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Hagazussa in Glasgow
@hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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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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Hagazussa in Glasgow @hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social · Aug 8
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! 🧹🖤🔮📖
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edmondsscanner.bsky.social
Protect yourself.
Protect others if you're able.
Protect all creatures, great and small.
Protect crumbling ruins and standing stones for elves and fairies.
Protect bogs, marshes, and misty moors for wandering witches, wayward spirits, and all of the horrors shambling in the gloom.
November 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
A close-up of the serene, smiling face of the Strength/Fortitude figure. She is holding a classical column in her lap. The box, extensive guidebook, and sample cards. Sample cards from top to bottom and right to left: Capricorn, Four of Swords (decorated with critters including a napping unicorn), the Knight of Batons as a human lion hybrid, Element of Water (showing a ship and sailors), the card backs presumably showing an image of Gaetano the printer and labeled with his sign (All Aquila, or by the sign of the eagle), and the Prudence card with her mirror and snake.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
A 17th-century drawing of a nude woman with wild hair on a galloping horse. She is looking over her shoulder behind her, while balancing a stang (forked stick), on which is hanging a steaming cauldron. The horse appears to be breathing smoke as it gallops through the clouds.
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
Tam O'Shanter rides a galloping white horse over an arched stone bridge, with a coven of angry witches racing behind him in an attempt to catch him. The youngest witch, Nannie, at the front of the group, snatches away the horse, Maggie's, tail in an attempt to catch Tam.
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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welcometowillerby.bsky.social
All the Cats are Black.
A Willerby Story.
While the village sleeps, the cats work.
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Screenshot of text from the linked story overlaid on a silhouette of a black cat.
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
The book cover for Ashes & Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witnesses, by Allyson Shaw. A hand, with a starched cuff in the style of a ruff, holds a purple flower in its upturned palm. Surrounding the hand, against a background of dark blue, are other purple flowers and thistles. A crescent waning moon shines faintly above the hand.
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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tomsbrown.bsky.social
Good afternoon.
It is always, always time for witches.
A border drawn in pencil consisting mostly of twisted trees, witches and cats.
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Badgers run like old, neglected footstools who have suddenly discovered their own sentience.
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
A close-up of the charioteer's handsome face in Pierre Madenie's Tarot de Marseille Chariot card. He is holding a staff and wearing a crown, as well as chest and shoulder armour. The spaulders protecting his shoulders are in the shape of human faces. The card backs (with a royal blue and white all-over design), box, and three sample cards from left to right: 9 of Swrods, King of Batons, and Ace of Cups. The box says: El Tarot de Marsella, Marianne Costa, Libro y Tarot de Marsella, Original de Madenie (1709) The Chariot and 2 of Coins cards from left to right. The chariot is pulled by two blue horses, and the two coins are connected by a ribbon with the cartier's information printed on it: Pierre Madenie Cartier du Prince 1709.
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
YouTube video by Musings by Mascha
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November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
A Witch, Edgar Bundy, oil on canvas, 1891, Wikimedia Commons #WitchSky #WitchAlt #art #ArtHistory
A witch with wild long hair and ragged clothing walks toward the viewer in a hunched-over posture with her arms bent upwards, almost as if in imitation of the huge black ravens flying around. She leers at the view with a grin. Fly agaric mushrooms grow in the grass at her feet. A sickle also lays on the ground in front of her. Behind her stand tall tree trunks, which partly obscure a raging fire, hovering in the air above which can be seen what look like skeletons.
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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salemwitchmuseum.bsky.social
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
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
A black and white woodcut illustration of three accused witches wearing 17th-century clothing, here labeled Joan Flower with her two daughters Margaret and Philip. In the centre, Joan is standing on two crutches and has a birdlike creature on her shoulder. Her two daughters stand on either side with canes and have a cat and dog at their feet, respectively.
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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andy-paciorek.bsky.social
by Edward Gorey
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Hello Saturday. #Caturday
🖼️ Edward Gorey
Illustration of a man, dressed in a full tweed suit, standing next to a cat sitting on a round, cushioned ottoman. The man is leaning slightly towards the cat and appears to be offering it a small item, possibly food or a treat, which he holds between his fingers. In the background to the left, a tall, clear vase holds several branches of pussy willows.
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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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houseofbast777.bsky.social
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
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
"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
The witch from the story of Hansel and Gretel peeks from behind her front door while the two children pull off and nibble at parts of her gingerbread house.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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bogwitch.bsky.social
Never enough rocks
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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polishfolkwitch.bsky.social
„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
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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
A woodcut illustration of witches flying to their Walpurgis night revels above a wooded and rocky mountainside, which takes the form of an animal-like face. The witch in the foreground sits astride a broom with her feet kicked out sideways, while her fellow witch is grabbing her hair from behind while crouched in a flying sieve or pot. Behind and below them, in the distance, other witches fly unassisted, on a broom, and on a goat.
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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
The tuck box (stating Edoardo Dotti Lombardy Tarot 1865, Deviant Moon Inc. and decorated with the Strength card showing a figure wrestling a lion) and card backs (with a yellow and blue geometric pattern and the text 'Milano'). Also three cards from left to right: The 5 of Cups, Queen of Swords, and Ace of Coins. The latter has the printer's name (Edoardo Dotti) and location (Milano) printed around the circumference of the coin. Three cards from the Edoardo Dotti tarot deck from left to right: Justice, the Moon, and the Knight of Swords.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
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).
A sepia photograph from the 1940s of a smiling soldier in an Allied uniform. A sepia 1940s photograph of a glamorous woman with red lipstick and her hair in victory rolls. A photograph of a play/skit put on by young people at a local Ukrainian diasporic church in the 1940s. My grandmother pretends to cry, while my grandfather (on the right) wears a jaunty fake moustache.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM