• Underpainting – The Devil’s in the Details

    Underpainting – The Devil’s in the Details

    For anyone interested in a few detail photographs of the altar mural featured in my recent “Underpainting” video, here is a little gallery of semi-decent shots! The room is quite small which means the mural is difficult to capture within a single frame despite being very easily taken in, in person. This is probably for…

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  • If the Devil likes apples then Death grows pears…

    If the Devil likes apples then Death grows pears…

    Lying on the floor listening to music in between drawing belladonna on my walls, I no-faced up a bunch of poems yesterday. Here are two of them…and a third (a repost) from which they are a continuation on the same theme. Pear Tree contains a direct quote from on of Seamus Heaney’s bog-body poems (‘soft…

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  • “Mangled Triangles and Musical Turduckens” ~ Lá Bealtaine

    “Mangled Triangles and Musical Turduckens” ~ Lá Bealtaine

    It’s great how things come together sometimes. When a combination of planning plus serendipity collides to make something really *work*, it’s deeply gratifying. That’s how Lá Bealtaine was this year. First in the new house. It is my habit most years to make a flower crown in May Day colours (yellow and white) for the…

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  • What does Badb/Nemain sound like?

    What does Badb/Nemain sound like?

    If you were to ask, “What is it like to be a born a changeling witch?”, or, “What was it like to be a child stuffed to the brim with dark magick?”, or indeed, “What does Badb/Nemain sound like to those with an ear to hear them?” …you may consider this mix to be *an*…

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  • On the Architecture of Nightmares

    On the Architecture of Nightmares

    So I’m reworking the first disc of my “You and Me and the Devil Makes Three” mix-set to be less of a randomized selection of the others’ tastes and, instead, more in line with mine… and focusing on what it is to be a changeling (child) witch. It reminded me that I wanted to post…

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Saoirse Graves