Designed, carved and hand pressed by Minifi of Minifi's Oddities.
Printed onto 24cmx32cm Sumi-e paper
Black Annis is described as having a wild look in her red eyes (or eye), blue skin and iron claws for nails. She is said to live in a cave called Black Annis' bower, in the Leicestershire countryside. Annis has a taste for human flesh and will relentless hunt down her prey...
She is said to venture out at night looking for unsuspecting children and lambs to eat, then drying the skins their skins by hanging them on a tree before wearing them like leather clothing. She would reach inside houses to snatch people. Legend has it that she used her iron claws to dig her cave out of the side of a sandstone cliff, making herself a home there which is known as Black Annis' Bower Close. The legend led to parents warning their children that Black Annis would get them if they did not behave. She was also known to hide in the branches of her oak tree waiting to leap upon unsuspecting prey.
Other traditions stated that when she ground her teeth people could hear her, giving them time to bolt their doors and keep away from the window. It is said that cottages in Leicestershire were purposely built with small windows so that Black Annis could only get a single arm inside. When she howled she could be heard 5 mi (8.0 km) away, then the cottagers would fasten skins across the window and place protective herbs aka witch herbs above it to keep themselves safe.