Tha i bana-bhuidse.

Buidseachd | Draoidheachd Folk | Ioma-Dhiadhachd | Cànan is Cultar na Gàidhlig

[redlinskadraws]

[fallbabylon]

A collection of carved turnips climb a set of stairs in a derelict house in Cambridge. part of an art exhibition ‘Black Shuck; a strange and terrible wonder’ by  John Piper, Jackie Piper & Andrew Wilkinson

[worldofcelts]

Those who gathered such knowledge also paid deference to Bile, the sacred oak. Because they were not allowed to speak his holy name, they called the oak ‘draoi’ and those learned in such knowledge were said to possess oak (dru) knowledge (vid) and thus were known as Druids.

Celtic Myths and Legends, Peter Berresford Ellis (via worldofcelts)

[aqua-regia009]

By mvddrak_atmospheric

[vulturehooligan]

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

— Gustav Mahler.

[harvard-art-museums-sculpture]

Stele with Standing Four-Armed Vishnu, 12th century, HAM: Sculpture

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse Size: H. 95.3 x W. 43.2 cm (37 ½ x 17 in.) Medium: Fine grained, very dark gray phyllite; from Northern Bengal

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/202289

[aktiophis]

"So when you read my magical diary, remember the contents of spirit messages is much less relevant than the methods illustrated for successfully applying that content. Imagine that you are trying to learn to cross rivers by jumping from one stone to another. Memorizing the locations of the stones in any one river is pointless, as every river has different stones. Instead you want to learn what makes for good jumping. How do you alternate movement with stillness? Where are the moments of instability and balance, of relaxation and watchfulness? By publishing some of my subjective experiences, I hope to help you learn, by example, the skill of crossing your own rivers."

—Frater Acher, Holy Daimon

[a-writers-orchard-deactivated20]

The Angel Oak on Johns Island in South Carolina

[theoryofmagick]

Friendly reminder that it is Cool and Good ™ to learn, invent, develop, and advance on traditional methods of witchcraft

The fundamentals of bread-baking weren’t recorded so everyone could make the exact same loaf of bread

Branch out and experiment, you might get foccacia

[liminalblessings-lkdghlklkha-de]

“The essence of Celtic religion is found in contradictory states; in the neither / nor; the liminal fringe.”

— Erynn Laurie in “Goddess of the Growing Green: Airmed of Ireland”, from The Well of Five Streams: Essays on Celtic Paganism

[megaelod]

some music

[evangelinegallagher]

Watching the End of the World

Evangeline Gallagher 2020

Ink on stonehenge paper + minor digital edits

prints available here

I’m also open for commissions, reach out at [email protected]. Thanks to anyone who has commissioned me or bought a print since all the COVID-19 shit started, it helps so much! I love making stuff for you guys. 

[finnish-art-gallery]

Noita roviolla, Hugo Simberg, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+II+968%3A43

[visardistofelphame]

A power is on the earth and in the air,  From which the vital spirit shrinks afraid,  And shelters him in nooks of deepest shade, From the hot steam and from the fiery glare. Look forth upon the earth—her thousand plants  Are smitten; even the dark sun-loving maize  Faints in the field beneath the torrid blaze; The herd beside the shaded fountain pants; For life is driven from all the landscape brown;  The bird hath sought his tree, the snake his den,  The trout floats dead in the hot stream, and men Drop by the sunstroke in the populous town:  As if the Day of Fire had dawned, and sent  Its deadly breath into the firmament.

-Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant

[womansart]

A witch and Black Cats

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

[the-evil-clergyman]

The fairy must give herself up to the Queen and lose her power for eight days, from Comtesse de Sègur’s Old French Fairy Tales by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1920)

[chelleville]

Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) - Charles Baudelaire