For the Victorians, witchcraft was a thing of both fantasy and all too real fact. As late as 1895, there was the terrifying case of Bridget Cleary in Tipperary, Ireland. Believed to be bewitched, she was burned alive by...
Feature Image: Major Andre’s Tree, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1928), by Arthur Rackham
A confession is required before we begin. Although I spent the earliest years of my life creating colorful syllabi on construction paper describing all the...
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"I hope they’re home,” Eliza whispered to herself as she walked down the mountain’s well-worn path to the drover’s road ahead. The light was fading into embers above the tree canopy on the...
Our friend John Keske, who now runs Deep Midnight Perfumes in the wake of his partner Cat Marx's passing (you can read our past interviews with her here) has some new scents to share, and we asked him all about it below:
What...
Writing a list of our top five witches is surprisingly hard, but not for the reasons you might assume. It’s not that we can’t think of any good ones—the problem is that there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of...
From Issue 59 - The Nautical Issue
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When it rained, you felt it from all sides. The persistent pitter-patter of droplets on the hatch and the soft push and pull of the water beneath the hull....
Flying Dutchman (20th century), English School
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From Issue 59 - The Nautical Issue
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My grandfather once saw the Phantom S hip of the Northumberland Strait from his farm above the red shores of Burnt...
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Destruction of Leviathan (1865), by Gustave Doré
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Maybe it’s the isolation. Maybe it’s the up and down and back and forth of the waves. Maybe it’s purely a sense...
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Article from the Mermaid Issue #59
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It feels like fate that Dame Darcy—equal parts mermaid and witch, a longtime artist, filmmaker, writer, tarot designer, musician, and haunted-doll-whisperer—should find herself at home in Savannah, Georgia....
Early morning. Sea mist still hovers over the water, and the bracken-covered dunes that furl out beneath my feet like a green carpet are alive with activity. Under the surface are cool, sandy-walled tunnels and dens filled with breath,...