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Au premier soleil nous croyons qu'on sort de l'hiver comme d'une chemise... Cela vient que nous ne savons généralement pas jouir de ce qui est et que nous suspendons toujours notre bonheur à l'espérance du futur. Rien de plus beau cependant que ces orages, ces foudres qui ricochent dans l'azur, ces vents chargés de flottes dorées, ces ciels pleins de Babels qui s'écroulent et se reconstruisent. Vous attendiez le chaud, voila le froid? Goûtez le froid : s'il est là, c'est que votre bonheur doit se construire autour de lui.

Jean GIONO

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C'était une nuit extraordinaire.

Il y avait eu du vent, il avait cessé, et les étoiles avaient éclaté comme de l'herbe. Elles étaient en touffes avec des racines d'or, épanouies, enfoncées dans les ténèbres et qui soulevaient des mottes luisantes de nuit.

Jourdan ne pouvait pas dormir. Il se tournait, il se retournait.

«Il fait un clair de toute beauté», se disait-il.

(...)

Il y avait tant de lumière qu'on voyait le monde dans sa vraie vérité, non plus décharné de jour mais engraissé d'ombre et d'une couleur bien plus fine. L'oeil s'en réjouissait. L'apparence des choses n'avait plus de cruauté mais tout racontait une histoire, tout parlait doucement aux sens.

Jean Giono

[Que ma joie demeure]

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Les reines sans divertissement @luc3

<3

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Giono 😭😭😭😭

Merci...!!!

derangedrhythms
I’m reminded of the sun of my childhood. Infused with death, 

Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972: The Shadow Texts; from ‘The Green Table’, tr: Yvette Siegert

Black Elderberry. [French Folks Traditions]

In the 19th century, the peasants of France still attributed magical properties to the Elderberry, and its wood was sometimes used to make sorcerer's staffs and divinatory wands.

In the legend, Judas, after having betrayed Christ, would have gone to hang himself from an Elderberry branch. Thus, it is said in Vienne, that the person who breaks an elderberry branch in the garden of his neighbors will betray this one in the year, even without wanting it and without knowing it.

It should also be noted that in certain regions, Elderberry served as a panacea : everything was good in Elderberry for healing, in the past. But that following the curse linked to Judas, its powers had been supposedly removed.

Protective Magic :

  • Côtes d'Armor : Elderberries are planted near houses to ward off evil spells and snakes. It is also used to protect livestock (diseases and evil spells) by placing a branch in the cows' litter.

  • Yonne : Pick up a branch of Elderberry on the passage of the Corpus-Christi procession and then place it in an apple tree, it'll protect it against caterpillars. (?!)

  • Lower Brittany, Côtes d'Armor : You should never hit a cow with an Elderberry branch, it will make it sick, or cause its milk to dry up. Same thing for pigs. Moreover, if you burn Elderberry wood, you risk preventing the hens from laying eggs.

Magical Medicine:

  • Côte d'Armor : It is said that the Dlderberry is a "doctor", because the fairies took refuge in the flowers to flee the world when it became too mean. (a special one for my dear @lailoken )

  • Vienne, Vaucluse : the patient who touches an Elderberry will get better in the next few days, and to cure fevers you have to slip his name and date of birth into a previously hollowed-out elderberry tree.

  • The feast of Saint John is (of course) favorable to the Elderberry, whose virtues it multiplies.

  • In the Gospel of the Cattails it is said that warts are cured by rubbing it with an Elder leaf on the eve of Saint John, a leaf which is then buried. As the leaf rots, the wart dries out.

  • In Upper Brittany, Elderflowers collected on Saint John's Day are used to make an herbal tea to treat sick eyes.

Witchcraft :

  • Jura : We know the story of a sorcerer who introduced a little excrement from the person or animal he wanted to bewitch into a hollowed-out elderberry stick. He then fixed this stick in running water while reciting a prayer. The victim had stomach aches as long as the water agitated the stick.

  • In addition, Collin de Plancy in his Dictionnaire Infernal reports that : "when one has received some curse from a sorcerer whom one does not know, one hangs one's habit from one ankle and strikes on it with an elderberry stick; all the blows will fall on the back of the guilty sorcerer, who will be forced to come, in all haste, to remove the spell."
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The Ice Saints.

The ice saints, likely to become the coldest days, especially at night or in the morning, are eight in number :

Saint George.…….. April 23 Saint Mark…………. April 25 Saint Eutropius….. April 30 Holy Cross ………… May 3rd

Are holy freezers and hailers and bud burners.*

Saint John …………. May 6th

Who -theoretically- closes the door of the cold.

But caution is still required when these great knights arrive:

Saint Mamet ………. May 11 Saint Pancrace……. May 12 Saint Gervais……….. May 13

Also saints of hail and nocturnal frosts.

So wait until May 14th for your plantations.

*(Selon Rabelais : « saints gresleurs, geleurs et gasteurs de bourgeons ».

(from something a friend of my mother's took out of his almanac.)

/Judge me by those who keep me/

So I share my Walpurgis apple cake, incense, lights, devotion of pure waters, with the Little Neighbors,

and I was rewarded with a flight of crows (~ a real flight, not the usual jokes and tricks), then by a little green and gloomy viper which took the sun on a tomb, and finally by this young black snake which I disturbed in its sun-nap.

2 snakes ! 2 crows !

Also, I was authorized to pick up few umbels from Grandma to make a liquor which will be shared, precisely, between All of Us.

derangedrhythms
The wind sang softly with angel voices

Georg Trakl, Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl: Uncollected Poems and Prose; from 'An Evening', tr. Will Stone