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blackcrowing · 10 months

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Important Facts about Lughnasadh from an Irish Celtic Reconstructionist

Spelling and Pronunciation

OI. Lughnasadh (Loo-na-sa), sometimes spelled Lughnasa or Modern Irish Lúnasa. Not to be confused with other harvest festivals like Lammas.

Dates

Most reconstructionists celebrate Lughnasadh on July 31st - August 1st from sundown to sundown by the Gregorian calendar, while others choose to celebrate the transitional period between the months as they would have been by the Julian calendar (about 13 days later by the Gregorian calendar).

Traditionally this festival likely would have happened as the grains were ready for harvesting or possibly even when the wild bilberries were ripe (as some scholars mention that if the grains were not ripe they would still preform a ritualized ‘first harvesting’ but it is possible this tradition came after the festival was firmly tied to a calendar date.)

Importance in the Mythos

In the mythologies it is well documented that this festival coincides with Lugh’s funeral games in honor of his foster-mother Tailtiu, known as Aonach Tailteann. In the mythologies she is said to have died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agricultural needs. The first documented instance of Lughnasadh in the mythologies was in the Wooing of Emer, Tochmarc Emire, which makes sense given the importance of marriages at this time of the year. It is not known specifically but widely speculated that the curse of the Ulstermen by Macha took place at a horse race for this festival.

In later time periods it is common to see a form of struggle, normally between the ‘protective’ forces and ‘destructive’ forces. The modern equivalent being the struggle between Saint Patrick and Crom Dubh but this is likely a reflection of an early struggle between Lugh and Balor (which I previously mentioned in my info-dump on Bealtaine).

Celebration Traditions

Aonachs, funeral games, have (to the best of our knowledge) been a custom in Ireland since the bronze age and were practiced on and off into the middle ages. They had both personal and community functions and occurred in three stages. Stage one was the funeral proceedings themselves. They would last one to three days, likely depending on the importance of the individual in question. Mourning songs and chants were participated in by both the attendees and the Druids. The second stage was for proclaiming of laws. Aonachs were a time when universal peace between túaths was declared. The third stage was that of Cuiteach Fuait, games that tested mental and physical abilities. These games included the well known horse and chariot races, wrestling games, boxing, high jumps but also competitions in strategy, singing, story telling and between various skilled craftsmen.

It was incredibly common for marriages to be arranged and preformed during this festival. More well known ‘trial marriages’ (lasting a year and a day) were still preformed at this festival up until the 13th century. It is likely that the coupling occurring at this time of year had an effect on the relationship to births seen at Imbolg (which falls 9 months later).

MacNeill, a leading scholarly expert on the festival, notes that a ritualistic bull sacrifice was made at this festival and the bull would then be eaten. I could not find any definitive evidence to support the idea, but I think it was likely that bulls in general would be culled from the herd at this point in the year to supply the feast.

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shelandsorcery · 1 year

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so I'm gonna repurpose this tumblr as a place to share a wider range of art I make...

so I thought I would quickly reintroduce myself here!

so there's, like, a huge dump of process and studio photos up there, if that's your jam - go forth and dowse through them for secrets about the arcane rituals I use to make art

I'm Shel Kahn, you may remember me from such projects as: By Crom!, a cromulent autobio comic or The Corruption of Pelursk, a cursed ttrpg module or Lomy and the Abyss, a comic that asks 'why heavy metal tho' and answers 'fuck you, that's why' but also feels bad about swearing ....or maybe you just really like crystal islands.

I'm an art director by day at an indie videogame studio, and by night, and on weekends, and on vacation, and really wherever I can squeeze it in, I like to draw, and paint, and write, and make things. I love watercolour and gouache, designing toys and games, making comics and zines, and the joy of colour!

thanks for sticking around to see what I'm up to! i really love talking about what pens I use, so don't hesitate to fish for shop talk in the asks!

...also, while digging through files to find these photos, I found my stash of ancient, ancient art, so I bestow upon you an offering of the first fanart I ever remember drawing:

yep

thanks!

#introducing myself #artist on tumblr #studio setup #workspace #desk #art setup #art materials #where i work #tools of the trade #extremely embarrassing early art #for kicks

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noisemx · 1 year

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Horror Films of October 2022.

(Ones that were either a first viewing for me or first time watching in their entirety.)

*top 5 standouts highlighted*

01. My Best Friend's Exorcism (2022)

02. Yellow Brick Road (2010)

03. Halloween at Aunt Ethel's (2019)

04. Phobias (2021)

05. Demented (1980)

06. Let the Wrong One In (2021)

07. Shrunken Heads (1994)

08. Hellraiser (2022)

09. Billy Club (2013)

10. Werewolf by Night (2022)

11. Terror Trips (2021)

12. Grimcutty (2022)

13. 13 Fanboy (2021)

14. Santa Sangre (1989)

15. The Offering (aka The Faith of Anna Waters) (2016)

16. Evil Dead Trap (1988)

17. Custodes (2021)

18. Dead Next Door (1989)

19. Gatlopp (2022)

20. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

21. Behemoth (2021)

22. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

23. Body Melt (1993)

24. Metamorphosis (1990)

25. Skinner (1993)

26. Severed Ties (1992)

27. Children of the Night (1991)

28. Terror Train (2022)

29. The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

30. Barbarian (2022)

31. We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)

32. The Shortcut (2009)

33. Black Mountain Side (2014)

34. The Black Phone (2021)

35. Basket Case 2 (1990)

36. Basket Case 3 (1991)

37. Curse of Crom: Legend of Halloween (2022)

38. Devil Inside (2012)

39. Torn Hearts (2022)

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munsontm · 2 years

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CHAPTER ONE : EDDIE THE WITCH BITCH MUNSON.

facts.

this verse is completely seperate from the main ST storyline. there is an upside down to feature as further horror aesthetic, but the people of Hawkin’s literally think it’s Hell---and maybe it is. People with magical gifts can draw power from the upside down, but it is dangerous to do so, and can come with some unpleasant prices that vary depending on a persons actions.

This next fact is NOT a necessary fact to follow. It’s just out there to maybe make it easier to interact. A large majority of the folk in Hawkins are some kind of magic or monster folk, witches, vampires, woofies, whatever you want. As mentioned, people with magical gifts can draw power from the upside down. And monster people are naturally drawn to dark strength the upside down realm gives off, convinced it enhances their own strength.

The Hellfire Club is a coven started by Eddie, and it’s bigger than what we see in the show. The old ways governed that a coven had to be 13 witches, but Eddie has elected to ignore that much to the annoyance of many elders. The Hellfire Club is probably around 18-20. The name of the coven is a tribute to the of HFC started by the Duke of Wharton, a satirical gentleman’s club from the 1700′s, where they mocked religion and society and took pleasure in shocking the outside world with their unconventional ideas and thoughts. furthermore, it was the only version of the club that admitted men and women.

Instead of being a drug dealer, Eddie deals in spells, potions, charms , blessings and curses, tricks and treats. He’s rather advanced for his age which makes people more wary of him---but that’s all explained in the long ass backstory below...i’m sorry.

NOTE: i just pulled a lot of this out of my ass, and it will be refined as i go along writing in the verse.

Eddie is descended from a large but now ending line of Irish Witches on his mother Annie’s side. The ability has to come from the mother’s side to manifest, so there is no magic in the Munson side of Eddie. It all comes from the O’Connor side. Before Eddie was born, Annie was the last of the O’Connor bloodline. A curse put upon the O’Connor family during the 1700′s during a blood feud in Ireland with a family by the name of Murray made it so that those of O’Connor blood lived short and hard lives. The Murray’s died out during the 18th century smallpox epidemic, thus there was no one left to lift the curse, and every O’Connor blood or name related after died before the age of 30.

Annie grew up alone in an orphanage after her parents died in a car crash at the age of 25 and 27. During this time a disembodied voice started speaking to Annie, befriending her, and no one wants to adopt the kid that has “imaginary” conversations with invisible voices. It’s important to know that Annie is not particularly strong in terms of magical ability because there has been no one to teach her, and the O’Connor blood has thinned over the years because no one ants to get involved with a cursed fam. But as she ages and becomes acutely aware of the family curse starting to bear down on her. Her invisible “friend” begins to suggest there is a way she can break the O’Connor curse, and she doesn’t even hesitate to jump at the chance, doesn’t question. She is young and naive---around 18/19. The voice tells her of an equally cursed family in a town called Hawkin’s Indiana, The Munson’s, though they were unaware of their life-shortening curse. And then the voice suggests an awful thing to her---that if she were to bear a child with a man of the Munson family. That doubly-cursed and already doomed child could then be sacrificed to a Celtic deity such a Crom Crach or Donn, who would then break the curse on both families in return. :x

This was a lie.

Annie married Lawrence Munson within a year of the voice suggesting she do so, and was then pregnant with Eddie before a second year. She spoke nothing of the curse to Lawrence or any of the Munson family, but two members of the family died before Eddie was born, confirming that her “friend” surely wasn’t lieing about that. Unfortunately, for Annie’s “friend,” they hadn’t considered that Annie might become attached to the child in her womb. Not Lawrence, she hated Lawrence, who was a kind of curse all on his own, drunk and violent. Annie also befriended Lawrence’s brother Wayne, during this period, who would later become her son’s saviour.

Eddie was born and suddenly Annie’s “friend” became a more prevalent force in her life. It was no longer whispers. She’d see shadows lurking around the house, over Eddie’s crib, in the shape of something large---with horns. Instinctively she knew the being was her “friend.” It never appeared before her in this form on purpose, the shadow was strangely only for Eddie. During the first few months of Eddie’s life, Annie finally took to looking into her magic ancestry because she was beginning to regret bringing a baby into the world only for slaughter. She made the unfortunate discovery that what her “friend” suggested she was to do in order to break the dual curses on hers and Lawrence’s family was a lie, Eddie’s blood would do nothing, the curse could only be broken by blood of the caster. Annnd, it only got worse from there. Many of the texts she read Celtic and non-Celtic related, spoke of The Devil’s voice that whispered to women, luring them in to a false sense of security for many years before taking something precious from them, their magic, their souls, their lives and wealth, and their children. If you were a witch or woman under a curse, then it was likely that the devil wanted for you to be the vessel for it’s own seed. Because the devil doesn’t want a pure child. Which meant that Annie had to consider that Eddie was quite literally the son of the devil. But she never looked into it. No one did. And Eddie isn’t aware of the potential connection.

Panic began to take over Annie. She didn’t know what to do. The Devil’s voice came to her more frequently, telling her it was time for Eddie to die, and that he’d be better off dead than living such a short life. This also turned out to be a lie and a trick. The Munson’s weren’t cursed at all. Just a bunch of drunks and criminals, the two that died before Eddie’s birth were all staged by The Devil to make Annie believe it, the other premature deaths were simple a weird coincidence. Eddie was only O’Connor cursed. The Devil’s plan all along had been to take the child into its realm and raise him as a Prince of Hell. But Eddie had to be dead for that, and had to die by a cursed loved one’s hand to drown his soul in darkness. Annie refused.

With nowhere to turn---there was only one person she trusted. Wayne. She left Eddie on Wayne’s doorstep in a box with a letter explaining everything, including that The Devil wouldn’t bother with Wayne because he possessed no magic---as far as she knew, and he wasn’t cursed. But she also did explain that she wasn’t certain of Eddie’s parentage---which is why she had to take Lawrence with her on the chance that the devil had been possessing him. By the time he’d read the letter both she and Lawrence would be dead...and they were. Annie had driven them off a cliff. Wayne would never know if his brother had been taken over by Lucifer itself. But he was instructed never to tell Eddie anything---apart from about the curse, of which Wayne was very reluctant to do over the years that next went by. Yet, as Eddie grew it became apparent that his magic ability was beyond that of someone from a bloodline on the verge of annihilation. And he grew an obsession with fictional monsters and demons, and devil imagery from metal music, which left Wayne constantly wondering. He never loved Eddie any less, though. Eddie never showed a capacity for cruelty---he was troublesome, yes. But not evil.

Wayne didn’t intend on telling Eddie about the O’Connor curse. But he slipped one night after a 16 year old Eddie waa arrested for joyriding and then crashing said car with his friends. They’d come close to going off the same cliff as his parents. So, Eddie is sadly aware he is destined to die before 30, and instead of holding back and staying safe. He becomes more reckless, does stupider things. Because what’s the point if he’s going to die anyway? But even then there’s still that gentle kindness to him. He starts the HFC coven as a place for outcast witches to gather and feel safe.

And yet, weird things do occur around Edward Aidan Munson, that get him labelled as a freak----besides how he acts. People whisper that they see weird and mishapen shadows in place of his own sometimes, or that his eyes look entirely black one second, then baby cow eyes the next. People that physically try to hurt him often meet “unfortunate” accidents. He has heard disembodied whispers throughout his life, but they’re not often, and they don’t make sense. And sometimes, he sees things out the corner of his eye that aren’t there when he looks fully. But he never takes these things seriously. He lives in Hawkins where weird shit happens all the time thanks to its residents and The Upside Down. It’s basically normal, right?

#v. witch bitch.#ooc. ( dumb handsome bitches are my aesthetic. )

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catulhu333 · 1 year

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Michael Myers, ascending to a Khornate Daemon Prince.

Inspired by Gaelic/Celtic Folklore elements of the Halloween series - present not only in the highly controversial Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, (though ironically the Producer's Cut, and the script, are far more liked, despite going deeper into the occult aspect) but going as far as the novelization of the first movie, were Michael is suggested to be possessed or be a reincarnation of cursed by druids/shamans Gaelic murderer Enda.

Khorne was also inspired by Celtic/Gaelic figure of Crom, who might be a darker aspect of another god, like Dagda or Lugh/Lugus.

The Cult of Thorn, could also work as connected to Khorne.

#michael myers #khorne #halloween #celtic #warhammer #crossover #novelai #ai generated #ai artwork

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takato1993 · 1 year

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Everything I watched this December rated

just going to do some quick rating of everything i watched this December with minimal to no commentary but If anyone wants more commentary feel free to message me about any movie on this list.

( 5 /10 is still average and still fine, 6/10 is above average, 4/10 is below average)

-The Univited 5/10

Jason Goes to Hell The Final Friday 5/10.

In defense of this one I think it would have worked better as a stand alone original movie

Title feels misleading tho now there no room for like a fiery Jason coming straight out of a hell portal embodying and fighting off demons or something like that.

Doctor Mordrid 7/10

Plank Face 5/10

CW torture, castration

The Muppet Christmas Carol 8/10

Predators 8/10

I didn't know there was a 2010 predators movie but It might be my favorite out of the series so far

What The Peeper Saw 3/10

WitchTrap 4/10

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things 5/10

not what I thought it would be and also vaguely familiar I think this may have been my first exposure to the concept of zombies as a kid.

Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter 6/10

Odd Thomas 6/10

Curse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween 5/10

Curtains 4/10

Neon Maniacs 5/10

Hell Comes to Frog Town 6/10

The Company of Wolves 8/10

Demon Wind 5/10

Lifeforce 6/10

Orphan 9/10

Warm Bodies 7/10

The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance 7/10

Spiderman No Way Home 5/10

I have come to realize that i actually do like the early 2000s Spiderman movies and the flaws in this one really helped me gain this perspective back.

Crash and Burn 6/10

ideal killer robot movie possibly

The Cleanse 6/10

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 8/10

the only scarecrow themed horror movie for me.

Bloody Birthday 6/10

The Visitor (1979) 4/10

National Lampoons Vacation REWATCH 4/10

.... you know what this movie is bad actually

Evil Ed 4/10

Goodnight Mommy (2014) 5/10

CW- torture, dark themes, downer ending

Eaten Alive 3/10

Just Looking 5/10

Dave Made a Maze 6/10

this one was very fun give it a shot

Shivers 4/10

Body melt 5/10

Girls Just Wanna Have Blood 5/10

Ice Cream Man 4/10

The Love Witch (2016) 5/10

Godzilla Vs Kong (2021) 7/10

not gonna lie cried a little at the ending.

#film #movies #horror #what I watched

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ghostcultmagazine · 1 year

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