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The Valkyrie
By Peter Nicolai Arbo

Town Of Fire by Egbert Van der poel

Vestlandet by Nikolai Astrup

Grandfather Leshy, Spirit of Nature

-Valery Yesaulov (1984)

Winter Gift

-Josef Douba

Medieval Gate, Bamberg, Germany🇩🇪

Silver Visigothic brooch
6th Century CE, Serbia

Newest commission, 2022.

After many months and a few iterations later, I have finally concluded this art piece. There are two versions, but I will upload this one because it is better. Otherwise, I'm quite pleased by the overall result.

The piece features a vast, ethereal landscape upon which standing stones are plentiful but few are magical. The lone adventurer stumbles upon a set of standing stones, playing host to a beautiful white tree of exquisite essence.

Here is the rough sneak-peek of the upcoming Midsummer artwork. The piece will feature the Midsummer Maiden (or Maiden Queen), as well as the totem animals of the Hyperboreans. I will proceed with the actual painting next month, so for now, the shading will have to suffice; though it leaves much to be desired 😅I'm not good when it comes to shading. I began to paint the bear because I could not resist. Hopefully I will come up with something really outstanding!

Edit: I have been informed her eyes are a bit off, but I'll fix that as I paint. There are a lot of imperfections.

This is such an enchanting video. Tree individuals.

Lamias and witches of Soria, Castille

In the Castillian town of Lumias, Soria, which name is a reference to these Lamia beings (nymphs) that the locals speak of around the Sickle of the Talegones River. There they say that a shepherd falls in love with a beautiful lady who combed her hair with a golden comb next to a fountain at the entrance of her cave. After proposing to her in marriage repeatedly every time she passed through the place, she, tired of his insistence, accepts on the condition that she find out her age. The riddle would be solved thanks to the help of a witch from the nearby town of Barahona, and the lamia has no choice but to accept in exchange, once again, for another condition: that he never look at her feet. The promise is not fulfilled when he looks at her goose legs, and the woman suddenly vanishes, leaving the shepherd despondent until he dies of melancholy shortly after next to the fountain.

Altar in 'the field of witches' in Barahona, Soria

Magical cauldrons of these witches can be distinguished by various purposes, ranging from those intended to enchant (for better or for worse), including love potions, which are merely curative, and ointments that provoke the sensation of flying to the coven or transforming into an animal.
Some plants these wise women used would be panaceas such as rosemary, sage, and valerian. And many others such as sheep sorrel, wormwood, red heather, cabronera, runner thistle, dandelion, blackthorn, lavender, bearberry, lemon verbena, fennel, mallow, chamomile, mint, nettle, pennyroyal, thyme, etc. all well known in Soria. Among those that offer altered states of consciousness would be solanaceous plants that contain powerful alkaloids, such as belladonna and jimsonweed (atropine), datura,, mandrake (used for affection), aconite or henbane. The latter was called Beluntia among the Celts, derived from the god Belenos