#scottish customs

[blairstales]

Scottish Folklore: Salt and Sin Eaters 🧂💀

Customs that use salt for protection or purification are almost found world-wide, and that includes Scotland. It was so seriously thought of, that salt(sometimes in a chamberpot) was a necessary wedding gift, and salt was to be the first possession that was moved into a new house.

“At a ‘flitting,’ the first thing moved into the new house was commonly the salt-box, and salt was catered ‘for luck.’ again, in St. Kilda, when the cattle were moved from one pasture to another, they were sained with salt, fire, and water.” “The Silver Bough: Volume 1”  by F. Marian McNeill (1957-1968)

One of the reasons salt was so relied upon was it’s protective possibilities against fairies. For example, some fairies would not except gifts of food if they had salt (though others would), and thrown salt could cleanse an area as an offering.

“Till quite lately, fishing on the Tweed was believed to be influenced by the fairies of the river. Salt was thrown into the water, and sprinkled on the nets to insure a plentiful catch of fish. This was really the offering of a sacrifice to the river-spirits.” “Folklore Of Scottish Lochs And Springs” by MacKinlay, James M (1893)

It is common for fairies to share an association with the dead, and the folklore of salt is yet another example of a saining item that could be used for either.

DISHALOOF, n. 1. “A former practice, in blessing a corpse, of the attendants putting their hands in the three empty dishes placed on the hearth near the body, and repeating the rhyme of saining, beginning thus: — ‘Thrice the torchie, thrice the saltie, Thrice the dishes toom for loffie’” Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B., obs.

After the body of a dead person was properly cared for, a plate of salt was often placed upon the dead persons chest. It was this salt that Sin-eaters would partake in.

Sin-eaters were people who were paid to take in the sin of the dead into themselves(hence, sin-eating) and therefore clearing the dead person of sin.

“Of the curious custom of “sin-eating”—that is, the placing of a piece of bread upon the salt by a recognized individual known as the sin-eater, who, for money reward, at the same time partook of it, thereby, as it was believed, absorbing to himself all the sins of the deceased—there is little to be gleaned in this district.” “Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland” by J. Maxwell Wood (1911)

Since those sin-eaters would be taking in the sins, they were seen as having be “full of sin,” and would be shunned by society.

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Need more quotes and sources? I have some extra ones on my website post(at the bottom).

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[joshsindigostreak]

Finally got my hands on this one 🥰

#Scottish customs #Sheila livingstone

[world4]

Stirling Castle, Scotland.

The south-west aspect of Stirling Castle in the Year 1778. Stirling Castle is situated above the old town of Stirling on Castle Hill, a steeply rising hill of volcanic origin. The castle played an important role in Scotland’s history due to its strategic location on the River Forth and was besieged or attacked at least sixteen times. Three battles took place in the immediate vicinity and a…

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#History of England. #Landscape #Scottish customs #Thomas Hearne #Topography

[blackswaneuroparedux]

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

#hitchcock #alfred hitchcock #quote #bagpipes #music #highlands #scotland #scottish #tradition #heritage #custom #femme #beauty #nature #culture #tartan

[call-me-pup2]

#only fans #selling videos #custom content #selling pic #kik #alternative girl #egirl #content #ns/fw sub #scottish #ns/fw #bd/sm community #puppy girl

[zuppizup]

I thought writing Cold Feet would purge me of my Rayllum wedding/Katolis royalty head canons... alas, it appears it had not...

#i just dont think its that traditional #Sarai married Harrow #a soldier with a child #his father was clearly alive and well #doesn’t seem like they're that stuffy #never mind Rayla doesnt seem concerned by human royal customs #or titles in general #beyond the draconic royal family #and even then she's not OOT #she appeared to give exactly zero shits for Sunfire royal customs #dunno... just some thoughts #and also like... the character with the Scottish accent/Celtic aesthetic not caring for monarchy? #oh yes please #the dragon prince #tdp #rayla #rayllum #callum

[trenchcroats]

Ough 10 minutes and I'm on like a 10 hour flight home it's so late D:

#i wonder how many hours one been awake at this point #China's customs are so scary idkwhy #..the devil talks in scottish brogue..

[bruciewayne]

the single greatest defence for fanfiction writing outside of creating for the sake of art and passion and such is that now im in a stem university in a stem course and consistently my section has been the best written in a group report

#last group report i did like two weeks ago one guy started his section with 'the customer would like this cause it is helpful' #<- COPY AND FUKCING PASTED #bear in mind (🐻) im in 3rd year in the scottish system which is the 2nd year in the english system which is probably the 3rd year in the #american system #like its an honours year most people are 19-21 etc #it was genuinely inexcusable

[roxaclock]

Blue Donald and Douglas Customs

I really should've waited to post these here after I get their nameplates and their coats sealed since some of the paint is unfortunately peeling off in flakes.

These two had their faces resculpted with milliput and were repainted with Tamiya Paints. The primer coat is Tamiya's white primer and the blue coat is TS-23 Light Blue. Additional paints include Apple Barrel Matte Country Grey, Yellow, Red Apple, Black, and Gloss White.

These were both made out of Plarail Donalds from the 90s due to the older round logo tomy stamping on the chassis. Their faces are based on their appearance in Bowled Out, where the two are angry at a meeting around the turntable. I chose the angry faces as I wanted to add more alternative faces to the scottish twins.

I do have nameplates designed for them, I just have not printed them out due to troubles with my paper printer.

That last tag (#roxaclock customs) is moreso for me since I know for a fact I am going to have a very hard time keeping up with all of these posts, especially the custom posts as I know for a FACT they will get drowned under a bunch of reblogs eventually.

#ttte douglas #ttte donald #ttte #thomas the tank engine #trackmaster #tomy #plarail #thomas and friends #plarail thomas #donald the scottish twin #douglas the scottish twin #tamiya #customized #custom #customization #trains #thomas & friends #thomas the tank engine and friends #milliput #nwr #north western railway #rws #the railway series #Roxaclock customs

[thecorpselight]

A Charm for a Dying Person The mist the dew; The dew the mist, The mist the dew In the eye of my love In the eye of my love Thou who didst open the young eye, Close it tonight in the sleep of death, In the sleep of death. "This touching death croon from the isle of Eigg in Scotland was chanted over a dying person. The croon would be chanted by the soul-friend or a village elder who would sometimes be accompanied by helpers. Until recently, it was an important and common practice to chant over dying villagers to ensure their safe journey to an afterlife." The British Book of Charms & Spells. Graham King.

#folklore #folk tradition #scottish folklore #death folklore #death customs

[blairstales]

Scottish Folklore of Cursed “Dolls”

There is a rarely talked about (though seemingly uncommon) historical custom in Scotland that will likely sound a lot like the exaggerated “voodoo dolls” (which, despite the name, are not prominent in Haitian Vodou or Louisiana Voodoo) of media.

The Scottish version is a doll that is a form of sympathetic magic(a magic category invented by Scottish folklorist James George Frazer).

Sympathetic magic has two varieties; one of which requires similarities, and the other requires contact or “contagion.”

“The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not.” “The Golden Bough” by James George Frazer(1878)

The dolls of this topic are a form of imitation type sympathetic magic. For these, the dolls were crafted with ill-intent in the likeness of the person you wanted to curse, then what was done to the doll was thought to harm who it was made to look like.

While they are called dolls, they are not really what you might expect a child to have. Instead, they are sculpted of clay but not cured in an oven.

“An image of the victim was made of clay, and because it had a certain resemblance to him (likeness denoting real connection), it was believed that whatever was done to the image would produce a similar effect on the person whom it represented. “ “The misty isle of Skye : Its scenery, It’s people, Its story” by Eneas Mackay, Stirling, (1927)

It could be stuck with pins and needles to cause aches and pains, or you could do far worse. For example, if you put the doll into a stream, as the clay broke up in the water, so was said to gradually happen to the targets health.

“When any one wished evil to another he made a clay image of the person to be injured, and placed it in a stream with the head of the image against the current. It was believed that, as the clay was dissolved by the water, the health of the person represented would decline. The spell, however, would be broken if the image was discovered and removed from the stream. In the counties of Sutherland and Ross the practice survived till within the last few years.” “Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs” by James M. Mackinlay (1893)

It is perhaps no surprise that this was not a type of magic talked fondly about, and is instead classified in books as an evil act of black magic.

#scottish folklore #scottish customs #scottish magic #scottish #scotland #folklore #cursed doll #cursed dolls #magic #black magic #Sympathetic magic #folkmagic #folk magic

[ancestorsalive]

#Ancient Ways #Sacred Ways #Tis The Season #Yule #Yule log #Charring the Old Wife #Cailleach's Herbarium #Scottish winter folk customs #Wheel of the Year #Ancestors Alive! #What is Remembered Lives #Memory & Spirit of Place #Folkways #Customs #Traditions

[blackswaneuroparedux]

My heart lies in the land of my ancestors. Where the thistle grows on the heath.

- Scottish Proverb

#scottish #proverb #ancestors #tradition #customs #scotland #man #highlands #kilt #tartan #cemetry

[call-me-pup2]

Wanna maybe hang out and like cuddle or something?

#only fans #content #selling videos #custom content #selling pic #ahegeo #kik #selfie #altfashion #alternative girl #big tiddy goth gf #egirl #scottish

[treecakes]

i love language learning except i have the attention span of a toddler so i’ve dappled in several languages but can only really speak two (eng and german) 😭

#i’ve tried spanish french irish romanian ukrainian bulgarian norwegian finnish mandarin japanese icelandic dutch scottish…. 😭 #also polish. obviously. 😭 except that’s a mix of me studying and also knowing a bit through family #spanish is my third best. i know just enough to get me through customer service interactions 😭

[virtual-hug]

some big drama going down in the Instagram weed community rn 👀🍿

#aka scottish witch scamming All Of Her Customers the past month #including me :)))