ships but it was common in the 19th Century. Here is a link to a painting of HMS Victory by William Edward Atkins, dressed overall in holly whilst she was a floating accommodation ship at Portsmouth during the late 19th Century.
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/HMS-Victory-as-a-Accommodation-...
A small carte-de-visite photo of a Kabuki actor in the play “Tsuchi-gumo” or “The Ground Spider”.
Hand written on the reverse: “No. III. This photo is a famous actor dressed in an evil spirit of a spider. These are all showing the manner of Japan in old times (about five hundred years ago). I don’t know whether these photos, though very pleasant to us, will meet your tastes or not.”
Judging by his distinctive kumadori makeup and his costume, this is Onoe Baikō VI, sometime around the 1910s.
A small child is brought to the Aravaan Idol in the festival. Apparently her horoscope states she has an evil force upon her that will cause her (first) husband to lose his life once she marries. Hence she is married to Lord Aravaan and made a widow, or at least posed to marry Aravaan and widowed symbolically. The girl wears several sacred threads around her wrist and her neck, the one in the neck symbolizing the wedding to god.
This thread is severed and thus technically she is now a widow legally but logically she is not even old enough to attain puberty so any marriage ceremony is invalidated (with this one exception of course) thus saving her from the heinous crime of swallowing her future husbands life once she marries. Its a win win situation and everybody gets a fair share and is happy.
Here an Aaravaani helps severe the holy thread on the girls hands and throws it into the camphor fire pit. Her mom dutifully stands behind her and prays hard that her daughter not be made a widow by her ill fate written for her in her horoscope. The little girl of course knows nothing about any of the activity going on around her and is enjoying all the attention and plays this fun game.
Another Aaravaani next to her is immersed in her own world and she is breaking her bangles with a twig from a branch of a tree so that she can join the group of mourners to sing the elegy of Aaravaans death.
Canon EOS 400D with the Sigma EF 24 - 70 MM F/2.8, Aperture Priority, F/2.8 at 1/50th of a Second, ISO400.
In Chinese thought, the world is populated by a vast number of spirits, both good and evil. Such spirits include nature demons, evil spirits or devils, and ghosts.
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Cernunnos is the conventional name given in Celtic studies to depictions of the "horned god" (sometimes referred to as Herne the Hunter) of Celtic polytheism.
Photo taken at the Burning Man 2013 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).
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In these times of evil spirits
Of material thugs and mischief
Fear Saint Noni’s wisdom
And his love for rainbow spirits
Jealous of their faithful heart-bond
And their dancing and their laughing
Made at last a league against them
To molest them and destroy them
Saint Noni wise and heart-strong
Often said to Rainbowarrior
“O my brother do not leave me
Lest the evilspirits harm you”
Rainbowarriors of two spirits
Gentle hand and lion-hearted
He laughed and then he answered
Like a child he softly whispered
We are rainbowarriors
Evil come not near
Rainbow love awaits us
With hearts of love and tears
He’s dead our sweetest mother
Loving father and our teacher
He’s gone forever
He has moved a little nearer
To the master of all laughter
To the master of all song
O my brother, O my brother
Crystal brother of two spirits
Then we gathered in a circle
Stood round the rainbow fire
Burning embers hearts united
We remembered mystical beauty
If you look hard you can find a
Rainbow trail it’s deep inside ya
Fear not you're a rainbowarrior
Golden light on everything gleaming
(Rainbowarriors, Cocorosie)
In local Aboriginal lore, the Thuwii (pronounced thoowee) is a spirit being who can appear from anywhere at any time, but especially at night. Also known as the wanta or ugly one, he can be identified by his haunting call of “thuwii”, “thuwii”, “tthuwii”, from which he derives his name. He is a fearsome and vengeful spirit bringing retribution to wrong doers and hapless intruders; though on occasion he can provide protection in times of need to those who respect him.
He presents himself as a short stocky being with piercing eyes and long claw-like finger nails which he uses to attack his victims. With his dark powers he can disorient people, cause them to get lost or even make them disappear. The rocky outcrops where he lives are to be avoided, particularly at night and especially by children.
The following was translated in broken English from Ngiyampaa the language of the local Aboriginal people:
“The Wanta might get us. Lives in the hills. We haven’t seen him. Bristling with hair. Got long nails. Would scratch you. Really big, no good, stinks. Makes you get properly lost. Wanta might take your belly out. Would eat you right up.”
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* A manipulated composite Image based primarily on my original colour photograph of a three dimensional exhibit in the Cobar Heritage Centre Museum. The moon and storm clouds were shot separately and added in post production. The information accompanying the image was drawn from the museum exhibit.
Still have to layer some more veins on it before I cover it in skin....The left eye will be my shift light and the right eye is low oil pressure.
A Poem About Miss Sneezy
“My grandma made money,” Miss Sneezy says, “by saying ‘I Love You.’”
As many ways as possible. For people who could not.
Miss Sneezy onstage, the cuffs of her sweater sleeves sprout the scraps and ruffles of dirty tissues stuffed there.
Those tissues, yellow and matted with nasal discharge.
Her nose running, bright with snot and blood, and her eyes busy with red lightning and watering down each cheek.
Onstage, instead of a spotlight, a movie fragment: a scene from some medical drama, showing doctors and hospital staff in white coats, holding test tubes, busy finding a cure.
Between sniffing her nose and coughing, Miss Sneezy says, “Until she died, my grandma made money saying ‘Happy Birthday’ for people.”
Saying, “Deepest Sympathy.”
Saying, “Congratulations.” And “We’re so Proud of You!”
And “Merry Christmas.”
As many ways as possible, her grandma said, “Happy Anniversary.”
“Happy Father’s Day”
and “Happy Mother’s Day”
for a greeting-card company.
Between blowing her nose and stuffing the tissue back into her sleeve, Miss Sneezy says,
“My grandma’s job was to interpret what other people had no words to say.”
But every “Happy Birthday,” really, every card, she wrote with Miss Sneezy in mind.
Her grandma’s ideal target audience.
And the card rack is her bank account, her left-behind trust fund of future best wishes for her granddaughter.
So, after she was dead, her Miss Sneezy could come and find the right “I Love You” or “Happy Valentine’s” for that moment of the distant future.
Long, long after her grandma was dead.
“Still,” Miss Sneezy says, “there’s one card, one special occasion she never covered.”
There needs to be a card that says: I’m sorry.
Please, Grandma.
Please, forgive me.
I didn’t mean to kill you.
Exerpted from Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Haunted is a 2005 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is a frame story for a series of 23 short stories, most preceded by a free verse poem. Each story is followed by a chapter of the main narrative, is told by a character in main narrative, and ties back into the main story in some way. I have decided to make a series of portraits of each of the 19 characters in this book. The title quote is the first line of each character's story and the description is each character's poem. The portraits are my personal interpretation to the words of the book.
To get to my rack on top, I get on top of my cowl to load and unload it. I was always sliding and slipping so I installed some 6 x 6 grip tape. Didn't like the way it looked so I cut me some voodoo dolls instead.
A good friend and fellow Jeeper made me this. She is such an outstanding artist as this is a woodburning with paint, pen, and pastel. This is so cool!
Day: 045/365
Longing to return to his corporeal state the being known as Scareglow is content to do Skeletor's bidding. That is, until such a time arises that he may take Grayskull for his own.
Woodcarved or painted on almost every house
The penis protects those who live inside the house. It also means that there will be no quarrels among the family members.
Dreng fra rensdyr-inuit ved Eskimo Point, Canada. Hans dragt er fremstillet af rensdyrskind med hårene vendt indad. På dragtens ryg sidder amuletter. Amuletter kunne enten beskytte mod sygdom, genfærd og onde ånder eller overfører dyrets egenskaber til dragtens bærer. F.eks. gav rensdyrører bedre hørelse og uglekløer styrke. Fotografi fra 5. thuleekspedition 1921-24.
Caribou Inuit boy at Eskimo Point Canada. His clothing was made of Caribou skin with the hairs turning inwards. Amulets were sewn on to the back of his dress. Amulets could protect the wearer against illness, ghosts and evil spirits or transfer characteristics of the animal to the wearer. E.g. the ears of caribou enhanced the wearers hearing and the claws of an owl his strength. Photo from the 5th Thule-expedition 1921-24.