The Killing Moon
The full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. Generally believed as a time when the boundary between the spirit world and the earthly realm is at its thinnest and when spirits are most likely to be seen on earth. A prosperous time for holding séances and channeling the dead. Also a bountiful time for divination and fortune telling.
Jack’s Attic – Our Mission Statement
It is our hope that each customer that favors us with their patronage garners as much satisfaction wearing and displaying our pieces as we did in crafting them. In undertaking this endeavor we wanted to create a collectible, wearable artwork that drew inspiration from darker avenues. Antiques, Halloween, flickering jack o’ lanterns, black cats, ghost stories, autumn leaves, graveyards at night, campfires and channeling boards. These are the things that inspire us and we feel passionate about. Our inability to find pieces which embraced this darker art compelled us to design and craft our own collection: Jack’s Attic. Pioneers of collectible, antiquated, old world style, dark art jewelry.
The Bones of Mother Shipton
Today’s showcase details the next pendant design to be offered through Jack’s Attic: The Bones of Mother Shipton.
Ursula Southeil (1488 – 1561), better known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess who is said to have made dozens of unusually accurate predictions, including the Great Plague of London, the Spanish Armada, and the Great Fire of London.
The most famous example of Mother Shipton’s prophecies foretells many aspects common to modern civilization and predicted the end of the world in 1881.
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
Quick in the twinkling of an eye.
The world upside down shall be
And gold be found at the root of a tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse be at his side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall even talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, and even green;
Iron in the water shall float,
As easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In a land that’s not yet known.
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit a foe.
The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.
The Doppelgänger
Today’s showcase details our next pendant design: The Doppelgänger.
The ghostly double of a living person, a doppelgänger is generally regarded as a harbinger of bad luck. The appearance of a doppelgänger as seen by a person’s friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one’s own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
Shoppe Announcement and The Coffin of Giles Corey
Jack’s Attic Shoppe located HERE will officially be opening for your patronage on September 22, 2008, the day of the autumnal equinox. We will be offering a selection of our first six dark art pendant designs. In the coming days prior to the opening of the Shoppe we will be showcasing individual designs here at Jacks-Attic.com. It will afford you, the patron, an opportunity to peruse our selection prior to the Shoppe opening. If you have any questions whatsoever regarding our catalogue of items please either direct them towards: Jacks-Attic@live.com or respond accordingly with a comment in the appropriate blog update.
Our first dark art pendant design that will be showcased is The Coffin of Giles Corey.
“About noon at Salem, Giles Cory was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Captain Gardner of Nantucket who had been of his acquaintance, but all in vain..”
A farmer in early colonial America, Giles Corey, died under judicial torture during the Salem witch trials. He had been accused of witchcraft by Ann Putnam, Jr., Mercy Lewis, and Abigail Williams. He refused to enter a plea and was crushed to death by stone weights, in an attempt to force him to do so. His last and only words to the authorities attending the trial were “more weight”.
He died on September 19, 1692, at approximately 12 o’clock p.m.
