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blairstales · 9 months
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Spae Craft
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Within historic Scottish Folklore, not all what we would consider "witchcraft" by todays standards was considered bad. One example of these were those who practiced Spae-Craft. They could be men(Spaymen) or women (Spaewives), and both would practice Spae-craft. Their main purpose was often fortune-telling, which is why "to spae" means "to tell the future.
"The white witch confines herself to telling fortunes, and my friend will heartily scold the luckless servant-girl who is frivolous enough to laugh at her when she is reading the leaves in a teacup."  “The misty isle of Skye : Its scenery, It’s people, Its story” by Eneas Mackay, Stirling, (1927)
Sometimes visions would just come, but other times they were sought. Tea reading was one way that Spaewives and Spaymen might go about their work. Cup-reading (Leughadh chu-paichean)was once a popular trade for people to seek.
"After drinking the tea, the person for whom the cup is to be read, turning the cup deiseal, or with the right-hand turn, is to make a small drop, left in it, wash its sides all round, and then pour it out. The fortune is then read from the arrangement of the sediments or tea-leaves left in the cup. A large quantity of black tea grounds (smùrach du) denotes substance and worldly gear. The person consulting the oracle is a stray leaf standing to the one side of it. If the face of the leaf is towards the grounds, that person is to come to a great fortune; if very positively its back, then farewell even to the hope “that keeps alive despair.” A small speck by itself is a letter, and other specks are envious people struggling to get to the top, followers, etc. Good diviners can even tell to their youthful and confiding friends when the letter is likely to arrive, what trade their admirer follows, the colour of his hair, etc." Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell
However, they did more than that. Spaewives in particular were known as storytellers, wise-women, midwives, and healers. In folktales, their role as wise-women often leads them to protect people against witchcraft or fairies.
"A girl got work as a servant in the house of a laird of the black arts. A young man warned her about him and she ran away to the young man's mother, who was a spaewife and knew how to keep the laird out by closing off all the entrances where evil might enter. The laird turned himself into a raging beast every night. The spaewife caught him in a bottle by opening a small hole, so that he turned himself into a frog to come through it. The spaewife threw the bottle into a river. Seven years later a fisherman found it and opened it. The laird now had all his powers back, but he had already lost the girl to the young man." (Summary from a 1979 Audio Recording)
Basically, if you needed some sort of advice or a cure(especially in regards to the supernatural), a practitioner of spae-craft might be the best choice.
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pb2hxoutjibd · 1 year
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realhankmccoy · 2 years
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Grissel Jaffray Memorial... two very Zelda-esque mosaic memorials for where Dundee burnt its last spaewife (fortune-telling witch) in 1669.
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Me listening to the BF audio Feast of Fear with the BIGGEST side eye for the ending of it with Nyssa and Tegan 🤨 like ma'ams? 🤨 that's kinda gay?? 🤨🤨 everyone else who was able to free their people from the Spaewife were lovers?? 🤨🤨🤨 you expect me to believe anything different?? 🤨🤨🤨🤨
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scimara · 1 month
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kilala mo pa ako? hahahahah spaewife!
fuckeeeer, that’s my old username HAHAHAHAH FLS
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random-racehorses · 4 months
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Random Real Thoroughbred: SPAE LASS
SPAE LASS is a mare born in France in 1930. By BOIS JOSSELYN out of SPAEWIFE. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/spae+lass
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ghastimart · 4 years
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not me posting idv OCs i’ve never talked about publicly before wym
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hagothehills · 3 years
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𝕊𝕔𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕖𝕨𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕊𝕡𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖
*** Limited edition item ***
The spaewife was the Scottish seer who could look beyond the veil to see what the future would bring. Spae comes from the Old Norse word spá – to prophecy, to foretell.
Carry this spell bottle on your person during rites of divination and seership, trancework, wisdom seeking, spiritwork and dream work.
Placed next to your bed it can encourage prophetic dreaming.
This is a limited edition item, and once sold out I won't be making more.
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fiercerthanyou · 3 years
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Cindy Sherman, "The Fortune Teller,” 1993,
This watch was created as part of Art Object project, a collection of limited edition artist-designed objects to benefit the American Foundation for Aids Research (AMFAR).
Pocket watch in yellow metal. Manually winding.
Limited and numbered 27/150. 
Made by Grotell and Florian Favre.
Courtesy: Bukowskis.
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lunar-fortunes · 3 years
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There's Always A Loophole
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Welllll I think my spirit court are patting themselves on the back again. "Guess we don't have to bitchslap her again!"
It fucking worked.
The night of the super moon, I got this pull towards his house. He lives near a drive-thru but has a privacy fence up. But there were lights everywhere from the closed businesses. After sitting in my car for about twenty minutes trying to psych myself up, I turned the bindrune charm into a talisman, waded through the snow, and slipped it through the fence.
The next day, I got a sign from the spirit of the store.
And just like that, I'm fucking calm.
The reading about the ward:
1: the foundation: ace of hearts: good news! your troubles and problems are moving away from you.
2: what is covering you: queen of clubs: move yourself up front and accept the limelight. So this goes along with one of my Friday Readings, which called me a Lioness, and the queen of my court.
3: what is walking with you(what is going on at the time of the reading): 5 of diamonds: be grateful for your blessings, that your "village" and family are now safe. Quit being a whiny little bitch!
4: what is behind you(the past or what may be happening now depending on the other cards): ace of clubs: you were the only one holding yourself back. It's time to act! (On point)
5: what is in front of you (what could happen): joker: your ancestors are walking with you.
6: the outcome if nothing is changed: ace of diamonds: the road is opened, you can now advance.
Significant multiples: got 3 Aces in this reading(!!), which means new beginnings and lucky breaks.
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etamina-amata · 3 years
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So I got in a fight today... [On titles and respect]
I got in an argument today {offline] with a Wiccan. I want to be clear therefore that this post is not anti-Wicca before I begin. I know little about actual Wicca, and I make no claim all adherents are like this. Clear? Okay. 
 It started with a trip to the local metaphysical shop. Now, due to my disability, I can’t drive, so my dad takes me after he gets off work.  This is not strange, though usually we go on weekends, but this is a special situation. I go immediately for what I need while Dad browses.He picks up a few things, I get my stuff, and  an encounter starts.
Wiccan [to Dad]: You know, she should pick out her own ingredients. 
Dad [confused, gestures]: Uh...she is?
Wiccan: I think it’s great you are being supportive but you shouldn't buy your wife things like herbs as gifts. She has to be in tune with them.
Dad: That’s my daughter, and these are for me.
Wiccan: You shouldn’t mock the Goddess that way!
Dad: By buying black walnut and mugwort?
Wiccan: Men can’t practice witchcraft!
Dad *walks away*
Wiccan: Don’t you turn away from me because I call you out on your behaviour!  Men can’t practice magic!
Me: Which is it? Men can’t practice witchcraft or men can’t practice magic?
Wiccan: They’re the same thing!
Me: According to what tradition?
Wiccan: All Wicca states that they are the same thing.
And at this point, we just bought our stuff and walked out, because getting into a reall fight never helps anyone, but I want to address some things here.
1. Magic =/= witchcraft. There are many people who do practice magic who would be and are highly offended if you call them witches. 
2. Not all traditions follow the same rules. Your tradition may have rules others do not. 
3. It is a matter of respect to afford people titles that they have earned within their traditions. It is also a matter of respect to refer to people in the way they wish to be referred to. If a spaewife doesn’t want to be called a witch because within her tradition she is not a witch...you don’t call her a witch just because your tradition would call what she does witchcraft. Likewise, my tradition is very strict on who can be called a witch. However, if a Wiccan calls themselves a witch and is a witch in their tradition, I will refer to them that way. It doesn’t matter if she is not what my tradition would call a witch. 
Basic fucking respect people. My dad is a 65 year old man who has been pacted for decades. He’s been practicing longer than that woman was born. You do not get to tell someone else that they are not something just because your tradition has different rules.
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proserpinaem · 2 years
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"Spaewife"
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singofsolace · 4 years
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I really hope they don't go down the "fortune telling gypsy" route in Part 3. I don't think I could deal with another stereotypical floaty, mysterious, gypsy spaewife on my screen. I do think some Travellers have something like these gifts - I have some freaky stuff going on sometimes, and my mother, my great-aunt and some of my cousins are the same - but pleeeeaaase don't depict us with that old stereotype!
I am completely on the same page as you! I’m worried that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and his team will turn Mambo Marie into a stereotype. Instead of doing research on Satanism, after all, he just made the witches in Greendale essentially Catholics-on-opposite-day, which is problematic on so many levels.
My greatest fear is that Marie LaFleur will be a one-dimensional stereotype of the “Jamaican Voodoo Witch,” and that as a result, the tension she has with Zelda in the beginning will come off as having racial undertones instead of religious ones...and that just makes me so viscerally uncomfortable that I don’t really want to think about it.
I can hold onto the hope that neither Skye Marshall nor Miranda Otto would stand for that... but there’s only so much control they have over the scripts.
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referent · 4 years
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Laura never became as clever with the birds as Mr. Saunter. But when she had overcome her nervousness she managed them well enough to give her a great deal of pleasure. They nestled against her, held fast in the crook of her arm, while her fingers probed among the soft feathers and rigid quills of their breasts. She liked to feel their acquiescence, their dependence upon her. She felt wise and potent. She remembered the henwife in the fairy-tales, she understood now why kings and queens resorted to the henwife in their difficulties. The henwife held their destinies in the crook of her arm, and hatched the future in her apron. She was sister to the spaewife, and close cousin to the witch, but she practised her art under cover of henwifery; she was not, like her sister and her cousin, a professional.
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman (1926)
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honestsycrets · 5 years
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Eddic [Mythology of All Races]: Magic
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A/N: More things I want to keep from this book.
Divination, prophecy and magic common, but there is lawful and unlawful magic during these times.
Runes
Spjall, galdr, ljodh are also called runes. However runes are engraving and coloured with blood such as in Havamal.
Runes thou shalt find, and fateful signs,
Most powerful signs, most mighty signs,
By the mighty poet Odin coloured, by the high gods made,
By the chief of the gods carved.
Run meaning ‘a mystery’ or ‘mysterious knowledge’ but also alphabetic value.
Some runes not ordinary!
Must have a ritual to give power to them such as in Havamal where there were invocation, offering and methods of slaughtering the victim.
Can not be used unless you know their meaning, do not be ignorant.
Runes had a name representing a particular object in which good or evil magic was made. To produce a magical result, you must know the power of each. Runes might be scraped off and steeped in mead then cast far away.
Sigrdrifa taught runes to Sigurd in the Eddas--  victory, ale, birth, wave, branch, speech and thought runes. In Rigsthula, Rig taught them to the first earl and so forth for life and everlasting runes.
Some runes are for the gods, elves, Vanir and men.
“There are beech, birth and ale runes and the excellent magic runes for him who knows them rightly and reads truly: they will benefit until the gods perish.”
Odin
Runes were spoken and declared in the hall of Odin, advice given to Loddfafnir.
Runes are ascribed to the gods-- Odin came in possession of them.
“He wrote them for the gods, as Dainn for elves, Dvalin for dwarfs, and Alsvith for giants.”
Carved and coloured before speaking on the man on the gallow before touching Gerd with runes which caused a frenzy in her.
Some Effects
Runes were carved on a cup to destroy a poison.
Could be cut under a dead man’s tongue to make him speak.
Societal
Victory written on sword hilt and other parts of sword, the name of Tyr being uttered twice.
Ale-runes which the wife of another will not betray a man’s trust must be written on the drinking horn and back of the hand with the sign Naudr being written on the nail.
Birth runes to relieve pain of childbirth should be written on palm of hand and joints-- call the Disir to help.
Scandinavian runes found in graves: bones of a weasel, teeth of a horse, claws, vertebrae of a snake
Seidr
Ynlinga-saga: Origins to Freyja of harmful and at times protective magic.
Both Odin and Gullveig practice it according to Loki.
Seidhmadhr: male magician.
Seidhkona: female magician.
A special seat and staff necessary.
Magic songs sung.
Could kill, caust tempests or create delusions.
Souls could be cast out of her body while remaining on the seat. If the soul was wounded or killed, the witch would show similar wounds or die.
Volva and Spakona
Prophetess and spaewife are soothsayers that practice divination although they can use seidr.
Volva travel the land especially during winter nights when spirits were about. She would be well cared for as a guest.
Uti-Seta: Power gained by sitting out for many nights and the dead or others give revelation to the Volva.
Even dead, the volva can give her knowledge such as with Odin and the dead Volva regarding Balder in the Voluspa.
Aeral flight of Witches and Sorcerers
Myrkrida (Dark Rider) and Kveldrida (Night Rider)
Performed with a gandr or gandreid-- staff.
The Tunnrida sat on roof tops or hedges of a home to destroy it, rode and sported in the air after shape shifting. Charms may be used to discomfit the house riders below. Usually made the soul wander about.
A tenth I know when House-riders
In flight sweep through the air;
Ican so work that they wander
Bereft of their own form
Unable to find their way home.
Witches, troll-women or demoniac beings rode a wolf with snakes (troll women’s steed) or (the dusky stallion on which the Night-rider fareth)
Witches
Cattle with diseased spine were troll ridden and witches might cause this.
Haegtessan gescot: invisible arrow of Anglo-Saxon charms.
Harm crops and cause tempest.
Could take away warrior’s courage and blunt weapons.
“Icelandic and Norwegian laws condemn these different practices, including the use of runes and spells, and one of these laws speaks of the troll-woman who, if proved guilty of riding a man or his servants, was fined three marks.”
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