I’ve got another strange musical discovery to share today – the Russian ensemble Caprice, whose new album “Kywitt! Kywitt!” is… well, very strange. I can’t even say that I like all of it. Rather, I obsessively like two songs on it enough to justify making this post. Apparently this group’s previous trilogy of releases was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fairies’
Kywitt! Kywitt!
Posted in Inspirations, tagged fairies, fairytales, folk music, German, Grimm, music, Russian on November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Goblinesquerie
Posted in ImWalde, tagged animals, antler, art, bones, crafts, creepy, decor, dolls, etsy, fairies, felt, goblins, gothic, jewelry, skulls, taxidermy, teeth, weird on October 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with goblin merchant men ["Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti] imWalde is proud to announce a new shop (companion to The Bone Forest Collection) called GOBLINESQUERIE, which features curious and creepy artefacts from the forest’s underbelly – assemblage jewelry, ritual implements, decorative art, and [...]
A Princely Feast
Posted in Inspirations, tagged art, fairies, food, photography on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Feast (ha ha) your eyes on this amazing story told through photographs, A Princely Feast by Anna Williams. A witch is begged by the king to intercede with the spirits and bring an end to a terrible famine. In return she asks that the young prince be surrendered to the forest. The fairies prepare a banquet [...]
What fairies are really like
Posted in Inspirations, tagged fairies, film, videos on January 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This rings more true than most of the cutesy winged fairy stories I’ve seen. Beware!
Visions That Match Mine
Posted in Inspirations, tagged art, artists, fairies, gothic, mythology, pagan, surrealism, visions on July 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am an extremely visual person, in that I need to surround myself with interesting, beautiful (to my mind) things to look at, things that match my inner vision of the world – one populated with stranger stuff than is generally seen everyday. While not much of a two-dimensional artist myself, I intensely admire many [...]
Telling the Bees
Posted in Inspirations, tagged bees, England, entheogens, fairies, folk music, folklore, mushrooms, music, videos on July 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Lately I have touched the sublime / Out of sight out of mind / The worship of trees Something deep within my soul / Out of my control / The worship of trees Lately I have been flung / Into rustication / The worship of trees Something old has my name / Things will never [...]
