Wicked Witch of the West

I am a queer ecclectic witch in Southern California. This blog is where I put witchy posts that I like and occasionally some of my own content.

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The Storm carries me 🌙

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Today is Chytroi, the final day of the festival of Anthesteria. Chytroi were utilitarian cooking pots, and on this day a special porridge was cooked and offered to the spirits of the dead, who had been participants with the living in the festival. Libations were poured at the graves of family and other beloved dead, and offerings were made to Hermes Chthonios. The last act of the Anthesteria festival was to proclaim to the spirits of the deceased who had joined in the celebrations, “‘Out! Out! Anthesteria is over!” 

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Featured image: Hermes Psychopompos by the Kind of Tymbos painter. White figure lekythos, Attica, Greece, 470 BC. Archaeological Collection of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Image link: X (Photo: Dennis Graen) License: CC BY-NC-SA

The lekythos was used to hold olive oil and precious perfume. Lekythoi were frequently left on graves as funerary offerings. On this vessel, Hermes holds his staff and his wand, and stands next to a large burial pithos. Winged souls of the dead hover near the mouth of the jar - perhaps they are being released to follow Hermes to the Underworld, or the god could be shepherding them back to the grave, so as not to trouble humanity.

[enchantedbook]

Art by Jean Michel Coriou.

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[spiritusloci]

Winterborne 22 (2024)

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Decay exists as an extant form of life

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Winterborne 20 (2024)

[wanderinglinguaphile]

e-offering for Lady Hestia Potheinotáti¹, beloved goddess of the hearth, home, and altar.

i thank you for ensuring my coziness on days when it's needed most. i honor your role in fostering the spaces where i find comfort. blessed be.

¹epithet from hellenicgods.org, translates to beloved or longed-for.

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[leidensygdom]

better burn your dead, lest the rot and crows eat them

I've been obsessed by the bird situation with the Gävlebocken, so here's some art about it! Happy holidays!

[sisterglimm]

🖤🤍💀❄️ JULGHOST 🤍💀❄️ 🖤

My biggest tribute art for Papa Copia so far.

I was inspired by old master painter Viktor Vasnetsov, the scandinavian Julgoat, the mythological Wild Hunt and of course Copia's bewitching fashion sense.

[ Painted in Pocreate. Color edited in Photoshop. ]