Rossetti’s Lady Lilith
“And round his heart one strangling golden hair”: Desire has always seemed a dangerous kind of magic…
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Viking swords were marvels of art and technology. Poets called them “blood serpents”…
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“Double, double toil and trouble”: cauldron imagery was already ancient when Shakespeare got to it…
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Conjuror of angels and demons: Dr. John Dee, the greatest magus of the Elizabethan age, used a black obsidian mirror of Aztec make to work Renaissance magic…
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