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Hagazussa in Glasgow
@hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Art historian, quarrelsome dame, and folk witch in Scotland. Slowly emerging from the broom closet 🧹

*hagazussa: an early medieval word for witch, later evolving into hex. Cognate with other early words that developed into hag and, possibly, hedge.
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A re-introduction post: I'm a folk witch and art historian in lovely Scotland (uni faculty currently but soon going independent for better work-life balance). I post about art depictions of the witch, favourite witchy books, historical tarot, and other historical/spooky bits and bobs. Welcome! 🧹🖤🔮📖
The utterly brutal pace of first semester means that I can't post art historical witches as frequently as I'd like, but in the meantime, here's The Tiny Angry Witch trapped under a book!

If you've not come across the Tiny Angry Witch before, enjoy! 🖤 🧙‍♀️🧹
#WitchSky

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The Tiny Angry Witch has a book
YouTube video by The Tiny Angry Witch
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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Le Tarot Minchiate restauré, a restoration of the 18th-century Italian Minchiate Gaetano/al Aquila (the printer's name/sign respectively) by Emmanuelle Iger and Isabelle Nadolny. Colours returned to original richness. The knights are human-animal hybrids! #TarotSky #TarotTuesday #HistoricalTarot
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Broom parking only!!

#WitchSky
WITCH DIARY | Part 1: Bad Witch | Chapter 12: Vroom broom #witchythings #witchcraft
YouTube video by Alina Pash
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November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A witchy rider carrying a stang and smoking cauldron

'Fantastic horse and rider', anonymous, drawing, c.1600, likely German, ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London, collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O148344...

#WitchSky #art #ArtHistory
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tam O'Shanter booking it over the bridge to escape angry witches. Alas, poor Maggie's tail. (Scene from Rabbie Burn's poem, Tam O'Shanter).

Tam O'Shanter, Thomas Stothard, oil on canvas, late 18th/early 19th century ©Victoria and Albert Museum, source ⬇️ #WitchSky #poetry #ArtHistory #art
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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All the Cats are Black.
A Willerby Story.
While the village sleeps, the cats work.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Witch book recommendation: Ashes & Stones by @allysonshaw.bsky.social. An elegy to the thousands persecuted for witchcraft in Scotland and how their memory lives in the land. Shaw journeys through the places they lived, died, and sometimes were memorialised. "They were just folk." #WitchSky #BookSky
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Good afternoon.
It is always, always time for witches.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Badgers run like old, neglected footstools who have suddenly discovered their own sentience.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A facsimile of Pierre Madenie's Tarot de Marseille from 1709, by Marianne Costa. Madenie's tarot is known for the delicate, expressive beauty of its human faces and their curling hair, as seen in the Chariot card here. Very matte, slightly larger than normal card stock #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The wonderful Mascha from Musings by Mascha walks us through the Rosenwald Redux Tarot (link to ongoing Kickstarter in comment!), its history, and imagery. As she notes, the black ink will be darker and the backgrounds warmer and more vintage-y than in the review copy #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #art
Rosenwald Redux Tarot by Robby Fowler ~ Complete 98-Card Deck Review
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November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A Witch, Edgar Bundy, oil on canvas, 1891, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #ArtHistory
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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We are excited to announce a charming new addition to our #collection! Long before the Sanderson sisters, #Life featured a beautiful #witch astride a vacuum on their October 1923 cover. This illustration encapsulates a fascinating moment of transformation for the witch in visual culture.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Three witches with a cat, a dog and a bird. Engraving c. 1800, after a woodcut 1619. The original woodcut actually depicted Anne Baker, Ioanne Willimot and Ellen Greene, accused witches from Leicestershire

Public domain, Wellcome Collection, source in comment, #WitchSky #WitchAlt #illustration #art
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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by Edward Gorey
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Hello Saturday. #Caturday
🖼️ Edward Gorey
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I really hope this Kickstarter succeeds (link in comment)!!! Robby Fowler @tarotkingofms.bsky.social has created a usable and uniquely affordable version of the important Rosenwald Tarot/Minchiate deck from c.1500 (possibly the first tarot of its time made for the masses!) #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
The Rosenwald Redux Tarot: An Introduction
Ever since I first laid eyes on the Rosenwald images in the first volume of Stuart Kaplan’s Encyclopedia of Tarot, I have been fascinated with their primitive, elegant simplicity; for me, they are …
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November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Illustration taken from the 'Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes' illustrated by John Byam Liston Shaw (1901)
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November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"I am NOT climbing in an oven! That happened to a friend of mine once. She had a lovely house too. But she ended up--" (the witch Lilia Calderu, in Marvel's "Agatha All Along")

Hansel and Gretel, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, illustration, 1890, New York Public Library #WitchSky #WitchAlt #illustration
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Never enough rocks
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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„Polish Folk Magic: Ancestral Lore & Traditions of the West Slavs” premieres December 9th 2025! Take a peek inside 👹🔥
#PolishFolkMagic #folklore #folkmagic
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Got places to be, got things to do!

A woodcut book illustration by Ernst Barlach of witches flying on Walpurgisnacht in Goethe's Faust, 1922/1923, Wikimedia Commons
#WitchSky #WitchAlt #Art #ArtHistory #Illustration
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A tarot by Edoardo Dotti (1865 in Milan), reprinted by Deviant Moon Inc. Edoardo's father, Teodoro, took over Ferdinando Gumppenberg's print shop. Dotti tarots thus are derived from the Soprafino. Scrumptious dark pink and mallard green and blue colours! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #TarotTuesday
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As it just was St Martin's Day, a traditional revel of spooky season, I honour my grandparents, whom I miss painfully. My grandfather was persistent in grounding me in our Ukrainian diasporic culture (now I'm the family bearer of stories, recipes and artefacts (like this funny church theatre photo).
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A walk in Faskally Forest on a misty day, just 10 miles from Birnam Wood (made famous by Shakespeare's Macbeth). My witchy heart was singing. #WitchSky #WitchAlt
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM