#household spirit

[briefbestiary]

The image of the "winged imp with laughter that causes insanity" skrzak that was spread in the English-speaking community is false. That description was directly taken, nearly word-for-word, from the appendix bestiary of "City of the Gods - Starybogow", a fantasy fiction anthology, and posted on Wikipedia. From May 2017 to July 2022 said description was being frequently sourced, and despite clear discrepancies, this was not discovered until August 2022.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #folklore #legend #myth #mythology #monster #household spirit #household demon #polish folklore #polish legend #wendish folklore #wendish legend #skrzak #skshak #slavic folklore

[sashayed]

The other day on my walk I saw a mockingbird diving and wheeling over and over into a little bush, very agitated. Eventually I saw there was a big crow in among the bush twigs, presumably trying to get at what must be her nest. Feeling it my duty as the human observer to side with the smaller bird/distressed mom on this I strode over and said to the crow "Hey bud, go eat something else." The crow flapped off, seeming peeved, and the mockingbird flew after it and did not thank me. I walked home feeling virtuous but also a little doubtful, because I love crows, and the world of eating and being eaten is not congruent with human morality. Plus a lot of the time mockingbirds are just being dicks. I didn't actually even see a nest. Maybe that crow was just hiding in the bushes from being fucking hassled. In general I wondered if it had been my place to take sides.

Anyway so the last couple of days, a bunch of crows have been gathering closer and closer to my apartment. They don't do anything, they just peer in the window and make the cats frantic. "It was one nest," I told them. "There's all kinds of stuff to eat in those woods. There's berries and bugs. You had to follow me home about this?" Crows didn't say shit. Just ruffled at me and looked at the cats in a disdainful, snacky way.

Finally I said aloud "Crow, I'm very sorry I got high and mighty with you about that mockingbird. I didn't even see you eating any eggs, and it was none of my business." I put out some seeds and peanuts, and now they have all left. They're not even eating the peanuts! They just wanted an apology.

#fucking crows!! i love them. #anyway we're bringing back household rituals to appease offended nature spirits girls join me if u dare

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Late Night Talking

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#poorly drawn mdzs #MDZS #wei wuxian #lan wangji #This scene had massive 'we are the only two people still up at the sleepover' energy #thought let me set the record straight; wwx doesn't open up in the scene. He fully deflects #Nor does LWJ play with ants B*( #I wanted to merge the two scenes a bit that's all #My OG script was a bit funnier but it broke continuity so rip (i.e: wwx outright stated 'remember when YOU...' in reference to the ants) #also rip to lwj saying 'hey U up?' like he's texting his crush. I hope the spirit is still there #We all know lwj sticks to his 9pm bedtime no matter what #and wouldn't be traditionally texting on a cellphone #He wakes up at 4:30 am to go for a run #gets home at 5:30 to use the lan household computer to go on his shared google doc with wwx and comments 'are you still awake?' #cause lets me real. wwx might also keep a steady sleep schedule but at least he *can* pull an all-nighter #Can you imagine lwj at a sleepover? I admit to being the kid who went to bed and woke up 3-4 hours before the others #you either get fed up and wake someone else up for enrichment - or plan ahead to bring a book - or Walk Home #I fully missed out on all that deep heart to heart stuff. I usually was the one to go 'guysssss we are gonna get in troubleeee go to sleep' #wait this is too much sleepover talk I need to talk about wwx in the last panel. It's a mix of panic and pride. #He's just at the beginning of realizing this guy has changed a lot in 13 years #gonna be a while before more comic pages get posted but they're ready to go in the queue! #(I'm still posting other stuff daily though!)

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Protective household demons in Polish folklore

Belief in protective household demons was in all likeliness widespread among Slavic peoples from time immemorial. We do not know how those demonic creatures were imagined and what forms of cult were associated with them in the distant past, since the first sources on this subject we find in confessional literature of the late Middle Ages. In the XV-th century sermon fragment mentioned in previous chapters we find words of disapproval towards folk practice of „feeding” the protective spirits of the house called ubożęta (singular: ubożę).

”There are those who do not wash the dishes after dinner on Great Thursday and holy day, so as to feed the souls that they call vbosshe (ubożę) and others, believing stupidly that spirits need corporal things, when it is written that the Spirit does not have flesh or bones. Some purposefully leave the remains of dinner on their plates, to thus feed the souls or a certain demon that they call vbosshe, but this is completely ridiculous, because they often think, foolish and naive, that what they have left is food for the aforementioned vbesshe, since they care for it to attract good luck, but very often it is a dog that comes without them realizing and devours the remains.”

- Anonymous sermon, XVth century Poland, translation from „Sources of Slavic Pre-Christian Religion”, red. Álvarez-Pedrosa

The same problem was also touched on in two other works, the XVI-th century „Postępek prawa czartowskiego przeciw narodowi ludzkiemu” (roughly translates to „The Progress of Devilish Deeds Against the Human Nation”) and XVII-th century „Czarownica powołana” (roughly „The Witch Appointed”), whose authors were critical of the common practice of the housewives leaving a special, separate evening meal to the protective spirits of the household. P. Gilowski in his XVI-th century „Wykład katechizmu Kościoła krześcijańskiego z pism świętych” (roughly „Explaining the cathechism of Christian Church from holy scripture”) counted protective household spirits among satanic apparitions and wrote „… there are various sorts of devils, earthly skryatkowie (the modern word would be „skrzaty”), domestic ubożęta…”. According to B. Baranowski on the territory of central Poland in XVII-th and XVIII-th century „the belief in all sorts of protective deities remained exceptionally deep. Quite often they were some sorts of household spirits. (…) One was supposed to leave them a little bit of food in the corner of the hut or in the hall and they would then ensure good luck and wealth of the house. Other creatures of this sort were said to live in barns. For this reason one of the boards in the roof of the barn would be left loose, without nails or a small hole would be made in it, and thus it was ensured that the spirit can enter the barn at will.”

The aforementioned ubożeta, skrzaty and other related protective house spirits, similarly to atmospheric and natural demonology, were included in the family of devilish beings during the Counter-Reformation. On this basis, completely new images of domestic demons were formed, such as the diabeł-latawiec (a character combining elements of an atmospheric demon, a protective household spirit and the devil) or a diabeł-chowaniec (devil-familiar). Both of these beings were credited with activities aimed at securing abundance and prosperity on farms. As a consequence, this led to the formation in the minds of the rural people of the dual nature of devilish beings, that could be either dangerous and harmful or good and caring. The latter group included, among others, guardian house demons.

Concurrently, in the second half of XVIII-th century Catholic clergy started their own varied efforts towards broader dissemination and popularization (especially in rural areas and small towns) of the cult of angelic beings in particular guardian angels. To the latter they would assign very specific protective functions which were supposed to result in complete erasure of traditional beliefs in household spirits that were still present in the popular consciousness. The Church doctrine of that time stated that every person has a God-assigned guardian angel whose task is to guard their charge from all kinds of dangers and temptations. An interesting aspect of that protection was the constant war guardian angels and devils would wage over the salvation of human soul. This concept also found it’s reflection in the developing folklore, for example in an eschatalogical piece „Przemowa Diabła i Anioła przy łożu Umierającego” (translates to: The Speech of a Devil and an Angel by the bed of a Dying Man).

- Polska demonologia ludowa by Leonard Pełka, amateur translation by Zarya-Zaryanitsa

#polish folklore #slavic folklore #slavic paganism #household spirits

[argetcross]

wasting beats of this heart of mine by ArgetCross

Chapter 29: The Gods of the Dead

The high-vaulted halls of the House were quiet when Megaera returned from her shift. She cast a glance towards the throne, and, upon seeing it empty, sighed. Lord Hades had returned a few times since their last all-hands meeting, but rarely for long, and the paperwork on his desk had piled up into a small mountain. Nyx was not in her usual niche as well and, with its two pillars gone, the House had sunken into a languorous and subdued mood.  After tossing a doleful Cerberus a new bone, Megaera headed towards the entrance of the hall. 

Read it here on AO3!

#hades game #megaera #thanatos #hades #thanzag #wasting beats of this heart of mine #my fic #my work #zagreus becomes mortal au #zagreus #he's mostly here in spirit this chapter #no one has a good time in this chapter except me (the author) #please enjoy the most dysfunctional household #also please enjoy my shade against orestes #blink and you'll miss it but it brings me delight #arget updating twice in one month? insane #it's true i'm losing my mind

[drberfarious]

HALLOWEEN. MUST. BEAT. CHRISTMAS.

#screw yall and your holiday spirit #we only like halloween in this household #tag every christmas post with halloween instead of christmas #halloween #trending

[bibliosims]

free spirits.

#they explore each other’s bodies :) #mine #cas #townie makeovers #*maaike haas #*ulrike faust #*free spirits household #*windenburg

[witchofthesouls]

Deliciously fucked up way for Team Prime to find out about the supernatural: Have a fae show up in one of the kid's homes. False Artifact preying on Raf's baby/toddler siblings, a Pooka replacing the pet dog at Miko's, or a Kobold decides Jack's place is nice enough to stay. The kids have a feeling something is up but the bots think it's just nothing.

Until they find an old school packet with info that eeriely matches the signs in their respective home. Miko's Pooka Hunting goes a bit awry so Bulkhead ends up seeing her get chased outside the house by something that definitely isn't a dog. Raf barely got one sibling away from being eaten by a False Artifact. Arcee might've damaged the house to grab Jack as he accidentally spook a Kobold.

Cue concerned bot noises upon seeing the packets. I don't think they like the idea of children eating fae in their charges' homes.

Ahhh, this went in a different direction.

Warning: off-screen character death (age-related and car accident), dubcon/noncon body modifications, and underage drinking

Now the Darby household does have a Kobold. It's been following them (and the lineage) for a very long time. Generation after generation, parent to child as the unspoken agreement is held with family traditions, superstitions, and practices that have been ingrained into family lore.

If there's one thing June absolutely misses about her ex-husband, it's his family. While June hadn't cut ties with her own blood, her own kin (even her own parents) never spent time in one place for too long. They welcomed into their home. Treated her well with food and warmth and taught her their traditions as she married a son of theirs.

It's an unfortunate fact of life that time comes for all. Oma survived years of hardship by war and reconstruction, without her beloved husband, and the deaths of her own dwindling family, she died peacefully in her sleep during a visit to see a toddling Jack. His parents, though...

When the call came that his parents were killed in a massive pile-up on the freeway, their lives came crashing down.

Grief manifests in so many ways. June cherishes what was left behind. She uses the quilts and recipes and leaves out a portion of dinner for the 'spirit of the hearth.' Her husband, however, drowned himself inside the hospital; unable to come home and look at the reminders, refusing to do anything with it.

Their divorce comes and it's... amicable. The man who was once her husband stares back with a frozen heart, shrouded by his own grief, and he offers to leave them the house as well. June declines and searches for warmer shadows.

The house is sold. June and Jack move on, and the Kobold follows them.

June is a Darby child, and her son follows her as well. Memories are cherished by them. (Faithfully. Hungrily.) And June dutifully attends to her once-husband's family's traditions: leaving dusty corners, a few dirty plates in the sink, grease on the stove, and many, little things that keep the home running. He may try to escape them, but she won't deny their son the same happiness and joy in it.

Jack was too young to remember his family's faces outside of photos and portraits, but there is a lullaby that follows his dreams, crooning over his head and chasing away his nightmares.

For the longest time, he thought the extra dinner plate was for Oma because it's the same dishes and sweets she once ate, even to this day. Jack was quick to hunt for tidbits about them, and always attributed missing left shoes, misplaced kitchen pens, tipping empty glasses during holidays, and creaking floorboards at night as her mischief. I'm still here, it said. I won't leave.

Jack grew up with the same quilts that consumed him, produce that never spoils (the milk might, but it's easy to make cheese from sour milk), and all the little things that made a house a cozy home.

Much like her own family, June and Jack moved frequently as well. Pests were never a problem for them, nor were mold or leaks. They were strangely lucky in that regard.

The Esquivel home does have Others in their vicinity. It's due to the unknown actions of their youngest member. One day when Raf was far younger and playing hide-and-seek with his siblings and neighborhood kids, Raf came across a pitiful, little creature in a drying puddle.

It flopped and croaked, squirming and clawing at the edges of the barely wet concrete of the patio. Scales flaking in dull, resplendent hues, and its side bleeding a sluggish black ooze. It wasn't a fish. Fish had no arms or torsos, nor had his older brother's books on marine life had anything about fish with two tails. Or fish that scream hard enough to make his nose bleed and cry oily marbles that plink on the ground.

To this day, Raf doesn't know what compelled him to step closer but he did. He saw the strange eyes, blinded and pulsing with veins. Later he'll find out about nictitating membranes, but at the moment it was strange to see how a little, blind not-fish stared back at him, mewling something that skittered across his senses and he tasted blood at the back of his throat.

Mama Esquivel was livid over his son's wet jacket and then concerned when he showed the deep bite on his hand and how his nose continued to bleed.

The birdbath in their backyard does get visitors. Raf rises with the sun to watch strange fish-like creatures splash around the small fountain, singing beautifully to coax birds to eat them whole. His sisters think there's a hawk or an owl nearby that hunting down the smaller birds. Raf knows better. He leaves them lizards and newts, dead rats and mice from traps, and leftover meat and nopales that he can carefully sneak away. Much like corvids, they leave him those oily-slick marbles (pearls), carved sea glass that store whalesong, and beautifully intact shells that contain the noise of a howling tempest and the sea at its most furious.

He knows because they explained it to him. Safety, they said as Raf learns to invoke a flashflood and charm to remain inconspicuous and he understands.

"I wish I knew what you're saying to me," a boy told a small fae that was dropped by a red-tailed hawk, far away from any source of water to return home. Its laughter was the sounds of a babbling brook, the river rushing into the ocean's arms. It asked its savior what was the boon he wished for, and the child unknowingly answered. < Wish granted, little Mudman. > And it savagely bit his hand to share their blood for water touched everything and anything, and who else but the fae could bestow the gift of language of any tongue?

Just because Miko is far from Japan, that doesn't mean she doesn't have something attached to her. And of course, it's a cat.

At first, she thought a feral cat lost a match with a cactus or a porcupine and had recently escaped a trap based on all the pins and dragging tail, but not at all. Much to her amazement, it's fast on its paws. Far more agile and durable, she has seen the creature slash massive cacti and easily jump from the ground to rooftops.

The host family she stays at isn't as boring and straight-laced as she once thought. They do enjoy making homemade brews and other fermented goods. They allow the kids to sample it, but only on the weekends and after a good meal.

She gets a little information from her host family. It's a Catcus Cat - a mythical beast; something that isn't real.

Miko leaves a shallow bowl of her own efforts at making mead and other alcoholic beverages, and the Catcus Cat seems to take a liking to the fruitier and sweet drinks.

The Catcus Cat follows her to the Autobot base. Even when she was riding with Jack and Arcee, she was able to spy the beast racing alongside them in the sand, easily keeping pace.

It allows her to pet it occasionally. Purring as it keeps its spines flat and soft, still prickly but leaving no damage. But it prefers chasing games, so Miko cobbled a fishing rod with pieces of raw meat to play 'Fetch' and got a laser to watch it scramble up solid walls and scale cliffsides.

Unlike the Darby's Kobold and Raf's aquatic visitors, the Catcus Cat had interactions with the Autobots. Particularly Arcee and Bumblebee. They enjoy racing in the high-noon sun and dark empty roads at night. It comes along because very few can truly challenge them. And the Autobots think it's a baseline Earth animal. A charming one, even if its yowls are thundering.

Out of all the Autobots, it's Arcee that figured out something is off. Unlike Miko's inability to hide a new car and the Esquivel's already full garage, Arcee can fit comfortably in the Darby's garage. June even partitioned out an area for the Autobot to transform and scavenged large bean bags and thick body pillows as a makeshift bed.

June often works and Jack is either at Knockout Burger or the base after school, so Arcee has no idea how there are fresh meals, hot and ready on the stove as well as how the Pits her pillow nest is fluffed and straightened when there's no one at home!

Arcee thinks there's some sort of weird intruder in their house that likes being domestic, and it drives her nuts that June and Jack are completely nonchalant over the fact.

She's definitely not happy hearing it's been happening for over a decade, and no she doesn't believe it's the ghost of a dearly departed relative!

#ask #transformers #transformers prime #tfp #june darby #jack darby #raf esquivel #miko nakadai #arcee #magic #creature #fae #fantasy #minor character death #my writing #me and my way of explaining how the hell raf can understand bumblebee #arcee becomes that paranoid guy meme with the crazy board of potential hazards and strings #the darbys are very protective of their household spirit and so is the Kobold fond of them

[crsentfairy]

i do my lil dancey danceee

#ts4 cas #sims 4 #simblr #crsent.sims #free spirits household #sims makeover

[yourmypenguin]

Sides in Viet traditional clothes numero FOUR for Janus! Let's go!

I spent wayyyy too many months working on just this one thing and I'm so ashamed but I'm glad it turned out so nicely (look how golden his áo tấc is!!!) I will never give up on this series because someone just gotta put all of them in some kind of traditional clothings

and i know this one looks really really different from the last three, but i promise it's only gonna get more extra from here on out

Logan | Patton | Virgil

#janus is wearing a golden áo tấc and playing a đàn nguyệt (Moon lute) #Tín #his letter is which means something like trustworthy #oh hes beautiful if you cant tell i got a new brush and it made everything so easily done #oh! forgot! the tree behind him is hoa mai which is used for deco during lunar new years in the southern region #the flowers is said to ward off evil spirits from the household #myart #sander sides #thomas sanders #sander sides fanart #fan art #ts janus #janus sanders #thatsthat24 #tss fanart #tss deceit #tss janus

[kineticallyanywhere]

dndads avatar au thoughts

Beary: Earthbender Autumn: Firebender Henry: Firebender (so steeped in denial. s1 is him crawling out of the denial mud he's neck deep in) Mercedes: Waterbender Sparrow: Firebender Lark: Waterbender (no this does not stop the twins from impersonating each other. they are VERY good at it) Rebecca: Waterbender (uses it to make ice cream!) Hero: Firebender (prodigy; non-practicing; secretly the Avatar) Normal: Waterbender (kinda garbage at martial or artistic techniques, much more adept at spiritual/healing elements but doesn't have a teacher)

Willy: Waterbender (Bloodbender, obvs. Can pull freaky stuff with spirits) Ron: Waterbender (nonpracticing) Samantha: Earthbender (nonpracticing) Terry Jr.: Earthbender Veronica: Nonbender Scary: Her biodad is a (bad) firebender, but she's ever been able to do it, no matter how hard she tries. That is, until she met Willy. (she could Earthbend, like her monther's mother, if she tried.)

Darryl: Nonbender Carol: Earthbender Grant: Earthbender (pretends to be non-practicing) Marco: Nonbender Link: Nonbender? (might actually be an earthbender? it's strangely unclear)

(now idea how TF this family works in an au, but) Bill: Airbender (used for weed smoking) Glenn: Airbender (can make his voice carry so far) Jodie: Earthbender Morgan: Firebender Nick: Firebender Cassandra: Nonbender, air heritage Taylor: Airbender (he hopes he's the avatar, but he really just moves other elements around with wind)

The Likelies are all Spirits, including Hermie

#dndads #dndads 2 #dndads spoilers #aus #avatar aus #somethingsomething the oaks have a weird history with raava and vaatu #Lark has probably bloodbent at least once #but its very abnormal for him to do that #Willy does it on the USUAL #dont ask how him giving scary powers through spirits work we're handwaving for plot here #gotta let go of the powers she thinks she wants and embrace what she has #meanwhile in the oak household being the younger sibiling of the avatar is treating normal F I N E (lying) #also i like the idea of the wilsons being a family of brute forcing their way through issues and not even really needing bending for it #if anything bending in their family represents taking things to extremes #link being an earthbender wasn't something they knew when they adopted him #also link and scary both being earthbenders was not intentional but i like what it could do for them #for the wilson family earth bending is representing stubbornness #on the stampler side it's an opposite to Willy's waterbending #and also VERY much Scary's own stubbornness #fire in the oak family is that Anger #and a representation of a form of that Family Trauma being passed down #so Sparrow has it because he takes the most after Henry #with bursts that's he tries to put out afterwords #meanwhile Lark is processing things very differently from how Henry did #Lark's anger is much colder #icy... you might say #Normal meanwhile gets literal steam out the ears #adding to the 'is Lark Normal's dad' question was also not intentional but I am keeping it #anyway Taylor deserves to jump over tall people #ive been sick can you tell

[briefbestiary]

Despite the literal translation of its name being "chicken ghost", the Ma Gà is not the spirit of a chicken. Instead, they are named after their favorite food. Should they not be fed properly, the ghost will either enter a family member's body to demand food, or even cause general declines in the health of the family.

#BriefBestiary #bestiary #digital art #fantasy #folklore #legend #vietnamese folklore #vietnamese legend #ma gà #phi cày #ghost #household spirit #sealed jar #household guardian #unknown form #monster

[thenixkat]

I like how the tiny household dragon spirits are described as both good and bad. But like. Bringing wealth its why its good.

Pros of having a tiny dragon choose your home as a nest: You get acess to its collected gold and other hoarded materials and it wont care.

Cons of having a tiny dragon choose your home as a nest: You get blamed for your dragon terrorizing the neighborhood. Also, the dragon still does dragony things like setting shit on fire and your house is flammable.

#nix meows #dragons #household spirits

[kezzplayssims]

Ulrike Faust

Age 23 years old

She/they pronouns, lesbian.

They graduated from Britechester recently with a double degree in Fine Arts and Education. She works in the art school library and teaches art classes at the local primary school.

She had a bit of a dark childhood. It has made her a bit anti-social and she has a lot of trust issues.

They have been friends with Maaike since high school and she is the only person Ulrike trusts implicitly. They are not together romantically (yet) but they are overly comfortable with each other.

#Ulrike Faust #ts4 townies #ts4 #ts4 get together #ts4 create a sim #ts4 cas #ts4 lookbook #ts4 premades #windenburg #townie makeover #free spirits household #sorry for so many looks #Ulrike was so fun to makeover!

[dramoor]

“Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household.”

~Ephesians 2:18,19

(Art via journeyofredemption.com)

#Christian art #Scriptures #Lord Jesus Christ #Holy Spirit #God the Father #Holy Trinity #access to God #members of God's household #citizens of the Kingdom of God

[pollenallergie]

older!Tom Grant seems like the kinda guy who wouldn’t buy his own wifi router… He’d rather just bum off of his neighbour. Tom could absolutely afford to buy his own wifi set up, but he’d simply rather get wifi for free… even if that means having to deal with wifi that he gets locked out of every few months (until he manages to guess the new password correctly and get himself reconnected) and that drops him the minute he sets foot into the side of his house that’s furthest away from his neighbour’s place. He’s frugal to a fault (at least when it comes to actual household necessities… he spends much more frivolously on his hobbies and interests).

#in the spirit of being more interactive… #what are some other household essentials that tom would refuse to buy for himself??? #and how would he manage to either a) borrow/steal them from someone else or b) live without them entirely???? #older!tom grant #older!tom #tom grant x reader #tom grant