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I love folklore so much because depending on the location and era it comes from it's either the most terrifying concept or the dumbest thing you've ever heard

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POLAND. Krakow / Cracow. 1981. A woman praying like a crucified Christ for John Paul II’s assassination attempt in Rome. -  Bruno Barbey

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Sirin 2018

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“Shaman Valery cleaninsing patients inside the Tos Deer (nine skies) shaman association.”

Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva, Russia. Photographed by A. Abbas.

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ok now who put some kind of hex on me

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Dandelion Blossom Fritter.

(Ingredients):

20-30 Fresh Dandelion Blossoms

1 Egg

1/2 teaspoon Corn Starch

1/3 teaspoon Salt

Vegetable Oil

1. Soak the dandelions for 10-15 minutes to remove the dirt and debris. Turn them up side on a kitchen paper to dry completely.

2. Whisk egg, salt and cornstarch together.

3. Heat up oil over medium-high heat. Dip the blossoms in the egg wash; fry on both sides until golden. Serve immediately.

Hope you enjoy this simple wild edible recipe.

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Liver of Piacenza - bronze model of a sheep’s liver for the practice of Haruspicy -  Etruscan - 2nd century BCE

In ancient Babylon the liver was considered the source of the blood and hence the basis of life itself. From this belief, the Babylonians thought they could discover the will of the gods by examining the livers of carefully selected sacrificial sheep. Haruspicy in ancient Italy originated with the Etruscans, but was incorporated into Roman culture. Roman haruspicy was a form of communication with the gods. This form of Roman divination allowed humans to discern the attitudes of the gods and react in a way that would maintain harmony between the human and divine worlds.  This bronze model of a sheep’s liver was found by chance by a farmer in 1877. Names of Etruscan gods are etched into the surface and organized into different sections.

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Yo so....

Witchcraft is actually hella customizable. You can invent shit. I don't know how this: "By the book, uber traditional, heavily controlled" thing gained so much traction, but...

You can make your own holidays

You can make your own Gods

You can design your own divination methods

You can make sigils -however the fuck you want

You can create your own theory on energy systems based on your personal experience

Write your own ethics and codes of conduct

Describe crystals or herbs by their ENERGY instead of a keyword list you got off Pinterest

Cleanse in a completely different way than the books tell you to

Literally the possibilities are unfathomably endless. And I've successfully done all of these. Go forth and get weird with it.

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#hexe #magick #witch community #witchcraft #baby witch #witch tips #beginner witch #pagan witch #chaos magick #witchblr

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[A white fortune cookie paper with blue text. Front: Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Lucky Numbers 9, 31, 21, 1, 8, 48 Back: Cherry, Chinese text (yīng) (táo)]

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THE BASICS OF LEARNING MAGIC

If you want to learn magic but aren't sure where to start, this post will cover what I consider to be the basics of what you should research.

Eventually, most or all of these will be links to posts we make, this is still a work in progress!

Some of these things are considered essential, while others are more optional. I have put things fundamental for safety at the top of the list, as they should be researched first.

This list may be updated as I think of more to add, but I consider this a good starting point for now.

CLOSED PRACTICES

MAGIC SAFETY

UNDOING SPELLS

ENTITY AND DEITY ETIQUETTE

PROTECTION

BANISHING

CLEANSING

GROUNDING AND CENTERING

INTUITION

MANIFESTATION

MEDITATION

CHARGING

BINDING

SETTING INTENT

DIRECTING ENERGY

TYPES OF SPELLS

INGREDIENTS FOR SPELLS

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SPELLS

SPELLCASTING

ALTARS

GRIMOIRES

BOOK OF SHADOWS

SHADOW WORK

DIVINATION

DEITIES AND PANTHEONS

SPIRITS AND ENTITIES

OFFERINGS

MAGICAL PATHS

CORRESPONDENCES

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Coatlicue and Kali are like non-related twins with peak girl boss energy and no one can convince me otherwise.

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The resemblance between the Aztec Coatlicue and the Hindu Kali (including their names) is profound. They represent the same primal perception: the continuity of life/death. However strange or terrible (i.e., causing terror) such rites and icons might seem, they show the original human mind trying to come to terms with the paradoxical reality of the Primal Mother—she who bleeds with both life and death, she who dies and returns again cyclically, she who gives us all to each other as food, as blood kin, as co-creators of our ecstasies and our destructions. As Carlos Fuentes notes in Terra Nostra, terra (earth) and “terror” are related. They have the same origin because the source of life and the source of death are the same; and this is both a frightening and an awesome recognition. It is very hard to endure without ritual resolution. Moderns who neither kill nor grow their own food nor bury their own dead would seem to have solved the problem by avoiding it; but in fact the resolution is simply delegated, nowadays, to nightmare, slaughterhouses, torture rooms, death squads, and "snuff" films, in which criminal priests perform obscene sacrifices to the gods of displaced responsibility. No one can truly avoid the paradox of life/death as one continuous god, or process. Such a perception arises from the deepest labyrinth of our psyches, where there is no distinction between "primitive" and "modern." The only real difference is that “primitives” strive to be conscious of the paradox; "moderns" strive to escape it. But the paradox shows us an ontological maze we cannot sanely deny, destroy, or overleap; we have to learn to walk it again, to dance it, as our ancestors did, with grace, strength, and awe-full wisdom.

-Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering The Religion of the Earth.

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Coatlicue, monolith,

how did you feed on the dead? How did you bring forth the moon; the sun; Tlaloc,

(my favorite) rain god of ambiguous gender Is it possible the snakes

on your skin speak a language only the dead can hear? Or is it the language

Eve heard—a sibilance of insurrection?

from Sor Juana's Last Dream by Gail Friemuth Wronsky

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Gabinete Coatlicue de Andrés Gutiérrez

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THE Aztecs of northern Mesoamerica (c. 1345 and 1521 CE) worshipped some of the weirdest, most fantastic and downright scary gods seen anywhere in history. The Aztec civilization and the empire it created revolved around winning special favour with these gods in order to ensure a measure of balance in nature, the continuance of human life and even the daily rising of the sun itself. In this collection we examine 15 gods in detail, looking at the mythology they were involved in and their particular associations such as their special days, numbers and animals. Here are all the major gods from mighty Huitzilopochtli, Hummingbird of the South, and his links with war and eagles to mischievous Xochipilli, the Flower Prince, linked to summer, butterflies and poetry.

The top 15 Aztec gods were:

Huitzilopochtli - the supreme god of the Sun and war.

Tezcatlipoca - the ever-present creator god and patron deity of warriors.

Tlaloc - god of rain, water, lightning, and agriculture.

Quetzalcóatl - god of winds and rain and the creator of humanity.

Coatlicue - the earth-mother goddess.

Tlaltecuhtli - the earth goddess associated with fertility.

Mictlantecuhtli - ruler of the underworld

Tonatiuh - god of the present and fifth Sun.

Coyolxauhqui - goddess of the Moon.

Mixcoatl - god of hunting, the Milky Way, and the stars

Ehecatl - god of air and winds.

Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli - god who represented a menacing aspect of Venus.

Xiuhtecuhtli - god of fire.

Xipe Totec- god of spring, seeds, and planting.

Xochipilli - god of summer, flowers, love, and dancing.

Read more here