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Thursday, March 31, 2022

CLUB-HANDED MONSTER

CLUB-HANDED MONSTER
“The creature was hidden and indistinct, but Tau could see more than enough. It moved in a lurching run on two feet, its balance aided by club-like hands on arms so long they could touch the ground. It had a flat face, red eyes, and a slavering mouth, and its skin seemed diseased. The monster had Tau in its crimson gaze and roared.”
Evan Winter, The Rage Of Dragons

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

FOUR-ARMED GROTESQUERIE

FOUR-ARMED GROTESQUERIE
“One of them had four arms, walked upright and had an elongated face that made it look like a feral horse."

"The four-armed grotesquerie spotted him, and its eyes, buglike, shone as it ran for him.” 
Evan Winter, The Fires Of Vengeance


Tuesday, March 29, 2022

YELLOWISH SKINNED DEMON

YELLOWISH SKINNED DEMON
“It wasn't tall. Which is to say, the demon matched him in height. It was heavier than he was, though, and had thick yellowish skin that was bumped and mottled like a toad's flesh. It stared at him with reflective eyes the size of fists and had the circular mouth of a suckerfish. Howling from that too-small orifice, it flexed the six clawed fingers on the ends of its short arms and ran at him. "The demon was on top of him, its round maw slicing open and shut a fingerspan from his nose as he fought to hold it clear by pressing the hilts of his blades into its neck."
Evan Winter, The Fires Of Vengeance


Monday, March 28, 2022

MOUTH DEMON

MOUTH DEMON
"It loped along on four legs and had a mouth that took up most of its bulbous head, a mouth filled with teeth like glass shards."
Evan Winter, The Fires Of Vengeance

Friday, March 25, 2022

SNAKE-SKINNED DEMON
“The other thing ran on all fours. It had pointed ears, eyes on either side of its head, and skin like an inyoka [snake].”
Evan Winter, The Rage Of Dragons

Thursday, March 24, 2022

THREE EYED CREATURE

THREE EYED CREATURE
The creature sat on its haunches, its legs bent wrong at the knees, like a horse's back legs. On its flat face were three lidless eyes arranged vertically over a snarling mouth brimming with dagger-sharp teeth.”
Evan Winter, The Fires Of Vengeance

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

LONG-SNOUTED MONSTER


LONG-SNOUTED MONSTER
“Cursing, he caught his balance and pulled his swords free as the monster, long snouted, with sharp teeth, tusks, and pointed ears, stalked toward him on all fours, snarling and snapping its club-like tail behind it.”


“It growled and snapped at him, raising it's barbed tail over its back like a scorpion's sting.”


“The monster whipped its barbed tail down, flying it in like and ax, but Tau skipped away from the chitin-wrapped barb, dodging it and coming close enough to stab the demon in the shoulder of his left foreleg before moving away.”


“It had its oversize maw hanging open the black and blue tongue within flapping up and down as it eyed him.”

-Evan Winter, The Rage Of Dragons

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

CENTIPEDE-LIKE THING

 
CENTIPEDE-LIKE THING
“It growled and began to rise, but the demon, a centipede-like thing, had reared to attack, thinking to decapitate him. Tau flowed beneath the creature's claws and came up stabbing, driving his black blades into its core.”
Evan Winter, The Fires Of Vengeance

Monday, March 21, 2022

CHITINOUS DEMON

CHITINOUS DEMON 
“The one that saw him first was monstrous. It stood half again as tall as Tau, was covered in mottled chitin and had two long limbs tipped with pincers. It scuttled towards him on six spiny legs while chittering from a circular maw that opened and shut reflexively displaying rings of teeth that went back into its throat.”
Evan Winter, The Rage Of Dragons

Friday, March 18, 2022

ILOMBA

ILOMBA
“In an interview, Boniface Liwanga noted that during their divining sessions, diviners searched for evidence of witchcraft and sorcery, the devices which gave witches and sorcerers immense energy, or supernatural powers that enabled them to perform their practices. Such devices include charms, herbs, and objects such as human bones, and night guns such as Kaliloze. Some used familiars such as owls, and nightjars, and animals such as jackals and hyenas, while others used creatures such as Ilomba as mediums through which they performed their witchcraft activities. According to White, the Ilomba was a spirit in the form of a snake with human head in the likeness of the owner and was found in various versions. During  its early stages, it was harmless and fed on eggs, However, as it grew, it became more demanding, killing peopled that its owner targeted, feeding on their blood. As it grew fatter and sleeker, its owner also flourished and this continued for as long as the snake existed. Thus, some people became witches or sorcery for the purpose of prosperity or in order to become rich.”
Friday Mufuzi, The Practice Of Witchcraft And The Changing Patterns Of Its Paraphernalia


“It is the custom of a snake which is made by a person. It is the custom of the Malunda to make a Lilomba when they wish to kill a person. They take a small piece of skin and place in it “medicine” which they obtain from a certain tree. Afterwards they made an incision in the chest and back, and taking the blood thus obtained they mix it with the medicine. They then sew the mixture up in the skin so as to make a packet of it, get a certain other medicine from the bush and drop it into the packet thus made. They then place the skin on the ground, saying, “Take our breath and take life from our breath.” in the morning when they go there they find the skin changed into a baby Lilomba.”


“This continues every month, the snake killing a person named to it by its owner, and getting bigger, until it stretches from here to the other side of the river (about 300 yards).”

G.A. M’Gregor, The Story Of The Lilomba Snake As Told By The Malunda

Thursday, March 17, 2022

PORRIDGE HYENA

PORRIDGE HYENA
“The BaKgatla clan of the Tswana believed that witches made their own hyenas moulding the body from porridge and bringing them to life by means of special medicines.” 
Keith Somerville, Humans and Hyenas: Monster or Misunderstood

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

WITCH'S FAMILIAR

WITCH'S FAMILIAR
"Vinegar Tom, who was like a long-legg'd Greyhound, with an head like an Oxe, with a long taile and broad eyes, who when this discoverer spoke to, and bade him goe to the place provided for him and his Angels, immediately transformed himselfe into the shape of a child of foure yeeres old without a head, and gave halfe a dozen turnes about the house, and vanished at the doore."
Mathew Hopkins, The Discovery Of Witches

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

PROPHETIC HEAD

PROPHETIC HEAD
“Belonging to them are many strange things... Among these is the head, in which fortune-tellers from among them believe. They set it up under caput draconis. They find a hairy, blue-black eyed man with knotted eyebrows. They lure him with whatever he wants until they bring him to the house of the temples. He is stripped and seated in a trough filled with sesame oil up to throat. It is then sealed at the top just from where the head stretches out. They fasten the cover with nails and seal it with lead in such a way that his head remains outside and his body in the oil. Then they feed him dried figs soaked in sesame oil each day. They suffumigate his nose and face with an incense they call the incense of amazement. They recite invocations [special] to them and they keep doing this for 40 days without giving him water while the effect of the oil takes place until his nerves are softened, his joints are relaxed, his veins break, and he becomes pliable as wax. On the appropriate day, they congregate and recite special invocations, and suffumigate with an incense. They grab his head and pull it from the first vertebrae. It is pulled out along with the veins attached to it until they all exit from the vertebrae, and the body remains in the oil. Then they seat him in an embrasure over sifted ash that they make from olive ash, containing a little ash from the remains of [burnt] bodies. They wrap him with some fluffed cotton and suffumigate him with an incense of theirs and the head would tell them about the rise and drop of prices, the alteration of states, and what happens in the world, while his eyes are still seeing but not blinking. If perhaps they ignore planetary devotions, he would demand them, chastise them, and tell them about what goes on in their very selves, and if they perhaps should ask him about the sciences and arts, he would answer." 
Ghāya, Brahmans (II.12)

Monday, March 14, 2022

COCO MACAQUE


COCO MACAQUE
“The mambo carried her Coco Macaque, which is a magical walking stick carved with a human face near the top. People believe that some, but not all Coco Macaques have spirits that live inside them. A mambo or hougan who possesses one of these can send it on magical errands at night and striking someone with the stick will ensure their deaths within 24 hours.”
Patrick Richard Wilkinson, Cave Vodou in Haiti: The Use of Caves as Sacred Space in Modern Haitian Ritual

“The Coco macaque, or as it is sometimes called a haunted Voodoo Zombie Stick, is said to be magically prepared only on November 1st, and many who know of it's dark magical secrets will tell you that they believe that a ghost or Lwa controls it with unseen hands. Sometimes describes as a heavy jointed or knuckled wooden cane or rough hand carved wooden stick or a simple looking walking stick. They might have a knob as a handle or just be simply tied with strings or strips of red cloth or a goats tanned and dyed hide braided with bones or religious holy medals or voodoo amulets.


Coco macaque is what many refer to as a very real magical Haitian vodou implement or black magicians helping tool. Made of Haitian Coco-macaque palm wood or what ever wood one has at hand it is basically just simple thick 1 to 2 inch wooden palm tree stick, which is supposed to be possessing one of many magical powers, The strangest one is that to be able to stand up and walk on its own. Though it's appearance of walking is described more like a hopping or bouncing action. This Voodoo Magic walking stick is not bound by gravity and is said to bounce off of houses and homes and even roofs as it travels to it's commanded destination. Sometimes many people might refer to them as Voodoo Zombie Canes and swear that by all known accounts and means that they or it is possessed by the spirits of the dead. By all old Haitian accounts many will tell you that it is a simple design or sometimes crudely hand carved by a voodoo black magic priest using what ever found wood is available to them at the time. And it is a cursed or controlled by specific spirit that causes the walking stick to appear to move all by itself.


A real coco macaque is not just a common found skull-topped walking stick that so many people find in large quantities in the New Orleans French Quarter. These sticks are usually for decoration or entertainment purposes only and are often confused with real magical sticks made by the real voodosants of the city. Many people who buy them mistake them for the true magic weapon or wand of old and often pay high prices for theses poor often imported imitations.”

Lisa Lee Harp Waug, The Story Of the Real Ghost Stick

Friday, March 11, 2022

TUYUL

TUYUL
“Tuyul is believed to be the spirit of a [fetus]. Tuyul can be owned by purchasing them from a shaman or taking them from their dwelling place.”

“Tuyul is a supernatural creature that takes the form of a little child with a big head, small hands, clouded eyes, and greenish or sometimes grayish skin. It has a protruded bully, long nails and sharp teeth.”
Aulia Khairunnisa & Mira Wardhaningsih, The Book Of Indonesian Ghosts


Thursday, March 10, 2022

TILBERI

 
TILBERI
“To acquire a tilberi, the woman has to steal a human rib from a churchyard in the early hours of Whitsunday, wrap it in gray wool and keep it between here breasts. The next three times she takes holy communion, she must spit the sacramental wine over the bundle. The third spurt of holy wine will bring the tilberi to life. When it grows larger and the ‘mother’ can no longer conceal it in her bosom she must cut loose a piece of skin on the inside of her thigh and make a nipple which the tilberi will hand on to, and draw nourishment from her body fluids.”
Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

WHITE SALAMANDER

WHITE SALAMANDER
“Mormon mythology states that Joseph Smith was led to a book of golden plates which contained the text that would become the Book of Mormon in 1823 by an angel named Moroni. The Salamander Letter was a document Hofmann claimed was written in 1830 by Martin Harris, the scribe of the founder of the Mormon Church Joseph Smith. It stated that Joseph Smith was led to the gold plates by a spirit who ‘transfigured himself from a white salamander’ rather than an angel. Not only did a salamander contradict the Church’s version of its history, it also transformed Mormon history from a traditional Christian narrative involving angels to one that involved a folk magic lizard.”
Lauren Kranc, Esquire; The Salamander Letter

"the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole"
Excerpt from the Salamander Letter forged by Mark Hofmann

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

CONFERMENT


CONFERMENT
“The implanted substance was perceived to be ‘round, hairy ball with teeth’ passed on from parent to child, with all the sons of a male witch and all the daughters of a female witch being witches. The substance allowed the members to be activated into their world and also permitted the soul to engage in errands during  meetings or group's activities. The substance symbolized the source of power of a witch and the  group’s linkage to all her members.”
Dr. M.S. Jayeola-Omoyeni, Dr. Eunice M. Oyetade, Mr. J.O. Omoyeni, Witchcraft In the 20th and 21st Centuries in Nigeria

Monday, March 7, 2022

DISEMBODIED CREATURE


 DISEMBODIED CREATURE
“They sent forth disembodied creatures, in one case a man’s head connected to a white cat tail by several feet of nothingness––a Cheshire cat centuries before Lewis Carol.”
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

Friday, March 4, 2022

NEWS...

 

Hey guys! I know it's been quiet on here for about two months but I've got a bunch of news for you. 

First off, starting this coming Monday March 7th I'll be posting ELEVEN weeks worth of brand new monsters! 

Then, in late March I'll begin releasing the first of FOUR brand new zines! The first of which will be Gunsho's Goetia Vol 2, the long awaited follow up to Gunsho's first demon bestiary. 


The other three zines will be mine but I'm keeping them a secret for now. Expect more news on that front soon. 

I'm also going to spend more time cleaning up this blog; removing dead links, removing tags, removing old posts and starting to use it more in depth. I may include write ups about all my monsters and what inspired them. I've been increasingly disappointed with how toxic social media is and I've been slowly extricating myself from it. I don't have a TikTok and I deleted my FB. My instagram is still going but I may use this blog as my main art feed since I've had it since 2010(!)

Let me know if you think more in depth posts sound interesting.