Musings of a Chubby Gay Witch

Thoughts, reblogs of witchy stuff, and insights of a Hispanic Southern swamp witch with a heavy dose of Cuban folk traditions.

[geopsych]

Nodding thistle, Carduus nutans, by a misty pond mid-June 2017

[hedge-witch-tales]

[kuvaton]

[ecosensual]

[stormbornwitch]

"The magic performed by witches is frequently either sympathetic or contagious. Sympathetic magic works by using a stand-in for the person who is the target of the magical act. Under this umbrella term, fall the use of poppet, bread baked into the shape of a person, or acts performed on a graven image. Contagious magic is similar but works on the principle of proximity: the use of hair or fingernails can bind the charm to the person for whom it is intended. In addition, placing the charm near a person or their property can confer the properties of the charm onto the target. The nature of these workings need not be baneful; charms worked via sympathy and contagion can bring blessings of protection and luck just as easily."

- Roger J. Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner.

[hellwatermelon]

Nicolas Bruno, The Embellished Collection

[themagicfarawayttree]

The Great God Pan

[mournfulroses]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Rudolf Zimmerman, featured in The Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

[psikonauti]

James Nasmyth (Scottish, 1808-1890)

The Alchemist, 1843

Oil on wood

[sharpenededges]

[absolutetierney]

[enchantedbook]

Illustration from 'The Book of Valentines' by Bliss Carman, 1905.

[othellho]

Ingram, John Henry, Flora Symbolica: The language and sentiment of flowers, (London: 1869).

[artessenziale]

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, detail of the arrival of the Queen of the Night, stage set for Mozart’s Magic Flute (1815)

[apocalypticinsomnia]

[qbdatabase]

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[dominiqueramseyart]

Thistle