Turns out I have an abnormally high number of blog entries tagged with "Devil."
Click below and scroll through some of the neater images I've found over the years.
Showing posts with label old scratch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old scratch. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2022
Friday, September 19, 2014
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Old Scratch
And the Prince of Darkness was Himself sealed, that old life, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Ouija
Susy Smith in Confessions of a Psychic (1971) claims that using a Ouija board caused her to become mentally disturbed. In Thirty Years Among the Dead (1924), American psychiatrist Dr. Carl Wickland claims that using the Ouija board "resulted in such wild insanity that commitment to asylums was necessitated."
We owned a Ouija board back when I was in grade school. And I discovered today my family has been mispronouncing the word for decades as WEEE JEEE (supposed to be 'wE-ja'). Though my family is notorious for butchering the obvious.
My sister was usually present at these sessions, so I never fully trusted the board's answers to our spirit-world questions. But watching the planchette float around under our fingers was fun - the tiny needle (a gold nail) answering yes and no questions, and even spelling out names of ghosts in the room.
Us: "Are there any ghosts in the room with us now?"
Milton Bradley Board Game: ".....yes"
Us: "Are you a good ghost or a bad ghost?"
Milton Bradley Board Game: ".....yes"
Us: "IT'S THE DEVIL!"
Enter Satan. So somewhere around 8th grade, my brother and I and a good friend decided to test the evil rumors we always heard about the Ouija board. We had the board and our friend had a camera and a 100 year old bible from his great grandmother. Logic suggested that the two MUST be brought together and photographed, so the photos could be analyzed later (back in the day you had to take your rolls of film to a fotomat and WAIT a week to have them developed).
Our friend kneeled in front of the board and slowly lowered the bible onto the planchette. I snapped wildly capturing every second of the event. And nothing happened - but that's what the spent roll of film was for! And off it went.
Flipping through the envelope of photographs a couple of weeks later was a bust. Nothing. Just our friend lowering an old bible onto a stupid board game. No strange glares or blurs or shadows. Nothing.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Old Scratch
Pretty stoked. Just ordered some more clove tea lights for my pumpkins on Halloween night and six votives of a new scent called Old Scratch:
"...a blend of rich Indonesian Cinnamon and sweet, soft sandalwood. Wicked! You’re going to love it! I’ve created this scent just for Halloween, and was inspired by the devil characters in early American stories such as "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving."
DarkCandles.com
Monday, September 22, 2008
Devil On My Wall
My grandmother had a mask on her wall. I remember when I was a child how much it disturbed me. This is the same grandmother that got me into Creature Double Feature and horror movies. Coolest lady around. We would hide her cigarettes when she babysat for us. We couldn't wait to see her whenever she visited.
Well, the mask on her wall was the face of Satan. Such a peculiar thing for my mother's mother to have on her wall. We'd make her take it down when we slept over. Creepiest eyes and teeth. When she died, that incredible mask was thrown away. I didn't speak up about wanting it. I don't think I truly appreciated it at the time or realized how much I would be looking for the same mask since then. Never found anything close.
My searches for devil wall masks convinced me that there might be an interest in this sort of mache wall art. Devil masks are hard to find and rarely look creepy or like something I'd want to hang on my wall.
So I tried my hand at making one for the shoppe. Hung it on the wall above a lamp and it had cool shadows in all the right places.
Old Scratch on the wall.
Pumpkin Hollow
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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