Lover's Revenge

Original acrylic painting on thick, acid-free paper, approximately 8" x 10". Inspired by an archaic "Lover's Revenge Curse" that involved sticking pins into a birds' heart. Lover's Revenge at My Good Babushka.

Lover's Revenge

I have some notes that I jotted down, I assume they are from W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore, but I'm not sure. Something about taking revenge on an unfaithful lover by sticking pins into a bird's heart via sympathetic magic. I seem to have left out any particulars, like the kind of bird, so I'm going to make it up. I picked a black swan.