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I created a manga style comic based on Angela Carters short story "Warewolf". In this, Carter retells the infamous tale of Red Riding Hood. The story is set in a northern country, residing with superstitious villagers. they are superstitious to the point of stoning those they believe are witches. Red Riding Hood is portrayed as a strong child, capable of protecting herself using her fathers hunting knife. When the wolf attacks her she cuts off its right paw and it whimpers, running back into the woods. The girl keeps the paw in her basket.
When she arrives at Grandmothers house she finds her suffering a terrible fever. When she goes to her basket to make her a cold compress she remembers the paw. Shockingly it has turned into a human hand that is freckled with age and has a wedding ring on the finger, as well as a "third nipple" (a wart which is believed to be a sign of a witch). The girl pulls back the covers and discovers her grandmother is missing her right hand, all that is left is a stump "festering already".
She is horrified that her grandmother is actually a witch and shouts at the top of her lungs until the neighbours barge in. They too soon learn the truth and stone her to death. Red Riding Hood takes the place in the grandmothers house; "now the girl prospered."
- Brains -We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
- Through the fence -We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
- In the shade - We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
Picked up a copy of Twilight on Monday afternoon, and finished it on Wednesday night. I'm completely hooked on the series, and can't wait to read the rest!
Also looking forward to seeing the Twilight movie being released later this year.
- Just hanging around - We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
The Kooks at Manchester Apollo, 22.4.08 Luke's eye's are a smidge American Warewolf for my liking here.
House in Barry South Wales used as the set for the TV programme Being Human about a Warewolf, Ghost and a Vampire living together.
Earlier series were originally set in Bristol but the last series they moved to Barry. Really Barry is not that bad its quite nice in parts.
- Lets do this! - We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
I love my eyes in this. I know this is random but they remind me of a warewolf's eyes, just completley black and shiny.
- The dead -We created this Halloween MOC to display in our front window to greet the kids when they Trick or treat. It's designed to fit into the thinner Ikea Billy book cases
Denbigh moors, famous as a location in "American warewolf in London", today sets the backdrop for my first shoot with a lovely model called Rhiannon
A shot of the full moon through a 10" SCT @ f/6.3 (1600mm F.L.). These are the first shots of the moon of which I'm somewhat proud of. My previous attempts were made with a 35mm film SLR and it was a royal pain to focus. So much so that I never got a shot with adequate focus. Fast forward a couple of years to the digital revolution and everything changes for good. This image has only been leveled in Photoshop, otherwise it turns out very washed out.
How exciting, a tree with mature Truffles of Truth! She had read all about them as she had researched the Werewolf's Garden, how to ask the wolf's gravestone if you may harvest some, and all about the offerings you must bring.
Of course, all of the books in the Blytheland Academy's library had acted as if a Warewolf's Garden was just *lore,* not something you could literally trudge through BA's woods to get to. Mirabelle believed it all as truth now, believeing it was important to keep up with ALL of the established and published ritual. She would ask permission th harvest her maximum three of the truffle toadstools, and she had brought a large jar of witch's hazel as her offering.
Thank goodness, too, all of the books she had read that had told legends of people stumbling in without the required gift for the Warewolf. All of the tales had different elements: some stories featured different characters who got trapped-- an elf, a gnome, an entire small coven of witches, in only one case a mortal human; others mention different types of itmes to offer; sometimes the incantation was only mentioned, and was it only recited verbatim twice. But all the stories had the same elements in common: 1 Ask for the Truffles 2 Lay down your gift of offering 3 Wait for a "Response from the Garden" 4 Take no more than three of the Truffles of Truth. All of the legends also made it clear that if this order was betrayyed, and especially if no gift was left at the monument of the Werewolf, that you could become trapped in the garden for any length of time-- Until you earned your freedom, or was rescued by the gifts of another.
The volume Mirabelle had tucked into her basket said:
"Truffles of Truth only grow in the moss at the base of a Sticky Web tree, and they usually grow in circlular clusters. The Sticky Web trees ooze a sticky sap that resembles a spiderweb, and if anything is done to endager the tree or its surrounding fungi, the canopy can multiply this sap's speed by almost 100. This causes a sort of 'trap' around this most unusual plant. The fungi that is the Truffle of Truth resemble large purplish-black toadstools, and when ripe, have a sparkly black crust on their caps. The best, and most rare, (in some lore books this is called "kissed by a fairy") they have a fine smattering of what looks like silver freckles."
These truffles looked like they fit that description to a *tee,* but Mirabelle was filled with fright anew from the possibility of being caught by the tree. Still, she read on:
"Truffles of Truth are very potent, wonderous things. One should be a large enough supply for one witch's spells for one year. Three gives a witch or warlock bargain power. They not only work quite easily for spells of honesty, but also prove useful in potions of love, malaise, pox, voice chainging potential (deeper voice only), hiccup cures, and a wide range of topical uses from hair growth to soothing bat bites. Legend has it, some wealthy warlocks even use the distinctive shape as a deoderant applicator of sorts."
Hmmm... Mira didn't know what she expected to DO with her three truffles, but she knew she wasn't going to come all this way and not get any!
Is Draculaura and Clawd! Cleo says aloud to Deuce, "What are THEY doing here together? Not that I'm jealous, I swear I'm not... just a warewolf and a vampire? Really?"
500mm - f/11 - Larger
63 exposures stacked
The moon was a tiny bit closer to earth then usual tonight so I got fooled by all the hype to go out and take a picture... I've never in my life spent so much time and effort in making a picture of the moon before, but it turned out quite alright I think...