#adder stones

[dont-hug-me-aesthetics]

Woodland Fairy Shrignold Aesthetic for Anon!

[candles-crystals-cauldrons]

Bowl ‘o’ beach rocks

[candles-crystals-cauldrons]

Hag stones

[intersexwitch]

found a bunch of adder stones in miami beach yesterday!!! i’ve always wanted to collect these 🥰

[theoldstone]

Adder Stones (sometimes also called hag stones, witch stones, serpent’s eggs, snake’s eggs, Glain Neidr, Milpreve, adderstanes, Gloine nan Druid, aggry, or aggri) are stones, usually smooth or glassy, with a naturally occurring hole bored straight through it, typically from water erosion or natural damage.

That said, there are no shortage of stories claiming these stones have a more unnatural origin. One claims that they are formed from the hardened saliva of a great number of serpents, massed together, and the holes are from their tongues. Another claims the stones are actually the heads of snakes.

Adder stones feature prominently in Welsh mythology and Druidic culture. They were believed to have magical powers and thought to protect people from a gamut of problems, ranging from eye diseases, evil charms, nightmares, whooping cough, and snake bites. It was also believed that if you looked through the hole in an adder stone, you could see through the disguise of a fairy or witch.

[mrs-k-cottage-witch]

Witch ladder with Adder Stones! This was handmade by me out of natural twine and stones I found on the beach today. I am going to cleanse it in lavender salt and charge it with an amethyst and use it for nightmares until we get our own place then I will repurpose it and re-charge it for home protection.

[chandri]

hufflepuffia replied to your post “So I’m sitting here happily eating Girl Guide cookies at my desk, when...”

how did this story end? are you in another dimension now????

Okay so immediately after it happened the fire alarm started going off so I forgot, but - I was about to eat the cookie, because fuck it, it's a cookie, it's probably still delicious, but as I was reaching for it, a bird flew into our office window.

Like. THUNK.

This isn't a completely uncommon occurrence, and it's happened before or anything, but you have to admit the timing was eerie.

Also, as mentioned above, then the fire alarm went off.

...

For the moment I have put the cookie back in the box.

[featherandmoss]

Holey stones.  Listed this weekend!