#easter witch

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

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[dancwart]

The twins getting ready for Easter.

Well, it's actually more of a Maudy Thursday thing. But as you know I have other duties that day.

It's not as common these days, but in Sweden, on Maudy Thursday, kids dress up as witches and go door to door to collect candy. Our Halloween

[sharpeningdogteeth]

[halloween-sweets]

[thebrickdwarf]

In Finland and Sweden witches are strongly associated with Easter. Kids will dress up as witches and go from house to house and knock on the door. When they come to your house you better have some candy to give them or they will not cast a protective spell on your home, and without that spell, anything could happen (For example your mailbox might mysteriously explode)

This tradition has it's roots in the 17th century Witch persecutions. During that time it was believed that witches would fly to Blockula over Easter (Swedish Blåkulla = Blue hill). They could fly on broomsticks or other farm tools, or animals, or even on other humans). On Blockula they would presumably hold a party with the devil. Most women (and some men) that were persecuted for this was accused of kidnapping someone, often a child, and bringing them with them. But it could also be that they rode to Blockula on someones farm animal, like a goat or a cow. You knew this had happened if your animal had fallen ill after Easter. Had to be a witch!

Blockula is actually a real place. It's a small Island between mainland Sweden and Öland. I worked on Öland once. I could see Blockula from the window. The Island is called Blå Jungfrun nowadays (Blue maiden). This is a so called Noa-name, a name used instead of the real name Blåkulla because it was considered risky to say the real name. Still to this day this island is believed by some to be cursed. If you visit you should absolutely not bring home a stone from the island. If you do you will have bad luck in life untill you return the stone. Every year the municipality that the island belongs to gets several Blockula stones sent to them by people that wants them returned to the island because of this.

[thingsfromthedirt]

[rainbowsaliva]

Hello sugarcubies! ♥ It's been a while again ~ I wanted to make a counterpart for re-drawn Easterbunny Fluttershy piece as I thought it would be easy and fast and would manage to post it still in time ~ Haha! Only took like 4 months again or so, but here it finally is! ♥

PS: As previously forgot Fluttershy's cutie mark as major mistake ~ Twily is missing her cutie mark as well to make her look uniform with Fluttershy! (╥ ω ╥)⸝ ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

[madeleinefjall]

Happy Easter, and safe travels to Blåkulla tomorrow.