My name is the same as my username: theabyssalprince. I would rather not be referred to as anything else. I keep my circles small.
I do not call myself Pagan. I am not a Wiccan, nor do I follow the "Threefold Law".
I mostly work with eldritch/ cosmic horror configurations with a side of pop culture adventures.
I prefer academic sources in my studies, but I am not opposed to the whimsy of intuition.
I am not qualified to be a teacher, and I am not looking for a group. As rude as it might seem, I am also not open to making friends with strangers over the internet at this time.
Do not copy/plagiarize, repost, or alter my posts.
I have a standard DNI and hard block liberally.
Basic Beliefs:
Lilith is a closed entity.
Reality shifting is not real. (It also just sounds like Dreamwalking from Marvel's Darkhold).
Contrary to the above, I do believe in the multiverse theory, and you can "connect" to it, but not "possess" another you. (This may require explanation, which I may attempt at a different time).
The "Law of Manifestation" and the "Law of Attraction" are part of the New Age-alt-right pipeline.
Spells can not be based purely around intention.
[This is subject to change or be edited in anyway at any time.]
Jan 2026 Update:
I am anti-"AI", as in generative apps, learning language models, data scraping, and otherwise. This includes Character.AI (c.ai) as well.
I reserve the right to block based on your own Do Not Interact guidelines and boundaries.
Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone and read that book that's more than a decade or even century old to learn more about magic and witchery.
You have to interact with literature and media that isn't within your own echo chamber.
You need regular confrontations with opinions and ideas outside your own bubble otherwise you. will. not. grow.
You must be able to read things critically, knowing that picking up a book and reading it does not equal you believing every word.
Learn about how others view the world, learn how people's beliefs work, learn how to intake information without assuming that every bit of information is on a binary of "good" or "bad" information.
This is the witchy version of me telling you, lovingly, to go touch grass.
My question is: “What am I missing?”
I suppose it is more in terms of spirituality/religion, there’s a hint of daily life drawing my doubts again. I feel like I've asked this question too many times and I'm unable to understand the answer, so I thought a second opinion would help.
With a deck from your “Typically Not Used” section.
Thank you, have a lovely day.
~🦑
Hey Elias, welcome back to the ask box! For you, I have selected the Unstable Unicorns game from that section. Your card is the yellow Basic Unicorn.
This card is exactly what it looks like: a yellow unicorn with flowers in its hair telling you to dance like nobody's watching. Ultimately, going back to the basics or simplifying things can help. Check the foundation, rebuild the base, and make something joyful that you actually want to interact with or live within.
Overall, a pretty short reading. I hope it helps out in some way, Elias. If you feel so inclined, please feel free to send feedback in my ask box, leave feedback in a reblog of this reading, and/or reblog my reading guidelines!
Honestly, one would expect "make something joyful that you actually want to interact with or live within" would have been an obvious message, but I've been doing too much to make a living off of the little things I have.
Everything's become a hustle, or there's an excessive need for it to be perfect. The fun and joy that could have been there dissipated.
I wrote 1,000+ words on something a couple of months ago, something just for me, and haven't touched it since.
I need to learn the process again (go back to basics), see the rot nourish fresh sprouts, and remember why I started it all.
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Thank you for the reading, Jasper! This was well-needed. Right to the point of it.
I'm curious as to what a "conpantheon" is exactly, how did you develop it?
No rush to answer, please use this ask as a way to start talking about it if it would help.
Have a lovely day.
~Elias 🦑
HIIII! conpantheon stands for "constructed pantheon" – it is usually, but not always, used to refer to a pantheon of created by the worshiper (usually one and not multiple people) entities. it's sometimes also called do-it-yourself deity/spirit. sometimes but not often conpantheon refers to a pantheon where you are just making your own pantheon of deities not created by you, but i use it in the former here
the easiest way to describe it is make an original character. worship them. tada, do-it-yourself deity/spirit!
my conpantheon is the Court of Stars. they're based heavily off of the constellations, with the twelve zodiacs being the "head", making the Twelve Monarchs that rule the realms.
i typically look at things like astrology beliefs for the Twelve Monarchs, mythos about the namesake, and also just sprinkle in fun stuff to make them more unique for me.
the planets and moons make minor spirits, such as Mercury being The Messenger of the Heavens. asteroids and stuff are included, as are other important celestial bodies like the North Star, Polaris
the Twelve Monarchs are the Firstborn Aries through the Twelfthborn Pisces, and the Thirteenthborn Ophiuchus is the Usurper and a very adversarial spirit.
i usually work primarily with the Twelve Monarchs at my base and other constellations another step down, and the planets, moons, and etc as the bottom rung of the ladder.
Ophiuchus is an interesting part of the pantheon because i made It to be adversarial! the idea was that the first Twelve (Gemini is counted as one despite being the Brother and Sister) earned their spots as Monarchs through birthright... but Ophiuchus was the final born and earned nothing for being too late. so It tried to overtake the heavens themselves and exert Itself as the one ruler over them all... but was ultimately defeated. now Ophiuchus works as an adversarial entity that causes havoc and strife and is more meant to be appeased than worshiped.
why would i do this? because it's fun. why not. i do what i want it's my pantheon
now as for some other stuff? i generally believe the Court of Stars exists on its own separate of me at this point. my creation of them was step one, my belief was step two, and my worship (or appeasement in the case of Ophiuchus) was step three, and now they've been "born" and do their own things, but still generally bound by me and my creation. which is why i would have to be co-authors with someone in order to feel comfortable with another person working with them lol, because otherwise that feels like way too much power
they're ever growing and ever changing as i change up lore and stuff, but i generally never stray too far from the original intention and vision... if i wanted to go 180°, i feel it'd be better to just make a new diy spirit rather than change up a previous one. which is just a me stance
i think that's all i can think to say... hmmm.... yeah! thanks for letting me ramble
Ko-Fi Phishing Scam - Warning, Details, & What to Do if You Clicked the Link
Date of posting: June 3, 2026.
Heads up to my fellow Ko-Fi users!! There's a known phishing scam going around. The scammers are sending messages via commission messages. They're claiming that the account has been suspended and won't be able to receive payments until information is verified. They then provide a link to follow to "fix" the issue.
Do not click that link!! It will steal your information and possibly your money. Block the sender and delete the message. If you're concerned that your account has actually been compromised because you clicked a link sent to you, send a ticket to the real Ko-Fi support team and change the passwords on Ko-Fi and all connected accounts.
(Also, it seems like Ko-Fi is getting a lot of traffic right now, probably because of this latest blast of phishing attempts. Stay calm. Your account is fine. Only send a ticket if you filled out a suspicious form; and if you did click or fill out something suspicious, make sure you change all of the passwords on your Ko-Fi and all attached accounts.)
Since I'm me, let's take a closer look at the message, how this phishing scam is meant to work, and how you can spot these yourself in the future:
The goal of a phishing scam is to convince you that something is wrong and needs your immediate attention. Scammers want you to click a link or call a phone number in order to further convince you to part with critical personal information, such as your banking details, account passwords, home address, and more. Sometimes, they'll even download malicious software onto your machine.
The thing about phishing scams is that they require you, the recipient, to take action in order to work. You've got to click that link or make that phone call for them to access your accounts. If you block, report, and delete their messages, they lose.
Most phishing scams consist of a few key elements:
An urgent, inflammatory first line or email title
An assertion of authority (support, staff, etc.)
A brief description of what allegedly needs fixing, usually having to do with account issues, payment processing, or similar
A reassurance that this can be fixed with simple steps
A link to follow or a phone number to call in order to fix the issue
A deadline
Here's a screenshot of the message I received this afternoon:
We're hitting most of the common traits of a phishing scam, minus the deadline declaration. Still, when I saw the email notification that I'd gotten this message, I felt a little panicked! I know enough about phishing scams to spot them, and I recognized this as bullshit pretty quick, but I still felt that initial jolt of fear. The scam hopes that I'll take action on that fear alone, because oh god that's my money. You know?
So, I took a breath. Told myself I'd done nothing wrong, and if it was real (which it certainly wasn't), then I could contact support and figure it out. I logged into my account to have a closer look, and... Nothing. Everything was fine. No suspension notice, no big red prompt. My payment methods are intact with no warnings attached.
Interesting, no? I took another, closer look at the message. I grabbed a screenshot of it to send to the support team since they're tracking the situation and to talk about it here.
This is a very clever phishing attempt. The message itself is well-crafted. It's a little awkward in places, but the grammar is good. My guess is it's an LLM at work, generating text to send out. The emojis are a deeply unprofessional touch that would absolutely never be included in a message about something as serious as a suspension notice. The intention is to lower your guard and make you feel as though the "support rep" messaging you is on your side. It's meant to instill trust and camaraderie.
The description of what's going on is short, sweet, and to the point. Note the urgent tone and lack of details about why this suspension has supposedly occurred. A real suspension message would typically require at least a brief explanation of the reason for suspension, often including citation of site policies or a mention of reports being filed against the account. Nothing like that here.
It goes on to threaten my money, stating that people can view my page but that any payments they make won't be processed. It raises more questions than it answers -- will people be able to make payments and their money will hang in limbo? Or will those payments not go through? Or will the site not even allow payments to be made? This is by design, meant to cause a further spiral of anxiety that will lead the recipient to following whatever instructions they've been given.
And, oh! How kind! The process to fix this is super short and easy, and they won't even need me to upload any documents. What an odd thing to say. I hadn't even considered that it would require uploading documents... such as ID, perhaps. If the process is simple and purportedly safe, there's no reason to not do it right now! This assurance is aimed to prevent the recipient from putting the task off for later. It's also meant to entice someone who's particularly panicked to not go looking for other information or solutions -- because the best one is right here, no documents upload necessary.
And finally, the link. Click here to fix everything right now, it says. But take a closer look at that link.
It starts with the "ko-fi" website name, apparently on a page called "edit profile"... at a .my address. And then, of course, a bunch of random letters. It's the .my address that should raise the biggest red flag here. Ko-Fi is a .com web address, and all of their associated pages are .com, too. While I haven't clicked this link (and will not be clicking it, thank you), it will certainly not be going to a reliable settings page.
Again, the goal of a phishing scam is to steal your information by convincing you to click suspicious links. This scam in particular seems intent on getting you to "update your information" -- that might include your banking information, PayPal login credentials, Ko-Fi account credentials, and more.
You should never have to leave the website in order to verify or update this information. This isn't just true for Ko-Fi; it's true for pretty much every single website out there.
The other big giveaway that this is a phishing scam is that message at the very bottom, stating that this DM was sent because I have commission messages turned on. Commission messages allow people to contact me by clicking a little message icon on my commission listings. This way, they can chat with me about my services before buying if they have questions or want to negotiate details.
Ko-Fi support would absolutely not need to use commission messages to reach me. Beyond that, clicking the "Support" name should take me to an account page -- but it doesn't. It redirects me to my settings page, which is what happens when someone without an account messages. The company Ko-Fi has an account.
Beyond that, Ko-Fi support operates via ZenDesk. They wouldn't send a direct message about anything, let alone a suspension notice. I would have received an email with official Ko-Fi branding.
Which... in a way, I did. When someone sends a message on Ko-Fi, it generates an email to let the account owner know they've got one waiting for response. That means that I received an email that looked like this:
By sending a direct message through the Ko-Fi system, this phishing scam was able to make it look like the message was official. This is the real reason this phishing scam is so clever. An appropriately frightened and unwary person would see this and maybe not even log into their Ko-Fi account. They might just click the link from the email and follow whatever instructions they're given.
Put all this together, and I knew with absolute certainty that this was a scam -- one that will absolutely fool a lot of people.
Steps You Can Take to be 100% Certain a Message is Phishing
Even with all this knowledge and reassurance, it can be hard to know for sure that a message is a phishing attempt. Because, like, what if? You know? What if it's actually real?
First: Take a breath. Anytime you receive a notice about any account of yours encountering issues, take a second to calm yourself. If it's real, you'll want to follow proper channels to fix it. If it's fake, you don't want to be so panicked that you fall for a scam. Either way, give yourself a moment to breathe and calm down.
Second: Check your account. Close the email or the message. Don't click any links provided. Go to the actual website or app. Log in to your account and check for any prompts, pop-ups, or warnings in your account settings. If you can't log in at all, contact the support team of the site using their preferred channel(s).
Third: Check your payment processor(s) and bank account. Make sure there aren't any prompts, pop-ups, or warnings there, too. Make sure you can still log in okay and that there aren't any suspicious transactions that have gone through or that are pending. If there are, contact support ASAP; they might be able to prevent or reverse the charge, and they might be able to block any more from that source.
Fourth: Do a quick search online. See if anyone else is already talking about it. I found several Reddit threads talking about this scam, and it seems like it's evolved slightly since it first started appearing months ago.
Fifth: Check the website's support/help resources. A lot of websites have FAQs and other resources to help users with issues they might encounter. When any scam becomes widespread, the platform will typically put out official messages talking about it. They might also have blog posts or articles dedicated to the situation. If a problem is active and ongoing, they might even put up an alert banner to both warn users who don't know about it and assure users who have gotten the message(s) to not worry. Here's the one that's splashed across the top of Ko-Fi's support page right now:
Sixth: Message support. If you can't find any information, or if you interacted with the scam and are worried about being compromised in some way, send a message to the website's support team. Use their official channels to submit a ticket, send an email, or chat with a rep. If you're pretty sure you've encountered a phishing scam and you can't find anything about it, include screenshots of the message(s) so that support can properly investigate.
Seventh: Take extra security measures. If you're still worried after all of these steps and especially if you clicked a suspicious link, change your passwords. It's important to do this for every account attached to the one that's been compromised. (In this case on Ko-Fi, if you didn't click the link from the scammer, you shouldn't need to update any passwords or anything else.)
Hey all. I lasted a while on my job being all I needed (and it being the all consuming force of my life for a while), but right now we have literally only $30 left to afford food, gas, and other things like diapers for two weeks for my entire household. I got paid today and *almost all* the money had to go away to bills and other mandatory expenses. The same applies to my roommate who also got paid today, but he's got literally nothing left.
Comms are open as always, and I'm pushing them as an emergency thing. Any support in any way will help a lot. We have some food that *may* last for two weeks and plan on going to any pantries we can until the next paycheck comes, but we need gas so I can get to work and back, as well as the other things.
Thanks as always, everyone.
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How many marketing emails is too many? (What's your irritation threshold?)
One email per month
One email every two weeks
One email every week
Two emails every week
Three emails every week
Four emails every week
Five or more emails every week
Voting ended onMay 13
By "marketing emails," I mean "emails delivered to your inbox with the express purpose of selling you something." This could mean emails with coupons, new product announcements, product highlights, sale announcements, and commercial newsletters.
By "too many," I mean "annoying enough to at least consider unsubscribing." Choose the minimum number that would irritate you.
(I'm asking out of curiosity, because I subscribed to [redacted] emails and receive a particular number of ads every week that I personally find irritating for several reasons.)
After the author ranted at us for several pages and many paragraphs about how it is almost always morally and ethically wrong to use animal bones, of which I gave you only a small taste, we get this:
You can obtain bones by receiving them as a gift or as a part of an agreed trade. Almost any bone is suitable if you accept them from another person. Much of the energy will have been altered, transmuted, and transformed by the previous user. You can even use human bones for bone casting if they have been gifted to you. However, you should take the time to check on your local laws regarding the use of human remains as it is illegal in many places. The bones of a direct ancestor would be most appropriate and respectful, especially if they could give their consent before death. Take time to connect with any human remains if you so choose to use them. Ensure you try your best to learn their name and cultural heritage, learn about who their living descendants are, and find ways to pay respect and homage.
You read that right. According to this author, it is always more ethically correct to use human remains (don't worry about how you get them) than to use animal remains.
Also I just fucking realized that after making such a fuss about the origin of the bones, now the author has no issues if you get them as a gift regardless of what animal they come from? What in the PETA fuck?
A rare hot take from me - If you have to algospeak about a topic like death or sex, or around words like blood or menstruation, you have no business making those topics a focal point of your practice.
I don't really interact with occult or spiritual communities outside of Tumblr, but I've seen folks here and on other platforms say things like "s*x magic is the most powerful magic I've ever done" or "I've started doing bl00d magic."
So much of my practice centers around death, dying, and caring for the spirits of the dead. I can't imagine not using the actual words and instead using "d3ad" or "🎲-ing". If a topic is important, powerful, vast, etc. enough to be a central tenant of your spiritual or magical practice then it deserves to be spoken with the real words.
I don't care what platform you're on. Do not comply in advance.
Hello Tumblr, it's 11pm are you ready for my liveblog read of Divination with Osteomancy: A Beginner's Guide to Throwing the Bones by Monique Joiner Siedlak, copyright 2021???? Because I've already started reading and this shit is BAD.
Let's begin with the introduction. The first line is:
Bone casting is one of the most ancient forms of divination in the world.
Coming out the gate with a sweeping declaration. Bitches love a sweeping declaration (I am not bitches). Please note that there are absolutely no in-line citations anywhere in this book, except where the author makes direct quotes... sometimes? And because I'm using a PDF, I'm just reading straight through. I know there's a chapter on sources, because @jasper-pagan-witch said so, and I know that it's a fucking doozy. So I'm going through without peeking. The sources will get their own bit once I arrive there.
But anyways. Introduction. This shit is... meandering. It's meant to state what the book is going to teach you, but it keeps getting distracted by itself! Not only that, but the grammar is atrocious. Whoever edited this needs to be fired:
This book will delve you into the world of bones, exploring the many traditions and practices, including the Zulu sangomas of Southern Africa, to the Central Americas, to the Middle East.
This book will delve me right in there, huh? Exploring the many traditions and practices? This sentence is a mess. It's a great example of the sort of grammatical garbage found every few paragraphs.
Bone casting is most prominent in Southern African cultures, where the belief in ancestors is prevalent.
As opposed to elsewhere in the world, where they don't give a fuck about ancestors. I guess.
The divination practice is similar to other methods...
"The" divination practice being osteomancy, by the way. Which we're currently talking about. This book is obsessed with phrasing things this way, and it makes it seem as though the author is talking about Something Else, when in fact she is talking about the subject at hand. Here's another great example:
The book will explore some of the most common methods for casting, such as the left-hand method or the clockwise method.
"The book," as in... this book. The one I'm reading. It's so fucking awkward.
This book is also guilty of making very vague statements. Every paragraph is so... vague. References to massive areas with a variety of cultures and ancestral backgrounds (all of Central America, for instance), allusions to "ancient times," and sweeping declarations about bone throwing as a monolith while also saying every practice is different. It's infuriating.
Always remember that you are also a divine being, though you have not transcended yet.
Gag.
This book is framing the act of bone throwing as something done specifically to communicate with ancestors, but it also repeatedly states that you're talking to spirits in a general sense. I get the feeling that the author uses this divination method to talk to her ancestors; and because the editing is subpar, it slips back and forth between the two assumptions as though they're synonymous -- which they aren't.
I'm closing out my read of the introduction, which could have been cut down to just a few succinct lines without meandering bullshit in between by a decent editor, with this line:
The accumulation of life experiences, knowledge, and skills results in a practitioner with valuable insights and opinions on any topic.
This... this sentence sucks. It just sucks. I had to read it a couple times to really understand. On any topic?
I feel like I'm grading a high school essay that some 16 year old wrote at the last minute, praying for a B-minus.
Okay. Welcome to Chapter One: Bone Casting History. This section is full of really interesting bits of history with absolutely no in-line sources, no images of complex-sounding ritual objects, and repetitive language that's making me want to rip my hair out.
Most of my annotated notes on this PDF can be summarized thusly:
ONE -
The history of bone casting is a rich and diverse tale, being practiced by many different cultures across the globe. The exact origin of the practice is unknown but decidedly ancient.
"Give me a source, you motherfucker."
TWO -
Along with initiations, their training covers topics such as divination, herbal medicine, channeling. Working with ancestral spirits, cleansing and blessing of magical objects, entering and facilitating trance-states using drumming and dancing, dream interpretation, learning the Zulu language, spiritual counseling, beadwork, and further education and training of new sangomas.
This practice has also made its way to North America during the slave trade. The practice took root amongst disenfranchised African communities in the southern parts of the United States.
The sangoma will then read the bones. Understanding how and where they land, which side is facing upwards, which bones are near to or touching each other, which bones fell further away and landed close by, where the bones are pointing, etc.
In a fictional and/or less formal setting, I'm fairly forgiving of stuff like this. But a text claiming to be reputable reference material can't get away with this kind of informal structure and poor grammar.
And THREE -
The location of the bones to the red and white clays are among the essential features.
"What are you TALKING about???"
Note: These "red and white clays" aren't referenced in this paragraph, the one before it, or the one after it. This is thrown in here and left unexplained, and I have no idea at this point what the FUCK this author means by this.
The fourth thing I keep saying to myself is "PLEASE give me more details about this!!" The author continuously drops intriguing tidbits and then fucks off onto the next sentence without elaborating at all! And this is the historical section of this book, so I doubt I'm going to get any context about why this Very Important Guy was beaten to shit by miners, which then led to his spiritual awakening!!!!
I simply wish that this author would state a fact, give a source, and then say, "...and this is why."
If nothing else, this section has made me want to go read more about these topics. Maybe that was the point all along... but the editing is so consistently bad that I'm inclined to think this is a happy accident, rather than intended design. Whatever.
If I have to say the words "WHICH ONE?" one more fucking time in reference to a massive region in which many cultures reside, a massive swath of time in which many cultural eras pass, and/or the book says some shit like:
The religious texts have explicit warnings against prophets, fortune-tellers, diviners, and sorcerers.
and I have to go "WHICH FUCKING TEXTS ARE YOU REFERENCING?" I'm going to lose my mind. I'm going to lose my mind.
I can infer which ones. Sure. Okay. Fine. Probably the Bible. Perhaps the Torah. But once again, that shitty "the" turns this sentence into a vague handwave in the general direction of a thing, rather than pointing directly to it.
It's so prevalent in this godforsaken book, I'm beginning to worry that I'm the problem.
Oh, so you'll tell me what the Nordic runes you're referencing translate to, but not any of the words from the African cultures you've written about? Alright.
The inconsistent levels of detail are... so irritating.
the scholarly article dropped in february actually apparently but major media picked up on it recently!
the myth is roughly that the sumerian storm god iškur is kidnapped to the underworld while inspecting canals, and after his father Enlil conveyes a divine council, only Fox is prepared to retrieve him. foxy shenanigans ensue with the food of the dead, resulting in iškur's return and the restoration of the land.
A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501
OF CAPTIVE STORM GODS AND CUNNING FOXES: NEW INSIGHTS INTO EARLY SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY, WITH AN EDITION OF NI 12501 - Volume 86
I don't usually adhere to the idea of synchronicity in my practice, specifically, but after I posted this there have been...interesting occurrences from different sources.
Of course, further study is needed for discernment.
Okay Tumblr. Let's play a game. I'm going to post two paragraphs and then a slightly later paragraph from a book. You're not going to get mad at me over them, because they are from a book that I will be keeping anonymous for the moment. But you are going to read them. Because if I have to suffer, so do you.
Ready?
The first method is perhaps the easiest way to get your hands on some animal bones. Unfortunately, there are a slew of ethical and moral issues with sourcing ritualistic or magical items in such a manner. By purchasing bones, you will have erased any possible connection with the spirit of the deceased animal. You will also be using the bones of an animal that has never lived a life of freedom, nor was their death honorable. The animals within the agriculture industry live under severe stress and abuse for the entire duration of their very short lives, receiving minimal veterinary care or compassion. Their bodies are scarred and tainted. If you use such bones in your practice, you will be inviting this negative energy into your life. There is no way to ceremonially cleanse or bless the bones of an animal that has been commodified and exploited in such a way. They are not suitable for divination purposes.
If the only source of bones available to you is through the commercial sale of animal bodies, you can still attempt to use them. However, reparations must be made to the spirits of the deceased animals. You will need to communicate with the bones to figure out the best ways to do this, including saying a prayer for the animal spirit, making offerings and sacrifices, or carrying out specific rituals and ceremonies. A standard method of reparations is to bury the animal's remains in the ground, letting natural processes occur and allowing the animal spirit to settle. After a certain amount of time, depending on the animal spirit, you can exhume the remains and prepare them for a bone-casting set. This method is not guaranteed to work, as many animal spirits would not be willing to engage with the mortal world after their experiences.
And then the later paragraph.
You can also opt to use the bones from a domestic animal such as a chicken. Your local laws will determine which options are available to you. There are some residential areas where you are legally allowed to slaughter livestock animals, but most regions bar this practice.
Thank you for your attention. Discuss if you'd like. Godspeed.
It isn't just the concepts provided in the text, it's also the word usage I have issue with.
"Unfortunately, there are a slew of ethical and moral issues with sourcing ritualistic or magical items in such a manner."
Does not provide actual examples of the ethical and moral issues.
"Their bodies are scarred and tainted."
This sentence has an ick to it I can't quite put to words yet.
"If you use such bones in your practice, you will be inviting this negative energy into your life."
Just this.
Immediately backpedals in the second paragraph:
"If the only source of bones available to you is through the commercial sale of animal bodies, you can still attempt to use them."
I also feel as though the entire passage, first and second paragraph, need citations and sources.
As for the later one, where? Where are people allowed to do this, and why does the tone shift to essentially saying chickens are perfectly fine to use, but not other livestock?
