#lailoken

[ruth-westside]

One more Lailoken stand-in added to the collection.

Sometimes I worry that if SSO ever actually introduced mules to the game, they may wreck them. And then I remember how accidentally mule-like the TWHs are and I feel a bit better about the idea.

#star stable online #star stable #sso #my edits #lailoken

[a-mute-on-a-mule]

Some Lailoken practice.

#lailoken #mule #pose studies #star stable

[lailoken]

Dodman's Chain (Sold)

This is an example of a Traditional West Country domestic charm I’ve made from ethically sourced Snail Shells. While, historically, this particular form of talisman had no official title that I know of, I came to call it a Dodman’s Chain.

In the West Country, charms such as these were used to bless the home with prosperity and protection by drawing upon the potent virtues of the Snail, who has long been associated with luck, preservation, and the domestic abode.

The Dodman’s Chain pictured here was composed from 13 shells, which I lightly varnished with my homemade 'Wisefool's Glaze' (composed from Linseed Oil and various powerful arboreal resins) and then strung together on recycled leather cord, with a Benison worked into every knot. Finally, the entire implement was Hallowed and fumigated with an incense made from Dragon’s Blood, Sweet Gum Burrs, and Fern Dust.

I am currently selling this singular example of this talisman for $39 + Shipping, though I am going to be selling them on my website that is currently under construction too, should anyone find themselves interested in purchasing one later on (as well as ones made from 21 shells and 27 shells.) If you'd like to acquire a lovingly crafted Traditional Talisman like this, then please feel free to reach out to me through this blog!

#wending way wares #lailoken #dodman's chain #ritual implements #talisman #traditional withcraft #west country witchcraft #the snail #snail #dodman

[wiltedrot]

Some updated outfits for Lailoken, and Azimuth.

#sylvari #screenshot #gw2 #guild wars 2 #ooc post #Azimuth #Lailoken

[noctivague]

Testimonial for @lailoken

This is my second oracular request with this awesome reader. I requested the in depth reading as well as the scrying.

My question was a follow up on the first one and an inquiry about my current spiritual state, which I needed help about since things seemed so foggy and stagnant.

I was absolutely blown away when a goddess I've been thinking without understanding her importance showed up in scrying in clear images, without me mentioning her at all, meaning that my silly intuition wasn't so silly after all.

It pushed me to reconsider my practice entirely and sparked many questions that I am now eager to dive into.

There's no doubt that I'll be reading what they tokd me again and again because it is full of information that needs to be allowed to sink in.

I also want to point out that lailoken is really kind and empathetic and it feels like they genuinely want to help you on your path. I also appreciate being able to ask questions about this or that aspect of the reading to make sure I understood correctly.

Overall I will always go back to them for important matters and I highly recommend their services.

#testimonial #review #lailoken

[volchi]

Recently I had a very successful reading with @lailoken who wanted me to write a testimonial on how it went - this was the first reading I had with them and it was a very positive experience.

I had them do the scrying on the legitimacy of a spirit I was working with, which was difficult because it really doesn't want to be seen but they were able to get answers to the point that the exact image that the spirit showed me the night before appeared to them during the scrying session (blew my mind!) The worker was very skilled and gave me an honest view of the situation where I was very disoriented trying to sort it out myself, nothing was sugarcoated and the reading was very detailed - they laid out every image and explained its significance and then told me the conclusion they drew from it.

They were also very compassionate! All around nice person, great to talk to, very talented at what they do. Thank you so much for the reading!

#lailoken #testimonial

[windvexer]

do you have any advice on finding active people on here who aren't wiccan? so far i'm just seeing you and a handful of other big accounts

Tbh I don't really use Tumblr search features, I just hang out on the dashboard with my friends.

Here are some active people from my follow list who I'm pretty sure aren't Wiccan (but I could be wrong):

(I set it to no reblog, let me know if you're tagged and you don't prefer your name on this list)

@serpentandthreads

@stormwaterwitch

@snowy-equinox

@cottageshadowwitch

@cauldron-chatter

@battythewitch

@maddiviner

@will-o-the-witch

@powderandclay

@lailoken

@river-in-the-woods

@lazywitchling

@samwisethewitch

@crazycatsiren

@graveyarddirt / @msgraveyarddirt

@luc3

@zarya-zaryanitsa

@pagan-stitches

@wildwood-faun

@asksecularwitch

@stagkingswife

@elminx

@sewceress

@buddyblanc

@fernthewhimsical

@crimsonsongbird

@christowitch

@friend-crow

@orriculum

@teawiththegods

@pinkiewitchcraft

@afrocentric-divination

@fair-is-foul

@trollkatt

@coinandcandle

@jasper-pagan-witch

@satsuti

@rose-colored-tarot

@nightshade-storms

@teawitch

@mamaangiwine

@liminalwings

@cu-taibhseil

@neon-slime

(I got half way through the list and quit so yeah here you go)

#answered

[wintry-art]

Ruth and Lailoken for @ruth-westside ~

#SSO #Misc. Fanart Stuff #mule #i feel like Ruth and Lailo may as well be canon at this point #cannot name a more iconic duo tbh

[luc3]

Black Elderberry. [French Folks Traditions]

In the 19th century, the peasants of France still attributed magical properties to the Elderberry, and its wood was sometimes used to make sorcerer's staffs and divinatory wands.

In the legend, Judas, after having betrayed Christ, would have gone to hang himself from an Elderberry branch. Thus, it is said in Vienne, that the person who breaks an elderberry branch in the garden of his neighbors will betray this one in the year, even without wanting it and without knowing it.

It should also be noted that in certain regions, Elderberry served as a panacea : everything was good in Elderberry for healing, in the past. But that following the curse linked to Judas, its powers had been supposedly removed.

Protective Magic :

Côtes d'Armor : Elderberries are planted near houses to ward off evil spells and snakes. It is also used to protect livestock (diseases and evil spells) by placing a branch in the cows' litter.

Yonne : Pick up a branch of Elderberry on the passage of the Corpus-Christi procession and then place it in an apple tree, it'll protect it against caterpillars. (?!)

Lower Brittany, Côtes d'Armor : You should never hit a cow with an Elderberry branch, it will make it sick, or cause its milk to dry up. Same thing for pigs. Moreover, if you burn Elderberry wood, you risk preventing the hens from laying eggs.

Magical Medicine:

Côte d'Armor : It is said that the Dlderberry is a "doctor", because the fairies took refuge in the flowers to flee the world when it became too mean. (a special one for my dear @lailoken )

Vienne, Vaucluse : the patient who touches an Elderberry will get better in the next few days, and to cure fevers you have to slip his name and date of birth into a previously hollowed-out elderberry tree.

The feast of Saint John is (of course) favorable to the Elderberry, whose virtues it multiplies.

In the Gospel of the Cattails it is said that warts are cured by rubbing it with an Elder leaf on the eve of Saint John, a leaf which is then buried. As the leaf rots, the wart dries out.

In Upper Brittany, Elderflowers collected on Saint John's Day are used to make an herbal tea to treat sick eyes.

Witchcraft :

Jura : We know the story of a sorcerer who introduced a little excrement from the person or animal he wanted to bewitch into a hollowed-out elderberry stick. He then fixed this stick in running water while reciting a prayer. The victim had stomach aches as long as the water agitated the stick.

In addition, Collin de Plancy in his Dictionnaire Infernal reports that : "when one has received some curse from a sorcerer whom one does not know, one hangs one's habit from one ankle and strikes on it with an elderberry stick; all the blows will fall on the back of the guilty sorcerer, who will be forced to come, in all haste, to remove the spell."

I learned SO MUCH HERE (snakes / little neighbors / sick eyes) while I came confident and persuaded to find other things in these quotes... Thus I'll continue to thank and pay tribute by posting the work of J. Fournier on the subject. (Once translated.)

Pic 1 @incroyables-plantes ; pic 2-3 @lherbier-d-elsa

Quotes arranged by me from the Dictionnaire de la France Mystérieuse by MC Delmas.

Also @graveyarddirt, I know you have some and you'll like it Sis' <3

#Sambucus Nigra #Black Elderberry #Great Grand'Ma #Great Old One #mountain gods #<3 #diary #Them #PS: if we could commit suicide collectively concerning the tumblr layout thing? #French Folks Traditions

[mask131]

Arthurian myth: Merlin (1)

Loosely translated from the article "Merlin" of the Dictionary of literary myths, under the direction of Pierre Brunet.

The literary fortune of Merlin was often dependent of the Arthurian literature. However, through its various resonances, the character gained its own seduction and its own popularity that allowed him to return outside of a medieval setting, gaining the status of an autonomous literary myth. He was at first the prophet of the Briton revenge, the one who had initiated the Round Table and who had inspired the errant-knighthood. Through his unique position between good and evil (he is born of a devil and a virgin), between life and death (his paradoxical survival within a “prison of air” or his vault), he embodies in modern times the enigma of History and of the future. Finally, he is the enchanter: causing or suffering many metamorphoses, he is a mythical builder and engineer, and sometimes a warlock/sorcerer. Merlin stays one of the prime heroes of the world of magic.

I/ Origins

The name and the character of Merlin appear for the first time within two Latin-written works of the second quarter of the 12th century, by the Welsh cleric Geoffroy of Monmouth: the “Historia Regum Britanniae” (1136) and the “Vita Merlini” (1148).

Nothing allows us to claim that a character named Merlin (Myrddin in Welsh) existed before these works. The very name of Merlin might have been an invention of Geoffroy, based on the name of the city of Kaermyrddin (today’s Carmarthen). It is also possible that Geoffroy used the phonetic similarity between the city and a “Merlin(us)” which belonged to the Armorican tradition (or more largely the continental one). However, Geoffroy of Monmouth did not start out of nothing. In the middle of the 12th century, Robert of Torigny, library of the abbey of Bec, claimed that two Merlin existed: a Merlin Ambroise/Ambrose (Ambrosius Merlinus) and a Merlin Sylvestre/Sylvester (Merlinus Silvester). This opinion was renewed thirty years later by Giraud of Cambria. Thes two names seem to correspond to two different traditions that Geoffroy joined:

1) “Merlin Ambrose” designates a character of the 6th century named Ambrosius. Gildas (in his “De Excidio et conquest Britanniae) made him the descendant of a Roman consulate family. Nennius( “Historia Britonum” presented him as a child born without a father, and whose mother had sex with an incubus – a tradition maintained by posterior authors. Nennius also provided the motif of the child revealing to the king Guorthigirn (Vortigern) the existence of two underground dragons preventing the building of his citadel. Discovered by the agents of the king at Kaermyrddin, the young Ambrosius interpreted the battle of the monsters as the omen of the long battles between the Briton and the Saxon. When Geoffroy retells this scene, he explicitly identifies Merln to this Ambrosius (“Merlinus, qui et Ambrosius dicebatur”).

2) “Merlin Sylvester” appears mainly in the “Vita Merlini”, and he seems to be the heir of older Celtic traditions. These traditions, shared by both Scotland and Ireland, depict a prince who lost his sanity and ran away into the forest, living there a wild existence while gaining supernatural powers. In Scotland it is Lailoken, known through the “Life of saint Kentigern”: on the day of the battle of Arfderydd (located by the “Cambriae Annals” at 573), this character, companion of the king Rodarch, heard a celestial voice condemning him to only have interactions with wild beasts [Translator’s note: The expression in French here is unclear if it speaks of human interactions or having sex, and I unfortunately can’t check the original Life of saint Kentigern right now]. Several predictions were attributed to him, predictions that the “Vita Merlini” places within Merlin’s mouth. Another incarnation of the “Merlin Sylvester” can be find back as early as the 8th century: in Ireland, the legendary king Suibne, turned mad after the battle of Moira, lived in trees (from which he ended up flying away), and shared similar traits with Lailoken. Similarly, in the Armorique there was the prophet Guinglaff, known through a verse-work of the 15th century “Dialogue entre le Roi Arthur et Guinglaff”.

The link between Merlin and those “wild men” becomes even more apparent thanks to several Welsh poems bearing the name “Myrddin”. Three of them belong to the “Black book of Carmarthen” (Welsh manuscript of the end of the 12th century) : The Apple-Trees (Afallenau), the Songs of the Pigs (Hoianau) and the Dialogue between Merlin and Taliesin (Ymddiddan Myrddin a Thaliesin). If the prophetic passages of these texts cannot be older than the Normand invasion, several lines where the bard talks to the trees and animals of the Caledonian forest (especially his pet-boar), complaining about his loneliness and his sorrow, could be the remains of a poem between 850 and 1050, which could be the oldest record of the Merlin legend.

Despite these many obscure origins, it seems that even before the publication of the “Historia Regum Britanniae” Merlin had awakened a certain interest within Geoffroy’s entourage, since Geoffroy decides to publish in 1134, due to the demands of several people including the bishop of Lincoln, a fragment of an unfinished work of his: the “Prophetiae Merlini”. Inspired by the Books of the Sybil, by the Apocalypse and by the prophetic imagery of Celtic and Germanic tribes, these “Prophecies”, that Geoffroy claimed to have translated from the language of the Briton, is first a record of several events that happened in Great-Britain since the Saxon invasion until the reign of Henry the First. Then, they announce in an obscure fashion the revenge of the Briton, and a series of disasters prefacing the end of the world. This text was a huge success: until the end of the Middle-Ages, these “Prophecies” were commented and quoted as equals to the holy Christian books. Alain of Lille, the “Universal Doctor”, wrote a commentary of the Prophecies in seven books. Merlin, first the great prophet of Wales, then of Scotland, was adopted in the 14th century by the England, which completely forgot the anti-Saxon origins of the character, and took the habit of beginning almost every speech by quoting a Prophecy of Merlin.

The ”Historia Regum Britanniae”, after the story of the two underground dragons and the text of the Prophecies, attributes to Merlin the building of Stonehenge, in the memory of Briton princes treacherously killed. Finally, it tells of how the prophet gave to the king Uter Pendragon magical potions that gave him the appearance of the husband of the duchess Ingern. A trick that allow the birth of the future king Arthur. As early as this first work, Merlin appears at the same time as a prophet and a wizard: a character claims that no one can rival with him when it comes to predicting the future, or accomplish complex machinations (“sive in futuris dicendis, sive in operationibus machinandis).

The ”Vita Merlini”, told in verse, completes Merlin’s biography by telling adventures of a very different tonality. Seer and king in the south of Wales, Merlin became mad after a deadly battle, and lived in the woods like a wild beast. Only the music of a zither can appease him. Led to the court of king Rodarch, chained in order to be kept there, he proves his gift of second sight throughout several “guessing scenes”. Before returning to the woods, he agrees to letting his wife Guendoloena marry again. However, on the day of the wedding, he appears with a horde of wild beasts, riding a stag. Ripping one of the antlers of his ride, he uses it to break the head of Guendoloena’s new husband. The rest of the text depicts Merlin as being saved by his sister Ganieda: he performs a series of astronomical observations and makes prophecies about the future of Britain. His disciple Thelgesin (identified with the Welsh bard Taliesin), back from the Armorique, joins him and they talk lengthily about nature. Finally, Merlin regains his sanity thanks to the water of a stream that just appeared, but he refuses to rule again and stays faithful to the forest.

#merlin #arthuriana #merlin the enchanter #arthurian myth #arthurian literature #welsh mythology #myrddin

[stormcrow513]

Hekate Dog Blessing Ritual

Sorry on how long it took me to get this up guys,

So this here is the Hekate Dog Blessing Ritual I've been blogging about,

The New Moon happened to fall on the 17th during the afternoon, any time the New Moon falls in the afternoon I do my Hekate rites the night before, so this was done (Sun) July 16th 2023 around 11:30 PM

So I began this Rite as I do every New Moon, I started with a Ritual shower, cleanse off all the ick,

from there I proceed out the back door to the corner of my property where it connects to the property behind and to a small alley,

my own small crossroads

and the only place I can leave out a food offering,

I always put out dog food with whatever I'm offering Hekate this month,

-as I feel like Her Hounds should get a treat too-

I have been becoming increasingly attuned to Hekate recently and felt strongly compelled to toast Her a frozen waffle, served with a pat of butter and honey drizzled atop,

I use two tortillas as plates,

-something I read from someones blog, because your supposed to leave the plates and not take them back inside, so this way you don't end up with a giant stack of plates outside-

After saying my prayers while trying not to get mosquitoes in my mouth as they utterly swarmed me,

-The Way Of The Witch Is Truly Charmed Life-

I headed back inside,

After letting ma know I was back inside -she worries-

I head to my room and begin finishing my set up,

I'd gotten some of it done earlier,

Specifically I made the Petitions earlier, which was good planning on my part as I had a good few to do and my Petitions have evolved into little charms or talismans,

I got the idea from KitchenToad sometime ago, and made my own adjustments,

I start off with paper, one of these days I will be able to get all the paper cut to the same lengths alas yesterday was not that day,

From there I start with the dogs name I write it over and over across the paper,

Then I turn the page and across that I write what I want to bestow on the dog,

- those that had passed into the next life I scrawled Peace and Love across their names over and over,-

I finish with turning the page once again writing Hekate across all of it,

I then fold it in a way that creates a little poch, on the outside I wrote the dogs name and username of their human, to keep track,

Now from here I unfold the paper and I put a mix of crossroads dirt and tobacco into the center refolding it and sealing it with wax and a rose petal I kiss and place at the back

-I am not entirely sure why tobacco I was going to use Mugwort for both mine and Hekate's connection to it but, I don't know I HAD to use the tobacco,

-roses from my own rose bush-

-the crossroads dirt and tobacco are both connection to Hekate and offering, payment for the Blessings I'm asking of Her-

For the dogs who had passed I also added a penny,

I have always liked the idea of placing a coin with your loved one to make sure they will be able to buy their way across the River, I don't remember when I first heard of it but I always found it lovely, and while I don't believe there is any afterlife that would require such from animals I've started putting coins with my own animals when I bury them, so I felt it right to do the same here,

Setting up the Altar I brought Hekate from Her main Altar and sat with Her the Wolf card as Wolf is our beloved dogs Ancestor so I called on the Wolf as well for this blessing,

I placed my Rosary that I've been using in healing work

-@lailoken 's handy work-

I carefully stretched it out into a circle and then,

In the center I placed a candle with left over crossroads dirt and tobacco

-thought the dirt would keep the tobacco from lighting on fire int did not so note, use seperate dishes next time-

And then placed the Petitions within the Rosary circle,

I pressed the end of the Rosary the hagstone against Hekate's statue,

I set a Black moonstone next to the circle,

And last placed an Offering of Water and Frankincense on either side of Hekate,

From there I began by lighting three bay leaves and wafting the smoke about the Altar,

I called on Hekate, I called on the Wolf,

I asked them to Bless these dogs I spoke each name aloud I asked that those living dogs have good healthy, happy lives, that they have peace and comfort and are able to live good long lives with their people, and that their people always have enough to support them, with food and vet bills and such,

I asked for them to be protected from any harm this world has to offer, from malicious people, from the heat, from the cold, from fireworks and thunder, from cars,

And for those passed, I asked for them to be safe and at peace, for them to feel the Love their people feel for them and for Hekate to lay a hand of comfort upon the shoulders of those people who are grieving the loss of their dogs

I sang this song over them

Before I ended the Rite I asked for Hekate to come through into this world and Bless All Dogs, and to in Her facet of Brimo to set Her icy finger down the spin of those who intend harm to dogs that they are scared off,

I felt like I should record that part and I did so but apparently Tumblr can't handle a 7min video so,

#Hekataen witchcraft #Hekate #Dog Blessings #Hekataen Dog Blessings #Pagan #Paganism

[ruth-westside]

Might I interest thee in a new OC meme?

Build your character(s) in this here Hero Forge site and reblog to show them off. https:// www .heroforge. com/ [Remove the spaces]

You can make a free account so you don't lose your works. HF periodically adds new customization options so you can also update projects whenever you want.

Have a Medieval!Ruth and Lailoken to guide you on your missions.

#oc meme #hero forge #star stable online #star stable #ssoblr #this is mostly aimed at ssoblr obviously but anyone can do it <3

[a-mute-on-a-mule]

A sketchy stretchy boy in non-Jorvik Wild form.

Based on this post.

#lailoken #lost yet another sock #mule #star stable #my art

[lailoken]

Cantrip Powders (For Sale)

“An offering of five handmade Powders, meant for use as Craft Aids in occult operations such as candle dressing or spell sachets.

Each Cantrip Powder was carefully devised based on traditional occult wisdom and years of personal experimentation, then extensively tested for sorcerous efficacy, before finally being made available here, in hopes that they will be as helpful to other practitioners as they have been for me.

Each powder is composed from two-thirds Sifted Hearth Ash (a powerful craft material in its own right,) with the remaining third being constituted by a highly potent mix of other ground Craft materials (with different recipes employed for each powder.) Every batch is ritually enlivened and consecrated in an individualized Hallowing Rite, before being hand-bottled and labeled in 1 oz glass, cork-top bottles.

The Cantrip Powders offered include:

Shielding Powder — A powder empowered by the virtues of Crabbapple blossoms, Rose Thorns, Witch Burrs, and antique Red Brick Dust, meant for use in rites and rituals of protection.

Beckoning Powder — A powder empowered by the virtues of Mint Blosssoms, Orris Root, High John Root, and Fenugreek, meant for use in rites and rituals of attraction—whether it be for the drawing of love, luck, or money.

Ousting Powder — A powder empowered by the virtues of Stinging Nettle, Asafoetida, Wasp Nest, and Gun Powder, meant for use in rites and rituals of banishment and excision.

Conquering Powder — A powder empowered by the virtues of Calamus Root, Licorice Root, Master Root, and Devil's Shoelace, meant for use in rites and rituals of influence and coercion.

& Wisefool's Powder (SOLD OUT) — A powder empowered by the virtues of Juniper Seed, Mandrake Root, Lightning Struck Wood, and Meteoric filings, meant for use in the sorcerous augmentation of any magical working. (Mandrake root is highly poisonous; do not ingest or expose to open wounds.

All ingredients used were either hand-grown, hand-foraged, or otherwise ethically sourced.”

Anyone interested in purchasing one or more of these Cantrip Powders may do so for $18 a piece on my shop: ☆

#cantrip powders #wending wares #powders #craft powders #conjure powders #magical tools #witchcraft tools #ritual implements #wending way #lailoken

[musingmelsuinesmelancholy]

1, 11, and 21 for the ask game

1) a traditional witch, I’m hesitant to use the term “folk witch” as I haven’t grown up in a family/society with strong folk traditions even though I do practice folk magic. Idk, maybe I do fit the label 🤷

11) astrology! It fascinates me how people, like Sasha Ravitch, can see so much in the stars.

21) @liminalblessings @birch-bark-scribbles @windvexer @graveyarddirt @empyrealhesper @songsofbloodandwater @tyetknot @lailoken @jakattax @jbird-the-manwich @friend-crow @elminx @blackthornwren @spiritscraft @etamina-amata @banefolk @southerncunning I’m sure forgetting others but yea! I dig these blogs

Thanks for asking!

#let ask culture live again #ask #ask game

[vacantwoodsenthusiast]

Spent the eclipse drawing cards and spending time with my deities. The new Winter Mother prayer beads from @lailoken go beautifully with the custom Celtic Faith beads I had commissioned from Lucien about a year and a half ago!

#folk magic #eclipse #solar eclipse #prayer beads #paganism #celtic paganism #scottish witchcraft #oracle cards #tarot deck