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hoekami · 2 years

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✨2222✨

To celebrate me reaching 2,222 followers, I’m doing a give away🥰

[“Flora and Fauna of Africa” Oracle Deck. The “Flora and Fauna of Africa” Oracle Deck by Jessi Jumangi features over 100 species of plant and animal life. Some you may be familiar with, and others rare or extinct. Each card features a plant and spirit animal, along with messages and affirmations of spiritual guidance. This oracle deck provides clarity and perspective on your journey to spiritual awakening. Cards are 3.5 inch, black core linen M31 casino quality card stock with smooth MPC finish]

This Oracle Deck is stunning. The illustrations, the feel of the cards, it’s very top quality. This is a Deck centered around the experience of Black people across the Diaspora; it has been made clear in Jumangi’s works and statements. I’ve handled them a few times, so they’re gently used. I will be cleansing them with eucalyptus smoke before sending them off.

I’m so thankful that y’all have stuck around to witness bits and pieces of my spiritual journey. Previously I worked with tools, such as this lovely oracle deck, to help me understand messages from my Ancestors and the Divine. Lately, these methods don’t resonate with me as much. That’s the wonderful thing about growth though, now they’ll have a new home and someone new to guide💙

Give Away Guidelines

You must be following highlyfavoredhunie (new followers welcome ofc) and reblog this post for one entry

Reblog an original post of mine that you like (from my top posts, my tagged posts. heres my archive) for a second entry

No minors please. This is open to people of the African and Black Diaspora. This is not up for discussion.

The give away will be open from July 21, 2022 until August 13, 2022 EST

The winner will be picked on August 14, 2022 EST and be given two days to respond.

Must be living in the US (I can’t ship internationally, I’m so sorry😞)

Feel free to dm me for questions~

#2222 #the flora and fauna of africa orcale deck #jessi jumangi #orcale deck #black spirituality #african spirituality #african american spirituality #black diaspora #african diaspora #black witches #witches of color #hoodoo #animal spirit #plant spirit #give away #leo season

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postcard-from-the-past · 10 months

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"Witch doctor" from West Africa

French vintage postcard, photographed by Fortier

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ryanazayku · 7 months

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New moon in Virgo ritual lead by @everyday_magic11 on IG

#amazigh #indigenous #tunisia #african #indigenous tag #north africa #tunis #imazighen #native people #witch #witchcraft #brujasofinstagram #brujas of tumblr #bruja #brujeria #brujería

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baddhistory · 11 months

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What Is This, Anyway?

A youtube channel! Well, specifically, it's the blog of a youtube channel that I'm creating for the specific purpose of putting some good, engaging, actually-fucking-cited history video essays out there.

See, it occurred to me a while ago that maybe, just maybe, all the American zoomers and millennials going around saying things like "I feel like my history education was severely lacking, because in 2020, all the sudden all these protests were referencing historical events that I'd never even heard of, and I really want to know more about history," might actually want to know more about history. And that maybe, just maybe, the reason people weren't engaging with history had less to do with the idea we've somehow been sold that it's Inherently Boring and more to do with lack of access.

The problem is, when I looked around the internet at accessible "history" on platforms like podcasts, TikTok, and Youtube (and, frankly, Tumblr), there were ~4 categories:

Well-researched, accurate history, but boring as fuck*

Pretty well-researched, but lacking citations, context, and/or using outdated, incorrect analysis**

One-off videos, which then become part of the discourse because they sound plausible - sometimes true, usually partly true, partly hyperbole or incorrect extrapolation.

Complete Lies, Now With A Grain Of Truth! - hot takes on history by people who are either conspiracy theorists, propagandists, lying grifters, or all three***

But I am a historian. I work with a lot of brilliant, entertaining, thoughtful, ethical, careful historians who have a lot of interesting things to say, and whose work, I think, would land incredibly well with people who are looking online for history they never got taught in school. It's just that our discipline doesn't value digital projects, for some reason, and that a lot of historians are too busy, and that a lot of us are not great with technology.

And but so anyway, I'm good at public speaking****, know my way around modern technology pretty well, care a lot about history and particularly the way we teach and learn it, and get really irritated both by historians who shrug and say "Well, guess people don't care about history anymore," instead of "How can we reach out to people who want to learn history," and by, well, the bad history I see masquerading as good history across the web.

Because people who want to learn deserve better!

[it has only just occurred to me that putting footnotes in the tags means they will not show up in reblogs. future footnotes will be behind a readmore cut.]

#meta post #faq #youtube link #*i'm not going to give an example here because these are my soon-to-be colleagues and i don't want to hurt their feelings #**crash course; you're wrong about #***these range from Hot Takes to Insane Diatribes to Plausible-sounding But Mostly-untrue essays #for example: They Started Killing Witches to Destroy Successful Female Breweries... or White People Were in South Africa First. etc.#****this was physically difficult to type. i forced myself to delete 'pretty good' and just say 'good'. i cast thee OUT impostor syndrome!

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wishbone-drying · 6 months

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the water’s so bluee

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ladyprince202 · 2 years

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So… I had the strangest dream. Not gonna get all deep into interpreting my dreams…

But… I decided to do a Tarot reading for y’all!!!

(Btw thank you for the previous likes & repost on my last reading… i been feeling under the weather. But I’m back!)

Pick Your Tarot Reading of the Afternoon ✨

Please pick one of these, as the message will convey to you personally. (It has been shuffled and laid out with crystals and/or cowrie shells)

Now that you’ve picked the number✨

Card #1 : (Reverse) Cups 7 - A lost sense of wonder and awe. Your creativity and imagination 💭becomes your saving grace. You wanna do so many things in your life which eventually you procrastinate. TIPS: Sometimes your mind can imagine great things.. but it can also kill so much time in not doing anything. ⏱Time is ticking⏳… you are not getting any younger, what are you waiting for? Try to put as much time in doing something as much as you think .🤔💭 Since there’s 12 months in a year, it takes 30 days to form a habit. Try to form a consistent plan for 30 days and see if anything change in your life. Was what you were thinking about it a great idea to do? Or was the idea was just good to think about and not do it? I suggest you do things you LOVE to do… that way it’ll be worth it doing something about it.🤍✨

Card #2: (Reverse) Malika Swords - Absentminded. Forgetful. You may not think things through and are subject to the influence of others’ opinions. A widow. Divorcee. Broken Ties. TIPS: Sometimes collecting others opinions and theories to gain a better understanding is good; what is not good is NOT thinking for yourself. Do you like the color red because your parents or friends like it? Or because YOU like it? Ask yourself why? Question and answer yourself to understand where your head is really at. When you only subject yourself to other’s opinions, you sabotage your message, your viewpoints, your own opinions and theories. What you have to say is less important which the “widow” concept is death to your internal relationship. You don’t really take yourself seriously which means is you are stuck in this situation because you are stubborn about change. You must learn to “divorce” taking the advice of others and start taking your OWN advice. If you do come across someone with an advice, make sure that it is mix with your internal advice as well as theirs. That’s what makes you a character. 🤌🏾✨

Card #3: Wands 2 - You act as surveyor to all that you have accomplished and seek to research and develop new things. You contemplate that which success brings and a sense of responsibility. TIPS - Having responsibilities means to take on more roles you have to do. But being able to do it well means you organize your environment to keep tabs on your responsibility. You should be proud of yourself for maintaining responsibility; Especially, if you are a student or a worker during the pandemic or even a parent, then you have the ambition to keep going. Keep that positive uplifting attitude and you will be blessed in the long run. Someone will recognize your hard earn work.. don’t give up on yourself. 🤍✨

Card #4: (Reverse) The Sibyl II - Lies, ulterior motives, aloofness, isolation, and lack of awareness. TIPS: Are you ignorant? Did you know that ignorant means to ignore? Why are you trying ignoring the truth? Even though the truth hurts, you can move on faster than the long-term lies you projected in your mind. It’s time to grow up.. talk to the little kid in you and tell the kid, adult you wants to learn how to handle the truth responsibly. Adult you will meet many kinds of people in your life, some will stay in your life and others will leave for many different reason.. but these are the truth you have to face and let it teach you about yourself, your mind, emotions and spiritual views. Little kid you will cry internally but will trust you because you are all you got. Trust that you will be okay even when you are facing the truth.

If you want more Oracle readings, please reblog this post. Thank you ✨🙏🏾

#africa #african spirituality #african #afro witch #astrology #black spirituality #blacklgbt #lesbian #lgbt #spirituality #black tarot readers #tarot reading

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mask131 · 2 years

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Magical summer: Karaba

KARABA

Category: French children media / Fairytales of Western Africa

Michel Ocelot is one of the most famous French movie makers, specialized in animated movies for children. And he mostly got his fame through “Kirikou and the Witch”, an international success made by a Franco-Belgian-Luxemburg collaboration, but which found fame as far as the United-States. It was such a big success that it basically proved to everyone that a French animated movie could be a big thing oversea, and it even got adapted as a musical! Released in 1998, this animated movie was inspired by various folktales of Western Africa, and follows the adventures of the boy of the title, “Kirikou”. Born in a Western African village during a “mythical” time, Kirikou is a VERY unusual boy. He became able to talk when he was still in the belly of his mother, as soon as he was birthed he could walk, he is a very clever and cunning child, but he is also extremely small, small enough to sit in the palm of the hand of adults. As soon as he is born, he discovers that his village is under the terrible rule of a wicked witch named Karaba, and thus starts a conflict between the heroic little boy and the dreadful monster of a woman that is Karaba…

At the beginning of the story, Kirikou learns of the poor state of his village. The people are poor due to Karaba the witch regularly taking away their riches ; they have barely enough water for everyone because she dried up the village’s spring and so everyone has to take water from a far-away backwater ; and finally, the village doesn’t have any adult men in it anymore because they all tried to fight Karaba, and they all were eaten by her. Beyond an elderly man who acts as the patriarch of the community, there is only one other man, Kirikou’s own uncle, who leaves the village to go to Karaba’s house, in hope of vanquishing her. Kirikou forces his help on his uncle: he hides under the hat of his uncle in order to give him advices during his confrontation. Karaba turns out to be a beautiful but terrible woman who is served by an army of sentient fetish-statues. [Note: While the Internet turned “fetish” into an unpleasant term, originally a “fetish” was a sacred or magical statue of carved wood in African religions and rituals, destined to be inhabited by spirits or gods. Karaba has a very dark interpretation of the fetish-statues, as they are creepy-looking sentient statues acting like robots]. Thanks to Kirikou hiding in the hat and speaking to his uncle, Karaba believes the object is magical and she bargains with the warrior: she promises to leave the village alone in exchange of the “talking hat”. However, Kirikou escapes back with his uncle, and when Karaba discovers she was tricked her wrath is terrible.

As a revenge, she sends her fetish-statues to the village to order that all the women give her the last of their jewels and riches, truly depriving the community of their last precious things. (Karaba is a witch covered in jewels, and who apparently greatly love gold) One woman tries to hide a few jewels… but the statues search every house, and upon finding the hidden jewels, they burn the woman’s house. The fire can’t be put down because the village has no water. Later, Kirikou goes with the children of the village to the far-away backwater, and there Karaba tries to kidnap them twice. First she sends a beautiful pirogue, which turns out to be magical and take whoever enters it to Karaba’s house ; the second time she sends a beautiful, moving tree which ensnares in its branches all the kids that pass nearby before returning to Karaba’s house. But the two times Kirikou saves the children.

Realizing that the spring of the village being dried up causes a LOT of problems, Kirikou decides to solve the situation. Using his small size to enter the cliff from which the spring used to come from, he discovers that the “curse” of Karaba is actually a giant monster that drinks up all the water. Kirikou manages to kill it, and the spring flows once more.

Now, Kirikou has one specific character traits: he is a very curious boy, constantly asking questions. When he was born he just kept asking questions, such as where all the men where, or why the spring was dried up, and every time the answer was “Karaba”. But one of his questions never was answered: “Why is Karaba wicked?”. To that, no one can give him an answer… But his mother knows the only one who can tell Kirikou the answer he seeks. It is the “The Wise Man of the Mountain”, who happens to be Kirikou’s own grandfather – but he lives in the “Forbidden Mountain”, called as such because Karaba forbids anyone from going near it. The mountain is just behind Karaba’s house, and she has a “watcher statue” on her rooftop that keeps a constant surveillance. However Kirikou manages to sneak past Karaba’s house by using underground tunnels, and after many adventures he reaches the magical domain of the Wise Man of the Mountain, who answers all of Kirikou’s questions.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

You see, at this point we reach the last act of the movie. We reach the climax, the secrets revealed, the answer to all questions, so if you want to watch the movie by yourself I suggest you don’t go further.

SPOILERS ALERT! SPOILERS ALERT!

SPOILERS BEGIN HERE:

The Wise Man in the Mountain, who knows everything and holds all truths, reveals that if Karaba forbids anyone from reaching him, it is because she uses ignorance and lack of knowledge as her weapon: it is how she instills fear in the heart of people. Because Karaba is actually a very intelligent and cunning woman. She is a powerful magic-user, that is true, but she is actually less powerful than the villagers think. For example, the idea that she devoured all the men that tried to fight her? It is a lie. Karaba is not an ogress nor a cannibal. But she did defeat all the men in the village: she turned them into the fetish statues that serve her faithfully. As for the dried-up spring, it actually never was her doing. The monster inside the spring is just a random beast that dried up the spring by being too gluttonous, it was never sent by Karaba. But she took credit for it and pretended to have cursed the spring. Again, she needs people to fear her, and she manipulates them into believing her to be an all-powerful monster.

As for why Karaba is wicked, the answer is actually quite tragic. As the Wise Man reveals, Karaba once was a kind woman. But, as he stressed out, she was intelligent and powerful… And the men of the community she came from did not like women intelligent or powerful. They feared her, hated her, and one day they decided to “punish” her for being better than them: they took a poisonous thorn and plunged it in her back. It was located in a place where she couldn’t take it off herself, and the constant pain it caused her turned her wicked and made her powers evil. As the Wise Man reveals, if one were to take off the thorn that torments Karaba, she would be good again and all her curses would break.

This is the last mission of Kirikou: to save Karaba the witch from her own evilness. He sneaks into her house by underground tunnels, steals all the jewels she took away from the village, and hid them (quite clumsily) in the forest, all while leaving obvious traces of his passage. Karaba, enraged and determined to kill once for all Kirikou, sends a poisonous viper to kill him, but the miniature boy tricks the beast. So Karaba takes a poisonous spear and goes out to find her jewels and kill Kirikou herself. But as she digs in the earth to find back the hidden jewels, Kirikou jumps on her back and removes the thorn. This stops the constant pain of Karaba, she returns to being a kind and gentle woman, and all of her curses and evil magic as undone.

Kirikou then returns with Karaba and all the men (now free from the fetish spell) to the village, where they are welcomed – and it is a happy ending.

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As you can see by the ending of the story, "Kirikou and the Witch" isn't just a retelling of traditional fairytales. It is also a deep movie that sneaks important issues and topic in a way children can understand. It speaks of the dark power of ignorance, of the importance of curiosity and knowledge, and it deconstructs the archetype of the wicked witch by highlighting the oppression and abuse women did suffer from. This is why this movie was so beloved, appreciated by adults and children together, with many people reinterpreting it in many different ways. The movie was such a success the studios kept asking for sequels, but Michel Ocelot at first refused. He had conceived a full story, with a beginning and an end, it was a complete tale and he couldn't stretch it further. However he did create few stories that actually take place during the movie's stories - tales of past victories of Kirikou against Karaba, or of various heroic feats he did for the village. At first they were just children books, but they quickly were turned into a sequel (well "sidequel") movie, "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts". Finally the Kirikou movie were closed by a third film making it a complete trilogy, another sidequel called "Kirikou and the Men and Women", released in 2012.

#magical summer #witch movie #karaba #kirikou #french #west africa #fairytale #michel ocelot

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999lcf · 6 months

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Immage from web

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curryvillain · 1 year

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Calypso Rose's @MoLaudi Remix Of "Calypso Queen" Featured In "Mayfair Witches"!

Calypso Rose’s @MoLaudi Remix Of “Calypso Queen” Featured In “Mayfair Witches”!

Caught up with any TV shows lately? Are you familiar with the new series called, “Mayfair Witches“? This newly debuted series focuses on Dr. Rowan Fielding who discovers that she is the heiress to a dynasty of powerful Witches haunted by a sinister spirit. This supernatural thriller premiered on January 8 on AMC, and featured this iconic Caribbean track for a scene. The legendary Calypso Rose got…

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#13thstreetpromo #13thstreetpromotions #AMC #blog #Calypso #Calypso Queen #Calypso Rose #Mayfair Witches #Mo Laudi #music #riddim #soca #South Africa #Trini #Trinidad #Trinidad and Tobago #TV Show #video #wordpress

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shrinekeeperatnight · 1 year

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Introduction

Hi! You may call me Scarlett (nd, ce/cir). I am a witch/practitioner from the Southern Hemisphere, and decided to start a new blog that specifically follows the Southern Hemispherian cycle.

So many blogs focus on the Nothern Hemispherian cycle, but on this side of the world things are a little different. Different seasonal changes equals to different timing and celebrations as compared to our Northern brethren. I hope this blog will aid to improve that, and bring in some Southern Hemispherian representation.

So stick around, and lets see where this leads to!

A little about myself...

I have been actively practicing for about 10 years of writing this post. I have came from an explorative state and have briefly studied Wicca, Druidism, Ceremonial Magic and a few others. After none has fully worked out for myself personally, I started to carve my own path.

I love learning different new things and getting exposure to different cultures (note: I respect closed cultures completely, and do not practice closed practices).

My work mostly surrounds engagement and exploration of Knowledge (hidden and seen), Darkness, Night, the Ocean, and The-Spaces-Between-Spaces - all areas of that which don't exist yet exist. As part of this, to roam the Realms of the Unknown and Shadows, I practice divination quite a bit, different methods (tarot and scrying mostly at the moment). I am also a Shrine Keeper (hence the name) of my own personal Shrines dedicated the various entities I work with.

During the last year I have become a child of The Morrigan, and have been working predominantly with Her, as well as Her Lunacy, the Moon, and a few other beings that wish to retain their identity currently. May They guide my hands and mind to offer the best information during this journey.

And that is about it...stick around if you want to know more, and feel free to ask me anything you so desire. May our paths cross underneath the illumination of Her Light during Night.

#introduction #witchy blog #witchy #practitioner #Southern Africa #southern hemisphere #side blog #The Morrigan #divination #scrying #tarot #nonbinary witch

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