Camp Bitter Water

A Collection of Spells, Advice, and Beautiful Things

[all-hallows-night]

Feeling halloween vibey with these wallpapers 🍁

[all-hallows-night]

Feeling halloween vibey with these wallpapers 🍁

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Witch Hunt

[inkipri]

not all blessings are meant to be counted

[thewitchbangtheory]

Cr: @/craftingwitch

[abbygalloway]

[faengelia]

[magicaloctober]

[lavenderlundi]

The fact that literal medicine is growing in our backyards and they’re classified as “weeds” annoys me so fucking much.

See this “weed”?

That’s Cuban Jute and it can be used to treat:

Fevers

Digestion issues

Headaches

Boils

Pimples

Rheumatism

Toothaches

Like whole ass MEDICINE!!! And I’m supposed to just mow it down😭

How about this “weed”

Brazilian Vervain!! Fucking VERVAIN!

HORSENETTLE!!!

The fact that these are considered “weeds” upsets me to my very core.

(Yes I am aware that horsenettle is poisonous w/out the right precautions and that you can’t just EAT these plants outta the ground. The point of my post was to just point out that these plants have many medical properties that once properly identified, cleaned, and safely prepared can be used as home remedies.)

[scarletarosa]

Can Wiccans stop calling pagan deities triple goddesses or our death goddesses "crones" because it does nothing but show you don't do any research on these religions.

Hekate is not a triple goddess, she appears in triple form to represent the three-way crossroads and is depicted as a young woman. The Morrighan is not a triple goddess as she actually has four aspects (Badb, Macha, Némain, Féa) and none represent the stages of a person's life, but the Morrighan may choose to appear elderly as a death omen. Kali is not a crone goddess just because she's associated with death and you shouldn't be touching Hinduism unless you wish to convert. The Arabian goddesses Al-Uzza, Al-Lat, and Manat are sisters and none of them are described as being elderly or as a maiden.

So in short, your concept of a triple goddess belongs to Wicca, not paganism, and should be left that way. What you're doing with our cultures is not only ignorant but disrespectful as well, and research is not that difficult to do.

[silentforestgods]

I know this may seem like nit-picking to some and you may be wondering why it even matters, but you have no idea how frustrating and insulting it is to be a pagan looking up information on deities and see Wicca concepts overpowering the true history and background of our goddesses.

Not only is your information not true, but it clouds the real identity of our goddesses and it's basically you trying to make them yours. If you want a Triple Goddess, just worship the one Wicca gave you, but leave our deities be.

[superpowered-autistic-cats]

Can we call this wicca-washing? I see things happen like this with a lot of deities for a lot of different reasons. One of them was a list of deities from open and closed cultures (!!!) and it was talking about them like they were simply correspondences (!!!) and that some people who work with them don’t even see them as real, so you don’t have to either (!!!)

Like there are ways to have your religion and also stay in your lane, there’s nothing wrong with it.

[gauntandgrey-deactivated2013010]

[the-suburban-craft]

[alaskancat]

[biwimuti]

Something I think we tend to tend to forget, when talking about closed religions, is to think about why they’re closed. Because there is ALWAYS a reason for it; no community just shuts itself off from others just because it feels like it.

Some religions are closed because they’re based on cultural values and beliefs that outsiders, who weren’t raised with and immersed in those beliefs, wouldn’t be able to ever truly understand. Brujería is an example of this, as far as I know.

Some religions are closed because they’re based on location, with their beliefs centered around local things that don’t make sense outside of that location. There are some small Shinto sects that are closed for this reason.

Some religions are closed based on race, because people of a specific race banded together under terrible circumstances and formed beliefs based on their shared experiences. Hoodoo, for example, was created by African slaves so it’s only open to Black people (mainly African diaspora).

Some religions are closed because you have to be born into them, usually because it’s part of the religion’s tenants and foundation. Modern Zoroastrianism almost never recognizes converts.

Some religions are closed because, historically, they were mistreated and often criminalized, with sacred practices being stolen and bastardized by outsiders who were allowed to witness them. Those religions ended up closing to outsiders in order to protect themselves and survive. This is why the majority of indigenous religions are closed.

It’s important to understand the reasons behind religions being closed, not only so that we can learn to accept that decision, but also so that we have a better understanding of history and other people.

[thingssheloves-deactivated20151]

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Apollo and Athena on a full moon 🌕

Academy of Athens

[goddessofseafoam]

From “Soft Spoken Spells: Poems for Your Inner Witch” by Nichole McElhaney