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Drawn nearly two centuries ago for John Edward Gray’s Illustrations of Indian Zoology, the Murine Dysopes (a small bat, rendered with near-scientific tenderness) reminds us how wonder and unease often share a border. To naturalists, bats were not emblems of fear but marvels of adaptation: mammals that learned the language of the night.
In Europe’s medieval imagination, bats became the companions of witches and the silhouettes of spirits in flight; by the Gothic age, they had taken up residence in the same twilight as the vampire.
This candle pays quiet homage to that journey, from tale to taxonomy, familiar symbol of Halloween to field sketch. Its soft glowing light recalls the lamplight of the naturalist’s study, where knowledge and mystery met in equal measure.
• Soy wax
• Cotton wick
• 3.76″ × 3.13″ (95 × 79 mm) glass vessel
• Unscented, has a pleasant natural aroma
Drawn nearly two centuries ago for John Edward Gray’s Illustrations of Indian Zoology, the Murine Dysopes (a small bat, rendered with near-scientific tenderness) reminds us how wonder and unease often share a border. To naturalists, bats were not emblems of fear but marvels of adaptation: mammals that learned the language of the night.
In Europe’s medieval imagination, bats became the companions of witches and the silhouettes of spirits in flight; by the Gothic age, they had taken up residence in the same twilight as the vampire.
This candle pays quiet homage to that journey, from tale to taxonomy, familiar symbol of Halloween to field sketch. Its soft glowing light recalls the lamplight of the naturalist’s study, where knowledge and mystery met in equal measure.
• Soy wax
• Cotton wick
• 3.76″ × 3.13″ (95 × 79 mm) glass vessel
• Unscented, has a pleasant natural aroma