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traditional witchcraft, fairy faith & hellenic polytheism.
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As many of you know, for the past year I’ve been writing on a shared Wordpress (bloodandhawthorn.com) with a few friends— @blackthornwren @satsuti and @daymoth. Today is somewhat bittersweet because I’m announcing my departure from that site in favour of creating my own, which I’ve linked to this post.

There’s no bad blood, we’re all still friends and I still hold a lot of love for them and the site, but as many of you know I’ve been looking into offering my paid divination services for a while, and I thought it would be better if I housed that on a separate site with just me, where I could also blog, share poetry and basically just collate everything in one space. Definitely continue to check out blood and hawthorn, and if you’re at all interested in more of my articles or my services, do poke around my new site as well ♥️

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lailoken
Anonymous asked:

Do you have any experience with glamour magic in the way it's being done today with makeup and relating it to physical beauty?

lailoken answered:

I don't have a whole lot of experience with it, no. Though, I do know one piece of simple Glamoury that can be useful. It is meant to enhance one's natural beauty in the eyes of a beholder.

A finger is pricked—especially if it be the Vena Amoris—and the Seeker incants, "Let She of Oaths and Longing hear my plea; O' Maiden of the Flower Face, adorn me with your loveliness!"

The blood is then used to ornament the lips, saying, "Berry wine upon my lips; let its sweetness inspire drunken hymns."

The blood is used to ornament the cheeks, saying "Flushing apples upon my cheeks; let their gleam hold fruitful promises."

Finally, the blood is used to ornament the eyelids, saying, "Velvet petals upon my lids; let the nectar they shroud draw pilgrimage."

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violentwavesofemotion-deactivat
“It is for she that the cherry bleeds. That the moon is steeped in milk and blood.”

— Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, from “Hard on for Love,” released c. 1986

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seemoreandmore
“Words do have power. Names have power. Words are events, they do things, change things.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin from  The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: seemoreandmore
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satsuti
However, the text-folklore motifs of the Balkan - especially the Romanian - fairy world referring to the fairies’ sun-bringing and fertility-protecting role, to the world tree/tree of life fit in with those East-European folklore motifs that describe a fertility-protecting mythical female figure (in folklore she often appears as the Blessed Virgin Mary) sitting in the middle of the world/on the omphalos-stone, in or under the world tree, the tree of life. The supposed ancestors of the mythical figures are - among others - the Magna mater-type goddesses from Asia Minor, e.g. Artemis of Ephesos (often described as a snake coiling up to the omphalos or a tree) or Artemis of Paphos depicted as a woman holding up the sun/the moon in her hands.

Faeries and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe, Eva Pocs

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paganimagevault

Greek silver kylix depicting Helios and a chariot, 3rd C. BCE

"[Helios the Sun] rides his chariot, he shines upon men and deathless Gods, and piercingly he gazes with his eyes from his golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from him, and his bright locks streaming from the temples of his head gracefully enclose his far-seen face: a rich, fine-spun garment glows upon his body and flutters in the wind : and stallions carry him. Then, when he has stayed his golden-yoked chariot and horses, he rests there upon the highest point of heaven, until he marvellously drives them down again through heaven to Okeanos (Oceanus)."

-Homeric Hymn 31 to Helius (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C7th - 4th B.C.)

https://paganimagevault.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_81.html

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satsuti

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