By Moonlight And Moth Flight

Hello! This is the blog of a witch living below the Mason-Dixion line in the US, practicing traditional witchcraft and folk magic! I'm always willing to dispense some advice or point you in the direction of some books or someone who can.

[grimoirebabylon]

Pagan Roman Spell to All Herbs

From Precatio Terrae Matris. The original in Latin: PRECATIO OMNIUM HERBARUMN unc vos potentes omnes herbas deprecor. exoro maiestatem vestram, quas parens tellus generavit et cunctis dono dedit: medicinam sanitatis in vos contulit maiestatemque, ut omni generi identidem humano sitis auxilium utilissimum. hoc supplex exposco et precor: velocius huc huc adeste cum vestris virtutibus, quia, quae creavit, ipsa permisit mihi, ut colligam vos; favit hic etiam, cui medicina tradita est. quantumque vestra nunc virtus potest, praestate medicinam bonam causa salutis. gratiam, precor, mihi praestetis per virtutem vestram, ut omnibus in rebus, quicquid ex vobis ego fecero, cuive homini dedero, habeatis eventus bonos et effectum celerrimum. ut semper mihi liceat favente maiestate vestra vos colligere, … … … … ponamque vobis fruges et grates agam per nomen Matris, quae vos iussit nascier. And an English translation: A PRAYER TO ALL HERBS

With all you potent herbs do I now intercede;  and to your majesty make my appeal: ye were engendered by Mother Earth, and given for a gift to all. On you she has conferred the healing which makes whole, on you high excellence, so that to all mankind you may be time and again an aid most serviceable. This in suppliant wise I implore and entreat: hither, hither swiftly come with all your potency, forasmuch as the very one who gave you birth has granted me leave to gather you: he also to whom the healing art is entrusted has shown his favour. As far as your potency now extends, vouchsafe sound healing for health’s sake. Bestow on me, I pray, favour by your potency, that in all things, whatsoever I do according to your will, or for whatsoever man I prescribe, ye may have favorite issues and most speedy result. That I may ever be allowed, with the favour of your majesty, to gather you… and I shall set forth the produce of the fields for you and return thanks through the name of the Mother who ordained your birth.

[grimoirebabylon]

I salute thee and conjure thee, O beautiful Moon, O most beautiful Star, O brilliant light which I have in my hand. By the light which I have in my hand. By the air that I breathe within me, by the earth that I am touching: I conjure thee. -Grimorium Verum O Moon shine brightly, for I will sing softly to thee, O Goddess, and to Infernal Hecate. -Sod, The Mysteries of Adoni

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again; How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me-in vain! -Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam But oh, the night! oh, bitter sweet! oh, sweet! O dark, O moon and stars, O ecstasy Of darkness! O great mystery of love. In which absorbed, loss, anguish, treason’s self Enlarges rapture, —as a pebble dropped In some full wine-cup overbrims the wine! - Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Browning

Upon the dusty, glittering windows cling, And seem to cling upon the moonlit skies, Tortoiseshell butterflies, peacock butterflies, A couple of night-moths are on the wing. Is every modern nation like the tower, Half-dead at the top? No matter what I said, For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud. - Blood and the Moon, William Butler Yeats

If tonight, O moon, thou hast found us In peaceful, happy rest, May thy laving lustre leave us Seven times still more blest. O moon so fair, May it be so, As seasons come, And seasons go. - Carmina Gadelica, Volume 1

[nemfrog]

The flight of the lepidoptera. Elementary Science Readers: First Book. 1927.

Internet Archive

[the3eyedamoeba]

Both science and mysticism are tools to uncover the secrets of the universe.

Both science and magick are methods to create change in the world.

I don’t see why they should be mutually exclusive.

[jekul-the-wandering]

There’s so many of these posts, but like many others that post this, my dash is deceased. 

So reblog if you post about: 

Random Witch Things

Chaos Magic

Green Witchcraft

Witchy Herbs 

The Fae 

Runes and/or Sigils  

Norse Paganism/Heathenry 

Craft Names

And reblog if you’re: 

A Witchling/Baby Witch

LGBT+ Witch

A Witchy POC

A Male Witch 

A Closeted Witch 

[11-whitesagewitch-11]

[meltedgarment]

In that order really too…

[lierdumoa]

Can’t stress enough that when we say “The LGBT community lost an entire generation to AIDS” this isn’t an abstract statement. We literally lost gay and trans Boomers **specifically**. They were the generation that was of “clubbing age” during the onset of the epidemic.

[taikeero-lecoredier]

Germany has started implementing article 17 (formely known as article 13)

Back in 2019,the EU Copyright Directive passed by a slim margin in Parliament,the very same Directive containing Upload Filters and Link taxes.And now its on its way. AO3 made an entry explaining clearly what are the stakes,and how the current language of the bill endangers non commercial sites such as AO3 itself,as well as Wikipedia.

Please refer to the original post for the entire information: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/19550 If you are German,I beg you to contact your representatives like indicated 

Explains how this threathen freedom of speech and creativity during fair use,and how parodies,caricatures,postiche,etc should not be subjected to this. I do not know when or if other EU countries will also start implementing article 17 on their own. I do know there is a lawsuit from Poland ongoing trying to strike the Directive down (But it is extremely slow process,so its best to contact MEPs right away before too much damage is done under this Directive) Not only that,but TERREG (not part of the directive) which is the “anti terror law”) has been adopted without a plenary vote on a EU scale,which means that under one hour,certain sites will have to take down any content deemed as “terrorist” to governement’s eyes,without the control of a judge to see if its fair or not. So sites will have to resort to Upload Filters as the short time theyre given to take content down is ridiculously short. Terreg can be sued,but only if we see misuse,which isn’t really enough.

If you read this,I’m begging you to REBLOG AND SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE. Even if you’re not from the EU. Tweet about this,get Youtubers to talk about,anything to get the word out. Don’t let governements and greedy assholes censor our Internet.

[lailoken]

“Where did the old-time witches, and their modern counterparts, meet to celebrate their rites? Traditionally it had to be close to running water, even though folk belief said it was impossible for a witch to pass over it, where two or three streams or rivers met, near a weir or waterfall, at an ancient tree, a prehistoric standing stone, or a crossroads. In the old days the place where three or four roads converged was often used for burials, especially of suicides, murderers and witches who were laid in unconsecrated ground. They were also a popular site for gallows and gibbets and where traditionally dark magic was practised, hence the popular term 'dirty work at the crossroads'. Crossroads often marked where the boundaries of several parishes met.

Liminal places like the edge of woods where they meet moorland or open countryside, and beaches or cliffs where the sea meets the land, were deliberately chosen by old-time witches for their rites because of their Otherworldliness. They were regarded as physical gateways between the material world and the spirit world. Any hedge where oak, ash and thorn grew was also regarded as one of these liminal entrances. As we have seen, witches also convened at prehistoric sites such as wells and springs, burial mounds, earthworks, megalithic circles, hill forts and former Celtic nemetons or sacred groves.

Uncultivated plots of land, known in folklore as the Devil's Acre or No Man's Land, were also used as meeting places for the same reason. There is a village in North Devon called Nomansland or No-Mans- Land, which is so called because the boundaries of four parishes meet at its crossroads. In Scotland pieces of uncultivated land were known as the Gudeman's croft or Cloutie's Croft, both popular nicknames for Auld Hornie, Old Splitfoot or the Devil. At Elgin in 1602 several local men were called before the kirk (church) session to explain why they had reserved a plot of land for the Devil. They said it was a peace offering to the Old One so he would not blight their crops and animals. The Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott compared the tradition of the Gudeman's Croft to the temenos in Ancient Greece, a piece of land that was set aside and regarded as sacred and dedicated to the worship of the pagan gods (McLellan 1957:62-63)

Historically churchyards and ruined churches were also favoured for witch meets, especially those built on the ancient sites of pagan worship. Unfortunately their use of such places gave the witches a bad reputation among the ignorant. Today if evidence of such places is discovered the newspapers react with sensational headlines about so-called black magic rites and satanic practices. An example of was provided in the early 1960s when a series of magical working were carried out in several ruined churches in Norfolk. The newspapers at the time got over-excited because one of the churches used was on the royal estate at Sandringham. In 1963 evidence of a necromantic ritual was found in a ruined church on a hilltop at Clophill in Bedfordshire.

A media sensation was also caused in the 1970s when the Windsor covine mentioned previously was disturbed by a farmer while convening at a ruined church near the village of Bix near Henley-on-Thames in Berkshire. Although the story was picked up by the local press and a Sunday newspaper, which inaccurately claimed that local villagers were living in fear of 'black magic' rites, the farmer told the police that he had no objection to the witches meeting on his land. The church was on the site of a former pagan shrine and was well known locally for its powerful psychic atmosphere and associated paranormal phenomena.”

—

The Children of Cain:

A Study of Modern Traditional Witchcraft

by Michael Howard

[natalieironside]

When I die I wanna be cremated so that future archaeologists can’t misgender my bones and then I want y’all to dump the ashes in the creek or something so that Twitter witches can’t steal me to use as an alchemical catalyst

[natalieironside]

Alright, new plan:

There are seven Tombs of Natalie hidden in the Canyon of the Edgy Tumblr Witches.  One is real and six are decoys.  You have to find the real tomb and fight your way through all of my failed esoteric experiments (there’s a lot of ‘em) to get to Natalie’s Burial Chamber only to discover that my remains were already stolen and are currently opening a portal to Hell under the Vatican.

[noroquian]

@natalieironside give@normal-horoscopes or somesuch a mostly complete map for this exact purpose

[natalieironside]

See, I would be totally cool with an evil wizard who I know and like (for instance CT Normalhoroscopes) having access to my mortal residue for nefarious purposes with pre-mortem permission, but that would kinda defeat the purpose of my elaborate traps which definitely aren’t a reference to the popular gothic horror/fantasy roleplaying video game Diablo 2

At this point I’m kinda hoping I can get bodily translated into the afterlife like Enoch. Just bypass the whole “dying” thing entirely.

[natalieironside]

New standing policy: You’re only allowed to graverob me if we’re mutuals on Tumblr but you still have to navigate all the monsters and spike traps in the way

[uphillsky]

I mean yeah, I wouldn’t want the process to be easy even from a friend. Wheres the drama in that?

[natalieironside]

That’s the spirit

[xochihuacoyotl]

i’m not sure i’ve ever been so jazzed to be someone’s Certified Tumblr Mutual ™.

[natalieironside]

The unspoken intimacy of consensual plundering

[systlin]

Okay so I still want my skull turned into a super snazzy skull goblet and my fingerbones made into runes of unspeakable power, but for the rest of my body I know what I want done.

[othert]

Do we get a horadric cube out of it if we solve the puzzle? I’d love some extradimensional storage space

[natalieironside]

Nah you’re supposed to already have Natalie’s Cube* by that point in the adventure, you get it form the catgirl in the Halls of the Dead

*Horadric Cubes are a registered trademark of Blizzard and I don’t want them to come exhume my remains and put them on trial for cheating like they did the pope that one time

[keltaithecrafty]

You absolutely may not obtain it by slaying the Catgirl, as that will make the baby stars cry and incur the wrath of the Caretaker.

You do not, under any circumstances, want to piss off the Caretaker.

[natalieironside]

We’re getting our streams crossed, that’s a whole other catgirl and I’m pretty sure she’s unkillable by any means at my disposal

[tylerposey]

LIL NAS X Entertainment Weekly — Texas Isiah (2021)

[gayspock-deactivated20250217]

-core as a suffix serves the exact same function as -esque and yet they throw tomatoes at me when i say something is kafkacore

[astergenius]

kafkastuck

[gayspock-deactivated20250217]

(the tomatoes stop midair and change direction) (they are now hurtling towards YOU)

[whetstonefires]

#THESE ARE ALL SUBTLY DIFFERENT (via @brawltogethernow)

yeah it’s like—-

-esque means homaging or resembling the style of, or reminiscent of even if unintentionally; you can apply the -esque suffix without making any overt assertions about creative intent or your own interpretive lens

-core is about pursuing motif as theme; it’s designating the [thing] attached to the suffix as a core (lol) unifying conceptual or stylistic element, rather than a mere attribute. it implies lifestyle choices, maybe an attached subculture–to be thing-core an item must either be produced as part of or usable within a pursuit of the theme

-stuck is weirder because it derives from a subculture to begin with, but generally it’s more like [other thing] ‘in the mode of’ [thing]. thingstuck implies the application of a template to another template to create the fusion child thereof; appropriately has its roots in fanfic aus

[roach-works]

holy shit that is all exactly right! i’d like to further suggest:

-punk indicates an ideological counterculture rebellion against current cultural norms in the direction of [thing], such as steampunk and solarpunk. kafkapunk would be something like defiantly embracing the option of turning into a hideous giant bug in lieu of participating in late stage capitalism. which, frankly, is a big mood.

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

I wish I could have referenced this post in my Short Fiction Analysis class in college, when I wrote an analysis about Kafka’s short story. I was already the student that made my professor’s brain seize up, this would have been a helpful addition to my assignments.

[nikest]

“Anatomy of a Hug” by Luna Lu

[ryebreadgf]

in mesopotamia there were no 'cover letters' or 'curriculum vitaes'. there were just, pots.

[feenyxblue]

And copper ingots. Very high quality ingots from a very reputable merchant

[birdsquirrel]

#tumblr's dedication to dragging ea-nasir from across history is one of my fave things about this hellsite

[rivendellrose]

#somewhere in the afterlife #ea-nasir is gaining power #and he has no idea why

Y’know, that’s a really good point. Are we sure we want to be giving the worst businessman in known history more power in the afterlife?!

[digitaldiscipline]

Yes, because when Trump dies and thinks he’s going to be king shit in the afterlife, ea-nasir is going to one-shot him with a shitty copper ingot upside his empty orange fucking head

[lynati]

Each Reblog adds another copper ingot to ea-nasir's afterlife pile. Each like improves his aim.

[drst]

I’m okay with this.

[djkoenig-deactivated20140905]

(◡‿◡✿)

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

[chronically-ill-dandy]

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby.  I got yo flower.”

[kahguyaht]

i found it

the original post

i found it

[eviesrealitychangesdaily-deacti]

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog. 

[allons-ynumberten-deactivated20]

*tour guide voice*

and here on the left ladies and gentlemen, you see one of the posts before everyone went batshit crazy

[nudityandnerdery]

“before everyone went batshit crazy” Oh, buddy. No, Tumblr was always batshit crazy. Just in different ways.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Get those beach bodies ready!

[sola-invinctus]

A Pentacle of Orifiel for Aquiring Prophecy

From the Secrets of Solomon, edited and translated by Joseph H. Peterson

With the feast day of Saint John the Baptist coming up quite soon (June 24th), now would be a good time to learn how to make a talisman for prophecy for anyone interested and not yet in possession of this book. However, I am a bit suspicious that this is referring to the summer solstice, when the magic runs high and divination is best done. Up to us to experiment and figure out.

*The name shown within is likely Shem HaMephorash, a secret and holy name of God, often used in the occult.