Tag: Witch

Victorian and Edwardian Steampunk Halloween Costume Ideas

We tend to think fancy dress is fairly new yet people have been disguising themselves for hundreds if not thousands of years for various reasons, including just to have fun.

The Victorians and Edwardians were no exception.

Some I’ve come across would make interesting Halloween costumes.

I only wish I had the dressmaking skills to try and make some of these.

Witches/Sorceress/Night

1896, Fancy Dress Book by Ardern Holt 
  • Early 1900’s
  • 1876, La Monde Ilustree
  • Late 19th, early 20th century
  • 1885
  • Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century
  • Late19th century
  • Early 1900’s
  • 1860’s. Designed by Léon Sault
Late 19th century
1896
https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
  • L’Art et La Mode 1890
  • Late 19th century
1911
1900’s
1900’s
  • 1860’s
Late 19th/early 20th century
  • Late 19th century
  • 1880’s
1890’s

https://czasemancypantek.pl/w-salonie/moda/186-stroje-na-bal-kostiumowy
Late 19th/early 20th century
Late 19th century
Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century
  • Late 19th century

The Strange and Unusual

Strange and unusual news stories from around the UK.

Midsummer by Edward Robert Hughes

A bit of Fairy magic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9934661/These-women-claim-living-embodiment-fairies-magic-madness.html

Heswalls mysterious Big Cat sighted.

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/19572965.first-glimpse-heswalls-mysterious-big-cat/

A hotel is looking for a resident Witch.

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19550805.newquay-hotel-cornwall-looking-witch-job-candidates/

  • St Andrew’s, Covehithe

Camping in Churches. I would so do this.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/aug/29/camping-churches-demand-uk-staycations-campsites-holidaymakers-champing

Badgers have disturbed some graves. Not unusual. I’ve found bits of bone in Churchyards, it’s more common than people think.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/horrified-visitors-spot-hungry-badgers-24862553

Article about the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in Edinburgh.

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/mysterious-edinburgh-secret-society-temple-21326111

Aleister Crowley went to school in Kent.

https://www.kentlive.news/news/nostalgia/tonbridge-schoolboy-who-became-magical-5837547

Plea for Queen to parden those accused of Witchcraft in Scotland.

Mercy for ‘witches’: Holyrood hears plea for Queen to pardon thousands of Scottish women

Myths and Legends of Northern Ireland’s waterways.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/travel/legends-of-the-loughs-myths-and-legends-surround-northern-irelands-famous-waterways-40793670.html

Another theory to explain Loch Ness monster sightings.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1478992/loch-ness-monster-news-sightings-plausible-theory-scientists-study-scotland-spt

Tales of mythical creatures in the UK.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/travel-news/eerie-tales-mythical-creatures-lurking-24795826

Some famous sightings at Loch Ness.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/5-most-incredible-loch-ness-24795955

The odd site of a nun and a skeleton which confronted drivers on Spring Bank West outside the old Hull General Cemetery(Image: Hull Live)

Women dressed as a Nun seen dancing with a skeleton at a Hull cemetery.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/woman-dressed-nun-seen-dancing-5904055.amp?__twitter_impression=true

Mystery bottle of liquid found between skeleton’s legs in Hull excavation.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/mystery-bottle-liquid-found-between-5661069

Five folkloric legends in Cambridgeshire.

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history/5-cambridgeshires-spookiest-folklore-legends-21399281

The interesting folklore of crinoid fossils.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/travel-news/you-can-find-fairy-coin-24802936

Gloucestershire’s most haunted happenings including a bad fairy.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/gloucestershires-most-haunted-happenings-investigator-5898466

Folktales from across Hampshire.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/19540908.dragons-fairies-mermaids-folklore-fables-tales-across-hampshire/

Comedian jokes that fairies are to blame for his delayed flight.

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/manford-blames-fairies-for-fog-delay/

Woman claims she can communicate with fairies.

Phillip Is Intrigued By The Women Who Communicate With Fairies | This Morning

The infamous ‘fairies’ in Wollaton Park, as featured in the Nottingham Post in 1979

Researcher investigates the 1979 Wollaton Park fairy sighting.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/bid-uncover-truth-behind-wollaton-5738505

The Logie Fairy Well.

https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/19471650.walk-past-logie-fairy-well/

  • Wales Online

Wishing trees in Portmeirion.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/travel/mysterious-penny-trees-create-fairy-21557435

The Fairy Bridge at Glen Creran.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/magical-fairy-bridge-crossing-glen-24772415

A strange Sweet Shop in Hoxton, London.

https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/shopping/spooky-hoxton-sweet-shop-you-21402727

Mystery cairns on Conwy Mountain to be dismantled.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/mysterious-rock-art-torn-down-21468871

Man followed by Big Cat in Wales.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/man-followed-big-cat-walked-21464749

GoFund me page.

https://gofund.me/4befba40

Ko-Fi page.

https://ko-fi.com/amanda1971

My Redbubbleshop. 

https://www.redbubble.com/people/amanda150771/shop?asc=u

My Teepublic shop.

http://tee.pub/lic/J5luNsFVkxUi

Folklore

A roundup of Folkloric themes around the UK, found mostly in the local media.

Vintage Witch Costume.

Family friendly Witchcraft Festival in Coventry this September.

Family-friendly festival of witchcraft coming to Coventry

Magical themed Coffee shop in Ormskirk.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/19475214.inside-magical-coffee-shop-ormskirk/

Vintage Halloween Postcard.

Goblincore, a bit like Cottagecore but with Toadstools.

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/homes-interiors/interiors/a37280281/goblincore-trend/

Midsummer Eve, Edward Robert Hughes.

The West Cornwall Museum of Magic and Folklore. A new museum.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/whats-on/whats-on-news/gallery/collector-magical-objects-opens-museum-5752499

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse.

Yorkshire Witches.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/history/notorious-witches-yorkshire-tragic-chilling-21242693

Merseyside Witches.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/legend-behind-merseyside-witches-who-21103685

Salem Witch Trials connection to Weymouth.

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19404333.salem-witch-trials-connected-weymouth-uk/

Leon Sault Witch/Sorceress 19th century fancy dress.

Man unearths a Witch Bottle.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/man-spooked-after-unearthing-witch-20970110

Woolpit Village Sign.
Fen Fairy by Charles Prosper Sainton.

Fairy land entrance perhaps associated with the Green Children of Woolpit.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weird-norfolk-st-martins-land-fairyland-folklore-bawdeswell-8213474

Spirit of Night, 1879 Painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Fairy Hill in Yorkshire.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/tourism/story-fairy-hill-yorkshire-dales-21250810

Victorian fairy postcard.

Fairy Glen, Wales.

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1464755/2chill-beauty-spot-glen-fairy-conwy-wales

Welsh fairies.

Vintage Halloween postcard.
Night by Auguste Raynaud.
Vintage illustration, Fairy apparition.
Vintage Witch Halloween costume.

My GoFund me page.

https://gofund.me/4befba40

My Ko-Fi page.

https://ko-fi.com/amanda1971

My Redbubbleshop.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/amanda150771/shop?asc=u

My Teepublic shop.http://tee.pub/lic/J5luNsFVkxU