Witchcraft and Paganism of the 19th Century @thevictorianwitch - Tumblr Blog

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L’atelier Bonnat vers 1900

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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire (via quotemadness)

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Rolling Mist by Eva Mårtensson

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Fine Art Prints by Strangedirt.

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It seems an inevitability that I will be creating a second blog. Once I’ve settled on a name I’ll add a link to my description, so any of my followers who have an interest in the Morrigan or Celtic polytheism in general can check me out there, and those of you who are just here for the Victorian won’t have to deal with unrelated spam.

thevictorianwitch

I've officially started a new blog focused more on Celtic spirituality and the Morrígan. Anyone interested in seeing more posts of this sort can find me at eibhlincatha.tumblr.com. I'll be posting a lot of my own poetry and art there as well.

#irish polytheism #celtic polytheism #the morrigan #paganism #witchcraft

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Seymour Joseph Guy, Story of Golden Locks, 1870.

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Fiesta de disfraces (detalle), de Guillermo Lorca

New offering bowl, acacia wood. Debated on the oak, but this one resonated in a deep way.

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Hi Melissa, hope you, Chris & Pye are doing good, the other day you were asked about tv-shows/movies about witches so I was wondering if you have any books (fiction) with witches that you like, I love the "Lives of the Mayfair Witches" by Ann Rice and right now I have "Dead Witch Walking" by Kim Harrison & "The Magicians" by Lev Grossman in my to read list, so I was hoping you or any of your followers could recommend me some titles thx ^.^

Thank you!!Hmm, unfortunately I haven’t read that many fiction books relating to witchcraft… only some novels of the movies I had listed there. Perhaps some of my followers would like to recommend some, because I would be interested in some more suggestions too!

thevictorianwitch

The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce is wonderful, as is the Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey.

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Thomas Hill (1829-1908) - Deer at a stream, oil on canvas, 61 x 50,8 cm. 1892.

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The Party in the Summer Garden - Efim Volkov 1890

Russian 1844-1920

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Things that the Tumblr Witchcraft community really need to get through their heads...

1) Leave each other alone. This bullshit about “witch wars” and sending messages on anon telling someone you are going to curse them is childish and makes all of us look bad. Do you even think about how non-magick people think of us? Because while what others think might not effect you much, there are new witches and witches who have to hide their practice who are put in danger by the way people think of us. Don’t give them more ammunition.

2) Smudging, Smoke Cleansing, this is an argument we’ve had about ten times too many. I have personally seen posts from practitioners of non-Native American religions who have said that their religion also calls it Smudging and has called it that for generations. They didn’t take it from Native Americans, they just happen to share a common practice. Unless you know the facts, please just leave it alone.

3) Christian shaming, Satanist shaming and Wiccan shaming. It needs to stop now. We already have non-magick people harassing us around ever corner, we really don’t need to be judging each other based on religion. Christian, Wiccan, Pagan, Jewish, Muslim, Satanist or any other faith, religion is between the practitioner and their God/Goddess/Gods and it’s none of your business no matter what you’ve heard or what someone’s grandmother’s cousin said. It is none of your business. Also, witches can be atheist or agnostic too. Witchcraft is a practice, not a religion. Write it down. Repeat it to yourself. Say it when you go to sleep at night. You need to remember that fact.

4) Witches can be male. Witches can be trans. Witches can be gay. Witchcraft has nothing to do with gender or sexuality. I really didn’t think I would have to outline this but there it is. And they can call themselves whatever they want too, because guess what? None of your business. If a male wants to call himself a witch, that’s fine. If he wants to call himself a warlock, that’s fine. Yes I know warlock has been used to mean “evil witch” but that doesn’t make it any of your business. That information is on Google. You are not responsible for telling them or policing their terms.

5) Cursing. Who. Fucking. Cares? If someone curses, cool. If they don’t curse and feel it’s against their religion, also cool. It is not your responsibility to teach them about the threefold law, and it’s not your responsibility to teach them why you think the threefold law is bull. “Different blokes have different strokes” or whatever the saying is. None of your business.

How can we sum this up? Start acting like civilized adults instead of spoiled children, because the toxicity of the Tumblr Witchcraft community has driven many knowledgeable practitioners away and who is going to loose out because of that? The rest of us who won’t be able to learn from them.