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In retrospect, the spike in people claiming to be psychic vampires or vampiric back in 2020-2021 is really fascinating to me. First off, because they seemed to have disappeared so quickly (at least from my timelines on social media) compared to some of the other fads, reactionary or otherwise, on spiritual communities on social media.
Presently, I can’t be assed to go dig through the bowels of witchtok and reddit to find specific examples but I do recall a few encounters with this brand of practitioner. Thematically, they were typically self-proclaimed death witches or baneful witches, and they often open with psychic vampirism/typical vampirism without taking anybody to dinner first. In video content detailing these experiences, the rhetoric was always the same ‘I am just such a powerful practitioner, I draw energy from other people to feed myself.’ I even remember some white boy in a durag on tiktok claiming he’d intentionally start internet drama so he could siphon off of it. It, largely, is/was another occultist form of sniffing one’s own asshole on the internet.
That said, I still find it fascinating.
I’ve been going back and forth on the presentations of dual-souled people in Slavic folklores and whether or not they are all inherently vampiric by nature of simply being two-souled and carrying the risk of becoming actual vampires later on. I still have yet to form an opinion on this, but what is interesting to me is that, at least in Slavic folktales, becoming a vampire is near-always framed as a tragedy for either the person becoming a vampire, or for their family/community who is going to be victimized by vampirism. The only exception to this would, in my opinion, be the sub-category of vampire myths seen in the west Carpathians (I’m unsure if other regions have these as well, if they do, please let me know!!) wherein the recently deceased becomes a vampire due to a deep-seated care for or worry about their community. Examples of this include stories about newlywed husbands getting up and returning to their widows at night to tend to their household duties as they normally would, farmers harvesting crops at night, mothers who died in childbirth returning to soothe their babies in the night. All of the stories in that specific category have vampirism stem from love. The other grouping of stories are your more typical “person who was buried wrong or killed wrongfully comes back to kill crops, spread disease, and eat livestock” stories.
I may just be viewing modern claims of psychic vampirism or classic vampirism through a Slavic folkloric lens and my own personal experiences with being dual-souled but the claim to all of the ‘power’ and the pride in destruction with none of the suffering or acknowledgement that these traits are often viewed as wrong by cultural groups, is just really interesting to me, as I don’t think it aligns with what we see in folkloric vampirism (whether we’re talking stereotypical blood suckers or just people who take more than they give).
Psychic Vampirism
The lack of easily-obtainable information on vampirism that isn't tainted by inaccurate new age ideas that we're all malevolent abusers or reality TV really got to me. It was different when I first awakened, and I feel obligated to the community to share my own experiences with the hope it might help someone out there.
I'd like to say now that while I will be referring to myself as a vampire in posts on the subject, it's for the sake of brevity. I conceptualize my "vampirism" as like a condition of my energy body rather than the entirety of my self or a facet of my identity per say.
I'm as much a vampire as I am a demon, which is to say that I'm not really either of these things at all, but they come close enough in your tongue to get the general idea across. I like to start painting in broad strokes and fill in details as they come up.
What is a psychic vampire?
Am I a psychic vampire? What is an awakening?
Do psychic vampires have to hurt people?
How do I feed?
How do I know if I need to feed? What if I don't?
I want a green and yellow kitchen with bees and sunflowers! 🌻🐝
I have a dream!
It feels weird but but my craft room is half empty. I'm excited to see where this new move takes me.
Listen, as a cliche burnt out millennial, the Hantavirus is nothing new!
In 1993 there was an outbreak in the "Four Corners." New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. It was discovered to be from rats and mice specifically their urine and feces. Is it scary? Yes. It's not like COVID where it's new. This has always been a concern.
As a farm kid, when sweeping out barns and sheds we always had PPE, personal protective equipment, the gloves, masks, possibly gowns if we needed to clean a hoarder house. If there happened to be any traces of rodents we threw it away.
This is also why we cleaned anything we from the store. Because we knew things came from warehouses which also invited the rodents. New bowl? Wash twice. New pot? Wash twice. And also canned goods, pop cans and bottles, and anything else that if there was any chance for cross contamination we washed it.
Don't do any of this fear mongering bullshit. I have survived being in the Sand Hills of Kansas all my life. Any major animal we have in Kansas can carry an illness of some kind.
Just got a mini bluetooth keyboard for my phone, total game changer. No more laggy typing!
Playing Doom(2016) is my new kind of therapy!
Summer atmosphere ⛱️
I've ghosted my journal for a few months and I'm scared to go back cause I think it will be awkward between us
I have a witchy confession to make. I have never been good with astrology, or even the moon phases and what it means at a certain time. And being able to explain birth charts and all the a²+b²=c² of it all. It's not until I get in here that's when I learn Mercury is in the microwave and why people are acting crazy. So shout out to all the astrologists, planetary, and cosmic witches. @space-queen I'm looking you!
✨I finally took some of pictures of the house!✨
The pinkish room with the random black chalk wall will be my witchy room. But it's an awfully bright room so I want a darker color. I'm thinking like deep purple.
you don't have to practice ancestor veneration to be a "good witch"
listen, i don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't have to practice ancestor veneration or build an ancestor altar if you don't want to. and if you're going to argue with me and be rude, consider that a) i don't gaf, b) fuck you, and c) i don't gaf
i've been a practicing witch for over eight years now. i have a contract with the lord of the dead. i neither have an ancestor altar nor regularly light candles, incense, or meditate with my ancestors. i have many reasons for this, of which i'll list below, but just know that it doesn't Matter what your reason is. it is your choice and yours alone what you do with your practice.
reasons why i don't practice ancestor veneration:
the only "ancestor" i would bother venerating is my mother, who i lost when i was seventeen. to some people, that might seem like a long time ago, but it's still too fresh for me
i have no connection with the older generations, nor do i think they (hardcore christian, white) would respect me (queer, trans, and a witch) in the slightest
many of my ancestors were mean, hateful, or very ill people
unless someone reaches out to me, i have no interest in trying to force a connection with someone just based on the fact that they were biologically related to me. see above for why
i value the peace of my dead, and because no one is reaching out, i assume they'd rather be left alone
PSA: this isn't a vague post or a commentary on anyone else's practice in any way, merely an attempt to dispel a common misconception i see
i have been thinking about this a lot because i keep seeing people talk about it like it's an absolute requirement and i have never EVER heard that anywhere else or at any other time than recently and on tiktok.
Ew no! That's the beauty of being witch, there are no set rules or requirements to be a witch. There might be some hot tips or strong recommendations for certain parts of the practice like protection, grounding, etc. but even those are customizable. You don't HAVE to do jack shit.
Sometimes the best form of self care, is not doing a damn thing. I was very comfortable being a blanket burrito yesterday.
Are there any dream witches out there?
Last night, I had a dream/nightmare where I was in space and our ship was in lock down for unknown reasons. Hallways lit with red emergency lighting, sirens blaring, and everyone being instructed to be their space suits. I'm running down the hallway to get to some destination where I am stopped by someone else in a black space suit with no obvious face. I turn to run but it manages to be right there and tackles me to the floor, that's finally when it's face appears and it screams. That's when I wake up.
Normally my dreams don't have deep philosophy or anything like that. Mostly just me trying to process life, but I'm actually kind of stumped on this one. Any suggestions?
Across tumblr no one owns a truck for clout and that’s quite a good thing.
To start 30% of tumblr users don’t own their own car, which already eliminates quite a lot of potential truck havingness you see.
Then among the car havers, the most common kind is a 20 year old sedan that was purchased for $2,400 and will be driven until the rims weather into sediment and become a new kind of sedan sedimentary rock called a sedanimentary rock. The second most common kind of car is a Subaru purchased by two lesbians who are no longer in a relationship but remain good enough friends still to be effective car co-parents.
Now this does leave an amount of truck havers. About 0.5-1% according to science. But importantly when you ask them about the truck the answer is “yeah my job is to pull stuck bulls out of the mud on the farm” and then they pull away and you get to see all the muddy bulls in the back of their truck, which is a real treat.
your vehicle?
i do not own my own vehicle
i own a cheap sedan which i will drive until it disintegrates
i own a subaru
i own a work truck
i own a truck that is not for work
im bald/vanilla extract
None of the above. I do own my own car, and it's neither a Subaru or a truck.
