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Ways to provide protection from spiritual and physical beings:

Make a witches bottle: They provide you with protection against curses, hexes, and spells sent your way as well as to protect your property and possessions.  

Salt circle: A salt circle provides the person inside with protection from negative entities and demons. Line your window sills and door way entrances with salt to create an impenetrable barrier.      

Iron: Repels evil.Three iron nails driven into a doorway or window sill will block negativity from entering your home. Note: Iron repels Fae!

Plants: Some plants have protective properties. 

Ask your deity for protection

Mint leaves in your shoes protects you from curses

Put pepper in protection sachets to protect against magickal attacks.

Burn bay leaves to reverse curses

Scrawl your home and clothes with protective sigils

Quartz Crystals: Provides protection.

Visualization

Paint your front porch blue to ward off ghosts:They fear water so this may confuse them.

Hang an upside down horse shoe above your door: to ward off evil spirits.

Hang wind chimes around your home: To scare off bad spirits

Nazar or evil eye: Protects your home from bad luck.   

Rowan: Two branches from rowan trees bound together with red thread in the shape of a cross. It provides protection when hung above doorways, according to celtic traditions.

Arrowheads: Placed above your door will help keep burglars and unwanted guests out.

Cinnamon Sticks: Tied over the door will protect your home.

Rosemary wreath: A wreath of rosemary bound with green thread can provide your home with protection. Add other plants that correspond with protection as well. 

Ivy: Grown up your house provides protection,

Mistletoe: Hung in the house protects it from thunder and lightning.

Acorn: According to Norse mythology, placing an acorn on the window sill protects the home from being struck by lightning. 

Pine branch: Where it for protection.

Create your own protection amulet

Place mirrors around your home to deflect the evil eye  

Sources: Charissascaulderon.com, scribol.com                                  

Stay safe and have a Happy New Year!

🃏 Find The Empress in your deck. The card behind her will reveal what you need to do to nurture and care for yourself. 

🃏 When in conflict or competition with someone, look for 5 of Wands. The card behind it will reveal the solution to the problem.

🃏 If you see the same card over and over again in readings, it is a sign and you must pay attention to its message for you.

🃏 For a better understanding of each card, observe it closely and form your own interpretation that follows its themes. It will help you interpret readings better.

🃏 To find out what is making you feel stuck or delayed, look to The Hanged Man. The card underneath him will show what is holding you back. The card in front of him will show you how to overcome it.

🃏 When shuffling your cards, if any card drops out of your grasp, take it as a sign and read the card. 

🃏 You do not need crystals with you to do proper readings, but a good way to cleanse your deck is to place a clear quartz on the top of your deck before each reading. Keep in mind; there’s a variety of ways you can cleanse your deck.

🃏 Often when The High Priestess appears in a reading, she is trying to tell you that you know the answers and that you should listen to your inner voice.

This is gonna be a long list.

ab intra - from within

ab origine - from the source

absit iniuria - “let insult be absent”

absit invidia - “let envy be absent”

absit omen - “let omens be absent”

ab uno disce omnes - from one, learn all.

abyssus abyssum invocat - deep calleth unto deep

a capite ad calcem - from head to heel

acta non verba - actions not words

ad altiora tendo - “I strive to higher things”

ad astra - to the stars

ad fontes - to the sources

ad meliora - towards better things

ad oculos - to the eyes

ad undas - to the waves

ad victoriam - to victory

adsum - I am here

a fortiori - from the stronger/from strength

a mari usque ad mare - from sea to sea

audeamus - let us dare

audentes fortuna iuvat - fortune favors the bold

audi, vide, tace - hear, see, be silent

beatae memoriae - of blessed memory

bona fide - in good faith

bono malum superate - overcome evil with good

capax infiniti - holding the infinite

carpe diem - seize the day

carpe noctem - seize the night

cave - beware

ceteris paribus - all other things being equal

circa - around

citius, altius, fortius - faster, higher, stronger

clavis aurea - golden key

cogito ergo sum - I think, therefor I am

compos mentis - in control of the mind

concilio et labore - by wisdom and effort

concordia cum veritate - in harmony with truth

concordia salus - well-being through harmony

coniunctis viribus - with connected strength

consummatum est - it is complete

corruptus in extremis - corrupt to the extreme

crescit eundo - it grows as it goes

de novo - from the new

de profundis - from the depths

dies irae - day of wrath

dona nobis pacem - give us peace

ego te provoco - I challenge you

esse est percipi - to be is to be perceived  

esse quam videri - to be, rather than to seem

esto quod es - be what you are

ex animo - from the soul

ex luna scientia - from the moon, knowledge

ex scientia tridens - from knowledge, sea power

ex silentio - from silence

ex undis - from the waves of the sea

experientia docet - experience teaches

fac et spera - do and hope

fac fortia et patere - do brave deed and endure

faciam quodlibet quod necesse est - I’ll do whatever it takes

faciam ut mei memineris - I’ll make you remember me

facta, non verba - deeds, not words

fortis et liber - strong and free

fortis in arduis - strong in difficulties

gloriosus et liber - glorious and free

hic abundant leones - here lions abound

hic et nunc - here and now

hic sunt dracones - here there are dragons

hinc illae lacrimae - hence those tears

hinc itur ad astra - from here the way leads to the stars

igni ferroque - with fire and iron

in memoriam - into the memory

in nocte consilium - advice comes over night

libra - balance

littera scripta manet - the written words endure

locus standi - a right to stand

luceo non uro - I shine, not burn

luctor et emergo - I struggle and emerge

mare liberum - free sea

memento vivere - remember to live

more ferarum - like beasts

natura non contristatur - nature is not saddened

nec spe, nec metu - without hope, without fear

noli me tangere - do not touch me

ophidia in herba - a snake in the grass

pro se - for oneself

propria manu - by one’s own hand

quaere - to seek

quod abundat non obstat - what is abundant does not hinder

resurgam - I shall arise

semper ad meliora - always towards better things

semper anticus - always forward

semper apertus - always open

semper fortis - always brave

semper liber - always free

stet - let it stand

tuebor - I will protect

Sono nuova in questa community magica di tumblr ma qualsiasi strega qui è americana o inglese e non riesco a trovare nessuna mia connazionale.

Se siete italiane e vi definite streghe, per favore contattatemi (qui, tramite domanda o fanmail, come preferite : melting-rose): vorrei davvero conoscere la nostra comunità italiana.

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Italian witches, where are you?

I am new in this witchy community in tumblr but every witch here is either American or English and I can’t find anyone from Italy!

If you’re Italian and you define yourself as a witch, please contact me: I’d really like to know someone from the Italian community.

And if you, who are reading, know some Italian witches, please let me know. Or if you want to help me, just boost. I would really appreciate

These practices are not dead, so we are not reconstructing them. In my Southern Italian family, for example, it’s something that is done today. So I will explain this European practice not as something to rebuild but just as something to describe.

#Step 1: Free a table or an altar or a shelf

 #Step 2: Put a photo, a representation, a drawing, a portrait of your beloved dead or an object possessed in life by them (if you don’t have any of this, use a representative candle)

#Step 3: Buy flowers and put them near the Ancestor representation. Change them regularly or when they dry out

#Step 4: When you want to contact them (for example once a week), lit a candle as offerings to them and pray or go in trance, contact them with divination, ask a favor or do magic with their help

#Step 5: If you want to dream them, ask them, after the offering and before going to sleep, to appear to you oneirically

#Step 6: In your normal life, if you pass near their photos, send them a kiss or bow in front of them and think about them. They will always be with you

Hello, Anon!

I think the format of prayer and ritual is the biggest difference between worshiping Greek and Roman gods The Romans wished to avoid giving even the appearance offense to the gods and were painstaking in avoiding the possibility of their words being misinterpreted. For example, they would say, “I offer this portion of wine” so there was no possible misunderstanding that the worshiper had promised an entire amphora - or the entire vintage - and had reneged by offering only a few milliliters. There were other differences, of course, such as religious gestures and various procedural details. The Roman attention to detail was manifest in the bringing of scrolls with written instructions and prayers to use at public rituals.

The pantheons of the Greeks and Romans - and a number of other cultures -  share common features inherited from the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Some people believe they’re the same gods with different faces, and some think they’re completely different deities. This is partly because we have few Roman stories about their deities (the Romans themselves actively embraced the corpus of Greek mythology) and partly because, in negotiating cultural differences, the Romans themselves identified and associated deities of other cultures with their own.*  Cultures also adopted the deities of other cultures. The Greek Apollo is generally recognized as the Etruscan Apulu and the Roman Apollo. 

Should we then assume, because the Romans identified Aphrodite as “the Greek Venus”, Aphrodite actually is Venus?  I don’t think so. Although the Romans identified Mercury with Wotan, I’d be surprised if anyone today regards them as the same deity. I’m not sure there are many, if any, practitioners of Religio Romana who believe Iuppiter, Juno, Diana, Bacchus, Minerva, Vesta, Mars, or Venus are the same as their Greek counterparts. 

But, while I think the more one studies Venus and Aphrodite, or Bacchus and Dionysus, the similarities become more superficial and the differences more apparent. I acknowledge that it’s a matter of individual perspective. The similarities and the differences actually exist; it’s up to the individual worshiper to decide which is more respectful to the deity and most important in their personal practice. This is one of those situations where divination and UPG can provide guidance.

It’s also important to remember that the 12 Olympian deities aren’t the only ones worshiped by the Romans, or even regarded as the most central. Janus was and is a major Roman god with no Greek counterpart, and there are a plethora of other unique Roman deities. Each family worshiped household deities, including the Lares, the Penates, the Genius and Juno of the family’s leaders, as well as ancestral deities and deities of locale. Personifications of virtues, cities, provinces, and the nūmina of certain objects were honored as deities, and deceased (and, occasionally, living) emperors and their family were accorded cult. In these aspects, the practice of Roman religion greatly differed from the Greek.

{I also included literature in other languages}

 Greek & Roman mythology:

The Iliad (in different editions 1 2 3)

The Odyssey (1 2 3)

The Aeneid 

Metamorphoses

Theogony

Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus At Colonus

The Oresteia

Medea and Other Plays

Bacchae

The Library of Greek Mythology

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton

The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

The Sagas of Classical Antiquity by Gustav Schwab (in German)

Greek Mythology by Ludwig Preller (in German) 

Greek Mythology by Reiner Abenstein (in German)

The Oxford Classical Dictionary

 Germanic Mythology: 

The Poetic Edda

The Prose Edda

Völsunga Saga

Grettir’s Saga

The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok

The Song of Nibelungs

Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Beowulf

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Norse Mythology: A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals and Beliefs by John Lindow

The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley

 Slavic Mythology:

Tales from Slavic Myths by Ivan Hudec

Fairy Tales of the Russians and other Slavs

Polish Folklore and Myth by Joanne Asala

Russian Myths by Elizabeth Warner

Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanasyev (the illustrations by Bilibin are so beautiful!)

Russian Fairy Tales by Gillian Avery

The Tale of the Firebird by Gennady Spirin

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

The Tale of Igor’s Campaign ( RU EN )

Traditions, tales and myths of Western Slavs (RU)

The Religion of Eastern Slavs by Viljo Johannes Mansikka (in Russian, scientific and thourough, you can download it on the site)

 Other Myths of the World:

Early Irish Myths and Sagas

The Kalevala

The Poems of Ossian

Celtic Heritage

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Myths from Mesopotamia

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Mahabharata

Ramayana