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a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish
a concerning amount of witchblr will be like "um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus" and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish
All stained and done ✨
It started off in honour of the Fehu rune, but felt like it ought to include Algiz as well
Dont forget, the pagans had a choice. Be christians or get your head chopped of.
Which "pagans."
Which "pagans" are you talking about. Be fucking specific. Do not equate the Christianization of Rome to the Christianization of Ireland to the Christianization of the Nordic people.
The Christianization of Europe happened at different times in different ways, and your insistence of reducing this in absolutely bizarre ways is ahistorical and damaging to understanding our real past.
Get your head out of your ass.
Prayer for Álfablót
Old Norse
Heill Hel! Heil Alfar!
Álfablót nu kvam Sem dauði til oss Hel bíða alls er anda En dauði er eigi endirinn Dáit munuð í dag Ok daít yðr man Sva lifið mið ást Er stendr utan ógn
English
Hail Hel! Hail the Elves!
Álfablót now has come As death [comes] to us Hel waits for all who breathe But death is not the end Remember the dead today, And the dead remember you So live with love, that stands without fear
Recipe Roundup in Review
In years past, I posted a two-month series of recipes suitable for the autumn season, which everyone seemed to enjoy very much. I’ve been too busy this year to make up a new queue, so I thought I’d compile a big long list of links for anyone who’s looking for recipe ideas this fall.
Update: I’ve posted more recipes since the original roundup and I’ve added those additional links to the list below. I’ve also done my best to mark which ones are vegetarian (🌿) or could be easily altered to be so. (Some could also be altered for a vegan diet using egg, milk, or butter substitutes.) Recipes which may include alcohol as an ingredient are also marked (🍷).
Some are fall-themed, others are for more wintry occasions. But all are designed to make the most of the season and keep our hearts and bellies full as we face the coming cold. Enjoy!
Appetizers, Sides, & Snacks
A Pair of Stuffing Recipes 🌿
Asparagus Salad 🌿
Baked Apples 🌿
Beets with Cloves and Cinnamon 🌿
Bree’s Cheddar-Garlic Mashed Potatoes 🌿
Bree’s Homemade Colcannon 🌿
Carrot Fritters 🌿
Cheese & Bacon Pinwheels
Cheese Toasties 🌿
Cranberry-Orange Sauce 🌿
Fish Cakes
Irish Stout Apple Fritters 🌿🍷
Oatmeal & Potato Bread 🌿
Parsnip & Apples 🌿
Pumpkin Seeds 🌿
Sprouts au Gratin 🌿
Soups
Butternut Squash and Pear Pottage 🌿
Cheese Soup & Dumplings 🌿
Chestnut Soup 🌿
Garlic Soup 🌿
Gingered Pumpkin Soup with Molasses Cream 🌿
King’s Arms Tavern Cream of Peanut Soup 🌿
Mashed Potato Soup 🌿
Mushroom Soup 🌿
Entrees
Acorn Squash with Cinnamon and Honey 🌿
Bree’s Baked Ziti
Bree’s Crockpot/One-pot Chili 🍷
Bree’s Fried Chicken Parmesan
Bree’s Honey Baked Salmon
Bree’s Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole 🍷
Bree’s Roast Chicken with Apples and Potatoes 🍷
Bree’s Sesame Ginger Chicken
Bree’s Turkey Hash Casserole
Dill-Crusted Salmon
Irish Stew 🍷
Meat Patties in Crust
Michaelmas Goose with Sage & Onion Stuffing 🍷
Pan Haggerty
Pumpkin Plenty 🌿
Roast Pork Tenderloin with Orange & Onion Sauce
Rosemary-Orange Beef
Savory Yuletide Pie 🌿
Spiced Pot Roast 🍷
Stuffed Acorn Squash 🌿
Stuffed Braised Beef
Surry Sausage, Squash, & Apple Bake with Savory Streusel Topping
Xanodrian Beef Stew 🍷
Welsh Potato Pie 🌿
Welsh Trout in Bacon
Baked Goods
Applesauce Buttermilk Biscuits 🌿
Barm Brack 🌿
Beer-Bacon-Onion Muffins
Caerphilly Scones 🌿
Christiana Campbell’s Tavern Sweet Potato Muffins 🌿
Drop Scones 🌿
Gingered Pumpkin Muffins 🌿
King’s Arms Tavern Apple Cheddar Muffins 🌿
Tea Table Goodies
Apple & Potato Cake 🌿
Apple Raisin Cider Teabread 🌿
Bree’s Cranberry Pumpkin Bread 🌿
Faerie Cakes 🌿
Irish Apple Cake 🌿
Irish Apple Teabread 🌿
Irish Whiskey Cake 🌿🍷
Isle of Wight Farmhouse Cake
Marmalade Loaf 🌿
Porter Cake 🌿🍷
Seed Cake 🌿
Shortbread 🌿
Welsh Crumpets 🌿
Desserts
Apple Fritters 🌿
Baked Apples 🌿
Bramble Dessert 🌿
Bree’s Easy-Peasy Molten Chocolate Cake 🌿
Bree’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Chocolate Liquer Glaze 🌿🍷
Chranachan 🌿
Christmas Plum Pudding
Beverages, Jams, and Sauces
Eggnog 🍷
Hot Buttered Rum 🌿🍷
Mulled Cider 🌿🍷
Samhain Wine Cup 🌿🍷
Wassail 🌿🍷
Blackberry & Apple Jam 🌿
Irish Whiskey Marmalade 🌿🍷
Bree’s Dad’s Sauce Recipes 🍷
Delectable Dressings 🌿
Sources
Celtic Folklore Cooking (Asala)
A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook (Telesco)
A Witch’s Brew (Telesco)
Kitchen WItch’s Guide to Brews and Potions (Telesco)
The Kitchen Witch (Soraya)
Witch in the Kitchen (Johnson)
The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook (Gonzalez)
Favorite Meals from Williamsburg (Turgeon)
Holiday Fare: Favorite Williamsburg Meals (Gonzalez)
The Very Best of Irish Traditional Cooking (Lennon and Campbell)
An Irish Country Cookbook (Taylor)
And of course, a selection of family recipes, shared with all of you for the joy of the season.
Happy Cooking!
So incredible. 😍
I've watched this about 10 times now. Absolutely mesmerizing
Sneak Preview - The Ferryman’s Curse
Vassili went on further till he reached the ferry, where the old man asked: ‘Did you think of me?’
‘Yes, and as soon as you have ferried me across I will tell you what you want to know.’
When they had crossed over, Vassili said: ‘Let the next man who comes stay in the boat, but do you step on shore, push the boat off, and you will be free, and the other man must take your place.
- The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars (The Violet Fairy Book)
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Intent: To curse another with the problems that plague your own life.
Materials:
Two pennies
Previously-used jar candle
Fire source
Body of water
Ideal Timing: Dark of the Moon / New Moon / No Moon
Fair Warning: This is not a nice spell. This is not a polite spell. Baneful magic by its’ very definition is not meant to be pleasant, but there can be a difference between ill-wishing someone yourself and asking a figure from the realm of spirits to help you do it. The fact that you are entering into a minor pact to accomplish this goal creates an additional degree of difficulty and uncertainty. If you choose to perform this ritual, please proceed with caution.
In order to do this spell, you have to make a deal with the Ferryman, who carries souls across to the hereafter and may also haul away bad luck and strife if you pay him and ask nicely. You’ll need to work carefully and quickly to pull this off.
Before you begin, perform any protective steps you would normally take before doing spirit work or baneful magic. Make preparations to cleanse yourself and your home upon completion. If you don’t have anything in place, you might want to check out the Protections section of this book for ideas. (Golden Hood)
Obtain two pennies from the same year. Any year will do, so long as they match, but new and shiny is preferable. Carry the pennies in your pocket for one week to absorb your bad luck. Then, on a moonless night, go and stand on the shore of some body of water. For best results, I suggest a lake or a river too wide to be easily crossed without a boat.
Make a circle around yourself, large enough to stand in without being too close to the edges. You can use chalk, pebbles, stones, sticks, a line in the sand, whatever material works best for the location. You might also use a premade containment figure such as a hoop or a rope circle. Stand in the center, light the candle, and place it at your feet so that the light fills the circle. While you perform the next few steps, take care to stay within the circle of light. Do not look behind you during the ritual and do not let the candle go out. (I recommend using a jar candle which has burned down a little ways so that it is shielded from chance breezes.)
Remove one of the pennies from your pocket and hold it out before you towards the water. In a quiet clear voice, call to the Ferryman:
Ferryman, Ferryman Sail to the shore I’ve a penny to give you And soon will have more One day to sail outward One day to sail in Come back on the third day And you’ll have its twin
No soul do I offer No body to bury Only lighten my load Take this burden I carry Ferryman, help me My fortunes are poor Ferryman, Ferryman Come to the shore
Throw the penny into the water. Try to land it as far from the shore as you can. Carefully extinguish the candle and leave the area as quickly and safely as possible. Once you return home, you may want to salt your doors or refresh whatever protections you have in place, in case something has followed you home.
You then have until midnight on the third day (starting from dawn the day after you toss the coin), to somehow get someone else to take the other penny from you. It’s best to have a target in mind, preferably someone who really deserves that bad luck. If you start out thinking of a particular person, you can either hand the coin to them, slip it into their belongings, leave it inside their home, or bury it on their property. What matters is that by the time midnight on the third day rolls around, the coin is in their possession and not yours.
Your bad luck and misfortune should leave or lessen during this three-day stretch. If you successfully pass the penny to someone else, your bad luck will fall on them. If you do not manage to get rid of the coin, you can return to the water on the third night and toss the coin in yourself. Otherwise, your bad luck will return and you’ll be right back where you started.
The only way to break the curse is for the person who has received the bad-luck penny to go to the same body of water and throw in the coin that you gave them.
It may be prudent to return to the body of water in the daylight after your bad luck has passed and toss in another penny to thank the Ferryman for his help, just in case he’s disgruntled over your trickery. It would also be prudent to never again show your face there after dark or on foggy days.
Note: This ritual should only ever be performed in the same location once. If you wish to do it again, you’ll need to find a different body of water. It would also be wise to let some time pass, at least a few months, or find other ways of dealing with your problems. Don’t tempt fate too often if you can avoid it.
-From the forthcoming book, The Sisters Grimmoire, Vol. II © Bree NicGarran
Fairy tales have always been with us. Apart from teaching moral lessons and practical cautions, they remain a source of wonder and inspirati
I experience a probably unfair level of irritation when a brand new polytheist with three weeks of hyperfixation starts asking people to give them donations in exchange for their wealth of knowledge about the gods
it just becomes a circle-jerk of passing the same shallow information back and forth
six months later the same person is like "I just can't connect with the gods anymore, I don't know why :((( sorry to disappoint you all" and it's like. did u actually have a connection with the divine or did u have an intense and obsessive temporary interest
either way what makes your pass over JSTOR and #sick canva skills a level of expertise that other people should be giving you money for? fuck outta here
I hope this is okay to reblog and add onto, because I think this really clearly verbalizes a lot of my issues with TikTok Priest/ess culture.
Like, I regularly see people on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram claiming titles like priestess, high priest, etc. I see a lot of them claiming to be priests or priestesses of specific gods. (For some reason I see this most frequently with Hellenic deities.) None of them ever talks about being affiliated with a religious organization, and it's really unclear whether they've had any training or ordination. Some of them are very open about being "self-ordained" or claim their deity told them to start acting as a priest.
And then their actual content is just basic Neopaganism 101 stuff. I get that not everyone posts the more advanced or intimate parts of their faith online (I certainly don't), but if your screenname is Priestess_of_Aphrodite I kind of expect you to have meaningful insights and advice on the worship of Aphrodite to share, you know? ESPECIALLY if you are charging money for classes, divination, or other services.
On one hand, I very much believe everyone is the authority on their own spiritual practice and that you don't need training or ordination to connect directly with the gods. I also understand that we live under capitalism and that some people can only afford to offer services if they're getting paid for it. But on the other hand, titles like priest, priestess, etc. should mean something. Priests are supposed to be guides and resources for their community, and it often does take some training to get there.
Idk, it just really bothers me that in the age of social media, being good at content creation is apparently enough to make you a religious authority, even if you barely know anything about said religion.
I'm curious - where do you most closely fall on this Aphantasia scale?
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hey guys jsyk the results of this poll are gonna be fucking shit if you just vote and dont rb. since it has only 3 notes LOL
Valhalla stans? in my mutuals??? why.
Fólkvangr is right there
“She didn’t need to be saved. She needed to be found and appreciated for exactly who she was.”
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I'm looking for blogs to follow. I know I already made a post like this, but it's been a while, my dash is fairly dead, and theres so many gross bigots its hard to find good blogs. Please like/reblog post about any of the following:***
Heathenry
Norse polytheism/norse paganism
Especially Freyr, Odin, Njord, Ran, Loki, and/or Skadi
Norse mythology
Sea witchcraft
Techno witchcraft
Sigil witchcraft
Hedge witchcraft
Kitchen witchcraft
Hearth witchcraft
Spiritwork
Working with the fae
Hellenic polytheism
Greek mythology
Tarot
Runes
***NO BIGOTS***
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So if a “true bearer of magic” (through uterus and ovaries of course) decides to cut their reproductive ability off through one of the available options, does the magic dwindle? When you’re on birth control your charge is at 7/10 and when you tie your tubes it’s 5/10, but if you become infertile or take a part of your reproductive system out it becomes 0/10 and they kick your ass out of the magic society? Do people who have some sort of sex development condition get abridged version of magic? So is estrogen and progesterone HRT like a subscription to full pack of magic?
When I informed a now extremely formal friend that I was getting my tubes tied and uterus cauterized, she informed me my “powers” would dwindle and I would become mundane. I asked her to elaborate because wtf. Apparently the blood of my maiden stage in life would be unable to evolve into the sacred mother. I would become a crone and lose my connection to the sacred female divine. She insisted I have at least one child first so that I may grow and become closer to the holy mother.
I was LMAO at this point. She, on the other hand, was getting upset. Like full on ugly crying.
When I informed her that I don’t want babies, will likely die before reaching full term (multiple medical conditions), and my menstrual cycles are so heavy I’ve needed a blood transfusion, not mention cramps that scared my gynecologist when she saw them on the ultrasound (apparently it looked like I was in heavy labor), she got angry.
Why?
Because dying while pregnant or in labor is holy and guaranteed to bring me to the “sacred mother.”
TERF radfem bullshit combined with her being a former catholic and new wiccan…I kicked her outta my apartment and told her to never contact me again.
Genitals and reproduction systems have nothing to do with magic or witchcraft unless you decide to involve your own in your own practice.
