Merry Christmas!
Victorian medicine bottles.
❂ The Unseelie Court ❂
“The Unseelie Court consists of the darkly-inclined fairies. Unlike the Seelie Court, no offense is necessary to bring down their assaults. As a group (or “host”), they appear at night and assault travelers, often carrying them through the air, beating them, and forcing them to commit such acts as shooting at cattle.”
“Some of the most common characters in the Unseelie Court are Bogies, Bogles ( Shellycoats, Barghests, Brags/Kelpies, the Hedley Kow and even giants), Boggarts, Abbey Lubbers and Buttery Spirits.”
Alchemical drawings from Sapientia veterum philosophorum, sive doctrina eorumdem de summa et universali medicina (18th c.) BnF
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
Le génie du mal (The Genius of Evil), known affectionately as Lucifer of
Liège.
Statue by Guillaume Geefs, installed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Liège, Belgium in 1848.