Tree at Night

Making Absinth

A simple way of making one's own 'absinth' is to macerate the dried herbs in alcohol for one month. According to some sources it helps to use high proof alcohol since the wormwood's bitterns do not solve in pure alcohol. (The way of reason here is that the bitterns solve in water and the less water is left in the alcohol the less bitterns might migrate into the tincture.)

Herbs:

• Wormwood (20gr)
• Anise seeds (1 Ts)
• Fennel seeds (1 Ts)
• Melissa (1 ts)
• Hyssop (1 Ts)
• Angelica root (1 Ts)
• Coriander seeds (1/2 ts)
• Cardamon seeds
• Caraway (1/4 ts)
• Calamus root (1 ts)
• Star Anise (1 1/2 fruits)
• Nutmeg powder
• Juniper berries

The herbs were steeped in 0,7l 96% alcohol. After a month the tincture looked like this:

I was very pleased with its looks and smell. Unfortunately the bitterns make the drinking experience a tough one, despite the use of high percentage alcohol. Detillation seems the only solution to that.

Read more info about the Wormwood herb at our Garden Blog:
http://teufelskunstgarden.blogspot.com/2011/08/wormwood.html

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Winter

Burnt in Wood

Altar detail

 

Burn mark

Belladonna

Deadly Nightshade 

Drawing inspired by the Deadly Nightshade's soul

Red wine + Belladonna tinctures, 2010

Read more about this traditional Witch Herb at our Garden Blog:

http://teufelskunstgarden.blogspot.com/2010/09/atropa-belladonna.html

Blood Fired Death anno 2010

 

WATAIN 21|10|2010 Berlin

Setlist included: Malfeitor, Devil's Blood, Satan's Hunger, Reaping Death, Sworn to the Dark, Legions of the Black Light, Total Funeral, Wolf's Curse, On Horns Impaled, +1 extra: Sacrifice (Bathory cover)

Erik after the show, "I have given everything tonight".

Thanks Watain for this memorable event!

October

Klosterberg Dreisesselstein (Myth)

The legend of the Lausitzer Klosterberg tells of three young and beautiful women and their father, the old mountain spirit. He allowed his daughters, three lively young ladies, to visit the festivities taking place in the tavern atop the mountain, where they enchanted everyone with their beauty and dancing. However they had to return home before midnight, which made the young men at the tavern very sad. On their way back the ladies would take rest by a large stone before returning home... But one night a few young men followed them and they began chatting, when suddenly the village's church bell chimed the midnight hour! From moment to another the three women had disappeared and all that was to be heard from afar were their screams... Angry that his daughters had not returned home as promised the mountain spirit drowned them in the village's lagoon beneath the mountain.

Today the only thing reminding of this legend is the stone by a tree, called 'Dreisesselstein', which has three hollow spots in its surface, and it is believed they mark where the three women used to sit.

Dream Seal

Design for a woodcut print

Custom Skull I

Commissioned Work: Earthenware, glazed, approx. 5 x 3''

Devil's Playground

New Work:

 

Devil's Playground

A4, graphite on aged typewriter paper

I adore you herb of the devil, like mother to child I care for thy root and thy fruit that you gave to me on this dark stormy night.

I adore you creature of the night, for thy beauty, thy dark spirit and thy chaos that you bring into mine and other's empty life!

Harvest II: Henbane Harvets Cycle

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)

sown 12/08, flowering 04/10

In German folklore exists the idea that witches and even the Devil Himself would take on the shape of a bumblebee. Candles made of Bumblebees-wax were lit in churches if a witch was to be burnt at the stake. People who had committed crimes were believed to be cursed to having to return as bumblebees upon death. The sub-earthen sound of a bumblebee would signal the presence the dead. Sometimes bumblebees were given at black masses instead of consecrated wavers. Bumblebees were superstitiously feared as carriers of sickness and ritually buried to drive out plague. Other folklore tells that a bumblebee worn in the purse would insure it would always stay filled with coins. He who managed to secretly steal the bumblebees' honey was destined to find a huge treasure.

Read more about the Henbane herb at our Garden Blog:

http://teufelskunstgarden.blogspot.com/2011/04/henbane.html

Harvest I: Elder

 

11|07|2010

The Rooster Announces

Teufelskunst

Dedicated to the First Harvester and His Bride

A Praise to the Devil - our Horned Guide

An Eternal Ode to the Twofold One

The Guardian of the Array of the Black Sun

Who commences this Reign of Infernal Night

Brings forth the Vision of Haunted Light

Breaks down all vessels so pure and white

Forever in Darkness - a Merciless Rite

Outside this Ring of Fire and Thorn

He manifests now His Rule and Scorn

When black, green and red blood flow in His name

He engenders this dark soul again and again...

Until that night when all is blackened

All blood has been shed and all minds have been maddened

When the rooster has cried his very last cry

When all yearn desperately to die, to die..