Firefly Diamonds
Illuminated copper engraving, 1705, by Maria Sibylla Merian. Wikimedia Commons.
The traveling bug lover, in the earliest days of insect study, brought back from foreign...
The Mythical Moon
Illustration by: © Daria Hlazatova
I was mad for Moon Maid. As illustrated by Chester Gould, she was buxom with hypnotic, lushly lashed eyes, a platinum-blonde...
The Lesser Periwinkle; The Love Potions of Lady Wilde, Mrs. Whiskeyman,...
Feature Image: The Three Witches from Shakespeare’s Macbeth by Daniel Gardner, 1775. Wikimedia Commons.
“…aperitive, abstersive, carminative, digestive, discussive, diuretic, incisive, vulnerary, cephalick, neurotick, stomachick,...