The Crow Witch

Hello! Welcome to my blog, I will post things relating to witchcraft, Wicca, paganism and probably a few other things!

[softyyy]

Softy’s Guide to Facial Oils

Different oils and how to use them

Common Oils

Argan Oil – good for everyone; high in Vit E, great for helping heal scars, eczema, and dry scalp. Oleic acid helps regulate sebum production, and linoleic acid promotes healthy skin turnover, which can be good for acne control.

Avocado Oil – intense hydration; lots of fats and fatty acids; may be too hydrating for certain skin types

Castor Oil – promotes hair growth

Chamomile Oil – Sensitive skin; soothes redness and irritation

Coconut Oil – very moisturizing; however it’s comedogenic so it works well for the body, but may not be good for the face (but if it works for you, go for it!)

Jojoba Oil – all skin types; mimics natural sebum so it’s a good balancer for all sin types

Rosehip Oil – skin discolouration & scarring; also good for helping combat environmental stressors like dry air and wind; improve skin elasticity, boost skin cell regeneration,

Tea Tree Oil – acne (but NEEDS to be diluted if you have 100% tea tree oil)

Grapeseed Oil – oily skin & acne; help regulate oil production while keeping skin moisturized; also has anti-aging & skin-brightening Vit C

Maracuja Oil – anti-inflammatory; brightening (has lots of Vit C); sun damage, discoloration, spots, and fine lines; also said to help with anxiety, insomnia and stress?

Marula Oil – irritated skin; v. soothing & hydrating; high in oleic acid; high in anti-oxidants;

Sweet Almond Oil – great for sensitive & dry skin

Less Common

Dilo Oil (found by Kate Sommerville); good for firming

Black Currant Oil – skin that needs repair; anti-inflammatory; even good for eczema

Camellia Oil – Lightweight hydration; absorbs quickly; great for sensitive skin

Pomegranate Oil ­– anti-inflammatory; reduces redness; brightens skin; packed with Vit A, D, E, & K; goof for combination skin

Hemp Seed – light moisture; good for dry, aging skin

Pumpkin Seed Oil – blemish prone skin

Evening Primrose Oil – soothing & anti-inflammatory; great for sensitive skin

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one time my brother said that emotion wasnt interesting/good and it was too repetitive and ive never considered murder seriously until that moment

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he turned it off mid album and i havent forgiven him since

[niceferatu]

I didn't realise that you meant the iconic Carly Rae Jepsen album and I just assumed he was talking about. the human experience of emotion

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A peek into my book of shadows. Mine is a combination of personal journaling, witchcraft, and art!

[witchkitch]

🥧 Peaceful Lavender Plum & Blueberry Hand Pies

8 tablespoons Buttermilk* (glamour, manifestation, strength, purification) 3 tablespoons Lavender (sleep, cleansing, peace, stability, protection 2 ½ cups Flour** (abundance, prosperity, grounding) 2 tablespoons Sugar (attraction, abundance, prosperity, love) ¾ teaspoon Salt (cleansing, protection, banishment) 1 cup unsalted Butter* (calming, strength, glamour, purification) 1 ¼ cups chopped Plums (love, protection, creativity, manifestation) 1 ¼ cups Blueberries (protection, warding, banishment) 2 teaspoons Lemon Juice (warding, purifying, cleansing, healing) 1 tablespoon CornStarch (healing, strength, purification, unification, binding) 1 Egg* (creativity, cleansing, psychic power, rebirth)

(vegan.gf)🥄🥄

Vegan/GF Substitutions:

*½ cup Almond Milk (mental clarity, abundance, protection) +1 tablespoon Lemon Juice(warding, purifying, cleansing, healing) [let sit for 10 minutes before use] *1 cup Coconut Oil (protection, purification, love) *1 tablespoon ground Flax Seed (warding, protection, healing, protection) +1 tablespoon Water **Use gluten free flower, spelt, nut flower, etc for GF

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💀 Curse Correspondences 💀

Crystals:

Agate - for use on a target who has entered a space uninvited, i.e. someone breaking into your home or vehicle

Alexandrite - causes obsession and delusions

Amethyst - causes sensitivity and self-destruction

Astrophyllite - causes those who have died at the hands of another to torment the target from the grave

Diamond - causes blindness, confusion, and disorientation

Diopside - lowers inhibitions and causes secrets to be revealed

Emerald - causes greed, selfishness, and isolation

Flint - causes conflicts

Garnet - leeches energy from a target

Kunzite - induces vulnerability 

Kyanite - used to infiltrate a target’s mind

Meteorite - used as a catalyst in baneful magick

Obsidian - used for general aggressive magick

Onyx - causes nightmares and mental torment, and is used to break up relationships

Opal - used to store negative energy, and then to be given to a target

Ruby - used to focus your intent on a target

Colors:

Black - law, justice, manifestation, sorrow

Red - force, energy, confrontation, jealousy, anger

Greenish Yellow - strife, discord, illness, conflict, jealousy, greed

Magenta - catalyst

Herbs:

Ague Weed - confusion 

Angelica Root - misery, strife, distress, discord

Asafoetida - drives enemies away

Bayberry - depression

Bindweed - binding

Blackberry Root - distress

Black Salt - misery, strife, distress, discord

Bladderwrack - illness

Bloodroot - substitute for blood

Blueberry - confusion, strife

Boneset - distress, confusion

Cayenne Pepper - anxiety

Chicory - discord

Chili Powder - discord, misery, strife

Cinquefoil - discomfort

Clove - stopping gossip

Cramp Bark - pain, illness

Dogbane - deception

Dragon’s Blood - destruction, strife, misery

Hemlock - discord, sadness

Henbane - illness, discord, melancholy

Jezebel Root - wickedness, ending relationships, punishing unfaithful lovers

Knot Weed - binding

Lemon - sourness, bitterness

Lemon Verbena - a boost of power, ending relationships

Lime - sourness, bitterness

Lobelia - discord

Mace - misery, strife

Mandrake - misery, strife

Mistletoe - isolation, confusion

Mullein - spirit work, nightmares

Mustard Seed - strife, discord

Myrrh - a boost of power

Nightshade (Belladonna) - discord, illness

Onion - strife

Patchouli - illness

Poke Root - confusion, discord

Poppy Seed - discord

Rue - misery

Safflower - destruction

Spanish Moss - bad luck

Slippery Elm - ending relationships

Stinging Nettle - jealousy, envy, discomfort

Sumac - bad luck

Tobacco - a substitute for any baneful herb

Tormentil - distress, harm, discord

Vetiver - silence

Wormwood (Absinthe) - misery, strife

Yew - spirit work

Yohimbe Bark - impotency

Planets:

Mars - power, force, energy, war, conflict, jealousy

Saturn - law, justice, chaos, revenge

Neptune - confusion, illusion, chaos

Pluto - death, mystery, crisis

Lunar Phases:

Waning - binding

Dark - destruction, banishing, justice

Black - power, manifestation

Taglocks:

DNA (saliva, nail clippings, hair, blood, etc.)

Drawings

Photos

The target’s name written on paper

The target’s signature

An item that belongs to the target

Other Ingredients:

Cigarette butts

Broken glass

Razorblades 

Vinegar

Lemon/lime juice

Alcohol

Bones

Needles

Nails

Thorns

Blood

Urine

Saliva

Shark teeth

Catfish spines

Murex seashells

Flying Devil Oil

Dead insects

Black sand

Charcoal

Disclaimer: I do not condone the unethical practice of collecting or harvesting animal parts, or forcefully obtaining certain biological taglocks. These are just ideas, and I am not responsible for anything you choose to do with them. 

Updated: 3-9-2017

[crystaldragon1997]

Motherfucking Lavender Lemonade

Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch right here. This is some good shit to make when you are feeling bougie as fuck. High-fructose corn syrup? Naw son, I don’t play that. Hit this with some vodka though, different story. Max relax.

LAVENDER LEMONADE

5 cups of water

½ -¾ cup sugar (yeah, it is fucking lemonade. without the sugar it is just real sour fucking water)

¾ cup Meyer lemon juice, about 6 lemons (you can just use the regular lemons at the store too, not a dealbreaker)

juice of half a lime

4 sprigs of fresh lavender

Bring the water to a boil in a medium pot. Add the sugar and simmer that shit on a low heat for about 5 minutes. Make sure to stir it on the regular. The sugar should be all dissolved in the water by now with no little fucking grains rolling around in there. Turn off the heat and stir in the lemon juice, lime juice, and lavender. Let it cool until it is around room temperature. Take the lavender pieces out but use a fucking spoon and not your fingers if you are going to serve that shit to other people. Put the lemonade in the fridge to cool down all the way. Serve with lemon wedges and a pinch of dried lavender if you want it to look fucking impressive.

makes about 1 quart of chill the fuck out

Found on Facebook from Chaos Witch

[mossywizard]

My grandma told me every time you move the clasp of a necklace from the front of your neck to the back, you should make a wish. I’m now using this as a small day to day spell

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Bill Hader Was Completely Shocked By His Emmy Win

Bill spent the first moments after his Emmy win decompressing in a bathroom stall and then capped off the night with a solo trip to In-N-Out.

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I am celebrating a few things this month: Reaching 5,500 followers (Hi! Thank you!!), as well as upgrading the packaging of my Telluric Runes oracle deck, now encased in a colourful, custom-printed box with lid (along with a redesigned, more portable companion book)

Why ‘Gold Standard’ you say? Because I’m cheesy and it’s in my name. Furthermore, the winner will get the extremely limited edition (i.e. the only one currently in existence) GILDED-EDGED TELLURIC RUNES DECK :･ﾟ☆✧

It’s shiny.. like the rocks  ಥ﹏ಥ ･ﾟ✧  

GIVEAWAY RULES:

- Open to anyone anywhere, I don’t judge (except giveaway blogs… not judging    you either but yeah sorry) - You don’t have to follow me. I’m an acquired taste - ONE REBLOG = ONE ENTRY (no limit but please don’t spam your people too    much I don’t want them to hate my guts)

- Likes are nice but not an entry.

- ENDS Monday May 27th at midnight (Eastern time)

PRIZE:

One Telluric Runes oracle deck with golden edging (not real gold, I hope we’re clear on that) and companion book.

The runes cards:

PURCHASE INFO: The regular (not-gilded) deck in its new box is available for preorder in my Etsy store (address in my bio/about); I am receiving all the stock this week so it’s not a long wait.

While I’m at it, just a heads-up that I have begun creating the TELLURIC TAROT, in the same vein and theme as the Telluric Runes:

I use the physical properties and symbolic meaning of a mineral and plant to channel the message of each arcana. Design and release of the deck is still a couple of months ahead; I try to post a new arcana artwork here roughly every two days.

THANK YOU and GOOD LUCK *:・ﾟ✧

[charminglyantiquated]

so if there’s one single trope i’m always down to fight it’s the animal bride (folklore motif 402??) which a lot of you are probably familiar with as the selkie - the fisherman either falls in love, steals her skin to trap her on land/gain power over her, or they fall in love and THEN he steals her skin to keep her from leaving, and either way she spends a lot of time gazing sadly out to sea and then she or her child finds the skin and never returns again. and that’s awful on a whole lot of levels - it’s not love, it’s control.

BUT. but the thing is. you how selkies/seal women was a pretty common variation of this? another really popular one was swans.

i just want you to think about that for a moment. swans. like…I get it, they’re pretty, graceful birds, certainly it’s easy to imagine them magically becoming pretty graceful ladies? but have you ever fought a swan. swans are awful. swans are the devil’s geese. imagine seeing a pretty magic lady and being absolutely enchanted by her, and stealing her magic feather cloak, and then you go up and say ‘hey i’m in love with you, let me make you my queen, it will be great, we’ll be so happy’ and she just looks at you for a moment and…

you know i was going to say maybe she just shouts for her sisters and suddenly you’re realizing you’ve made a terrible terrible mistake bc you’re surrounded by big fucking birds who are all hissing. but honestly if this swan lady is as aggressively down to brawl as any other generally unhappy swan, then she’d straight up fuck you up on her own. she’d just deck you roundhouse, honestly. you don’t fuck with swans. why does this trope exist

[roachpatrol]

okay but consider this: a woman walks to the park every day and feeds the swans and watches them paddle gracefully around the lake, sighing to see how beautifully they swim. 

finally one day, a swan comes up to her and says ‘why don’t you come and swim with us? you always sigh so wistfully to see us on the water, and you would be most welcome to join our company, for you have always been a true friend to our kind’

and the woman says, ‘i can’t swim’

and the swan says, ‘we’ll teach you’

and the woman says, ‘literally i can’t swim, my husband stole my sealskin and should i venture into deep water i would surely drown’ 

and the swan says ‘your husband fucking WHAT’

the next morning the woman’s front yard looks like this. 

and neither the woman nor her husband are ever heard from again, though for very different reasons. 

[naamahdarling]

@elodieunderglass

tagged for imaginary swans doing the lord’s work

[drferox]

A++, two thumbs up.

It may also interest someone to know that swans can projectile poop.

[hellenhighwater]

I know a real-world mama swan who got shot in the wing and walked four miles overland to get back to her babies and dad swan, with her broken wing bleeding and dragging the whole way. She just kept going. Don’t mess with lady swans. 

Also? Swans don’t have a lot of obvious physical markings that divide the males from females. So some idiot might be like, “damn, that’s a sexy bird, I wanna marry her” and then like. It’s a dude swan. You just transformed thirty pounds of angry aggressive bird into 200+ pounds of angry aggressive adult man, who will totally kick your butt. (Also I’m pretty sure that if you turned a lady swan into a human, you would not get a willowy little 5′0″ girl. You’d probably have a 6-foot amazon with biceps the size of your head. Swans are heavy birds and it takes a LOT of muscle to get them into the air. They are among the baddest bitches in the bird kingdom)

And when a swan decides to beat you up, it is not with fancy martial arts. Swans are brawlers. They have bone clubs built into their wing joints specifically for beating people up. A human swan is gonna come at you screaming and spitting and just keep punching you in the face until you regret every decision you have made ever in your life and also some of the ones your parents made too. 

[restingwitchface-tarot]

The Witch’s Alphabet, Theban Alphabet, The Runes of Honorius. This text is known by many names. This language is still used today by some Freemasons, Witches, Pagans, Druids and Occultist. This text is believed to hold much power within the symbols. Many witches and occult practicers use these symbols in their magick.

Uses: Books of Shadows, Witch Jars, Spells, Hexs, and Summons.

Use wisely.

Blessed Be!

~Rayne

[unpretty]

just saw someone ask whether batman or spiderman would win in a fight, as if batman would see a brightly-colored sassy acrobat and not immediately adopt him

[thehoodedfigure]

For those who are wonder what these are for 🌱🌿🍀🌷🌻

[restingwitchface-tarot]

The Empress

The Mother Card. The Nurture card. The card that reminds you to take care of yourself. She gently reminds you to create. Create a home environment that meets your needs as a person. Be comfortable, be inspired, and be nurtured. Take pride in the beauty around you!

Take some time out of your day to indulge in some of your favorite tasks. Maybe have that piece of cake! Who cares?! You are comforting yourself! A little indulgence never hurt anyone, just don’t over do it!

Celebrate your life, love, and home!

Blessed be! )O(

**message me for an in depth, personal reading!**

~Rayne

[restingwitchface-tarot]

Symbols Chart.

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“flowers that will attract fae and the bees!”

— flowers are important to our enviroment and bees. they are also important to fae, helping them is a good way to get in their good graces. below is a list of flowers for your garden that will also help the bees!

• sage

• thyme

• coneflower

• granium

• verbena

• sunflowers

• fennel

• rosemary

• aster

• buttercup

• lavender

continue to help the bees and raise awareness for the cause that there aren’t many left in the world. they need all our help! 🐝💕

[marigoldwitch]

Some things you can add to your tea, as a witch

🍓 Berries - There’s nothing like a hot cup of camomile tea with a few fresh blueberries. Blueberries = Protection // Raspberries = Protection & Love // Strawberries = Love & Luck // Blackberries = Protection, Healing & Money

🍯 Honey - Adds that extra bit of sweetness and honey is great for love and binding. Green tea with a little honey would be the perfect start for a self-love spell or ritual.

🥛 Milk - I like to use almond milk. Almonds are great for fertility, money and luck spells. It also taste really good! I find taste best in black tea.

🍋 Lemon - Tastes great in green tea. Lemon is great for purifying and cleansing in spells and rituals. Would be an awesome tea to enjoy next time you do a cleansing meditation for your chakras.

🎄 Cinnamon - This one makes me think of winter and Yule but it taste so good. Especially when you pair it with a little bit of honey. Cinnamon is most commonly used in witchcraft related to healing, love, money and happiness.

🌿 Peppermint - It’s an acquired taste, for sure, but it’s very yummy in most teas and can help relieve nausea, gas and stomach cramps. 

🥄 Ginger - Another that’s an acquired taste. It’ll definitely add a zing to your tea but it can help with flu symptoms and nausea. Used in witchcraft to help “speed things up” or “add passion” to spells.