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Reminder to the witchcraft community that:

Pretty much every claim of Christians stealing pagan holidays comes from sloppy scholarship and conspiracy theories. Please get your information from modern scholars instead of trusting random witch blogs/videos/infographics.

The witch hunts were driven by the early modern equivalent of QAnon, not by any credible evidence that a bunch of cryptopagans were out doing rituals in the woods at night. Most of the accusations were repurposed from accusations made against Jews for hundreds of years at that point.

Christianity and monotheism aren't the reasons you have to deal with patriarchy. It existed in polytheistic cultures long before either one existed, and it would still be here without them.

There are plenty of real reasons to be pissed off at Christians, both at present and throughout history. We don't need to make any up.

#spitting facts

asteroidtroglodyte

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

asteroidtroglodyte

This hit 10k in A DAY

Y’all ok?

lavvyan

No. I want the night sky back. I want sparrows back. I want to see as many butterflies as I did when I was a child. I want fucking insects to go splat on my fucking windshield because at least that means there's insects. I want the woods I grew up in to not have died. I want "oh look, a plane!" back instead of "wow, I can't see a single plane in the sky, weird." I want clothes that survive being washed and washing machines that survive being used. I want to not see overpriced strawberries from Egypt rotting on the supermarket shelf when it's not strawberry season. I want tomatoes that taste like tomatoes.

I'm so sick of the world they made for us.

taurzza

#spring #art

valtsv

i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

amazoogle

kvothbloodless

Hey. Hey!

#poetry #gaia #mother earth #religion #divinity #matriphagy

witchothebogfolk

Imbolc blessings, lovely people!

Here's to brighter days, life returning, and feeling energised again after weeks of sluggish darkness!

seraphimfires

Made myself a wreath for Imbolc and Brigid 🔥✨

stormwaterwitch

Me, A Witch, On Every Major Holiday: Oh hey yeah there’s a thing today

pitlanekai55

have a blessed imbolc 🌷

cryptotheism

The core of this book is a question; why do people believe strange things? When a medieval frenchman believes that the planet mars floats on a sea of rarified aether, and is pushed across the sky by a cadre of angels, why does he believe that? The answer, broadly speaking, is history. The value of rainstorms in the deserts of Jerusalem lend popularity to a god of storms. German doctors purchase alchemical flasks to distill medicine. A Russian noblewoman uses her husband's money to hold seance parties in America. History conspires to shape what is normal to believe, and what is not. But history never sits still. Religion, politics, economics, philosophy, the myriad gears of history are always changing and growing. What is normal one day, might be strange and backwards the next. To understand magic, we must understand its history.

A new year, a newly edited draft, today on Patreon.

fulltransmetalgenderist

my fellow trans people: all of the answers are in the river. you just need to go to the river and everything will make sense. a lake or ocean are fine substitutions. find the water and go to it. bring your friends. go alone. have a beer.

pealingpetals

this really spoke to me, as a trans hippie shut-in.

find the water and go to it. 👍

homunculus-argument

I actually almost hate it when some scrap of trash that I didn't throw out because it might be useful somewhere actually turns out useful. Like oh, won't you look at that. I did find an use for it after all. Now I'll never get myself to throw anything out again. The last thing we should be doing is to encourage this behaviour.

#this actually feels very relevant to this blog #witches be accumulating knick knacks

jollyfurydragonballer

siriosa

so soothing. cancel my appts. gonna be watching a bubble freeze in real time for the foreseeable

taraljc

that is insanely cool and also how I mentally picture setting wards

thecalminside

“We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be — to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.”

Eckhart Tolle