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“Witch bottles began as countermagical devices used as protection against other witchcraft and conjure. They are described in historical sources in England and the United States. However, modern magic practitioners now use witches bottles for casting spells of various natures. The first mention of a witch bottle appears in the 17th century.” - wikipedia
Here’s something to chew on.
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honestly
In case you wanna read the article this quote is from: http://rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-05-daughter-know-ok-angry/
Adaptable girls find socially acceptable ways to internalize or channel their discomfort and ire, sometimes at great personal cost. Passive aggressive behavior, anxiety, and depression are common effects. Sarcasm, apathy, and meanness have all been linked to suppressed rage. Troublesome behaviors, such as lying, skipping school, bullying other people, even being socially awkward are often signs that a teenager is dealing with anger that they are unable to name as anger.
Girls, taught to ignore their anger, become disassociated from themselves.
Anger is so successfully sublimated that girls lose the ability to understand what it feels and looks like. Is her heart racing? Does she feel flushed or shaky? Does she clench her jaws at night? Is she breaking out in hives? Does she cry for no reason? Laugh inappropriately during difficult conversations? Fly off the handle over something that seems inconsequential? You can see where I’m going here…those crazy girl hormones, right? Better to just think of it as a phase.
For too many women, however, the phase never ends. It’s lives spent never expressing anger at all and believing that they don’t have the right or ability to do so without great risk.
you can hardly blame a woman for not expressing her anger when the expression is likely to be at a great personal cost to her
So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes
Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us
After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”
To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil
There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”
Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever
Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across
That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads
Don’t come at me about the Bible and homosexuality if you’re using it to justify your homophobia. I will demolish you.
Also, for some cultures including early Christianity, sodomite could very well have ment someone gravely inhospitable, as the sin of Sodom was inhospitality and not anal sex.
I wanted to talk about that too but I was running out of tweets I could put on a singular thread 😅 thank you so much for this addition!
sunlight by hozier playing from an empty cathedral
edit: tumblr took the audio down so now i’ve uploaded it to youtube!!!!! here friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW01eats_lE
These smiles though <3
My heart melts at this part every time I see it 😍
guillermo del toro can should and MUST direct an interpretation of frankenstein where the monster finally experiences tenderness
a little hooded girl, who has been left behind by her village as they fled the creature, walks hesitantly up to him and places a gentle palm to his cheek. he flinches away from her hand at first, but, then leans into her touch- eyes closed and eyebrows knitted together. she pulls back her hood to reveal she has a severe burn scar and says “we aren’t scary, are we?” mr del toro let’s talk plot
the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.
This is what I call cultural Christianity, for those who are still confused
“But everyone celebrates christmas.” No. No we don’t.
“Religion is based on complete blind submission and not asking any questions ever”
No. That’s Christianity.
“Religion is totally focused on the afterlife and getting into heaven and avoiding hell”
Nope. Christianity again.
“Religion is about pushing your beliefs on others and trying to get them to convert”
Still Christianity.
Actually that’s even more specific - that’s Calvinism, which predominates in America. America isn’t just culturally Christian,it’s culturally Calvinist, which very specifically focuses on submission, the fear of damnation, and conversion. It’s also not just any old Calvinism, but a very rigidly puritanical variety thanks to our roots.
There are other culturally Christian countries, which are of other denominations and therefore have a slightly different bent. England is culturally Anglican, Germany is culturally Lutheran, Italy and Spain are culturally Catholic, Russia is culturally Orthodox, etc. However, even the cultural Catholicism of Italy is different from, say, the cultural Catholicism of Ireland.
So even here, we need to be careful not to filter other cultures’ Christianities through what is a very Americanized (via @queertilly) Christianity, and vice versa with other countries. Speaking as an American, even our concept of what Christianity is has been Americanised.
SALVUS IN IGNE, “SAFE IN FIRE
The latest creation of Dr. Henny: A pocket sized playing card conjure notebook! It is loaded with black cat hair, cottonmouth skin, moths, and traditional Appalachian herbs of secrecy for those things you wish kept in the dark against all creeping things and prying eyes!
I initially made this to contain some of my most used formula and prayers to travel with as my other notebooks were taking up too much space in my briefcase. I have softly named it the Trivett notebook, taking after my grandmother’s name as it derives from the old French “tripot”, a title for a person who plays tricks on people, and from the Middle English “tripet” which means an evil plan or scheme; it also means three legged, thus three sections in the book. Its formal name is Salvus in igne, the moto of the Trivett crest.
The number three in Appalachia is a famous magical number calling upon the imagery of the Holy Trinity, that death comes in threes, Christ rose in three days, God separated land from sea on the third day symbolizing balance, the list goes on.
Further more the page numbers and number of segments per section are also numbered the same, multiples of three. Three pages folded making six and a total of nine segments.
Simply because not everyone may want three sections there are options of one, two or three, with different cards adorning the front and back, whether Aces, Kings or Queens, or even Jokers 😈, photos of templates for these other options will be updated here soon.
They are made to order and yours will be worked on in the order yours was submitted. Production time is about 5-7 business days per book, depending on supplies, the time needed, and your preference on the number of sections.“
Order here: http://littlechicagoconjure.weebly.com/charms-and-roots-for-man-and-beast.html
I will only be making these for a limited time so get your order in while you can!!!
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2019/04/17/demolition-800-year-old-sacred-trees-compared-notre-dame-fire
Campaigners have been fighting plans to bulldoze trees sacred to the Djap Wurrung peoples.
What happened to vintage garden parties!! Where are the ivories and sage greens!! Cakes and scones with tea on silver trays!! Fresh flowers and tents with those triangle-lined banners!! Light coloured suits with pale pastel ties and lacy dresses!!! The small quartet playing Gentle music!! Someone I can be gay with behind the rose hedge while everyone wonders where I wandered off to??? Who took this away????!!!??
Shrike by Hozier but you’re sitting by your open window during a thunderstorm
(best with headphones)
This is the the best thing thats ever happened to me.
This is so wholesome
Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip
I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is
https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children.
CAT DAD IS BACK
aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;
HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!
This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen.
update:
I love that he kept …. All of them.
I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.
This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.
In private and public spaces, design choices that ignore women put everyone at a disadvantage.
If women were architects, feminist writer Melusina Fay Peirce argued in the late 1860s, they would make houses without kitchens. Instead, people would share separate buildings for cooking and laundry. Women needed to be economically and emotionally independent from men, Peirce argued in a series of essays in The Atlantic Monthly. She suggested that they create groups and charge their husbands membership fees for access to domestic work through collective bargaining.
Today, in Lima, Peru, more than 100,000 women are paid to cook food at Comedores Populares, which provides inexpensive or free meals to nearly half a million people every day. While there are more openly nontraditional families and living arrangements than there were in the 1800s, the unpaid or low-wage work of cooking, cleaning and childcare still primarily falls to women. This binary is facilitated by design, in the products we use and the spaces we live in. If private kitchens, for example, represent a gendered division of labor, what happens when they become public? A home without a kitchen relies on a community that prioritizes affordable food and treats domestic work as a valued profession. It’s one ambitious solution to one piece of a pervasive, though at times subtle, problem: At home and in cities, in offices, bathrooms and online, design choices made by men in male-dominated fields make women’s lives more difficult. Employing women as the world’s makers could vastly improve women’s lives, because their needs would be better prioritized.
“Dwellings, neighborhoods, and cities designed for homebound women constrain women physically, socially, and economically,” urban historian Dolores Hayden wrote in her 1980 essay, “What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?” Many of the immediate solutions that help women have more mobility involve exploitive labor. By sending children to daycare or picking up fast food, women rely on other working women in “low-paying non-union jobs without security,” she wrote. Hayden’s solution was built on the ideas of feminists before her: group living arrangements that “eliminate residential segregation by race, class, and age” where men and women were required to do an equal amount of chores and child care.
Over The Garden Wall + Historical fashion {inspired by this post}
top 12 savage things Medea says in classical literature
featuring Euripides, Ovid, and Seneca
ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα/στῆναι θέλοιμ᾽ ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ (Euripides Med. 250-1)
for I would rather thrice stand by the shield/ than once bear a child
καὶ σοῖς ἀραία γ᾽ οὖσα τυγχάνω δόμοις. (Euripides Med. 608)
I am a curse unto your house as well
καὶ μανθάνω μὲν οἷα τολμήσω κακά/θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων/ὅσπερ μεγίστων αἴτιος κακῶν βροτοῖς. (Euripides Med. 1078-80)
I know what evils I dare to do/ my heart is stronger than my plans/ and great is my blame for the blood
dum ferrum flammaeque aderunt sucusque veneni/ hostis Medeae nullus inultus erit (Ovid Her. 12.181-2)
as long as I have iron and fire and poison at my disposal/ no enemy of Medea’s will go unpunished
viderit ista deus, qui nunc mea pectora versat/ nescio quid certe mens mea maius agit! (Ovid Her. 211-2)
the god who twists my heart will witness these deeds/ for surely I know not what vast act my mind devises!
tum me de tigride natam/ tum ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde fatebor (Ovid Met. 7.32-3)
then I will be called the daughter of a tiger/ and they will say I carry iron and stone in my heart
maximus intra me deus est (Ovid Met. 7.55)
the greatest god is within me
et vertice sidera tangam (Ovid Met. 7.61)
and I will reach the stars with the crown of my head
Medea superest, hic mare et terras vides/ ferrumque et ignes et deos et fulmina (Seneca Med. 166-7)
Medea stands alone, here you see the sea and the lands/ and iron and fire and gods and lightning
si placet, damna ream;/ sed redde crimen (Seneca Med. 245-6)
condemn me if you like;/ but give me back my crime
invadam deos/ et cuncta quatiam (Seneca Med. 424-5)
I will invade the gods/ and shake all things
Medea nunc sum; crevit ingenium malis (Seneca Med. 910)
Now I am become Medea; my nature has grown amidst evil
