* A BRUTAL THING,

- with many thanks to all friends, relatives, and acquaintances who have contributed!

Carrying some dried burning nettle (Urtica dioica) in a small bag will give you strength.

Fennel seeds (Foeniculum vulgare) can be included in the abitino (which in this region some places is called breo) if you are prone to get the evil eye.

Also in the abitino (a white one), you can put a bay leaf (Laurus nobilis) that is picked or bought a Friday for luck.

Wild rose (Rosa canina) can be used to keep witches and other bad influences away, especially among the livestock.

If you sit under or in the shade of a walnut tree (Juglans regia), the witches who gather there might grab you and whisk you off to Corsica.

Carry on you an adder’s-tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum) that has been picked in May, and you will get to know other people’s secrets.

Yellow fleabane (Dittrichia- or Inula viscosa) is good for lighter exorcisms. You can use it to wash your children with when they are being unruly or “bad”, to remove the demons in them.

Bunches of winter savory (Satureja montana) - the whole plant, including the roots - can be dried and hung upside down in the bedroom to drive away spirits.

Before you go to sleep, rub your chest with a mixture of water and vinegar in which you have macerated rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) you will dream about your future spouse or partner in love.

Mash some fresh green melissa (Melissa officinalis) and mix it with sap from cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), keep it on you in a small glass bottle, and it will make you lovable and repel enemies.

if you’re writing a character of high status, immense power, incredible skill, or just someone that you generally would not want to antagonize for shits and giggles, it is not fun feeling as though you have been written into a corner by someone who wants to show off how sassy and badass their character is when you know that your character could DEMOLISH them :T

like, damn, maybe plot together first, or — if you’re flying by the seat of your pants here — let the other person know it’s ok if they fuck up ur muse for being a disrespectful little shit. life is more fun when u get to write fight scenes anyway tbh.

“Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.”

do not go gentle into that good night.

death shall have no dominion. 

though lovers be lost,  love shall not.

an open book confronts me,  to close to read in comfort.

i do not know my age.

is this how this country is going to answer you and your immodest demands for a different world?

even in my dreams,  you have denied yourself to me.

let us pity those who are better off than we are.   come,  my friend,  and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends.

unkillable infants of the very poor,  they shall inherit the earth.

your boredom is exquisite and excessive.

don’t you fall now.

i swear to the lord,  i still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me.

life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

don’t go far off,  not even for a day.

everything carries me to you,  as if everything that exists,  aromas,  light, metals,  were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

i loved her,  and sometimes she loved me too.

love is so short,  forgetting is so long.

my love feeds on your love,  beloved,  and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine.

will you come back?   will you leave me here dying?

i awoke at last free.

in scary night i wandered,  praying,  lord god my harshener,  speak to me now or let me die;  speak,  lord,  to this mourner.

if you’re a bird be an early bird,  but if you’re a worm sleep late.

if you are a dreamer,  come in.

i never have nightmares.

underneath my outside face,  there’s a face that none can see.

every woman adores a fascist.

i do it so it feels like hell.

i have always been scared of you.

o my enemy,  do i terrify?

you bastard,  i’m through.