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[the-trans-folk-witch]

Pretty, pink, and delicious. Till death do us part. A Venusian twist on fate. Patron saint of trans women.

#folk catholicism #folk witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #transgender witches #beginner witch #trad craft #witchblr #santa muerte #santisimamuerte #la Niña Rosa #Santisima Muerte #Santa Muerte pink robe #pink Santa Muerte #Brujeria #curanderismo #hecheceria

[tyetknot]

Trad crafters cite your fucking sources challenge (impossible)

#Trad craft #Shitpost #Seriously tho

[profetizamos]

A work on the uses of the psalms in circulation in ritual magic circles includes the use of the fourth psalm for dream provocation. The psalm advises the reader to spend the night in quiet meditation, asks to see the light of God’s face, and concludes with the author lying down to sleep secure in God’s protection. The magical ritual involves writing a portion of the psalm with certain magical characters on a tile or potsherd (testa). This is then to be placed under the sleeper’s head.

No indication is given as to why the operator might want to dream, what kind of dream it might be, what the operator might do with it, or how it might be interpreted.

Klaasen, Frank. "Magical Dream Provocation in the Later Middle Ages." Esoterica vol. 8 (2006).

#dream divination #middle ages #psalms #ritual magic #dreams #trad craft #my post

[thewitchofwhitfield]

Hi witches! I’ve been reading up on traditional witchcraft and am very interested in the Faerie King aspect/guise of the Witch Father (and I suppose by extension the faerie faith). I was wondering if anyone had any resources or information they would be okay with sharing to point me in the right direction 人(_ _*)

#traditional witchcraft #trad craft #the witch father #the king of elphame #the faerie king #fairy faith #faerie faith #faerie witch #witchfather #folk devil #the witches’ devil #the horned god #the horned one #faery faith #robin goodfellow #folk magick #folk witchcraft

[kiaqtexistuku]

People seem to love my Satanism posts sooooo

I thought I’d post another! I wanted to talk about how queerness is such a huge thing in Satanist culture and there is no space for homophobia. The horned god (if you believe he is Satan or the devil) Is known to be very bisexual (if we have to give him a label) he in my experience is super sexually positive for any gender and sex. Non binary ness is so natural in his practice and it’s never something odd or out of the norm. He is very gender fluid in a way and always has been throughout history. But also modern Satanism has anyways been a space for the queer outcasts of the world, we made the culture, we are a huge part of it! And queerness cannot be separated from Satanism to fit someone’s hateful views. The devil is gay and he loves his queer children. 👹💋❤️ so don’t let anyone tell you any different ;)

#Satanism #devil worship #theistic satanism #trad craft #traditional witchcraft #trad witchcraft #the horned god

[thewitchesfortune]

Thinking about selling petition paper, which will be paper soaked in a homebrewed petition oil, good for any kind of general blessing work. Thoughts?

#witchblr #trad craft #petition paper #petition spells #petition writing #witchy supplies #for sale

[ghouliebabies-art]

Mini E.O.D. Repugnant vinyl all made by yours truly <33

#the band ghost #ghost fanart #trad art #crafts #vinyl records #repugnant #tobias forge #mary goore

[crustyraccoon]

Romantic goth look, love the corset. Found it at goodwill for 6 bucks

#goth #trad goth #romantic goth #punk goth #goth boy #trad punk #Tim burton #craft #looks like the craft x sweeney Todd #thrifting finds

[rocksanddeadflowers]

What's one hobby you have that you'd recommend other people try?

Oh I have so many this is hard to answer.... I think maybe just simple hand sewing skills? Just because a lot of it is really easy once you get the hang of it, and it's incredibly useful and multi purpose. You can make new stuff or save your old favorite things! I love mending my clothes a lot (saves money in the long run and saves me the heart ache), and there's plenty of different kinds of hand sewing skills you can learn depending on what you need them for. I recently even learned scotch darning to save my favorite sweater!

(Sewing is probably my oldest hobby too? I remember being very little and denied real sewing needles so I made my own out of Christmas ornament hooks and fixed my brother's stuffies with them and made my stuffies clothes. I got my needles not long afterwards.)

I prefer visible mending for most of my things, but I practice making it unnoticeable too. I've fixed bedspreads, clothes, bags, and all sorts of things! I've also made new clothes and other trinkets out of scrap material, and decorated things too! (<- personally obsessed with patch work things lmao.)

Admittedly if you get into sewing as a major hobby a sewing machine is very helpful, but I still prefer hand sewing where I can bc I find the machine to be a little stressful. I usually use mine on bigger projects to save time, but I mainly hand sew.

Also I know you quilt so I dunno if that was the answer you were looking for lol... I don't know much about quilting but it is still sewing, and really cool to me. (Long arms look terrifying to me however.) But yeah knowing how to sew by hand is really helpful and fun! It's relaxing for me when I have the energy to focus and feels fulfilling. Even if it's not a good hobby for everyone, if it's a skill you're capable of learning, it's very useful.

#eek i think i lose this ask in my drafts?? #love getting asks like this tho <3 <3<3 #bites you (affectionate /p) #idk how much hand sewing goes into quilting unless you're doing the whole thing by hand? but i assume there is #i also really love baking!! it's especially nice making food from scratch so i can control the ingredients better #makes the little treats a bit healthier and less likely to cause a flair :) #honestly i have a bunch of silly hobbies but they're all either miscellaneous arts and crafts / punk diys #or like. traditional house wife skills. #a skill being stereotypical of trad wife stuff does NOT inherently make it yucky obviously pls know that they're usually very useful to know #i just think it's pathetically ironic that they're my favorites/what I'm best at #my asks

[the-trans-folk-witch]

Spirits within-

Part 1 The Fetch:

The Witch’s Shade and Its Distaste For “shadow work”

Alternate title: The [Un]Holy spirit of the Witch.

This blurb is meant to be lost to the internet as an opinion of one witch. This is not an academic writing documenting the fetch of folklore or of other traditions found in traditional witchcraft systems. Rather, it is a hot take on the mass hysteria and spiritual psychosis masquerading as “shadow work”. There will be discussions of the shade, the fetch, and the witch’s relationship with healing (or lack of) to follow. I am purely sharing my own beliefs from the tradition I’ve built. If anything here resonates please take it and add it to your own praxis. If you disagree then… cool I guess. Keep it to yourself lol.

The fetch has been called many things by different folks. Some titles being largely misused but nonetheless accepted: The witch’s shade, the hag, the shadow self, the inner child, and even the Unholy spirit. A creature within the pit of the stomach and/or the nether regions. In the average person, the shade is curious, animalistic, childlike, and sexual. It carries selfishness, trauma, greed, and lust. This is the part of the soul that sins and day-dreams. Everyone has one. Only, they all behave differently and the witch embraces its dark nature.

This is also the part of the soul that carries trauma. Within many modern occult circles this “inner child” is seen as something in need of healing. Something that needs to be nourished. This belief is valid from a folk healing perspective. The trad witch however, finds power within the shade’s restlessness. Healing it is antithetical to witchcraft. Before you run off saying otherwise, I wanted to stress that I am a huge advocate for therapy and self reflection. But as you may have guessed, My mental health practices do not overlap with my religious practice. Just as the folk healer is valid in the loosening of this spirit’s grip on their life. As is the witch in allowing their darkness to fester.

A term becoming more common within recent years would be “shadow work.” I have a complicated relationship with this term’s use. Again, there is historical necessity of spiritual healing. And many folk practices find importance in it. However, the western occult community has allowed toxic positivity to invade this idea of shadow work. The term is forced on all magical practitioners and psychology is being forced upon modern practices by people who are not licensed to truly deal out psychological advice. Many times have I heard false teachings such as “don’t do magic until you’ve done shadow work” as if it’s a one-and-done-chore. As if it’s linked to a spirit’s ability to help you. I can assure you, my money bowl will bring me money even if I have ignored my daddy issues and various traumas.

Shadow work has become a white E-girl’s fantasy that allows her to flex her DIY therapy and compartmentalization skills. And yes, it’s always white girls. Although, the white-ego and woman-traumas are a different type of blog post…..

Non initiated “witches” have removed the concept of the fetch and replaced it with psychologically obsessed and compulsory beliefs. There is an unhealthy blending of psychoanalysis and spirituality plaguing our world. Sifting through the healthy kinds of healing based practices verses the hysterical is daunting. But as a Witch I see all of it as unnecessary within my practice.

As I stated, everyone has a shade. But to the witch it is corrupt. It is not just curious, but hungry. It does not need to heal but to curse and steal. This spirit is not like the shade of the common folk. It can not be ignored, cleansed, purged, or healed. It is the witching spirit. It is the fetch. It is the hag. It is this self-serving and devilish outlook that has separated our shade from the others. This is not to say shadow work and the ever increasing interest for people to psychoanalyze their spirituality is unnecessary. In fact I’m saying quite the opposite. Despite the obsessive and compulsory need to constantly be healing and “breaking generational curses/trauma”; healing is important for humans of all beliefs. Folk healers have a long history of healing mental and physical ailments with prayers and the aid of spirits. But modern occultists have forgotten, the witch is not a witch if they are not hurt or oppressed. The witch is the opposite of healing and peace. The fetch reflects that. Our soul is stained by the devil. There is no healing it despite what the church tells you.

We all have a shade. But unlike Christians, I will not ignore it. I feed it. I will not shamefully confess the acts it urges me to do as a catholic would. I do not see it’s chaos as something bad. I do not believe that overcoming my trauma and getting therapy will effect my ability to craft spells as new agers do. I also do not think my spirits will refuse to help me just because I didn’t buy that stupid shadow work journal being advertised all over the internet. I am a Witch. A messy, cruddy, muddy, selfish, entitled witch. I am the villain society has told queers to be. I am the bad guy in most social settings. I purposely usurp, overthrow, and evade all social norms and authority figures just to make your skin crawl. I am THE edge lord of all edge lords. I do not seek to heal that wound. It fuels my witch fire.

TLDR: A shade born into oppression is likely to become a whitch’s shade. A living haint if you will. Blurring the lines between therapy and magic is not witchcraft. But it is not invalid either.

Now that I’ve established my beliefs in the shade and it’s transformation into the fetch; allow me to discuss how I view it as a spirit that can be worked with as a sentient daemon.

As an animist I quite simply view this shadow version of myself as being alive inside of me. It is a spirit I can send out to do my bidding and it is the hag I take the form as when I fly. An “astral body” as they call it these days. I will mention that many trad witches do not approach the fetch as a sentient spirit but do acknowledge it’s existence within them. Just as people doing shadow work do not approach this shade or “inner child” as an actual entity. But I prefer to view it much like Christians do the Holy Spirit. To me it functions as the Unholy Spirit which is placed within sinners by the devil. Wether it’s born with us as Catholics say sin is, or is placed within us upon dark baptism/initiation is up to debate. But it definitely is an outside source being blended with my own power. Hence the birth of it from trauma and magic.

My fetch appears in visions and dreams. Sometimes it’s beautiful and appears as a fictional and impossibly beautiful version of myself. It’s a jab at my insecurities. And other times it’s a gross wound of a being. Covered in wrinkles, hair, and sometimes bugs. The fetch is both my ideal dream and my worst nightmare. So, I use it to instill such traits in others. I take this spirit’s form upon myself and hag ride enemies. I steal beauty and wealth via dream visitations. I bestow disease and sour luck to those who have created this fetch (read ‘trauma’). It is the spirit within and without. A spirit that is me that has been made infernal and other. It is the Unholy Spirit made flesh.

#folk witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #transgender witches #beginner witch #folk catholicism #ozark magic #trad craft #witchblr #animism #shadow witch #shadow work #inner child #the fetch #spirits within

[tyetknot]

I just had a horrible (?) moment of insight reading the inimitable @witchcraftingboop 's recent post on the evolution of magic, where she talks about how in the early modern period we see a Christianization of magical practice which among other things helped it pass above-board, as it were. This, to me, is similar in a roundabout way to the shifting of magical discourse in the 1980s and early 1990s to a more "love and light lol we don't curse people or worship the Devil who even is that?" approach which was a response to the unhinged insanity of the Satanic ritual abuse hysteria.

I would complain that I know too many wonderful and clever people here on this hellsite but I can't complain at all, I love my friends.

#witchcraft #pagan #ceremonial magic #trad craft

[lizardoflazurus]

My favorite beers are stouts and sours🖤 There is a local craft brewery with the best pb&j sour. I have to get it anytime I go😤 Best release was the strawberry 🍓 the raspberry was good but strawberry is superior

#gothcore #goth #goth aesthetic #alternative #goth culture #goth fashion #goth girl #goth makeup #gothic #trad goth #traditional goth #craft beer #sour beer

[samaspic31]

im so fucking mad about capitalism's devaluation of manual labor (especially financial, hi raise the fucking wages) and expectation to outsource labor, leading to dire exploitation (everyone is exploited, but manual workers especially AND don't get compensated for the toll on their body AND get looked down on unlike white collar workers, all that because making intellectual products is worth 10 times more money i fucking guess). The average person used to have so many more practicak skills and we used to know how make so much more stuff, having people cook, clean, take care of your children and sew for you was the height of luxury for a wealthy woman, depending so much on buying to substain your lifestyle was reserved to the extremely wealthy. People were expected to hold more basic skills outside of a hyperspecific field of their career like today and were allowed to spend time on broad and practical knowledge, and today schools do not even out the playing field because it's still mostly theoric regurgitation (which great, but give all the youngsters a cooking, crafting and sewing class and teach them accounting im begging) making people into highly specific tools relying on buying most of what they don't even think they can make, because disempowered. (this is linked to capitalist shaming of perceived failure and beginners and imperfection but that's a whole other can of worms)

Like for example it was just a given painters made their own paint (or started by making it for their mentor, any way they were taught how), it was considered a necessary first step, a way to understand your medium, and a way no to depend on anyone else or a corporation, and i think a lot of artists are missing that step of having to spend effort on the medium itself. I don't know how my graphic tablet works and i can't make acrylic paint and that's a shame

Like it was always normal for the already rich to leave all physical work to exploited workers but today it's everyone else's case too (at least in the economic north), making your own stuff is a counterculture thing, and even poverty or being an exploited worker eats so much of time that it makes it so buying is necessary and stuff made with exploited labor the only affordable option, fucking vicious cycle

there were deep inequalities with how the teaching of those skills were segregated, which was for which gender and social class, im not saying it was universally good, and women were expected to accumulate way more skills just to do all the managing of a household AND get that labor devalued, just, urgh, it was considered important to know at least i guess

also the birth of packaging and the rise of single use plastic+ worldwide transport of goods is heavily linked to this and a consequence of a global economic boom but it's still a fucking disaster-

anyways buy a s little new shit in as little packaging as you can and fuck corporations

#this post is not about disabed people being unable to do physical work. they need that outsourced labor. i am talking about people who can #but have straight up forgotten making it was an option (thanks advertising bombardement) #that's what i mean when i say craft and diy and zero waste communities need to be taking an anticapitalist approach #dependance to other people's labor is not inherently bad (no human can do everything anyways) but that level of dependance in every area of #life used to be something expectional and isn't realyy possible to extend to all human population without exploitation #and not the rule. nor was making things discouraged #im getting into paint and inkmaking hi #hope i make sense #anticapitalism #reflecting on the past is so interesting they got a LOT wrong but some parts were damn better #like yeah fuck that 90s when sweets are baked not bought post (hello the 90s were consumerist as fuck #but also the culture of making your own stuff being the norm ? kinda right #fuck trads and their romantization of the bigoted parts of the past return to tradition is bad but returning to more self reliance yeah goo #i don't know if i make sense

[mezmer]

i forgot i haven't done a face reveal on my new blog ;) so here you go!

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[thinkingnot]

ive decided im gonna try to study traditional chinese for youuuuuu *points at yu wo shrine* <- exists mentally i do not have a physical shrine of her

#study trad mandarin for family 🚫 study trad mandarin to read the lastest books by yu wo ✅ #personal #girlies i spent a literal hour crafting amessage thru google translate to reply to her post at 1 am #no i just wanted to get the grammar and the faux fluency feel from a native speaker #what i did: translate a number of existing comments under her post -> study their tone & wordings -> go thru google translate & use broken #memories of dialects ive heard from my dad’s constant stream of 24hrs mews channel and movies and when he talekd with his friends over the #phone and what my sibling uses when they speak and the movies ive watched as a kid #go thru three time of confirmation via google translate and google for the right words #meaning n stuffs #and then wee comment crafted #no ive not gone insane from studying literature for finals #maybe a little #BUT DOMINIONIONS END BOOK 7 IS LITERALLY IN THE WORKS