Celebrate Easter with a Man on a String!
Nothing else says Easter quite like a man-manakin in a top hat and tails. Which is why every self-respecting witch has one. How else would you celebrate Easter—if you are a Swedish Easter Witch—than by dragging your dapper little man along to the sabbat on a string?
Isn’t he adorable? And when you need your mustachioed man to do something useful just ‘zap’ the little fella and he is back to full size, ready to dance, bow, pass food, offer a ready compliment and scratch you in those places you just can’t reach. (Not in a corset anyway.)
So, if you haven’t got a man-manakin already, get one now! But remember, one is enough. More than that and the next thing you know the little ones will be arguing over who gets to carry your ostridge-feather hat or your drinking-horn, they’ll be puffing out their wee little chests, knocking off each others top-hats and challenging each other to a duel. Which is all terribly tedious.
4 April 2010 at 5:25 AM
If I might put forth a bit of personal doctrine :I believe that man has ruled this earth as a stumbling demented child king LONG ENOUGH! And if humanity is to survive the Black Widow must RISE as his most fitting successor!!! Ahem, please don’t touch the displays little boy-how cute-next we have Arachnida -the spider-my favorite. isn’t she deliscious(and I hope he was)! Man on a string? What’s next? Wrapped around a pretty finger no doubt!! keep up the good work!!
5 April 2010 at 1:17 PM
That’s an unexpected Easter weekend update. They really do things differently in Sweden! What else would you expect from the country that brought us Liv Ulman and Ingmar Bergman?
7 April 2010 at 1:36 AM
this is the first time that I’ve seen a representation of a sexy witch associated with a marionette. but I have to say – it seems very apt.
witches are known for their supposed ability to manipulate reality itself; naturally they can manipulate dapper turn-of-the-century men!
26 June 2012 at 6:50 PM
@apples: To us Norwegians it is very important to make sure that ignorami like yourself learn that NORWAY brought you Liv Ullman. That aside, easter is witch time in Scandinavia, and especially in Sweden and parts of Finland. Google påskkärring – lots of easter witches with brooms, black cats, and coffee pots should appear (some vintage ones, as well – but not particularly sexy). It’s tradition for little girls (and some little boys) to dress up as witches on maundy-thursday (thursday is the traditional day for magic and witchcraft in Scandinavia, and maundy-thursday is especially powerful) and go asking for sweets at the neighbours’ houses. They will give sweets or a speacial easter letter or a drawing in return. In some areas the little witches are only _giving_ sweets to the neighbours.