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Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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If the impala turned into a horse and carriage there's all sorts of flashy bits people used to put on to ward off the 'evil eye'.
Chrome/big ass metal decorations at the corners of the bit, ita. Period-appropriate and you could TOTALLY sneak in devil's traps and stuff.
Arthur's a cariage horse but I think you could take some liberties with riding tack. Note the forehead ornament.
There would be nothing keeping your character from having a Spanish bridle from Mexico or California: [link] [link]
Yeah, lots of silver would totally work.
And the horse could have "high chrome" too - but that would have been frowned upon by many in the 19th century.
What the hell kind of bit is that last one? Looks like a torture device--tack by the Spanish Inquisition. Also, now I'm humming Boots of Spanish Leather. Which is a reprieve from "Gelderland! Gelderland. Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland!" from A Knight's Tale, prompted by a breed I'd never heard of in one of those links, the Gelderlander.
ita, I completely agree with Ginger--Mexican silver was all over the place on tack and haberdashery. It would not be unusual at all for a silver-mounted bridle to show up on a flashy black horse.
Now. Mare? or not?
Ooh, thanks, I hope I can get some of this in.
Yeah, it's a mare. But I'm only drawing to the shoulders, I think. She's in a stall in the scene I'm thinking of illustrating. With her bridle on.
There have been fics set in the west, either timeslip or post-apocalypse, that parallels were drawn from pentagram to US Marshal's star. IJS, it would not be at all out of place to have pentagrams in silver on a bridle. Or Enochian script or runes disguised as ornamental scrollwork. Or, you know, stuff.