Day 2: Seduction - aside from her assassin outfit, this is thirstiest dress we got from official media; Day 16: Red Thread - I took more comedic route for this one. Thread of her sweater got caught somehow on his watch 🙃
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The sewing witch can stitch you luck or cut free your thread of fate... but what will you offer to her in return?
Like the art? It (and the dragon that comes with it) will be up for sale soon at the Carrefour Inn!
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you can tell this is super old if you're in the ogoa discord hahaha because the channel name is "red thread theories" now but i'm still a huge fan of it
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Dean and Pharm danced around each other with their red string for months turning destiny into a love that can outlast death and rebirth itself through food and love and nightmares.
Win and Team started weaving a hemp rope out of kisses and consent and comfort from the moment they met and are building a life and relationship that is their choice and their choice alone.
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Red Threads in Scottish Folklore 🧵
In historical Scottish folklore, the colour red was thought to be protective, so many red charms were once used to sain(protect and/or cleanse). This also counted even if it was a simple red thread.
“Red, being the colour of blood – the essence of life- is the supreme magical colour. In Scotland, necklaces of red coral or red rowan-berries, strung on red thread, were worn as amulets.”
"The Silver Bough: Volume 1 " by F. Marian McNeill (1957-1968)
I have talked about rowan in the past, but one way the red thread is often mention is paired with rowan. The rowan might be wrapped or woven with the thread, then put with whatever it is that you want to protect. For example, you might make a charm to go above your door(especially on cross-quarter days), or maybe create a collar to place on your cows neck.
In Islay, not twenty years ago, a man had a rowan-tree collar for securing his cow at night, and every time the animal visited the bull he passed this collar thrice through the chimney crook. On Beltane-day annually he dressed all the houses with rowan.
“Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland” by John Gregorson Campbell (1902)
However, even on it’s own, the thread was considered powerful. Red thread was used to protect from fairies, witchcraft, the devil, the evil eye, and even adders. An adder in Scottish folklore is not typically referring to the real-life snake that shares the same name, but instead a huge snake-like dragon that is more commonly called a Beithir in Scotland.
“Various sicknesses of humans, sheep and cattle in Lewis and other of the Outer Isles were once put down to the bites of non-existent adders, especially where symptoms included some kind of skin peeling or flaking. The custom, as elsewhere, was to put a red woollen thread through the hole, dip the stone in water, bathe the affected part and give the patient some of the water to drink.”
“Healing threads : traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands” by Beith, Mary 1995
As well as a way to protect from something, it was also a cure. As if simply touching the red would break whatever hold something had on you, the thread was sometimes even prescribed for sickness.
If you want more quotes and links to historical Scottish audio recordings on this subject, I have a list on my website (at the bottom of the post).
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