Osiyo! My name is Haunted or Florence, i use xe/e/utseli pronouns, and i’m a southern/appalachian folk practitioner. I’m ᏣᎳᎩ, mvskoke, and mixed.
This blog is mostly for me to post about my practice, theology, spiritual/witchy politics, environmentalism, folk cultural preservation and education, racism and colonialism within spiritual spaces, destigmatizing folk practices, ancestral connection, decolonized syncretism, spirit work, death work, grief work, and general opinions I feel like sharing.
my personal gothic blog is @cy-ber-rus
my stimboard / mogai blog is @haunting-stims
I am always accepting asks and all for healthy conversations and discussions about witchery
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More About Me:
- I have been practicing most of my life, my faith is vital to my daily life and experiences. I practice southern/appalachian folk, a unique blend between american native, european folk, christianity, and african american folk practices. I belong to the tsalagi and mvskoke tribes and honor much of what I have been taught in my personal practice. I am devoted to a folk death god, but worship select deities, work with an assortment of spirits, and venerate saints.
- Southern folk practices are inherently tied to hoodoo practices, and to the intense generational trauma of slaves and the poor south, for the reason much of my practice is semi-closed. I aim to preserve this closure while increasing education about southern folk to end stigmatization and demonization of these important cultural practices.
- Death work and root work are inherent to my practice. I hope to continue my work laying restless spirits to peace and assisting in funeral rites while preserving of cultural funeral traditions.
- As I belong to closed and semi-closed practices, I am extremely against cultural appropriation in any way shape or form. This extends to much in the witch and spiritual community, and I will always call out disrespect and appropriation and listen to those from closed practices over others. This extends to my opinions on wicca, neo-paganism, and much modern spirituality.
- I occasionally post about mental health and illnesses. I am diagnosed schizospec, did, and cptsd. These things influence my spirituality and are important for me to bring educational awareness about.
- I specialize in throwing lots, tobacco, tea, and palm readings, and occasionally do oracle and tarot. If you feel drawn to my practice and seek assistance through divination, dm me here or ask for my discord.
I love to talk, share, and encourage positive educational interactions! My dms and asks are always open<3
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Collecting fallen pinecones, leaves, seeds, weird rocks, sun bleached sticks/branches. Vulture culture of animal remains is a lovely aesthetic but it can get costly!
Visiting memorials and graveyards for walks and meditation.
Watching death positive and education YouTube and docs on streaming services.
Reading local obituaries or local headstones and keeping a memento mori journal.
Creating an ancestor shrine with objects you already have and pictures/artwork printed from a computer. Add a couple items from a thrift shop or dollar store if you are able but not required.
Spirit work! That is always free!
Volunteer at a hospice or nursing home.
Light candles for souls that have passed; whether you know them or heard about them in the news.
Read up on your local Wills & Probate procedures or see if there is a local group offering a free workshop.
Visit natural history museums or art museums and practice energy sensing or just absorb the history and stories of the pieces.
Create a simple decorated candle/painted craft/box/space for The Forgotten Dead. Give regular simple offerings (water is a good one).
Talk to (trusted) friends and family about death and end of life desires.
Write a story or poem relating to death.
If you are theistic, spend time communing and praying/writing or doing devotionals to death oriented deities of your pantheon.
I'm so glad I get to share a world with indigenous trans men & mascs! The world is so much better because indigenous trans men & mascs are in it!
If you're an indigenous trans man, an indigenous transmasc, or just a queer indigenous person in general: I am so proud and happy to share a community with you.
You have always been a core and incredibly important part of the queer community. You matter so so so much, don't let anyone convince you otherwise!
Drugs are morally neutral. Doing or not doing drugs is not an indicator of how good a person is. There are addicts who’d give you the shirt off their back, and sober people who poison the homeless for fun.
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Garlic is one of my favorite spices to cook with, and it's a staple in my household.
I've always loved how it appears so unassuming at first glance, but it packs such a punch when it comes to protective magic. It's an herbal household guardian that doesn't ask for permission; it just takes up the space it needs and fixes the energy. To me, it is the culinary equivalent of a warm blanket and locked door- keeping me grounded while also clearing out any lingering energy that's overstayed its welcome.
For me, garlic is a reminder that some of the most wonderful magic is found in the most humble of places. Like a delicious bulb that grows underground.
A few ways to incorporate it into your practice:
Place a clove on the windowsill to protect the home from negative energies.
As you sautée garlic in oil, say a prayer, charm, whatever fits your practice to banish illness and bad luck.
Include dried cloves in protection charm bags for an extra kick.
Place a clove under your pillow to help fight off nightmares.
Boil garlic skins and let the steam cleanse the air after arguments.
Note: Obviously garlic has a very strong smell, so it might take a little work to find a way to neutralize the smell if it's a bit much.
Hi, Keziah! May I ask perhaps a simple question? How did you begin the lawn naturalization/ conversion process? I love hearing everyone’s origin stories as I embark on my own naturalization adventure. I appreciate you taking the time to read and respond! 🌱💛 🐝
Hello! My recommendation (and the route I took) is to "think small" at first — pick a starting goal or focus and "baby step" into it. For me, I knew that I wanted to introduce more plant types, but I didn't know where to start. I took into account the area I was in, seeing that there was clover growing well in some nearby areas (and that there had once been a lot of clover on that property). I started researching integrating clover with the grass already there. Clover is (at least in my area, and this may differ in your own grow zone) quite easy to take (and doesn't require much work/maintenance), thankfully; but even something as simple as introducing more clover can make a big difference, as its popular with pollinators. Clover also helps the earth underneath hold moisture. Often turfgrasses require lots of watering while also not providing the best nutrients for the soil, which is another reason why having a predominantly or solely turfgrass yard is so environmentally damaging. In researching this, I'd found that clover, which I'd already learned would likely grow well, would also help the soil retain moisture.
So I started with clover, then started introducing wildflowers, which brought in even more pollinators. I also planted bushes and shrubs, which brought in more birds (I was fortunate to have trees already on the property, but the shrubs and bushes have attracted even more birds, even better when they're flowering shrubs). Birds tend to bring a lot of biodiversity with them, as they often have seeds in their poo. This is likely how I ended up with the Wild Spinach and Mustard I have lol.
Another crucial thing I learned early on is how to balance city/county regulations for lawncare vs preserving what growth I'd managed thus far and encouraging new growth. Where I live, I, unfortunately, do have to mow. It's a county requirement. But I don't mow as frequently as most people would think to. Mowing once a month or once every three weeks can make a huge difference. It gives a lot of plants time to see out a full bloom or growth cycle, to drop seeds to generate new plants, to feed pollinators, to give necessary nutrients back into the soil. I also only mow what must be mowed, and I never cut down low to the ground. Raising your mower blades to their highest possible setting really helps. For instance, my mower blades don't even touch the clover. Having the blade deck raised higher gibes growing plants time to flourish, to drop seeds, to feed wildlife.
When it came to bringing in more native grasses (particularly taller types), that's when I started planning ahead more and "thinking bigger." I tried to introduce them in various areas, particularly areas that weren't along the property lines and were already harder to mow (borders, corners, hills, etc.), so that I wouldn't have to mow them by my county's requirements. Doing it this way gave the grass proper time to take, whereas if I'd been mowing them down as the county would have wanted, it would have been a waste to even try to plant them. I basically made something similar to "hedgerows" of taller grass types, specifically those that seed and feed birds. After a couple of years, they didn't require any tending really, and come back in each year on their own beautifully. Also, once their consistently seeding, the grass will start to spread on its own.
I also recommend researching if there are "loopholes" to city/county regulations when it comes to native plants. In my town, there are some, but not as many as in other place. Some towns even have it to where if you're trying to cultivate a native lawn, mowing regulations don't apply or have different rules. This is usually in county codes under something to do with native flora preservation (or something similar).
So, those are my simpler tips on how to make building your biodiverse lawn feel like less of a massive, overwhelming endeavor. I hope that helps! Also, typically local universities, nature centers, and your state wildlife foundations will have online guides on identifying and growing native plants to your area, which has been invaluable for me. So, I definitely recommend utilizing those resources.
The way Europeans talk about North America when they say it reveals everything about the way they think.
To them, history here didn’t start until they arrived. Not until the so called real people with real culture and real architecture and real timelines stepped off a boat.
Everything before that gets treated like fog, like background noise, like a blank landscape waiting to be drawn on.
Like the Europeans arrived here and just found a land untouched by human hands ready for them to Manifest (European) Destiny in, instead of, like, a continent full of nations older than most European countries, with civilizations, trade routes, astronomy, agriculture, laws, stories, cities, innovations, relationships to the land that go further back than many of the languages used to belittle them.
When Europeans say “America is big,” they don’t even mean the actual land full of over 500 nations of distinct peoples.
They mean the unmarked page they imagine they wrote on. When they say “Europe is old,” they mean “ours is the old that matters.” The implication is always that Indigenous history doesn’t count as history at all, that Indigenous people were somehow outside the timeline until colonialism kicked the clock into motion.
I’m tired of watching it walk by unchallenged and seeing it drift by unchallenged.
North America wasn’t waiting to be discovered.
It wasn’t empty wilderness.
It wasn’t without time or culture or memory.
It was already ancient when the Europeans arrived.
Treating Indigenous people like footnotes or shadows just makes it embarrassingly obvious that a lot of Europeans still don’t see them as real people with real history, real innovation, and real presence.
This continent has been old for longer than Europe has had its current borders. The only thing that’s new here is the colonial amnesia.
This week, May 4-8, is national week of action for MMIW. Here’s a few facts:
1: Homicide is roughly the third leading cause of death among Indigenous women ages 10-24.
2: 56.1% of indigenous women have experienced sexual violence, 55.5% have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner, and 48.8% have experienced stalking.
3: The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that there were 10,248 missing Indigenous persons reports in 2024. 5,614 were women, and 4,626 were men. Most women reported missing were under the age of 18.
4: The 10 states with the highest rates of American Indian/Alaska Native missing persons cases in 2025 were AK, AZ, OK, WA, NM, CA, MT, NC, SD, and TX.
5: Because of limited data, there is no reliable nationwide count of how many Native women go missing or are murdered each year.
And finally:
Indigenous women are murdered at 10x the national average in the United States alone.
All of these facts and more can be found at
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On September 21, the House of Representatives passed Savanna’s Act, a bill designed to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the country. The bill was named for Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year-old pregnant woman who was killed in 2017. The bill requires the creation of protocols to address missing or murdered Native American women, with the goal of improving coordination and data collection between federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies. It also increases federal support from the Department of Justice in local cases. LaFontaine-Greywind is one of more than 500 Indigenous women who have been classified as missing or murdered in recent years, according to a 2018 report by the Urban Indian Health Institute. Researchers say the numbers are likely much higher. The bill was originally passed by the Senate in March. It will now head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
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Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".
The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?
56.1% of indigenous women experience sexual violence
40% of sex trafficking victims are AI/AK native women
i am a survivor. many of my sisters, cousins, and aunts are too. many of them are lost forever, many are still missing. i mourn them every day but especially today.
check in on the indigenous women, girls, and two-spirits in your life. advocate and fight for their safety. today, wear red and show up for them, for us.
fellow survivors i love you and i’m here for you. we aren’t going anywhere
Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
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Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls.
The MMIW crisis spans decades, arguably centuries, and involves 1000s of cases in the US and Canada, and yet, even as the Epstein story captures mass media attention and builds pressure for more prosecutions, Indigenous women and girls and women-identified people continue to turn up dead, or simply don’t turn up at all – and only native activists seem to care.
I felt the ice of that terror freeze a new friend once, in a Holiday Inn parking lot off a flat highway in Minnesota. We’d pulled in, just before dark, after a hot, dusty pipeline protest followed by some earnest pleading from two happy, helpful, just-barely teenage girls. Brave before cops and mobs, I saw the skin around the eyes of their mother, my new friend, tighten. An experienced native organizer, her smile squeezed to a clench as she saw white men with trucks milling about. One swim. In my eyesight. No leaving your room – for any reason. We left early. I got it: terror. Happy indigenous girls are an endangered species in America.
In 2022, the National Crime Information Center reported 5,487 cases of missing Native American and Alaska Native women and girls in the United States, where the majority of missing persons cases involved girls aged 0-17 years old. It is estimated that Indigenous women are murdered at a rate at least ten times higher than the national average in some counties, but the data is hard to nail down and record-keeping has always been weak.
Not long ago, a record four Indigenous women managed to get themselves elected to Congress where they did something historic. They passed the Not Invisible Act, authored by then-Rep. Deb Haaland, and signed by President Trump, which created a Commission to study the problem and lay out an action plan.
“The federal government must act now; not tomorrow; not next week; not next month; and not next year. Once and for all, the federal government must end its systematic failure to address this crisis, and react, redress, and resolve this,” declared the Not Invisible Act Commissioners.
In one virtual, and seven in-person hearings in places including Billings, MO, Tulsa, OK, and Anchorage, AK , Commission members heard testimony from tribal leaders, law enforcement officers, service providers, and family members. Motivated by the same righteous rage that moves the relatives of Epstein’s trafficked girls, the family members of murdered and missing Indigenous people made often arduous journeys to testify.
With heroic nerve, Indigenous survivors of human trafficking stood in front of strangers and recalled the worst horrors of their lives. America’s indigenous survivors shared their warnings with the same mix of gratitude and skepticism that we’ve heard from the victims of Epstein. (Someone is finally listening, but will anything, ever, be done? )
Commissioners heard several versions of the same witness sentiment: “I don’t want anyone else to have to live through this nightmare.”
After 260 witnesses and hours of testimony, the Not Invisible Act Commission produced a report. It described in damning detail the many sources of the problem: longstanding white racism, a limited tribal justice system, jurisdictional cracks – more like chasms — into which most MMIW cases fall. Above all, they expressed the urgent need for adequate funding for investigation, prosecution, prevention and care.
The Not Invisible Act Commission Report was posted on the Justice Department’s website in November of 2023.
By February of this year, that link was dead. The report disappeared soon after Donald Trump resumed office, along with nearly half of all federal funding allocated to federally recognized Native American and Alaska Native nations, and massive cuts to hundreds of safety and justice-related grants. Today, the website of the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (a primary source of support for MMIW- and MMIP-related resources) features a warning to applicants about falling “out of scope”. Under the administration’s new “anti-DEI” and “anti-woke” regulations, it’s a violation, for example, to “frame domestic violence or sexual assault as systemic social justice issues rather than criminal offenses” or “addressing missing or murdered indigenous persons (MMIP) unrelated to domestic violence or sexual assault.” ) As of November, 21, the site reads “There are no FY 2025 open notices of funding opportunity at this time.”
Where’s the outcry? A bi-partisan Congress has voted to force Trump’s DOJ to release the full Epstein files. Now, how about making the Not Invisible Commission Report visible once again, and implementing its recommendations? Funding for prosecution, prevention and healing in Indigenous communities was never sufficient. It’s in tragically short supply now.
Blaming and shaming the elite and the powerful people around Epstein is necessary and satisfying, but justice for victims of gender-and-race-based violence requires much more than a few high-profile perp-walks. When it comes to the use and abuse of women, we as a nation need a fundamental culture shift, and that demands turning our collective conscience to the colonial cruelty at the heart of so much of our story.
Finally cherishing Indigenous women and girls would be a good way to start.
May 5 is the Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons, also known as Red Dress Day.
In the U.S., Native people are victimized by violence at 2.5 times the rate of all other racial demographics, and are 2 times more likely to be victimized by rape and sexual assault. This violence has an even greater disproportionate impact on Native women, girls, Two-Spirit people, and other trans and gender-diverse people. Native women on some reservations face a murder rate 10 times that of the national average, and over half of Native women have experienced sexual violence.
You can dress in red and/or wear a red handprint on May 5 to honor the missing and murdered, discuss the epidemic of violence against Native people and particularly Native people of marginalized genders, and consider donating to organizations supporting Native Peoples, people, and rights.
MMIWG2S Alaska [link]
Alaska Native Women's Resource Center [link]
Alaska Native Justice Center [link]
Data For Indigenous Justice [link]
Native Movement [link]
Southcentral Foundation [link]
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center [link]
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May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Day. A reminder that 84.3 percent of native women have experienced violence. 56.1 percent of native women have experienced sexual violence. And the 3rd leading cause of death for native women is murder.
And they haven't even gathered significant information on native women living in URBAN areas. It could be much higher.
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