#becausedragons

[dzamie]

Are latkes and potato pancakes the same thing? Chopped up potatoes with a batter mixed up and ladled into oil to fry crispy flats?

Yep! "Latke" is Yiddish; "potato pancake" is not.

[strangesigils]

Can I just say, I drew your "I find cheap treasures" sigil on my thigh yesterday in green marker. Today after months of me, my fiance, his mom, and three friends all trying to find a graphics card that wasn't sold out or being scalped...I finally found him one. For normal price too and not scalper price. Only one left. Like hot damn your sigils have some juice those things work hella good. Made my leg tingle n everything.

That’s awesome!! Hell yeah they got juice I put my heart and soul in this shit (because hyper-fixation happenings when I get in the sigil making mood)

I’m so glad it worked out!! Thanks for sending your experience!

[breelandwalker]

Do mirrors actually have any use or effects in witchcraft or luck/lack there of? Say you've accidentally broken all 5 of your hand mirrors because you're a clumsy fish handed doof...

Mirrors can be used in witchcraft, but generally only in very deliberate ways. The idea that breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck goes back to an old superstition that your reflection contained your soul. If the mirror, and therefore your reflection, was shattered or cracked, then your soul was also broken and would take seven years to knit itself back together. And of course, having a fractured soul, you would undoubtedly attract all manner of bad spirits and ill fortune during that time.

That being said, glass breaks pretty easily when dropped, especially if you happen to have nerve problems in your hands, poor skill at juggling carried objects (like me), or just an everlasting case of the butterfingers.

So if you’re worried that you’re somehow cursed because of a bunch of broken hand mirrors, don’t be. Unless you were deliberately trying to hex yourself (and then I would question why), you should be fine. 😊

[drakhenliche]

Paint. And ink. What a combo =) . #becausedragons #dragon #dragons #dragonart #magic #artstudio #artshare #artshow #art #instadragon #artistsofinstagram #necro #darkart #ink #blue #fire #paintings #watercolour #worldart #drakhenliche #necromancer

[sunsetnest]

Is it bad that I just love the idea of having a bunch of spirit friends who stop by to visit every once and a while even if they aren't companions

That’s not bad at all!! That’s probably more normal than companions!Lots and lots of people have wards that just keep ALL spirits out, but I love having wards that let in passing spirits. I meet so many new guys! And every time I go to the astral, I make more friends! And they come to visit! It’s gr8! 10/10. 100% would recommend. I mean, you should know how to protect yourself first. And have wards that keep out malevolent spirits and such, but yea, bring over spirit friends!!

[strangesigils]

winx club ask meme :3

Winx Club: How has your practice evolved since you first started out?

Definitely! I started out as Wiccan, because when you first start out researching 'witchcraft' as a search thing on google pretty much all the results are about Wicca, and all the links you click on pretty much lead you to believe you can only practice witchcraft if you're Wiccan. It's pretty much the same thing with books targeted towards witches just starting out; which is why I kinda cringe a little when people say 'don't get your info online, look at books instead!', because the fact of the matter is that most books that are widely available and easy to find on witchcraft are not a whole lot better than what you'd find online (I'm talking in terms of appropriation, historical misinformation, and purposely misleading and terf-y jargon). To this day I struggle trying to find any kind of witchcraft book that isn't Wicca based, appropriative, or low-key terf-y (or in one really bad example I bought a book I thought was about spirit work and demonology from the New Age/Spirituality section and it was just this $40 piece of hot garbage framing literally all mental illnesses as a result of demonic possession or other paranormal phenomenon).

After getting involved in the witchcraft community here and seeing just the vast diversity of the community and different practices, I learned that a lot of things I thought I knew were not so, and that Wicca was not the only way or even 'the original way' as I was previously led to believe. I learned that parts of my belief system were stolen from cultures I had no rights to, cultures that I had not bothered to learn a single thing about because I didn't know I was using stolen/incorrect terms for things I was doing. I learned a lot of my beliefs stemmed from super racist ideals that I wasn't even aware of.

I could go on for days about the ways I've grown, my practice has grown, and things I've learned since I first started.

I started out as the kind of newbie that would've been scammed and abused easily by another witch if I was led to believe they knew more about witchcraft than I did. I started out with the mentality that deities were like spell ingredients, and I call to a certain deity with certain connotations to help me with a spell without even bothering to introduce myself or form a relationship. I though it mattered how I chose to spell the word magic lol. And I never made my own spells.

But what I'm essentially saying is that exposure to different practices, different types of practitioners, and learning about the different cultures a lot of different practices and beliefs come from outside of Wicca led me to grow as a person. As my worldview changed so has my craft and how I practice.

Comparing my practice now to how it was when I started, the two are completely unrecognizable to each other.

I am a secular witch, I don't follow any particular faith, I don't feel like I have to be in a coven to be valid in my practice, and I would never accuse anybody of being a fake witch just because I don't understand their practice or because they include emojis or pop culture references.

[strangesigils]

weird question lol, but do you think any of your previously made sigils would work to boost fertility and health in my aquarium fish? I'm hoping to get a good batch of baby fishies <3

I don’t really have anything for fertility, sorry, but I do have something to help keep them healthy

“The Fish Are Healthy”

[drakhenliche]

Inktober Day..um... actually this was from before the last upload but let's just pretend it was day14. Ink did most of the work but a little pencil crayon crept in here too. #inktober #inktober2017 #becausedragons #dragon #dragons #sketch #ink #polychromos #artistsoninstagram