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Sacred Heart with Thorns Nicho Altar Ornament
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Hand-cut, hammered, and shaped ornamentΒ is made with reclaimed tinplateΒ framing this tiny print reproduction of an antique holy card featuring theΒ Sacred Heart. After filing and sanding sharp corners and edges, I embellished it from my stash of vintage, antique, and/or reclaimed fabrics, metals, beads, and trims, includingΒ resin rhinestones, vintage lace, a satin rose, a vintage plastic faceted heart charm in a brass frame, and a tiny little curl of dried vine for the crown of thorns.Β Available at Seraphin Station.
Chicken foot charms are back β and this batch is special
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[Remember, this blog here at the shop address is a mirror / backup of the real Seraphin Station blog here. Visit there to comment, ask questions, get responses, interact with others, see useful and interesting links and resources, and/or read all the blog posts, not just the highlights I repost here.] Good old chicken feet curios, a probably-New-World invention β at least in the painted, decorated iterations -- that people nevertheless like to claim have been used in all kinds of magical traditions all over the globe for *centuries,* for everything from love to money to hexing the crap out...
Recent reading roundup: St. Expedite, Hindu chromos in Haiti, iconography in retablos, domestic work in the segregated South
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Did you know there was a very active St. Expedite Society in Independence, Louisiana up until very recently? I didnβt. Read more atΒ Folklife in Louisiana: βSt. Expeditoβs Role in South Louisiana Catholicism, in New Orleans and in the Italian-American Community near Independence, Louisiana,β by Karen Williams. Hindu deities on vodun altars: Rush, Dana. βEternal Potential: Chromolithographs in Vodunland,βAfrican ArtsΒ vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 60-75+94-96.Β Also helpful more broadly, imo, for any student of folklore/popular religion whoβs ever encountered an argument about whether Abre Camino is βreal hoodooβ or not, wondered what to think about the development of the seven-colors...