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Anastasia Kashian

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"Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name..." Dinosaur Frankenstein & Baba Yaga documentarist. Time traveller. Recently spent a year in 19th century Italy.

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I always see her as fiercely joyful. It's GREAT to be Baba Yaga!

09.03.2026 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Baba Yaga with the bony leg flies through the air in her mortar and pestle with her broom to sweep her tracks away, across a wooded landscape. Behind her lightning flashes in a purple sky.

Baba Yaga with the bony leg flies through the air in her mortar and pestle with her broom to sweep her tracks away, across a wooded landscape. Behind her lightning flashes in a purple sky.

Happy International Women's Day! Be More Baba! #slavic #internationalwomensday #folklore #fairytale #babayaga #mythology #witchsky

08.03.2026 22:36 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
An older woman faints into the arms of a sad looking man. Snakes and toads appear to leap towards her out of the mouth of a younger woman, her daughter, who is weeping inconsolably. Behind her another young woman also weeps; she stands by a gate in a high wall, with flowers and gems by her feet. In front of the wall to the left of the gate we see a well, with a pitcher standing on its rim. All portrayed in the style of a hand coloured 16th century print.

An older woman faints into the arms of a sad looking man. Snakes and toads appear to leap towards her out of the mouth of a younger woman, her daughter, who is weeping inconsolably. Behind her another young woman also weeps; she stands by a gate in a high wall, with flowers and gems by her feet. In front of the wall to the left of the gate we see a well, with a pitcher standing on its rim. All portrayed in the style of a hand coloured 16th century print.

Number 32 in Grimm's Kipper, Sorrow and Unpleasantness, represented here by the tale of Diamonds and Toads... #witchsky #pagansky #tarotsky #occultsky #esotericsky #fairytale #folklore #brothersgrimm #contesdefees #kipperkarten

08.03.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Six women and four men - that we can see - are dancing underneath and beyond a leafy tree with pink berries, behind which a fifth man in a 16th century soldier's colourful clothes hides, watching the dancers. One dancing girl passes behind a leafless tree to the right of the soldier, a little further away; beyond her, to top right, her sister apparently dances alone, into an oncoming breeze, but perhaps her dance partner is just ouside our viewpoint.

Six women and four men - that we can see - are dancing underneath and beyond a leafy tree with pink berries, behind which a fifth man in a 16th century soldier's colourful clothes hides, watching the dancers. One dancing girl passes behind a leafless tree to the right of the soldier, a little further away; beyond her, to top right, her sister apparently dances alone, into an oncoming breeze, but perhaps her dance partner is just ouside our viewpoint.

Grimm's Kipper number 4, Meetings, tells the tale of the 12 Dancing Princesses (although we only get to see a representative sample of 6). #witchsky #kipperkarten #brothersgrimm #fairytales #occultsky #esotericsky #tarotsky #medieval #medievalists #historysky #fairytale #folklore

21.02.2026 13:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
In a night-time pine forest, bedecked with bioluminescent fungi, a brown bear carrying a storm lantern looks up smiling at a little grl in traditional Ukrainian costume perched in a tree.

In a night-time pine forest, bedecked with bioluminescent fungi, a brown bear carrying a storm lantern looks up smiling at a little grl in traditional Ukrainian costume perched in a tree.

Bear, for Baba Yaga's Lenormand. #pagansky #witchsky #tarotsky #slavicmythology #mythology #fairytales #babayaga #slavic #lenormand #cartomancy #traditionalillustration

09.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A fisherman in brightly coloured medieval dress holds aloft a gigantic flounder wearing a crown. The flounder gestures with its fin towards a castle in the background, towards which the fisherman's wife, already dressed as a Queen, also extends her hand. Drawn in the style of early 16th century woodcuts.

A fisherman in brightly coloured medieval dress holds aloft a gigantic flounder wearing a crown. The flounder gestures with its fin towards a castle in the background, towards which the fisherman's wife, already dressed as a Queen, also extends her hand. Drawn in the style of early 16th century woodcuts.

Grimm's Kipper 16, "His Thoughts", or The Flounder. #witchsky #tarotsky #medieval #medievalists #kipperkarten #cartomancy #historysky #pagansky #esotericsky #occultsky #fairytales #folklore #brothersgrimm

28.01.2026 21:42 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Queen listens at the door of an abandoned building where Rumpelstiltskin dances around a fire and heaps of gold.

The Queen listens at the door of an abandoned building where Rumpelstiltskin dances around a fire and heaps of gold.

Grimm's Kipper 11, Win Lots of Money, or Rumpelstiltskin. #witchsky #tarotsky #fairytale #folklore #brothersgrimm #medieval #medievalists #historysky #pagansky #kipperkarten #cartomancy

17.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A young woman dressed in the colourful costume of a 16th century Camp Follower, with a pack on her back, a staff in her hand, armoured shoes on her feet and a spare pair in her other hand, strides off into a medieval-style landscape where a winding road stretches out before her. A little pig trots by her side.

A young woman dressed in the colourful costume of a 16th century Camp Follower, with a pack on her back, a staff in her hand, armoured shoes on her feet and a spare pair in her other hand, strides off into a medieval-style landscape where a winding road stretches out before her. A little pig trots by her side.

Grimm's Kipper 35: A Long Road. With The Enchanted Pig, or The Iron Shoes. #grimm #fairytale #witchsky #tarotsky #kipperkarten #medieval #medievalists #renaissance #pagansky #kipperkarten #historysky #brothersgrimm #folklore

05.01.2026 19:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Goose Girl crosses a river by a stone footbridge whilst the wicked maid crosses on horseback via the road bridge upstream. A ship is seen sailing away in the distance, and a large goose stands in the foreground watching the water.

The Goose Girl crosses a river by a stone footbridge whilst the wicked maid crosses on horseback via the road bridge upstream. A ship is seen sailing away in the distance, and a large goose stands in the foreground watching the water.

Red Riding Hood visits Grandma with medicines, holding a Cimaruta (sprig of Rue with silver charms) before her. "Grandma" in the form of the Wolf is sitting up in a four-poster bed inside the room.

Red Riding Hood visits Grandma with medicines, holding a Cimaruta (sprig of Rue with silver charms) before her. "Grandma" in the form of the Wolf is sitting up in a four-poster bed inside the room.

Cinderella loses her shoe running away from the castle. Her coach and coachmen have already reverted to pumpkin and rat form.

Cinderella loses her shoe running away from the castle. Her coach and coachmen have already reverted to pumpkin and rat form.

The Frog Prince sits on a velvet cushion on the dining table, where the Princess reluctantly feeds him from a silver spoon.

The Frog Prince sits on a velvet cushion on the dining table, where the Princess reluctantly feeds him from a silver spoon.

Latest 4 cards from Grimm's Kipper. #witchsky #tarotsky #medieval #medievalists #pagansky #historysky #fairytale #grimms Why not buy me a coffee, so I can stay up late making more? 😆 Ko-fi.com/anastasiakashian

02.01.2026 13:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If anyone out there feels like playing Good King Wenceslas this New Year, so this humble Peasant can continue to make the world a better place by drawing on it, mostly... you will have my gratitude and get to see more silly pictures!
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31.12.2025 11:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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31.12.2025 10:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Little Red Riding Hood, carrying her basket over her arm, brings a flask of aconite or wolfbane to the wolf who sits up in a four poster bed with a green curtain half drawn. The wolf, like Red Riding Hood, wears 15th century headgear - a double hennin to cover its ears. Red Riding Hood carries a Cimaruta or sprig of Rue with charms attached - phases of the moon, eyes, ears and teeth. In the foreground there are 4 renaissance apothecary jars.

Little Red Riding Hood, carrying her basket over her arm, brings a flask of aconite or wolfbane to the wolf who sits up in a four poster bed with a green curtain half drawn. The wolf, like Red Riding Hood, wears 15th century headgear - a double hennin to cover its ears. Red Riding Hood carries a Cimaruta or sprig of Rue with charms attached - phases of the moon, eyes, ears and teeth. In the foreground there are 4 renaissance apothecary jars.

Grimm's Kipper 31, Short Illness, Red Riding Hood #witchsky #fairytales #historysky #folklore #kipperkarten #tarotsky #medievalists #occultsky #esotericsky #brothersgrimm

27.12.2025 21:51 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Grimm's Kipper, Change (Cinderella) & High Honours (The Princess & the Frog). #tarotsky #witchsky #fairytales #brothersgrimm #historysky #pagansky #esotericsky #occultsky #kipperkarten

24.12.2025 22:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pencil drawing of Cinderella in renaissance gown with patches and frayed hem, her hair in coiled braids, running away from the castle and the prince. She is wearing Venetian platform shoes of the period, one of which she has kicked off as she runs. To the left of her is a patch of pumpkins, to her right a rat.

Pencil drawing of Cinderella in renaissance gown with patches and frayed hem, her hair in coiled braids, running away from the castle and the prince. She is wearing Venetian platform shoes of the period, one of which she has kicked off as she runs. To the left of her is a patch of pumpkins, to her right a rat.

Continuing with Grimm's Kipper deck, card number 9, Change, is Cinderella. #tarotsky #witchsky #pagansky #fairytales #Grimms #kipperkarten #fairytale #cartomancy #occultsky

13.12.2025 00:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
A fox in a blue dress and headscarf walks through a forest at sunset carrying a basket filled with wild mushrooms and one chicken! She nimbly avoids a rope snare that has been set for her...

A fox in a blue dress and headscarf walks through a forest at sunset carrying a basket filled with wild mushrooms and one chicken! She nimbly avoids a rope snare that has been set for her...

Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut stands in a sunny clearing surrounded by pine trees and wild fungi, apparently in conversation with a rooster over a human skull lying on the ground.

Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut stands in a sunny clearing surrounded by pine trees and wild fungi, apparently in conversation with a rooster over a human skull lying on the ground.

Baba Yaga flies through the sky in her pestle and mortar, one bony leg hanging over the side. A road disappears into the trees far below her, and lightning flashes in a purple sky above the blue mountains in the distance.

Baba Yaga flies through the sky in her pestle and mortar, one bony leg hanging over the side. A road disappears into the trees far below her, and lightning flashes in a purple sky above the blue mountains in the distance.

Now all THREE images from "Baba Yaga's Lenormand" are available as Yule Cards, A5 and eminently frameable... £4.99 each, £8 for 2, £12 for 3 + postage - £2 within UK, £3.90 USA & Rest of World. paypal.me/anastasiakashian1 #witchsky #tarotsky #pagansky #fairytale #folklore #slavic #mythology

08.12.2025 12:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd). The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left. Art by Josh Arklin.

Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...

03.12.2025 14:40 — 👍 63    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 5
A fox in a blue Sarafan dress, white blouse and"Babushka" headscarf trots on hind legs through a forest at sundown, surrounded by ferns on a stony track. She holds a basket over her arm, filled with wild mushrooms and one poorly-concealed chicken.In her other hand she holds a flowering sprig of Ramsons or Bear's Garlic up to her nose. To the right, at the bottom of the picture, nimbly avoided by Mrs Fox, we see a rope snare looped around two bunches of barred feathers.

A fox in a blue Sarafan dress, white blouse and"Babushka" headscarf trots on hind legs through a forest at sundown, surrounded by ferns on a stony track. She holds a basket over her arm, filled with wild mushrooms and one poorly-concealed chicken.In her other hand she holds a flowering sprig of Ramsons or Bear's Garlic up to her nose. To the right, at the bottom of the picture, nimbly avoided by Mrs Fox, we see a rope snare looped around two bunches of barred feathers.

And here's Foxy! For Baba Yaga's Lenormand. #witchsky #tarotsky #lenormand #babayaga #slavic #fairytale #folklore #mythology #pagansky #esotericsky #occultsky #fortunetelling

04.12.2025 22:13 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Baba Yaga's hut on hen's legs stalks into a sunny forest clearing with morel and fly agaric mushrooms, trees in front of and behind it; it prods at a skull on the ground whilst a rooster shouts up at it. Perhaps they are going to play soccer with the skull... A frieze across the base of the hut shows three women dancing, in Slavic woodcarving style.

Baba Yaga's hut on hen's legs stalks into a sunny forest clearing with morel and fly agaric mushrooms, trees in front of and behind it; it prods at a skull on the ground whilst a rooster shouts up at it. Perhaps they are going to play soccer with the skull... A frieze across the base of the hut shows three women dancing, in Slavic woodcarving style.

The Hut on Hen's Legs has entered the clearing! "House" for Baba Yaga's Lenormand. #witchsky #tarotsky #lenormand #babayaga #slavic #fairytales #folklore #mythology #pagansky #occultsky #esotericsky

27.11.2025 22:57 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pencil drawing of Baba Yaga's Hut on Chicken Legs in a clearing in the forest, possibly having a game of kickaround football with a normal sized rooster and a human skull for a ball. Fly agaric and morel mushrooms in the foreground.

Pencil drawing of Baba Yaga's Hut on Chicken Legs in a clearing in the forest, possibly having a game of kickaround football with a normal sized rooster and a human skull for a ball. Fly agaric and morel mushrooms in the foreground.

Pencil drawing for Baba Yaga's Lenormand, #witchsky #pagansky #slavic #mythology #fairytale #tarotsky #lenormand #occultsky #esotericsky #folklore

24.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An old fave 😍 🧙‍♀️

23.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Baba Yaga, dressed in brightly coloured flower patterned blouse, skirt and headscarf, with one boney leg, a pestle in one hand and a broom in the other, flies laughing in a carved wooden mortar over a wooded landscape with a winding road disappearing into the trees. Lightning flashes in the purple sky above the mountains behind her.

Baba Yaga, dressed in brightly coloured flower patterned blouse, skirt and headscarf, with one boney leg, a pestle in one hand and a broom in the other, flies laughing in a carved wooden mortar over a wooded landscape with a winding road disappearing into the trees. Lightning flashes in the purple sky above the mountains behind her.

Card 1, The Rider, for Baba Yaga's Lenormand complete! Might use this as a Yule Card this year - after all, she IS a Babushka! Even if the main gift she brings children is, er, Motivation... #witchsky #slavic #mythology #fairytale #tarotsky #lenormand #pagansky #occultsky #esotericsky #babayaga

22.11.2025 23:02 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
Baba Yaga in brightly coloured floral blouse, skirt and headscarf is riding a carved wooden mortar through the air, laughing, with the pestle in one hand and a broom in the other. She has one skeleton leg, and birch bark shoes. Her clothes are in different shades of blue with multi coloured flowers. The landscape behind her is drawn in pencil, ready to be painted later.

Baba Yaga in brightly coloured floral blouse, skirt and headscarf is riding a carved wooden mortar through the air, laughing, with the pestle in one hand and a broom in the other. She has one skeleton leg, and birch bark shoes. Her clothes are in different shades of blue with multi coloured flowers. The landscape behind her is drawn in pencil, ready to be painted later.

A little colour for Baba! Baba Yaga's Lenormand, Card 1, The Rider. #witchsky #pagansky #occultsky #tarotsky #Lenormand #Slavicmythology #Slavicfairytales

20.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pencil drawing of Baba Yaga, dressed in flowery headscarf, blouse and skirt, with one normal and one skeleton leg, riding her mortar above a forested landscape with a winding road cutting through it, brandishing her pestle in one hand and her broom in the other.

Pencil drawing of Baba Yaga, dressed in flowery headscarf, blouse and skirt, with one normal and one skeleton leg, riding her mortar above a forested landscape with a winding road cutting through it, brandishing her pestle in one hand and her broom in the other.

Baba Yaga's Little Book of Hut Maintenance will have an accompanying Lenormand deck. Here is a sketch for the first card, The Rider... #witchsky #tarotsky #pagansky #slavic #mythology #occultsky #fairytale

19.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A group of medieval knights in chainmail, helmets and red and blue tabards are attempting to put up a tent, rather inexpertly and getting their green wooden tent-poles tangled up. The image draws on the Rider Waite Smith Tarot card 8 of Wands, which many think looks like a group of campers trying to put up a tent, rather inexpertly... and has become part of a meme, "Stupid Tent!"

A group of medieval knights in chainmail, helmets and red and blue tabards are attempting to put up a tent, rather inexpertly and getting their green wooden tent-poles tangled up. The image draws on the Rider Waite Smith Tarot card 8 of Wands, which many think looks like a group of campers trying to put up a tent, rather inexpertly... and has become part of a meme, "Stupid Tent!"

The Hanged Man is apparently "Adult Content", so here's the 8 of Wands, AKA "Stupid Tent", by itself for all you children out there! 🤣 The New Unauthorised Tarot, Pt 2 of The Marginal Lenormand, pre-orderable on Amazon etc. #witchsky #pagansky #occultsky #medieval #medievalists #tarotsky #historysky

16.11.2025 19:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Stupid Tent" and "Oops! I Did It Again!" - AKA 8 of Wands & Hanged Man from The New Unauthorised Tarot. Part One, The Marginal Lenormand, will be released in April 2026 & is available for pre-order everywhere usual NOW! #witchsky #tarotsky #pagansky #occultsky #medieval #medievalists #historysky

16.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Added a couple o' Fools to The New Unauthorised Tarot... #medieval #medievalists #historysky #witchsky #tarotsky #occultsky #pagansky

15.11.2025 20:50 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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READING WITH DINOSAURES... | Anastasia Kashian Get more from Anastasia Kashian on Patreon

A reading for this coming month of November with "Dinosaures de Marseille" Tarot. #tarotsky #dinosaurs #paleontology #witchsky #pagansky #esotericsky #occultsky #tarotdemarseille
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01.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GIFTS! | Anastasia Kashian Get more from Anastasia Kashian on Patreon

Gifts for subscribers today! #witchsky #pagansky #tarotsky #dinosaurs www.patreon.com/posts/gifts-...

01.11.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monksplaining 1 | Anastasia Kashian Get more from Anastasia Kashian on Patreon

My new Patreon blog. Discount vouchers for my Etsy shop for subscribers 1st of the month. #medieval #medievalists #historysky #witchsky #esotericsky www.patreon.com/posts/monksp...

30.10.2025 11:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Would Baba Yaga Do? | Anastasia Kashian Get more from Anastasia Kashian on Patreon

My new Patreon blog. Discount vouchers for my Etsy shop for subscribers 1st of the month. #witchsky #pagansky #occultsky #fairytale #folklore #slavic www.patreon.com/posts/what-w...

30.10.2025 11:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0