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Beginner witchcraft used to be causing milk to spoil. Striking the neighbors livestock with misshapen young. Ruining the marriage of an honest man. Making upstanding ladies of the church into fallen women. Yall just making suncatchers and shit. Sleepaway camp ass mfkrs. YOURE GROWN. RUIN SOMETHING.

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Hot take but you can’t learn about paganism without also learning about white supremacy and how it uses pagan religions to push hate group agendas all over the world today. If you don’t learn about the connections between the two and how it operates, your ignorance enables white supremacists to keep on doing it and using it to recruit others. People in our community who do nothing and stay silent are literally a part of the problem, there is no opting out whatsoever. Divorcing the two makes the issue repeat itself over and over and over again.

It’s not hard to include this in your research and stay aware. It’s the bare minimum.

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Odin in Hanover:

And Athena (unsurprisingly) in Athens, GA:

Pagan Cities?

It's known that Nashville, TN belongs to Athena, Birmingham, AL belongs to Hephaestus/Vulcan, & New Orleans, LA belongs to Dionysus/Bacchus - what other cities belong to gods that you know of? The Parthenon in Nashville

The Vulcan statue in Birmingham

The Bacchus parade in NOLA

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Fascinating! Mercury in Rotterdam:

Pagan Cities?

It's known that Nashville, TN belongs to Athena, Birmingham, AL belongs to Hephaestus/Vulcan, & New Orleans, LA belongs to Dionysus/Bacchus - what other cities belong to gods that you know of? The Parthenon in Nashville

The Vulcan statue in Birmingham

The Bacchus parade in NOLA

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Pagan Cities?

It's known that Nashville, TN belongs to Athena, Birmingham, AL belongs to Hephaestus/Vulcan, & New Orleans, LA belongs to Dionysus/Bacchus - what other cities belong to gods that you know of? The Parthenon in Nashville

The Vulcan statue in Birmingham

The Bacchus parade in NOLA

#for my pagan followers

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This was well-received on Instagram and the clock app, so here's the easiest way to acquire red brick dust for Southern folk magic. You absolutely do not need to pay $20 for a tiny bag online, I promise.

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Look sometimes witchcraft is standing at the crossroads at midnight on the third Friday after a full moon at 3 in the morning with a black rooster tied up and screaming and a knife ready to draw its blood and sometimes witchcraft is banging pots and pans in your front yard yelling like an idiot at a storm and the real skill is learning when to use what. 

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*bends over seductively and drives a nail into your footprint*

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Hi! I don't know much about witchcraft but recently I've been taking an interest, would you mind giving me some suggestions about how to deal with bad luck please. I've been really unlucky for as long as I can remember, it's mostly tripping, knocking thing over or bumping into things. I'm so tired of it, desperate times call for desperate measures, I'll do anything you say!

Thank you :)

Oh dear this has been sitting for a while. Apologies for that. Linking some luck spells here, but I also recommend two others things as well. The first is fairly practical - try mindfulness practices or exercises or hobbies even (dance, skating, yoga) that make you more aware of your body and how it moves in space. The second is to try connecting with your ancestors and leaving small offerings to form a relationship with the dead who have a real interest in the success of your life. They can be a big help with things so it's a worthwhile relationship to foster. Many good luck spells are aimed towards monetary gain so be on the watch for ingredients like basil, gold, coins, jewelry, etc. that are clearly meant for taking the spell in that direction. Highly recommend introducing objects that you associate with luck and with balance, stamina, control - what you are trying to manifest. Bottle of Luck

Spells for Luck Masterlist

Ring Luck Spell

Simple Spell Jar for Luck

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do you actually believe in tarot?

Y'ALLS INCESSANT BINARY THINKING WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME

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Hi! I have a question regarding wards/protection satchets. There is lots of tips and text on casting spells/making wards for protection or cleansing. The worry that I have is how to adequately release or get rid of say the ward or protection jar with all that negative/gathered energy throwing back to your face? Thank you so much!

A great question! I know there are a lot of different disposal methods for things like jars, satchets, etc. It can really depend on the container a lot of times - since part of witchcraft is working with the land around us we don't want to go just drowning random jars of spell ingredients in local rivers these days. To dispose of something that was meant to absorb negative energy your best friends are fire, water, earth, or salt. I want to dissuade you from burying things and leaving them though. It's effective, but it can be harmful for plants and animals in the area and to me that contradicts a lot of what we try to do in witchcraft. Drowning is another method that these days I think we should likely do away with. You could modify this and drown the satchet/jar in your bathtub and dispose of the tainted water and ingredients afterward in a sort of breaking down ritual. If you're dealing with jars don't mess with fire, but for satchets (as long as you're not burning any toxic herbs that could accidentally create mustard gas or something) burning them seems ideal to me. Salt would be my approach to jars, cleanse the area before opening, preferably do this outside, and rub down the jar and fill it with purifying salt. Then you can dispose of it as you like. So, fire for satchets, salt for jars. That would be my take.

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hi! ive been getting back into the craft recently and i was wondering if you have any book reccomendations that i could learn more from! (i know youve published your own, which i will be checking out soon!!)

I have a book recs tag that contains most of the titles that I regularly recommend for witchcraft studies, but there are a few I could mention by name:

History:

Drawing Down The Moon (Margot Adler)

Triumph of the Moon (Ronald Hutton)

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (Ronald Hutton)

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Owen Davies)

Witchcraft:

The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft: Seeking an Intentional Magical Path Seeking an Intentional Magical Path (Fire Lyte aka Don Martin)

New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic (Cory Thomas Hutcheson)

By Rust of Nail & Prick of Thorn: The Theory & Practice of Effective Home Warding (Althaea Sebastiani)

Sacred Actions: Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centered Sustainable Practices (Dana O'Driscoll)

Honoring Your Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestral Veneration (Mallorie Vaudoise)

Spellcrafting: Strengthen the Power of Your Craft by Creating and Casting Your Own Unique Spells (Arin Murphy-Hiscock)

The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation & Ritual (Lisa Marie Basile)

Light Magic for Dark Times: More than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis (Lisa Marie Basile)

Sigil Witchery: A Witch's Guide to Crafting Magick Symbols (Laura Tempest Zakroff)

The Hearth Witch's Year: Rituals, Recipes & Remedies Through the Seasons (Anna Franklin)

Previous Posts:

Here are the Top Ten foundational texts that I started out with.

Here are the books I recommend if you want to work with plants.

Here are the three titles I have on the market.

Here is the Dropbox I made with free (legal) historical texts on witchcraft and magic.

And here is my personal library (slightly out of date) which might give you some more ideas!

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From Jeanette Winterson's recent substack article

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Graveyards hold no fear for me, as I’m descended from a long line of dead people.

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From Jeanette Winterson's recent substack article

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All of Odin’s ventures have a darkened tint. But here is one fairly well known. 

King Vikar, well-famed in his time, was becalmed. We don’t use the word much anymore, but it is when ships, dependent as they are on wind and wave, are unable to move. To be becalmed is to be stuck, eating through rations among increasingly-frustrated men already primed for travel and for fighting. King Vikar was trapped, with ships and men unmoving from the still shore.  His advisors divined a message from the gods. Odin required blood to break the calm. Human sacrifice to rouse the wind. King Vikar and his men drew lots. For as long as men have drawn lots it has always been a rigged game. In tales of cannibalism at sea they eat the lowest social rung first. This draw was no different, except that Odin had Vikar’s death in his mind. King Vikar drew the death lot, but a king has no desire to die in sacrifice to schemes larger than himself. That’s the lot of lesser men. They drew again. And a third time. King Vikar it was. So King Vikar would pantomime the sacrifice. After all, many people make replacements on their altar. It can’t be your best stallion’s blood all the time. Odin would understand. Perhaps. If he did not desire Vikar’s death.  Vikar’s second, Starkad, would hang him with intestines, softened to break, and stab him with a reed, weak and limp, while King Vikar stood on the sturdy limb of a tree, a mimic of a sacrifice.  But Odin called for Vikar's blood and Vikar's blood he would have king or no king, sacrificial mummery or no. The men called to Odin to stir the wind, to rouse the sea, to let loose waves, to rage the wild to action. The sky darkened, sparked, and spat rain. Vikar's second moved to thrust at him with the limp reed and Vikar gasped and bled as one stuck. Lightning flashed wild and illuminated the once-reed-now-spear in Starkad's hand, streaked in royal blood. A crack to break the sky with the Mad One's bloodlust and the branch tore away from the tree itself and as Vikar fell into the night, the sky lit here and there with electricity, the soft, bloodied guts around his throat tightened to withy, wet and strong. I cannot say whether Vikar's neck broke at once, as the hanged's sometimes do, or whether he twisted limply for long moments in agony as sharply bright as the lightening that tore the sky behind him. I cannot say how long his men watched their king's blood settle in purple bruises in his legs and throat. I can say that the wind raged with rain and storm and the ships set out on hardy waves. I can say that Vikar cheated death the same way we all do, which is to say not at all. And I can say that Odin is a god of taking when all is done and that your prayers, bargains, hopes, and sacrifices are only ever good in so far as they appease his use of you. If the One-Eyed, the Cunning, the Greyed and Mad has use of you - for good or ill, pain or success, kingship or the hanged man's anguished death throes - he will have it and all your careful planning will come to nothing for it. This is one of Odin's tales.

What are some of the darkest Odin myths there are

#not witchcraft #odin #norse paganism #for the pagans out there #odin allfather #woden