witch æsthetics ► cottage | space | swamp

• alligators' hearts & teeth
• black and white magic, marie laveau
• bright red nail polish
• crawfish po' boys, deep fried frogs' legs, and spicy jambalaya; with a sazerac cocktail
• creole queens with ebony skin & locked hair
• eerie wakes of feasting vultures
• green glass bottles of mossy, murky waters
• gris-gris, rustling with graveyard's dirt; red pepper flakes; bits of bone
• hoodoo perfumery
• lined palms & tarot cards with worn, softened edges
• netflix binging american horror story: coven
• a rattlesnake's shed skins & yellow venom
• the sickeningly sweet charred scent of woodsmoke
• sticky pressed resins of dragon's blood
• thick-soled black boots, muddied by swamp-stomping
• voices rasping two centuries of voodoo hymns
• wavy lengths of hair dyed green
  • shoulders draped with layered shawls of thin lace
• the yellowed sleeves of vintage CCR vinyls

► playlist

• “bad moon rising” – creedence clearwater revival
• “house of the rising sun” – the animals
• “lady on the water” – blitzen trapper
• “rhiannon” – fleetwood mac
• “swamp witch” – jim stafford
• “take me to church” – hozier
• “wagon wheel” – old crow medicine show
• “witchy woman” – eagles
• “written in the water” – gin wigmore