They like to hold tails when they cuddle.

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I can't show it if my mother found out it was out she's mad.... but she lets me where it underneath

Folklore as wisdom - Fairy Rings occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie or elf appears. The circular pattern of the mushrooms looks like a place where fairies danced in a ring holding hands. In an Irish legend recorded by Jane Wilde (mother of Oscar), tells of a farmer who built a barn on a fairy ring despite the protests of his neighbours. He was struck senseless one night and a local “fairy doctor” was called to break the curse. The farmer says that he dreamed that he must destroy the barn. - No doubt this particular variety of mushroom was hallucinogenic! The various names given to Fairy Rings in European languages often allude to supernatural origins. In France they are known as ronds de sorciers (“sorcerers’ rings”) and Hexenringe (“witches’ rings”) in Germany where traditionally fairy rings were thought to mark the site of witches’ dancing on Walpurgis Night. Dutch superstition claimed that the circles show where the Devil set his milk churn. In Tyrol, folklore attributed fairy rings to the fiery tails of flying dragons; once a dragon had created such a circle, nothing but toadstools could grow there for seven years. European superstitions routinely warned against entering a fairy ring. French tradition reported that fairy rings were guarded by giant bug-eyed toads that cursed those who violated the circles. In other parts of Europe, entering a fairy ring would result in the loss of an eye. Fairy rings are associated with diminutive spirits in the Philippines. Collecting dew from the grass or flowers from inside a fairy ring can bring bad luck. While destroying a fairy ring is both unlucky and fruitless as it will just grow back. Also science tells us some mushrooms in fairy rings are poisonous and inhaling mushroom spores can cause a respiratory disease called Lycoperdonosis. Fairy Rings bring bad luck to sports people even in the 21st century! Ireland’s famous Golf links courses, such as the Old Head course in Kinsale, are particularly prone to Fairy Rings making life hell for even the world’s top players. In 2011 scientists from the Harper Adams University College in Shropshire came to Ireland to study ‘The epidemiology and integrated control of fairy rings on golf courses’, which they thought would be welcome news for frustrated golfers, who they said are sick of seeing their putts sent off-course once they enter a fairy ring. Moonshine distillers traditionally discard the first 50ml of distillate known sometimes as the fairy portion. Science tells us that the first few drops from a still contain nasty and unwanted substances like methanol which have a lower boiling point than alcohol and therefore come out of the still first. Thus we can conclude that some superstitions are very useful in passing on scientific knowledge. Image: A Fairy ring of a Basidiomycete mushroom. Often a mycelium expands outward from an original individual, with older mycelia dying and newer ones obtaining food at the periphery, forming a fairy ring.

if you see this post try to do any of these right now

Good idea

i love tricking myself into smiling so i can be happy for no reason :))

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I don't know if its a decoration or edibile?

European wolf (Canis lupus lupus) at Blijdorp Zoo Rotterdam, The Netherlands by Stella B2008

Bottle Spell For Happiness

In this little bottle i’ve got:

I sat down in my favorite spot outside and held the bottle in my hands while I thought about the things that make me happy. I put some of my happy energy into the bottle, and then I sealed it up!

When i’m feeling sad I hold the bottle and/or shake the bottle up.

Ha ha School

Okay every one i have a story to tell all of you about what happend today when i went to school and checked out books about wicca and witchcraft.

So i got the books and im putting them in my bag you know getting ready to start class and my biology teacher comes up to me TAKES MY BOOKS and says to the whole class room well it looks like chris is into witchcraft and i responded with yes i am and then he goes on to say oh well does that me you belive in witchs and im like yes and in front of the whole class room hes like so you like satan and i was like no and he goes yes you do it all goes hand in hand witchcraft is made of satan and then he goes on to tell me about how wicca is all satan made and stuff……so after that i got my books got my bag went to the nurses office and just vented to her

What a person

Sleep and Dream Sachet

If you need help sleeping, or if your having bad dreams, you can use this and it should help level everything out. I made one recently and it really helped. By the way, you don’t have to use a sachet, just use something that you can put the herbs in and maybe a few sleep sigils that is also capable of opening so you can smell them.

What you will need:

Rosemary - For deep sleep

Lavender - To soothe and relax you during sleep

Cloves - Brings an exotic feeling to dreams (Only add 2-4)

Catnip - Brings deep sleep, also soothes and relaxes

Chamomile - Calming, relaxing, and is said to keep away bad dream

Lemon Balm - Relieves stress and anxiousness. Also helps get rid of insomnia.

Any sleep sigils you’d like to add (optional)

The container/sachet

Combine all the ingredients you would like to use and put them into the container. Smell it before you go to sleep. Also, if you’d like protection during sleep, add protection sigils or sage.

Sweet dreams!

Wiccan History Timeline

This is a work in progress for the history of witchcraft.

15,000 B.C.

Ancient peoples revere healers, known as witches, who practice magic.

700 B.C.

The Celts lived in Europe and were feared by the Roman Empire who adopted many of their customs and practices as their own.

560 B.C.

Exodus 22:18 (Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live) condemns witchcraft.

200 B.C.

Earliest known reference to the Druids.

43 A.D.

Iceni Celts submit to the conquering Roman ruler Calaudius.

61 A.D.

King Prasutagus dies and his wife Queen Boadica is publicly beaten and her two daughters are raped by Roman guards, causing outrage in the Iceni people against Roman rule.

61 A.D. to 63 A.D.

The Iceni Celts are lead in battle against Roman rule by the warrior Queen Boadica. They were almost successful in defeating the Romans.

300 A.D.

Under the pre-Christian Roman Empire, punishment of burning alive was enacted by the State against witches who brought about another person’s death through their enchantments.

306 A.D.

The Christian Council of Elvira refuses last rites to those who had killed a man by a magical spell because such a crime could not be effected “without idolatry” (i.e. the help of the devil).

313 A.D.

Conversion of Emperor Constantine; Christianity is granted official toleration by the Roman Empire.

314 A.D.

Canon 24 of the Council of Ancyra imposes five years of penance upon those who consult magicians. Here, the offence lies in participation in paganism.

420 A.D.

St. Augustine argues that witchcraft is an impossibility.

600 A.D.

Christian pope Gregory the Great proclaims “all the gods of the heathens are demons.”

785 A.D.

The Council of Paderborn rules that sorcerers are to be reduced to serfdom and made over to the service of the Church.

906 A.D.

The document De ecclesiasticis disciplinis ascribed to Regino of Prüm describes popular notions of witchcraft and states it is the duty of priests to “instruct the people that these things are absolutely untrue and that such imaginings are planted in the minds of misbelieving folk, not by a Divine spirit, but by the spirit of evil.”

1012 A.D.

Pope Benedict VIII is consecrated May 17.

1014 A.D.

King Henry II is crowned in Rome on February 14.

1022 A.D.

The first “heretic” is burned in France sparking the witch hysteria.

1080

Pope Gregory VII writes a letter to King Harold of Denmark forbidding witches to be put to death upon presumption of their having caused storms, failure of crops or pestilence.

1167

King John was born on December 24

1199-1216

King John ruled

A man named Gideon was tried by Ordeal of Red Hot poker and proved innocent of witchcraft.

Hubert de Burgh was accused of using Charms to obtain favors from the king.

Cats, dogs, and wolves were hung with their owners for being witch’s familiars.

1200’s

Christianity has replaced traditional religions, which Christians call paganism.

1208 A.D.

Pope Innocent III attacks the belief that both God and Satan can have supernatural powers. Anyone who held the belief in this were labeled heretics.

1217

Eustace the Monk was drown in Sandwich for having magical powers.

1225

In Germany, the secular law code “Sachsenspiegel” designated death by fire as the proper punishment for witchcraft.

1258

Pope Alexander IV instructs, “The Inquisitors, deputed to investigate heresy, must not intrude into investigations of divination or sorcery without knowledge of manifest heresy involved.” “Manifest heresy” is defined as: “praying at the altars of idols, to offer sacrifices, to consult demons, to elicit responses from them… or associate themselves publicly with heretics.”

1273

Thomas Aquinas argues that demons do exist that try to lead people into temptation.

1275

The first “witch” is burned to death after judicial sentence of an inquisitor, in Toulouse, France. Her name was Hugues de Baniol and she “confessed” to having given birth to a monster after intercourse with an evil spirit and to having nourished it with babies’ flesh which she procured in her nocturnal expeditions.

1300s

Women are singled out as witches in Europe.

1300-30

Beginning of the witch trials in Europe.

1305

Philip IV of France sought to end the Knights Templar in order to gain their wealth, under the rein of Pope Clement V.

1307

Philip IV had the Knights Templar arrested and false confessions of blasphemy, idolatry, and sodomy were given as a result of their days of torture.

1308

Guichard, Bishop of Troyes, was accused of killing the queen of France with sorcery.

1312

After fighting for Christianity for 183 years against the Muslims, the Knights Templar was dissolved and their properties were divided between the hospitallers.

1314

Jacques de Molay, last grand master of the Kinights Templar,was burned at the stake for “Devil Worship” despite his good service for Christianity during the Holy Wars.

Pope Clement V died April 20.

1317

The Bishop of Cahors was found guilty of trying to “think” the pope to death using a crystal ball.

1334

Large-scale witch trial in Toulouse, France, in which 63 persons were accused. Of these, eight were handed over to the state to be burned and the rest were imprisoned.

1374

Pope Gregory XI declares that all magic is done with the aid of demons and thus is open to prosecution for heresy.

1400

Peter de Gruyères, a secular judge, carries out large-scale witch trials in Bern, Switzerland.

1419

King Henry V denounces his step mother, Joan of Navarre, for attempting to kill him using incantations.

1418-1422

Joan of Navarre is imprisoned for using witchcraft to try to kill the king.

1440

Gilles de Rais was hanged on October 26 after being found guilty of 150 human sacrifices to Satan.

1459

Robinet de Vaulx of Arras confessed to Inquisitors that he had attended a Witch’s Sabbat and named those with him. Those people that he named were tortured, brought to trial, found guilty, and condemned to death.

1484

Pope Innocent VIII issues an edict that calls for the eradication of witches and other heathens.

Pope Innocent VIII publishes the bull Summis desiderantes affectibus (“Desiring with the Greatest Ardor”) condemning witchcraft as Satanism, the worst of all possible heresies. The bull also officially grants Heinrich Krämer and James Sprenger, Dominican inquisitors, the right to prosecute persons of any class or any form of crime. He uses Exodus 12:18 to back up his campaign.

1486

Heinrich Krämer and Jacob Sprenger publish Malleus maleficarum (“The Hammer of Witches”), a learned but misogynistic book blaming witchcraft chiefly on women. It was reprinted many times thanks to the newly-invented printing press and was a major influence on the witch-hunt hysteria of the next two centuries. It was regarded as the standard handbook on witchcraft until well into the 18th century.

Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) triggers witch-hunts in Europe.

1530s

Prosecutions for witchcraft begin in Mexico.

1532

The penal code Carolina decrees that sorcery throughout the German empire should be treated as a criminal offence, and if it injured any person, the witch was to be burned at the stake.

1563

The Scottish Witch Act states that even people who consult with witches to cure various maladies were as guilty of witchcraft as those who actually practiced it.

1572

The Protestant ruler of Saxony imposes the penalty of burning for witchcraft of every kind, including fortune-telling.

1580-1630

Period in which witch-hunts are most severe.

1583

121 persons are burned as witches over three months in Osnabruck, Germany.

1590

Witch trials in North Berwick, Scotland.

1591

King James authorized the torture of suspected witches in Scotland.

1609

In response to a witch panic in the Basque region, La Suprema (the ruling body of the Spanish Inquisition) issues an “Edict of Silence” forbidding all discussion of witchcraft. For, as one inquisitor noted, “There were neither witches nor bewitched until they were talked and written about.”

1631

The Jesuit Friedrich von Spee publishes Cautio criminalis against the witch craze.

1639

The Putnams start a land feud with the Townes near Topsfield, Massachusetts

1647

First hanging for witchcraft in New England.

Alse Young is executed as a witch in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Mid 1600s

Ninety-three people are accused of witchcraft—fifty in Massachusetts and forty-three in Connecticut. Sixteen are put to death.

1668-76

Outbreak of witch-hunts in Sweden.

1684

The English government revokes the Massachusetts colonial charter.

Massachusetts minister Increase Mather publishes Remarkable Providences, a handbook for identifying witches.

1687

Rebecca Clinton is convicted of being a witch in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

1689

Samuel Parris is ordained as minister of the Salem village congregation.

January

Betty Parris and Abigail Williams try a voodoo fortune-telling experiment. They begin having fits.

February

Ann Putnam, Jr., Elizabeth Hubbard, and other Salem village girls join Betty Parris and Abigail Williams in having fits. They accuse Parris household slave Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne of casting spells on them.

March 1–5

Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne are brought before judges.

March 6–19

The girls accuse Martha Corey of bewitching them. Betty Parris is sent to live in the home of Stephen Sewall.

March 21

Martha Corey is questioned and sent to jail.

March 21–23

Ann Putnam, Sr. begins having fits. She and the girls accuse Rebecca Towne Nurse of putting a spell on them.

March 24

Rebecca Nurse is questioned and sent to jail.

April 30

Thomas Putnam has joined in the accusations. Twenty-three accused witches have been jailed.

May 14

Puritan minister Increase Mather and the new Massachusetts governor, William Phips, arrive in the colony with a new charter from England.

May 31

Thirty-nine other people have been jailed as suspected witches.

June 2

Governor Phipps appoints the Court of Oyer and Terminer to try accused witches. Deputy governor William Stoughton is the chief judge. Bridget Bishop is convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death.

June 10

Bridget Bishop is hanged. Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns from the panel of judges.

June 29

Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are put on trial. Although Nurse is acquitted, the judges ask the jury to review their decision; return a guilty verdict. Governor Phipps gives Nurse a reprieve, but later withdraws it. All the women are sentenced to death.

July 19

Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are hanged.

August 19

George Burroughs, John Procter, John Willard, George Jacobs, and Martha Carrier are hanged. Elizabeth Procter receives a reprieve because she is pregnant.

September 19

Giles Corey is pressed to death.

September 22

Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Redd, and Samuel Wardell are hanged.

October 3

Increase Mather gives a sermon in which he questions the validity of spectral evidence. The sermon is later published as Cases of Conscience concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men.

October 12

Governor Phipps forbids the jailing of more suspected witches.

October 29

Governor Phipps dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

November

The “bewitched” Salem girls are called to Gloucester to identify witches, but they are ignored when they have fits.

1692

Between May and October, 19 people are tried and hanged as witches in Salem, Massachusetts.

1693

Cotton Mather publishes Wonders of the Invisible World in defense of the witch trials.

January 3

A Superior Court, headed by William Stoughton, is formed to try accused witches. After three are found guilty, Phipps gives them a reprieve; he also gives reprieves to five others sentenced previously.

January 31

Stoughton resigns from the court in protest against the reprieves.

May

Governor Phipps orders all remaining accused witches released from jail after payment of their fees.

1697

January 14

The Massachusetts General Assembly declares a Day of Fasting to commemorate the victims of the trials. Twelve trial jurors sign a statement admitting they convicted and condemned people to death on the basis of insufficient evidence. Salem trial judge Samuel Sewall makes a public apology for his role in the executions.

Robert Calef writes More Wonders of the Invisible World, in which he attacks accusers and judges in the Salem trials.

Samuel Parris is forced to resign as minister of the Salem village church.

Early 1700s

The Enlightenment begins to displace Puritanism and traditional superstitions.

1703

The Reverend Joseph Green formally reverses Martha Corey’s excommunication from Salem village church.

1706

Ann Putnam, Jr. makes an apology for her role in sending innocent people to their deaths.

1710

The Massachusetts General Court grants the sum of 578 pounds as compensation to the families of Salem trial victims.

1749

The last trial for witchcraft in Germany is carried out at Würzburg.

1754

Torture is abolished in Prussia.

1782

Last known execution for witchcraft takes place in Switzerland, in the Protestant canton of Glarus.

1800

Belief in witchcraft lingers in New England.

1807

Torture is abolished in Bavaria.

1822

Torture is abolished in Hanover.

1846

American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne writes Young Goodman Brown, one of many stories and novels about Puritan bigotry and repression.

1875

Birth of Aleister Crowley, occultist who influenced Gerald Gardner.

1885

Birth of Gerald Gardner, founder of Gardnerian Wicca.

1890s

Aleister Crowley joins the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, of which William Butler Yeats was also a member.

1899

Charles Godfrey Leland publishes Aradia or the Goddess of the Witches.

Early 1900s

The British Order of the Druids revives the practice of Wicca.

1910

Crowley meets a leader of German Masonic order called the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a combination of Masonic rites and the traditions of the Rosicrucians, the Templars, the Illuminists, and Bengali Tantrism. Crowley was soon initiated into the order and progressing through the degrees of the order.

1912

Crowley is named Grand Master of the O.T.O. for Great Britain and Ireland.

1921

British archaeologist Margaret Murray writes The Witch-Cult in Europe, sparking an interest in witch covens.

1926

Birth of Alexander Sanders, founder of Alexandrian Wicca.

1929

Margaret Murray published her article “Witchcraft” in the 14th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.

1939

The O.T.O. in Germany is effectively dissolved by the Nazis.

1939

Gardner joins the Folklore Society and presents a paper on witchcraft.

1939

The year Gerald Gardner claims he was initiated into a witch cult called the New Forest Coven, led by Dorothy Clutterbuck.

1940

January 30

Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist writer and leader of Dianic Wicca, is born.

1940s

Gardner joins the nudist group The Fiveacres Country Club.

1946

Gardner begins work on High Magic’s Aid, a fictional novel partially based on those of his Southern Coven. The witches of his coven opposed making their rituals public, which is why it was presented as fiction and filled out with rituals from other sources.

1947

Gardner and Edith Woodford-Grimes start a company called Ancient Crafts Ltd.

1947

Gardner meets Crowley at Crowley’s home in Hastings for the first time on May 1, and visits him again several times during May.

1947

Gardner becomes a member of the O.T.O. in May and is authorized by Crowley to found an O.T.O. encampment and initiate new members.

1947

Crowley dies on December 1.

1947

On December 27, Gardner writes a letter claiming to have been designated as successor to Crowley as leader of the O.T.O. Karl Germer assumed leadership instead, and held it until his death in 1962.

1949

Gerald Gardner publishes High Magic’s Aid under the pseudonym Scire.

1950

Gardner begins distancing himself from Crowley and the O.T.O. in favor of Wicca.

Gardner states in a letter that Crowley had participated in the witch cult but left in disgust due to the leadership of the High Priestess and the nudity.

1951

Anti-witchcraft laws of 1735 are repealed by the British Parliament.

English writer Gerald B. Gardner declares himself a witch.

Gardner founds the “Northern Coven” in London and holds a small rite at his home near the British Museum on May Eve.

1953

Doreen Valiente is initated by Gardner, and soon became High Priestess.

1954

Gardner publishes Witchcraft Today, an event which many regard as the founding of Wicca.

1957

Wicca splits into two factions, one that supports Gardner’s growing publicity of the religion (led by Gardner) and one that opposes it (led by Doreen Valiente).

1959

Gardner publishes The Meaning of Witchcraft, in which he first uses the term “Wica.”

1960s

Neo–paganism spreads throughout North America and Europe.

1963-64

Gardner winters in Lebanon to help his failing health.

1964

Gardner dies of heart failure on the SS Scottish Prince in the Mediterranean. His body is buried at the next port of call, Tunis.

1970s

The Council of American Witches (which no longer exists) formulated a kind of basic Wiccan creed.

1975

The Covenant of the Goddess is formed to incorporate hundreds of separate Wiccan covens. It is officially recognized as a church in the United States.

1985

The District Court of Virginia declares that Wicca is a legitimate religion protected by the First Amendment.

1986

A federal appeals court ruled that Wicca was a legal religion. Wicca is therefore now protected by the U.S. Constitution as are other religions.

1989

Valiente publishes The Rebirth of Witchcraft, a first-hand account of the history and development of Wicca.

1991

Aiden A. Kelly publishes Crafting the Art of Magic, Book I, which aims to show that Gardner’s Book of Shadows could be entirely traced to earlier sources.

1999

A Wiccan vernal equinox celebration starts a controversy at Fort Hood, Texas.

2007

The Bush Administration votes to allow the pentacle (5 pointed star inside a circle) to be engraved on the headstones of fallen pagan soldiers buried in Arlington National Cemetery and other U.S. military burial grounds.

Source: dancingmooncoven.blogspot.com

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