Backwater Prophet

Seer, Rot Eater, Dead Man, Devoted of God

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[onenicebugperday]

[onenicebugperday]

Really astounding how many people read this and STILL reblogged it to say, “actually they ARE evil because they stung me once for no reason!!!” Trust me, there was a reason, even if that reason was just that you were near them and you look big and threatening.

[onenicebugperday]

This also applies to mosquitoes and other animals that are vectors for disease. Hope this helps.

[heathenhouse]

GO GIRL!!!! GIVE US ROT!!! GIVE US DECAY! RETURN TO THE EARTH

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the corruption

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[phlegmtooth]

(source is my own)

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[graveyarddirt]

“Beware the Ides of March” [Mar 15]

In modern times, the Ides of March [March 15th] is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate. As many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, were involved.

We have 10 DAYS to strengthen a Brutus and Cassius, and bolster the resolve of Russian dissidents. I think small daily workings leading up to a large one on the 15th will probably be most potent. Our focus is mutiny - let’s direct all the Ides of March energy that’s been collecting for over 2,000 years into one narrow ‘Et tu, Brute?’ focus.

The Assassination of Julius Caesar | William Holmes Sullivan

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St. Michael’s Shield Amparo

Two sanctified prayer cards, blessed thread, blessed wax, Prinknash Abby frankincense and myrrh resins, angelica, rue, mirrors, and other mineral and herbal curios

Handcrafted during the day and hour of the Sun and consecrate on solar pentacles, the Shield of St. Michael amparo is a talisman that protects the bearer from magical attacks and fortifies the bearer’s spiritual body. While a powerful protection ‘set it and forget it’ talisman, it can be used to facilitate a relationship with St. Michael and will benefit greatly from being worked regularly. When worked the amparo becomes a very potent and personal magical tool aiding the bearer in commanding spirits, healing, evocation, and rites of exorcism. To use, simply hold the amparo between your hands and pray.

$35 + s&h (available) - Activation, use, feeding instructions, and prayers included. Please DM for details

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St. Michael’s Shields are back in stock

[lurelurk]

Plants and animals aren’t literal batteries. 

“Nature” isn’t just something you can “tap into and draw power from” like an electrical socket and turn off when  you’re done with it. It isn’t something to be “used” in that manner (not that it can be) it isn’t for your whims solely (and if it is you are paying something). The idea that you can just “connect” with these things when you need something, “manifest” some outcomes and then call that magic or witchcraft is fundamentally flawed and incorrect.

 Any crystals or herbs tossed into a jar as set dressing doesn’t make it so. It doesn’t “make it” magic and it doesn’t mean it will work.  Those animals? Those plants? The connection and relationships between them run a lot deeper than people on here suggest. You can tell who is absolutely full of shit when they say they do things like that because things do not work that way. Animals and plants communicate very differently from us and from one another. The time it takes to build those relationships, both with spirit, the Dead, and the Other is rarely (though can be) easy. And each instance is separate and deep for  lack of a better word. It’s consuming, its entire. For someone to just suggest they can tap into animals, plants, and nature and poof out magic is insulting. Nature is incredibly overwhelming. We are only a small portion of nature. Working alongside nature is humbling, but it isn’t a force you can fucking harness on a whim to power a glass jar with glitter in it. And suggesting otherwise is literal bullshit.  Hugging trees isn’t forming a spiritual connection with a forest.  There is SO MUCH set dressing, so much performance, so much vapid “going through the movements” of what a practice is without heart, without learning, without being cut, bleeding, and scabbing up.  I touched on this earlier, and I didn’t go this in-depth (partially because I was on mobile) but a lot of people on here would heavily benefit from not taking advice from people who advocate that “witchcraft” can be whatever you want it to be and in the same breath say they can:

 “work with the energies of nature, the elements, the animals, the plants, and draw magic from the earth itself? Don’t we have so much in our physical surroundings that we can work with, all around us, without having to delve into anything metaphysical/supernatural, should we wish not to? “

These “energies” are spirits whether or not you want to call them that. Using different language to dress them up so you can detach yourself from them and your responsibilities and hard work to forge relationships with them doesn’t matter.  The physical things that surround us and the “metaphysical” go hand in fucking hand. There is no way to “work” with Nature if you refuse to even see it as something other than a tool.  Buildings have spirit, towns have spirit, forests that have been cut down and turned into condo are still spirit and still there. Your home? Spirit. Your lawn? Spirit. The mall? Spirit. Just because you don’t want to acknowledge it or somehow only apply spirit to certain things doesn’t mean there aren’t any (my animist is showing).  The reason you put basil in a glass jar shouldn’t be because you read it off some list online. The reason you dry basil and put it in a sigil embroidered pouch for your pocket should be because you grew or met a Basil, learned from the plant itself, heard what there was to hear, compared it your own notes from cultures you’ve researched that spoke to you about Basil, or whatever else and understand fundamentally where Basil falls for you in your own practice.  Do the fucking work. 

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[thecollectibles]

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[recklessmoss]

𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐄

[max1461]

fetishistic rationalism. yeah baby give me your syllogism.

[not-afraid-of-laplaces-demon]

There are more than two ways but these are the only valid ones

Either be right or go full ham on being wrong, anything in between is for cowards and weaklings

[argumate]

either Jesus isn't real or invoking Jesus literally lets you raise the dead and grasp red hot iron without being burned, anything between these points is the uncool zone

[witchcraftinred]

I am struck by how much working with certain spirits feels like coming home. Especially with spirits that have been very influential on my practice but I’ve been a bit distant from, or a spirit I’ve only started working with properly recently but has been around for much of my childhood and my life, and whose presence—even before I was aware of it—has had such a strong impact on my life, my physicality, my personality. There is a familiarity there, an understanding, that arises from a recognition that is bone-deep, which sheds new light on memories and thoughts, on past and present and future. It is something you have been missing but never quite realised until you came back to it, at once overwhelming and comforting and deeply humbling.

[spector]

[slavicafire]

a folk tale about Virgin Mary (the utmost beloved figure in folk catholicism, surely) popular in Polish folklore, with the motif of her running away from enemies.* In Polish folk catholicism these tales are fully localised and are told as if they happened on Polish lands, involving Polish peasants.

And Mary** ran from her enemies who pursued her on horseback. She ran for days and she ran for weeks. At one point, she ran past a poor peasant man sowing his field. Whether he knew who she was, no one knows.

She stopped and said to him: You, who are sowing your field! If men on horses ride past your field and ask about me, tell them you saw me here when you were sowing your field, for that is true. And she turned and she ran. 

A day has passed. Men on horseback arrived to the village and took the peasant man and asked him: You, who are walking to your field! Tell us whether you’ve seen her running through these lands!  Whether he knew who she was, no one knows.

And as they walked up to his field, the poor peasant man said: Yes, I have seen her as she ran when I was sowing my field. For that was true and a good man tells no lies.

So the men shook their heads and understood they would never catch her, for the field was miraculously rich with fully-grown wheat which grew overnight. It must have been sowed months ago, they said among themselves, and rode on in the opposite direction. 

* many folk tales and songs don’t focus at all who it is that she’s running from; however, as these stories come from apocryphal tales, these are Herod’s men as Mary and Joseph ran with baby Jesus to Egypt. surprisingly (or not) many folk tales and songs fully omit Joseph – and sometimes don’t even mention Jesus at all.

** in some regions of Poland, this tale is instead about Saint Cunegunda running away from Tatars.