Seadís

Tired momma bird ready to wack you with a frying pan. Self-taught herbalist who hates the medical establishment. Feel free to ask about tea or tinctures. Rambles in pagan over at @gullveigheidr, cause if I'm gonna be nuked it'll be for my pagan taked and I don't want to lose my sideblogs.

[schreeuwekster]

Don't come begging for money. As far as I'm concerned the sea should swallow the whole wretched place and be done with it. And scammers ought to go on pikes

[slavicafire]

As for snakes protecting houses, their names are very ofen semantically linked to verbs meaning ‘to protect, to guard,’ (Serbian zmija-chuvarkucha, Bulgarian chuvarka, vardachka), or to words with the meaning of ‘master, owner’ (Southern Serbian sajbika, Bulgarian domosharka, etc.). In Western Macedonian regions the name of the snake protecting houses sometimes coincides with the name of the demons protecting all kinds of buildings; thus, as my field notes show, in Ohrid the name tolosum is also used for such a snake. The best known belief about snakes protecting houses is connected with the prohibition of killing them. If such a thing happens, an inevitable punishment awaits the whole family: diseases and accidents occur, all members of the household die and the clan becomes extinct. 

According to a Bulgarian belief, if a snake protecting a house is killed by accident, it has to be burned and candles must be burnt on its grave for forty days. Pictures of this snake are necessary elements on the top of Serbian calendar breads dedicated to the family and house. On major calendar holidays, some meal is put aside for the snake protecting the house. A slice of bread, cooked corn and a glass of wine are put on the garret, into the corner of the house, or, what is more common, near the hearth, which is regarded as the center of a house. The favorite dwelling places of these snakes are the hearth or the threshold, which is also a sacred place of a house as it symbolizes the borderline between the cultured space of the inside and the strange wild world of the outside.

Balkan Demons Protecting Places by Anna Plotnikova.   [Demons, Spirits, Witches Vol. 2 :Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology - Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs (Eds.)]

[slavicafire]

The cult of snakes protecting the house is a more or less specific feature of the Balkans, although some traces of it can be found in other Slavic lands as well. In Western Polesia grass-snakes living in a house are called domovik. It dwells under the stove, it must not be killed and it brings happiness to the house and household members. In Carpathian Ukraine this snake is called gazdovnik (from gazda ‘master’), and lives under the stove, under the threshold or in the foundations of the house. While rich people have large gray snakes, the poor have only small ones. In Czech and Slovak folk beliefs this snake is white, and its name is also related to the word ‘master, owner’: (Slovak domací had, starý dedo, gazda, etc.). Thus, unlike the other patron demons examined here, traces of the cult of home snake appear outside the Balkans as well, although it is certainly the most developed in the Southern Slavic regions.

Balkan Demons Protecting Places by Anna Plotnikova.   [Demons, Spirits, Witches Vol. 2 :Christian Demonology And Popular Mythology - Gábor Klaniczay, Éva Pócs (Eds.)]

[beatlesweatles]

Evil Shakespeare be like: MacDeath

[beatlesweatles]

[slavicafire]

a folk belief from the Tatra mountains that I just simply adore is that if you see a snake drinking blood from a frog – as snakes do, of course – you should quickly grab a stick and save the frog! not for the frog’s sake, of course, but for the purpose of getting a magic stick. saving the frog will make the stick into a magic stick.

this stick will from that moment on have magical properties: if you wave it at a woman she will leave her husband immediately, and if you use it in a fight you will always win. 

[karrakazz]

[wordcubed]

[lanotteviene]

my best friend linen my brother in arms cotton my partner wool my beautiful sister silk

[lanotteviene]

our sick deranged enemy polyester....

[threeture]

the demon lord, prince of lies, "Vegan Leather"...

[catilinas]

every lotr extended edition watchthrough needs one person pointing out which scenes are extended edition only, one person saying Well Actually In The Books…, and one person attempting to play along to the soundtrack on an accordion obtained three hours ago from facebook marketplace

[fluff-e-boy]

Graphic design is my passion

[fluff-e-boy]

I think the people are ready for this one

[redstonedust]

its good to acknoweldge the hollowness of revenge but sometimes you really do just need a story about someone who gets hurt and then kills and kills and kills and kills their enemies. its cathartic, babey.

[awesome-chameleon]

"there's nothing that can bring my loved one back, so there's no point in killing you" and "there's nothing that can bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you" are two themes that can and should co-exist

[breelandwalker]

"nothing will ever undo what you did to me, so killing you solves nothing" and "nothing will ever undo what you did to me, but at least i can make sure you won't do it to anyone else" are also themes that can and should co-exist

[escuerzoresucitado]

[distantwave]

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[bite-my-grimy-fleshy-ass]

I remember as a kid the nearby small town had a "computer expert" who had a full storefront and office. If someone bricked their computer or it loaded with viruses he'd factory reset it for them and try to get it working again. He'd also buy, refurbish, rest, and resell old computers. But the main thing he advertised was if people brought him a computer and a list of programs they wanted installed on it he'd get them all set up. Flat rate of like 20 bucks.

Didn't realize until I was older and like, looking back on some of the tech stuff my mom needed help with and knew more about how software is priced that he was pirating it. Guy had a whole business set up where people who didn't know how computers worked would pay him 20 bucks to install Microsoft Office on their laptop because it was cheaper than buying it in the store and they didn't want to be bothered with figuring out how to install programs even if they could afford them normally. Like that guy was practically printing money well into the early 2000s. Very good hustle. Only small business owner I respect.

[beardedmrbean]

[kkoffin]

hey PinkNews let me fix ur title

Sarah Jane Baker, who was in prison for kidnapping, raping and torturing a 19 year old for over 24 hours, leaving the 19 year old tied up in wire in a closet to die, was given an extended sentence (he only served 30 years total, he’s now free, and has been since 2019, before this article was written) for attacking a prisoner he had a personal feud with. the other prisoner happened to also be a child sex offender.

[quasi-normalcy]

*elaborate Magical Girl transformation sequence when a pawn turns into a queen*