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Art VooDeauxby *MeghanMurphy

Digital Art / Vector / People

This is part of Cedarseed's Characters & Cultures contest.

The following alternate history by me is what this piece is based on:

Heavily inspired by fashionable visits to the American South, New Orleans to be specific, Great Britian at the end of the 19th century found a new type of spirituality that wove well into the mortality concerns left over from the Victorian era. But now, instead of black cloth and funeral wreaths, the dead were worshipped with dancing and rites, and the living protected by spells and consecrated gris-gris bags. The artists of the time, looking for a more romantic and decorative style, begin to create what would become known as Art VooDeaux. This art was both ornamental and spiritual, used for blessing and anti-hex properties, as well as objects of beauty.

Portrayed in particular piece is Fanny La Mort, an English woman who built a legendary career on her special love spells, and her extra-special lover's revenge spells. It was rumored she made any man who scorned her a living zombie, forever cursed to be a shambling shell at her beck and call. Most dismissed this as idle gossip, but to be on the safe side, many of these same naysayers were known to have an icon of Fannie hanging in their bedrooms, with a small altar filled with fruit offering and incense below.