It’s said that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Not BellaDonna. A child prodigy on the subject of poisons, Belladonna’s interest in caustic concoctions stems from a Christmas Eve incident when a twig of mistletoe fell into her Aunt Isabella’s tea. While it didn't’t kill her beloved aunt, it did cause her to go insane. Recognizing the cause and effect principles of the incident, Belladonna immediately began having tea parties for the other children in the neighborhood, making special house blends from plants like, bane berry hemlock, oleander, and nightshade. Soon, she had no friends to speak of so her parents decided to move to a better neighborhood. Because of this move, Belladonna was never implicated in the mysterious deaths of the neighborhood children. Surprisingly, there were no mysterious death of children in her new hometown…but it did become suspiciously void of and household pets mere months after their arrival. Not so surprising is that Belladonna grew up to be an herbalist…and she’s rumored to make a strong, but comforting, cup of tea for patients with terminal illnesses.

Ghoulish Factoid: The idea of having a skull appear from the lighter background areas of the portrait gets credited to a five-year-old boy named Logan. Logan has a great imagination and loves to watch clouds as they form different animal shapes in his mind's eye. He's also into spooky stuff and likes to see all our old photos...but only before they change into their gruesome after-images.