The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic THE CHARLES WALKER COLLECTION LIST OF CATEGORIES ACUPUNCTURE AUTOMATA FLOWER REMEDIES MAGIC SYMBOLS RENNES-LE-CHATEAU AFRICAN ARTEFACTS AURA FLOWERS MAGIC ROBIN HOOD AND MAGIC AUTOMATIC WRITING FORTUNE STICKS MAGICAL CLOTHING ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AGES OF MAN FORTUNE TELLING MAGICAL RITUAL OBJECTS ROSICRUCIAN ALBEROBELLO BABYLONIAN MYTHS FRANCE MAGICIANS & INVOCATIONS RUNES ALCHEMY BARROWS FRANKENSTEIN MAGIC SPHERES ALPHABETS (MAGICAL) BEAUTY TREATMENTS FRENCH MYTHOLOGY MAJORCA SAINTS AMULETS BELGIUM MALAYSIA SCIENCE FICTION ANGELS BIOENERGY GAMES MALTA (PREHISTORIC & HORROR MAGS ANIMALS (BIRDS, FISH BLACK MAGIC GARGOYLES TEMPLES) SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITIES AND BEASTS) BLACK VIRGIN GEMS AND STONES MANDALAS SCREAMING SKULLS ANTHROPOSOPHY BRITAIN GEOMANCY MAORI MYTH SCRYING ARTHURIAN BRITISH MYTHS GERMANY MASKS SEANCES AROMATHERAPY BUDDHISM GHOSTS MASONS SEASONS ASTRAL AND ETHERIC BURMESE MYTHS GHOSTLY DOGS & MASSAGE SERPENT POWER ASTROLOGY: BLACK DOGS MAZES SHAKESPEARE AMERICAN (USA) CABBALA GIANTS MEDICAL SHAMAN ASTROLOGY CANDLE MAGIC GLASTONBURY MEDITATION SHEELA-NA-GIG ARABIC ASTROLOGY CARTOMANCY GOLDEN DAWN (ORDER OF) MERMAIDS & MERMEN SICILY ASTROLABES CATHARS & ALBIGENSIANS GOTHIC METAMORPHIC TECHNIQUE SIMULACRA ASTROLOGERS CATS (included in ANIMALS) GRAPHOLOGY MEXICAN ARCHAEOILOGY SKULLS ASTROLOGY (GENERAL) CAVE ART GRAVEYARDS MEXICAN MYTHOLOGY SNAKE CHARMERS BRITISH ASTROLOGY CELTIC GREECE MEXICO SPACE MEN CALENDARS CELTIC HEADS GREEK MYTHOLOGY MINORCA (ARCHAEOLOGY) SPAIN CHARTS (see CHAKRAS GREEK ORTHODOX MITHRAS SPHERES OF FORTUNE HOROSCOPES) CHINA GREEN MAN MODERN WITCHCRAFT SPIRITUALISM CHINESE ASTROLOGY CHINESE MYTHOLOGY GRIMOIRES MONSTERS SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY COMETS CHRISTIAN MORMONS SPIRITUAL HEALING CONSTELLATIONS CLAIRVOYANCE HALLUCINATIONS MOSAICS SPOON BENDING ECLIPSES CLOWNS AND JESTERS HAUNTINGS & HAUNTED MOTHER SHIPTON SPONTANEOUS EGYPTIAN ASTROLOGY COLOUR THERAPY PLACES MOUNDS COMBUSTION ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY CONJURING (see also STAGE HEAD HUNTERS MUSIC OF SPHERES SRI LANKA FRENCH ASTROLOGY MAGIC) HEALTH MYSTERIES STAGE MAGIC GENERAL ASTROLOGY CORN CIRCLES HELL STIGMATA HIEROGLYPHIC PLATES CORN DOLLIES HERALDRY NAGA ART STONES (INDIVIDUAL HOROLOGIA CROWLEY (ALEISTER) HERBAL MANUSCRIPTS NATIONAL HEROES STONES & MENHIRS) HOROSCOPES CRYSTALS AND CRYSTAL HERB GARDENS NATUROPATHY STONES (CIRCLES) ITALIAN ASTROLOGY GAZING HERBS, SPICES, PLANTS NAZCA STONES (LOGAN STONES) LABOURS OF THE MONTH CRYSTAL HEALING HILL FIGURES NEPAL STRANGE PHENOMENA MONTHS CURSES HINDUISM NEW AGE SUNDIALS OBSERVATORIES CYPRUS HOLY MEN NEWGRANGE SUPERSTITIONS PLANETS (GENERAL) HOMOEOPATHY (ARCHAEOLOGY) SWASTIKA PLANETS – EARTH DEMONS HONG KONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS SWITZERLAND PLANETS – SUN DEATH HORROR NOSTRADAMUS SYMBOLS (ALPHABETICAL) PLANETS – MOON DEATH – FESTIVAL OF HYDROTHERAPY NUMEROLOGY SYNASTRY PLANETS – MERCURY THE DEAD HYPNOTISM PLANETS – VENUS DEATH – AFTER DEATH OCCULT ART TAROT PLANETS – MARS EXPERIENCE I CHING OCCULTISTS TATTOOS PLANETS – JUPITER DICE AND GAMBLING INCENSE AND PERFUMES OUIJA TEA-LEAF READING PLANETS – SATURN DISASTERS INCUBATION TEMPLARS PLANETS – URANUS DIVINATION IN GENERAL INCUBUS & SUCCUBUS PALMISTRY TEMPLAR CAVE (ROYSTON) PLANETS – NEPTUNE DOLMEN INDIA PERSONIFICATIONS THEOSOPHY PLANETS – PLUTO DOPPLEGANGER INITIATION PETROGLYPHS TITANIC SIGILS (ASTROLOGICAL DOWSING IRELAND PHANTOM SHIPS TURIN SHROUD ONLY) DOWSING – PENDULUMS IRIDOLOGY PHRENOLOGY SPANISH ASTROLOGY DRACULA ISLAM PHYSIOGNOMY UFOs SPHERES DRAGONS ITALY PICTISH UNICORNS STARS (see DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES PILGRIMS PROGRESS UNITES STATES CONSTELLATIONS) DRUIDS JAINISM PLAGUES AND DISEASES SWISS ASTROLOGY JEWISH MYTHOLOGY PLANETS – EARTH VAMPIRES ZODIAC MEN EARTH MAGIC JOAN OF ARC POLTERGEISTS VOODOO ZODIACS EARTH MOTHER POPULAR AMUSEMENTS ZODIAC SIGNS (MIXED) EASTER ISLAND KAHUNA POLYNESIAN MYTH WELLS (HOLY WELLS, &) ZODIAC SIGNS – ARIES EGYPT KARLSTEIN PRAGUE WEREWOLVES ZODIAC SIGNS – TAURUS EGYPTIAN MYTHS KINESIOLOGY PREDICTION WITCHCRAFT ZODIAC SIGNS – GEMINI ELEMENTS & ELEMENTALS KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY PSYCHIC ART WITCHCRAFT SITES ZODIAC SIGNS – CANCER EROTIC ART KNIGHTS HOSPITALIERS PSYCHIC PHENOMENA ZODIAC SIGNS – LEO EXORCISM KNIGHTS OF ST. JOHN PSYCHOMETRY YOGA ZODIAC SIGNS – VIRGO KUWAIT PSYCHOKINETICS ZODIAC SIGNS – LIBRA FAIRIES PYRAMIDOLOGY ZODIAC SIGNS – SCORPIO FAIRYSTORIES LEMURIA ZODIAC SIGNS – FANTASY LEVITATION RADIESTHESIA SAGITTARIUS FENG SHUI LEY-LINES & ORIENTATIONS RASPUTIN ZODIAC SIGNS – FESTIVALS & CUSTOMS LIGHT MYSTERIES REBIRTHING CAPRICORN FIRE LOUGHCREW (IRELAND) REFLEXOLOGY ZODIAC SIGNS – AQUARIUS FIRE WALKING LYCANTROPY REINCARNATION ZODIAC SIGNS – PICES FLAGS (NATIONAL) RELICS (RELIGIOUS ONLY) The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic TopFoto.co.uk is proud to announce exclusive worldwide representation of The Charles Walker Collection. The Charles Walker Collection is the world’s largest archive relating to the occult, magical, esoteric, mystical and mythological traditions. On file are 100,000 pictures classified under 400 subject headings. The collection represents 25 years dedicated personal research by Charles Walker whose detailed knowledge is evident in the authorative captions accompanying the images. His academic specialisations are the history of astrology, the history of Magical Sigils and the collection itself. He has published a number of books on arcane themes. The images are being scanned and are available at www.TopFoto.co.uk The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk Alchemy his collection includes images of Talchemists at work, along with alchemical instruments, and laboratory systems. Alchemy as the puffers art and alchemy as the spiritual science of inner development are portrayed. Subjects include salamanders, mer-men, kings and queens, double-dragons (nodal dragons), green lions, ouroboros serpents, androgynes, and so on. The alchemical imagery and diagrams used so widely in Rosicrucian books and manuscripts are widely available, including some rare hand-coloured prints from the Pansophus treatment of alchemical cosmologies. A certain number of Fludd diagrams, and many of the alchemical images deriving from the school of Frankfurt in the seventeenth century, including the remarkable reincarnation-images which Welling derived from van Helmont jnr. The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk Astrology his comprehensive collection of images Tincludes a large selection of mediaeval and modern architectural zodiacs, and zodiacal details, found in European cathedrals, churches and buildings, such as Chartres, Vezelay, Paris, Sagra di San Michele, Florence and so on. Among the pictures from manuscripts and books is a selection of melothesic images (zodiacal men), the so-called ‘labours of the month’ and ‘planetary children’, hand-coloured zodiacs (both tropical and constellational), personification of planets and planetary systems, relating mainly to the Ptolemaic system, and a wide range of less traditional images, including planetary nodes (such as the Arabian zawzahr), astrolabes and other instruments. A number of portraits of well-known astrologers is also available, together with a large number of astrological diagrams, sigils and horoscopes. The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk Demons n interesting range is available of Amediaeval manuscripts and hand- coloured mediaeval prints relating to different types of demons, including the Dante demons, the Enochians, the Solomonics, the Biblical demons and dragon-demons, fallen angels and images of the Antichrist, the succubus and incubus and so on. Also available are mediaeval demons in stone and metal from walls, facades and doors of churches and cathedrals in Europe, along with a number of guardian demons from Far Eastern temples. Among the images derived from modern sources is a fine collection of paintings by Fay Pomerance, specialising in the Lucifer and Lilith themes, and ‘astral’ and demonic paintings by Austin Spare. The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk Divination his classification includes a large Tselection of Tarot cards from virtually every period, a number of occult divinatory diagrams, such as those used in the popular Chinese ‘I Ching’ (Book of Changes), including some Tai Chi and yin-yang symbols, and dragon forms relating to Feng Shui. In the European tradition there are images from genuine geomancy, and from the so-called geomancy derived from the Chinese Feng Shui, including some lay-line orientation images. A few images relate to rune magic and autoscopic devices. A selection of mediaeval palmistic diagrams, and a number of hand-reading images, derived from the consulting rooms of modern palmists, tarot-readers, cartomancers, and so on. The Charles Walker Collection of Mystery, Myth and Magic available at www.TopFoto.co.uk Fairies and Fairytales t is said that when they materialise Ion the physical plane, fairies adopt the traditional thought form created by humans as their vehicle. Hence many of the pictures in this delightful collection appear as delicate creatures with wings. According to the clairvoyant Gardner, fairies are alert and observant – but have the intelligence of a pet dog. From the 1875 edition of Richard Doyle’s Fairyland, to the 1909 edition of Helen Stratton’s Cherryblossom