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Henry Fuseli
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches 1796 Oil on canvas, 1016 x 1264 mm
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, by exchange, and Victor Wilbour Memorial, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment, Marquand and Charles B. Curtis Funds, 1980
The Night-Hag Visiting Lapland Witches 1796 Oil on canvas, 1016 x 1264 mm
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, by exchange, and Victor Wilbour Memorial, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment, Marquand and Charles B. Curtis Funds, 1980
The Night-Hag Visiting the Lapland Witches
scenario by Thomas Larsson, age 24
The centuries have passed and the once lustful and ice cold Night-Hag, despite her immense powers and reign of terror, has become lonely, old and weary, she longs for company, for carnal pleasures. She invokes the soul of a young and strong demon spirit to keep as her slave, to obey her orders and whose body will satisfy her every desire, and undertakes to allow him to rise from the entrails of the earth’s darkest recesses.
A human body is needed to channel the soul of this demon lover and only the purest man-child, virgin of all sins will be capable of containing the horror of such a demon. Having located the child of pure breed and noble descent, destined to be possessed and carry the curse of a demon, she sets of on the long journey to the Great North, to the child’s home, only to find it empty and the family writhing in pain and terror as they slowly consume in the blue flames of Ancient fire.
Immediately recognising the work of the cruel and repulsive Lapland witches, she speeds after them through the night, arriving just in time to see the child being prepared for the annual sacrifice, as the first rays of sun chase the fleeting shadows away. The witch sisters turn around in surprise, and recognizing the hag, the significance of the child dawns on them, and they brace themselves for what is to come...
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