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La Bruja – Full Colour – Limited Edition Hand-Painted Witch Linoprint
Inspired by historical imagery of witches and demons frolicking together, with illuminated manuscripts as another source of inspiration, I also like modern captures of unusual things caught on film, whether real or not or hereby unexplained, a video of something that looks like a stereotypically historical depiction of a witch caught my imagination and spurred on this image. As this video referred to what was captured in Spanish, “La Bruja”, I kept the title.
Also Available in black and white.
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Reverend Dodge Driving a Devil out of the Parish – Lino Print
This image depicts the Rev. Richard Dodge, Parson of Talland in Cornwall, doing what he was famous for. He was parson of Talland from 1713 until he died aged 93 in 1747, and was widely reputed to be able to raise the dead, lay ghosts to rest and he was also believed to be able to exorcise devils from places and used a horsewhip in carrying out these tasks.
People were often fearful of meeting him in the dead of night, as no doubt, a spirit or demon would also be in close range, but it is also believed that he courted these attitudes as he could have been involved with smuggling and wanted to keep the way free to assist the smugglers.
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Dr Theobald The Astrologer – Plague Doctor – Lino Print
I am very inspired by the look of the plague doctor. So much so in fact I also make masks, and part of Montol involves groups of similarly dressed people in guilds roaming the streets of Penzance on the 21st December every year and entertaining people at the various pubs they stop in. I have made a guild of quack doctors who play music, and add comedy to the evening, with out dated and terrifying cures and questionable sick notes for those who wish to stay in bed the following day. We also have a guise beast called Ratael, a sort of mutant plague-ridden Obby Oss in the form of a rat.
All except two of the members of the guild are called Dr. Theobald, and this fellow examines the stars from his tower to inform the other doctors if planets are aligning in a particular manner as a warning of plague. A very, very, very former Dr. Theobald has donated his body for medical research in the background.
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Dr Theobald the Scourger –
I am very inspired by the look of the plague doctor. So much so in fact I also make masks, and part of Montol involves groups of similarly dressed people in guilds roaming the streets of Penzance on the 21st December every year and entertaining people at the various pubs they stop in. I have made a guild of quack doctors who play music, and add comedy to the evening, with out dated and terrifying cures and questionable sick notes for those who wish to stay in bed the following day. We also have a guise beast called Ratael, a sort of mutant plague-ridden Obby Oss in the form of a rat.
All except two of the members of the guild are called Dr. Theobald, and this fellow beats the demons and illness out of patients, upon his robes are embroidered leeches, a quacks favoured company. He is just about to set to his evening business, and there will be a lot of people in need of his services tonight, as a meteor has foretold him of this news.
*Disclaimer* This was designed circa 2015, but apparently foretold some events in 2020
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The Merrie Frolicks of Rat Racing
I am very inspired by the look of the plague doctor. So much so in fact I also make masks, and part of Montol involves groups of similarly dressed people in guilds roaming the streets of Penzance on the 21st December every year and entertaining people at the various pubs they stop in. I have made a guild of quack doctors who play music, and add comedy to the evening, with out dated and terrifying cures and questionable sick notes for those who wish to stay in bed the following day. We also have a guise beast called Ratael, a sort of mutant plague-ridden Obby Oss in the form of a rat.
All except two of the members of the guild are called Dr. Theobald, and this fellow is taking part in a race, riding a gigantic rat, in a World Turned Upside Down.
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Gruss vom Krampus in Red and White – Limited Edition Lino Print – Gruß
Season beatings! Gruß vom Krampus!
Alpine folklore brings us Krampus, the friend of St Nicholas, and whilst St Nicholas rewards the good little boys and girls at Christmas time, Krampus punishes them, either by thrashing them with branches or carrying them off in a potato sack or a basket on his back. He is shown in red ink this time, and in profile here with the German greeting, Greetings from Krampus, with a boarder of branches, baubles, holly and mistletoe.Also available in black on white.
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Gruss vom Krampus in Black and White – Limited Edition Lino Print – Gruß
Season beatings! Gruß vom Krampus!
Alpine folklore brings us Krampus, the friend of St Nicholas, and whilst St Nicholas rewards the good little boys and girls at Christmas time, Krampus punishes them, either by thrashing them with branches or carrying them off in a potato sack or a basket on his back. He is shown in profile here with the German greeting, Greetings from Krampus, with a boarder of branches, baubles, holly and mistletoe.Also available in red on white.
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Winter Cometh – Limited Edition Linoprint – Black on White
Winter arrives and it came in the form of this figure, who appears in the form of a Russian iconic saint, crowned with bare branches, accompanied by a stag skeleton and an owl.
Her time has come to reign, and she knows in the scale of time, it will be brief, so she will make of it what she can.
Also available in blue
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The Scold – Limited Edition – Lino Cut Print – Scold’s Bridal
This piece was inspired by seeing an image of a particular type of Scold’s Bridal, (a nightmare device used to punish “gossiping” women, fixed like a metal cage on the head with a metal plate at mouth level to hold the tongue down or cut it should it move). This one has an added bell on top for humiliating the “scold”, and I believe is housed in a German museum.
The woman depicted, however, is no stranger to the bridal, and is a regular “offender”. She is new to the bell model, and points at it in exasperation and loudly but stifled says the other title for this piece, which is “A f****** bell?”
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Summoned I – Limited Edition – Black and White Linoprint – Demon
Visited whilst I was in a mood in muse form by this idea of a sphynx-like beast, representing a Demon of Separation. Whether working through an end of an era, or habit, or thought process, she is here to assist. Well, I assume she is…
I’m in the process of making these, if you want one in gold on black, gold on black with glowing sigil, black on white with glowing sigil or red on white, I will be getting arount to making and listing those as soon as possible. Let me know if you can’t wait though, and I’ll get cracking!
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The Littlest Obby Oss – Pen Munys – a Cornish version of a Mari Lwyd
This mini print depicts a mast beast obby oss. This one is called PenMunys, or Tiny Head in Cornish. Cornwall, like Wales, also has a tradition around festivities, documented in Cornish Christmas Guise plays of including an obby oss character, constructed as a mast beast with an articulated horses skull on top. The Cornish oss typically has a dress of tatters and appear very often are very tall, dance and run at speed, and are full of mischief. They are accompanied by a teazer who does their best to keep them under control, for everyone’s safety, but anything not nailed down or tightly fastened may find itself a tasty morsel of these beasts.
£11.95 Sold by: Tarraway Hoofpress
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