It is well known in faery folkore that one must never dance with the faeries, and whatever you do, never ever ever eat faery food. You probably shouldn't collect their corpses in jars either, but some rules are just made to be broken. Welcome, and behold my latest collection of rare faery specimens! One of... Continue Reading →
Halloween! Oh my dark soul I would LOVE to experience Halloween in America sometime cos you guys go completely over the top and I am jealous as hell! Screw Christmas with all its jolly hoo ha I want to scare the heebie jeebs out of people. What an awesome holiday.. such a shame we don't... Continue Reading →
I've been busy yet again creating even more dead faeries! I decided to experiment with new ideas which resulted in the conjoined twins corpse. Pretty neat huh!? I also handmade more artifacts including a bow and arrow, developed new tags and labels and also trapped a faery inside a jar. Two of these will be... Continue Reading →
A while back I wrote about making a dead faery, which you can read about here. Looking back I realised never actually linked the fairy hoax story.. it's known as 'The Derbyshire Mummified Fairy' created by artist Dan Baines. Interesting story, if you have not yet read about it I suggest you do. (And check... Continue Reading →
http://www.shadowmanor.com/blog/?p=4378
This is a recent creation inspired by the 'Dead fairy hoax' and the idea of displaying a faery corpse in a shadow box like you would a dead butterfly. I found some step by step instructions that you can also follow here. You can of course alter the method and equipment used to suit yourself.
For this one pictured I used a small toy skeleton found on ebay, stockings, pva glue, hot glue, tissue, spray paint, acrylic paint (inc. gold) celephane and alpaca fur. (use whatever hair/fur you can get hold of) The wand is made from a stick, piece of amethyst and some waxy thread also known as 'cat gut' which is often used to make dream catches.Oh, and glue.
I did some research and came up with the latin terms 'Volatilis Virgo' which means 'Winged Girl/Maiden' and 'Veneficus Virga' which is 'Magic Wand'. Or according to one translation, 'Poisonous green stick' which almost works.
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