Strength of a Bull

“When was the last time these crystals were charged?”

“Do you not cleanse your space? Look at all this spiritual build up! Don’t you dare tell me you cleansed this!”

Do you have any idea how much of a fucking hypocrite you sound like, telling people to do whatever they want with their practice and then reblogging shit like this? The idea that tinnitus means things like, “Oh, someone is talking about you,” is rooted in very, very old folk witchcraft. And the only thing that it has to do with New Age beliefs is that it survived long enough for people to know about it today.

The definition of the New Age ideology simply means that a — GASP! — new age/era will begin via the practice of witchcraft or the Gods’ own free will. And you don’t even have to believe in New Age ideology in order to practice witchcraft. You don’t even have to be religious.

@pondering-the-kaiju You’re a fucking elitist asshole and you should be ashamed of yourself for invalidating peoples’ beliefs just because you don’t agree with them. You don’t have to understand shit in order for it to believe valid. There are plenty of fucking practices witches who know that tinnitus isn’t caused by people gossiping about them. But you ever stopped to think that people like this shit just because its fun or sounds interesting or because it is an ancient belief leftover from practitioners of folk witchcraft?

You’re a fucking elitist asshole and you should be ashamed of yourself for invalidating peoples’ beliefs just because you don’t agree with them.

Literally comparing “invalidating people’s beliefs” and “don’t agree with them” with actual elitism (the advocacy or existence of an elite as a dominating element in a system or society).

Let’s call a spade a spade here. This is anti social behavior. I’m not talking the disorder, I’m talking definitionally anti-social - “ devoid of or antagonistic to sociable instincts or practices.” 

Name calling, moralizing, the unnecessarily harsh language - these are not conducive to social bonds or community. There is no consideration for the person they’re replying to. This is clearly not an attempt to change a person’s mind but a raging rant at another person. That this stuff is so normalized in so many spaces is…real unfortunate. 

And for what? 

Because a person they chose to follow posted something that didn’t align with their worldview. 

To illustrate the alternative route this could have taken because I do think there as some people who genuinely don’t know there’s another way: I’ve had several people on my dash posting way more about alcohol than I, as a sober person, ever wanted to see it. So I put some filters in and for the people who wouldn’t tag their posts or it just made up a big portion of their posts, I unfollowed. 

I didn’t reblog their stuff and demand it adhere to my view of alcohol. I didn’t rant or rave in their inboxes. I didn’t leave nasty comments. 

I went “Ugh, this ain’t it” and changed my feed. 

What white people hear: never use sage ever, don’t ever buy it, don’t own it, don’t even look at it.

Look, y’all. There’s a couple of facets to my talk today.

1) Yes! You can buy sage! You really, truly can! Buy it from either native sellers (go to a powwow! Eat our food, buy our stuff, watch some dancing!) Or buy it from a seller who sources the sage from native people. Pick one. And no, buying it from 5 Below doesn’t count.

2) you CANNOT smudge. This isn’t just you “shouldn’t”— this is a YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF SMUDGING. Waving a sage stick around your doorways IS NOT SMUDGING. It is smoke clensing. Smudging, depending on the tradition and tribe, could easily have dancing and drums involved. You, as a white person, do not have the cultural BACKGROUND to even know how it works. At all. Period.

3) please, for FUCKS SAKE, stop making posts here on tumblr where you tell other white people about cultural appropriation and what they can and cannot do. Please stop, your license has been revoked because none of you bother to get the facts right. We native people are FULLY CAPABLE OF DOING IT OURSELVES. Consider instead: a) reblogging our posts where we talk about it! We’re here! We have made posts!! b) Making a post that states what we said and then LINKS BACK TO US. Screenshot with a link if you must. Stop centering your own voices in these conversations. You are already centered in everything, stop centering yourselves in a native space.

I’m tired of this nonsense, y’all.

Some good and/or interesting (or hokey) ‘examples’ included for most resources. tryin to organize & share stuff that was floating around onenote.

Journals (open access) – Folklore, Occult, etc

Culutural Analysis - folklore, popular culture, anthropology – The Mythical Ghoul in Arabic Culture

Folklore - folklore, anthropology, archaeology – The Making of a Bewitchment Narrative, Grecian Riddle Jokes

Incantatio - journal on charms, charmers, and charming – Verbal Charms from a 17th Century Manuscript

Oral Tradition – Jewish Folk Literature, Noises of Battle in Old English Poetry

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics – Nani Fairtyales about the Cruel Bride, Energy as the Mediator between Natural and Supernatural Realms

International Journal of Intangible Heritage 

Studia Mythologica Slavica (many articles not English) – Dragon and Hero, Fertility Rites in the Raining Cave, The Grateful Wolf and Venetic Horses in Strabo’s Geography

Folklorica - Slavic & Eastern European folklore association – Ritual: The Role of Plant Characteristics in Slavic Folk Medicine, Animal Magic

Esoterica - The Journal of Esoteric Studies – The Curious Case of Hermetic Graffiti in Valladolid Cathedral 

The Esoteric Quarterly

Mythological Studies Journal

Luvah - Journal of the Creative Imagination – A More Poetical Character Than Satan

Transpersonal Studies – Shamanic Cosmology as an Evolutionary Neurocognitive Epistemology, Dreamscapes

Beyond Borderlands  – tumblr

Paranthropology

GOLEM - Journal of Religion and Monsters – The Religious Functions of Pokemon, Anti-Semitism and Vampires in British Popular Culture 1875-1914

Correspondences - Online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism – Kriegsmann’s Philological Quest for Ancient Wisdom 

– History, Archaeology

Adoranten - pre-historic rock art

Chitrolekha - India art & design history – Gomira Dance Mask

Silk Road – Centaurs on the Silk Road: Hellenistic Textiles in Western China

Sino-Platonic - East Asian languages and civilizations – Discursive Weaving Women in Chinese and Greek Traditions

MELA Notes - Middle East Librarians Association

Didaskalia - Journal for Ancient Performance

Ancient Narrative - Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions – The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel

Akroterion - Greek, Roman – The Deer Hunter: A Portrait of Aeneas

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies  – Erotic and Separation Spells, The Ancients’ One-Horned Ass

Roman Legal Tradition - medieval civil law – Between Slavery and Freedom 

Phronimon - South African society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities – Special Issue vol. 13 #2, Greek philosophy in dialogue with African+ philosophy

The Heroic Age - Early medieval Northwestern Europe – Icelandic Sword in the Stone

Peregrinations - Medieval Art and Architecture – Special Issue vol. 4 #1, Mappings 

Tiresas - Medieval and Classical – Sexuality in the Natural and Demonic Magic of the Middle Ages

Essays in Medieval Studies  – The Female Spell-caster in Middle English Romances, The Sweet Song of Satan

Hortulus - Medieval studies – Courtliness & the Deployment of Sodomy in 12th-Century Histories of Britain, Monsters & Monstrosities issue, Magic & Witchcraft issue

Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU

Medieval Archaeology – Divided and Galleried Hall-Houses, The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall

Medieval Feminist Forum  – multiculturalism issue; Gender, Skin Color and the Power of Place … Romance of Moriaen, Writing Novels About Medieval Women for Modern Readers, Amazons & Guerilleres

Quidditas - medieval and renaissance 

Medieval Warfare

The Viking Society - ridiculous amount of articles from 1895-2011

Journals (limited free/sub/institution access)

Al-Masaq - Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Piracy as Statecraft: The Policies of Taifa of Denia, free issue

Mythical Creatures of Europe - article + map

Folklore - limited free access – Volume 122 #3, On the Ambiguity of Elves

Digital Philology -  a journal of medieval cultures – Saracens & Race in Roman de la Rose Iconography

Pomegranate - International Journal for Pagan Studies

Transcultural Psychiatry

European Journal of English Studies  – Myths East of Venice issue, Esotericism issue

Books, Texts, Images etc. – Folklore, Occult etc.

Magical Gem Database - Greek/Egyptian gems & talismans [x] [x]

Biblioteca Aracana - (mostly) Greek pagan history, rituals, poetry etc. – Greater Tool Consecration, The Yew-Demon

Curse Tablets from Roman Britain - [x]

The Gnostic Society Library – The Corpus Hermeticum, Hymn of the Robe of Glory

Grimoar - vast occult text library – Grimoires, Greek & Roman Necromancy, Queer Theology, Ancient Christian Magic

Internet Sacred Text Archive - religion, occult, folklore, etc. ancient texts

Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry

– History

The Internet Classics Archive - mainly Greco-Roman, some Persian & Chinese translated texts

Bodleian Oriental Manuscript Collection - [x] [x] [x]

Virtual Magic Bowl Archive - Jewish-Aramaic incantation bowl text and images [x] [x] 

Vindolanda Tablets - images and translations of tablets from 1st & 2nd c. [x]

Corsair - online catalog of the Piedmont Morgan library (manuscripts) [x] [x]

Beinecke rare book & manuscripts  – Wagstaff miscellany, al-Qur'ān–1813

LUNA - tonnes from Byzantine manuscripts to Arabic cartography

Maps on the web - Oxford Library [x] [x] [x]

Bodleian Library manuscripts - photographs of 11th-17th c. manuscripts – Treatises on Heraldry, The Worcester Fragments (polyphonic music), 12 c. misc medical and herbal texts

Early Manuscripts at Oxford U - very high quality photographs – (view through bottom left) Military texts by Athenaeus Mechanicus 16th c. [x] [x], MS Douce 195 Roman de la Rose [x] [x]

Trinity College digital manuscript library  – Mathematica Medica, 15th c.

eTOME - primary sources about Celtic peoples

Websites, Blogs – Folklore, Occult etc.

Demonthings - Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project 

Invocatio - (mostly) western esotericism

Heterodoxology - history, esotericism, science – Religion in the Age of Cyborgs

The Recipes Project - food, magic, science, medicine – The Medieval Invisible Man (invisibility recipes)

Morbid Anatomy - museum/library in Brooklyn

– History 

Islamic Philosophy Online - tonnes of texts, articles, links, utilities, this belongs in every section; mostly English

Medicina Antiqua - Graeco-Roman medicine

History of the Ancient World - news and resources – The So-called Galatae, Gauls, Celts in Early Hellenistic Balkans; Maidens, Matrons Magicians: Women & Personal Ritual Power in Late Antique Egypt

Διοτίμα - Women & Gender in Antiquity

Bodleian Library Exhibitions Online – Khusraw & Shirin, Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Cultures

Medievalists – folk studies, witchcraft, mythology, science tags

Worryingly Asbetos is being made into homepoathic wands and reki stones. Most worryingly claiming to cure CANCER, which Asbestos causes.

Being sold to many people under the intentions of “bring a bonding action between one and the subject of one’s desires“ and claiming that it’s the “etheric blueprint to correct imbalances and blockages that could manifest as physical disease and to heal cellular memory, one of the best stones for rousing the kundalini energies“  Chrysotile a type of Asbestos is quickly becoming one of the most requested minerals in reiki and crystal healing.  And it’s not the only type of Asbestos being sold as a healing crystal.

Above is Richterite, it’s known to be as dangerous as any of the other Asbestos in the six categories and is being sold to people promising ironic cures for liver, pancreas, kidney or breast cancer.

Above is Tigers Eye, everyone knows it looks cool but it is also Asbestos and although polished Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim these are still dangerous. 

While some types of asbestos may be more hazardous than others, all are dangerous. Leading health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classify all types of asbestos as cancer-causing substances.

The following are all a type of asbestos: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, winchite, suglite, richterite, actinolite and anthophyllite.

Like, I get that you want to reblog a cool post about how awesome the goddess is, but maybe rethink sharing it if it’s got some sort of crap about how “males just don’t understand our connection to the goddess! Don’t let men scare you out of celebrating your feminine power!”

They call others “Genderists”

They usually use the phrases “trans activist”, “trans activism” and talk about how horrible they are

They call themselves “gender critical”

Talking about how men are always violent and women are always Pure

They say females instead of women

Look at the usernames for phrases like “rad” “terf” and usually references to genitalia

Below are an assortment of discord servers with a focus on witchcraft, paganism, metawork, the occult, and more! This list is constantly being updated, so please keep tabs on this post for new servers!

Last edit: July 29, 2018

The Nightshade Network

The Nightshade Network is an active, 18+ Discord server for witches, pagans, magical practitioners, diviners, spirit workers, and anyone with an interest in the occult, metaphysics, or spirituality. Currently, we have 350+ members and roughly 100 channels on topics ranging from Hellenic polytheism/Dodekatheism, tarot, rootwork, spirit companionship, and more. 

 The Nightshade Network offers weekly member-run and closely-researched interactive classes in either voice chat or text chat and a monthly open mic night where members may perform written pieces and music. Membership to the Nightshade Network also grants you certain perks such as networking opportunities, giveaways, contests, and more! 

We are an inclusive server that welcomes people of all paths and experience levels. We do not tolerate bigotry of any kind.

Requirements: Must be 18+

 https://discord.gg/Y5UK7hr

Good evening everyone!

I’m elated to announce a spring giveaway on this blog! This is a thank you to all my followers and those who have supported my work over the past few years. I’ve grown a lot, and learned a lot, via this site and those I’ve met here. With luck, I’ll be blogging for many years to come.

As the title indicates, I’m giving away a blank grimoire! But not just any grimoire.

This grimoire will be rather unique! It’ll be handmade by @oddsouldesigns based on the winner’s preferences. Because it will be completely customized to the winner, it will be truly one of a kind!

When I choose a winner, I’ll put them in contact with the lovely and talented Afura of Odd Soul Designs. She will work to create a custom blank, bound grimoire that is exactly what the winner prefers. So, what will it be like? The winner decides!

This giveaway is for those following this blog, MadDiviner. When I choose a winner, I’ll check and see whether the person chosen is following MadDiviner.

Blogs that exist just to enter giveaways are not eligible.

Likes do not count as entries. To enter, reblog this post!

Sideblogs are eligible! But, you must be able to confirm that you’re a follower via your main blog before claiming your prize.

This giveaway is, unfortunately, not international. To enter, you must be within the United States.

To enter, reblog this post as many times as you want. Use your discretion about that and please don’t spam your followers.

On April 21th, 2018, I’ll use a random number generator to choose a winner!

I’ll contact the winner via askbox or PM, so please have yours open if you enter! You will have twenty-four hours to respond if you win.

If you win, I’ll put you in touch with Afura. You can discuss customization for your grimoire. When Afura finishes, she’ll send you the finished grimoire.

Please do not tag this as “giveaway.” It’s not affiliated with Tumblr in any way.

Thank you for helping me grow!

It’s not necessary, but I’d love to see what the winner decides for their new grimoire! Below, you can see some pictures of Afura’s previous work.

Everyone else: “DON’T DO CURSES! DON’T DO LOVE SPELLS! DON’T MANIPULATE PEOPLE THOUGH MAGIC!”

Them: “Binding spells are like the nicest, chill, no harm evar spells.”

Gut feeling

Shivers down your back

See a flash of an image in your mind

Hear a positive voice with a brief message

Smell something

An earth angel directly delivers the information to you

You find yourself giving advice to another person, and realize that is the advice you needed to hear

Déjà vu

Materials:

salt

Throw salt at your intended target and say, “Stay the fuck away from me.”