Musings on Magic

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May we have ample amount of luck to be prosperous and abundant each and everyday. May we find ways to make ends meet and have a little more extra.

Because they see them as the ‘pure white Aryan’ pantheon, which is fuckin ridiculous. They don’t know a goddamn thing about the actual lore, just assume that they’re all white and manly and warlike and shit. 

Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

IF YOU ARE A NOBLE THAT RUNS A COUNTY YOU ARE A COUNT OR A COUNTESS

NOW IF YOUR COUNTY IS ON THE BORDERS OF THE REALM YOU MIGHT HAVE TO DEAL WITH WAR SO YOULL HAVE SOLDIERS MARCHING THROUGH YOUR COUNTY SO MUCH IT BECOMES A MARCH AKA A MARK AND YOU GET UPGRADED TO BEING A MARQUIS

SIMPLY PUT A MARQUIS IS A COUNT THAT OWNS A BORDER TERRITORY

HELL HAS SEVERAL MARQUIS

WHICH MEANS HELL HAS BORDER TERRITORIES

THERE ARE SOME DEMONOLOGISTS IN THE 7TH CENTURY WHO IMPLY THAT DEMONS ACTUALLY COLONIZED HELL TAKING IT FROM ITS UNNAMED INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS

ACCORDING TO EVERY DEMONOLOGY TEXT I HAVE READ THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE FOR CIVIL WAR AMONG DEMONS

WHILE HELL HAS MULTIPLE "KINGS" (ONLY FOUR OF WHOM ARE EXPLICITLY MALE) THEY ALL SERVE UNDER LUCIFER

THERE IS ACTUALLY SUBSTANTIALLY MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE TITLE OF "KING" BEING AKIN TO A CABINET POSITION

CASE IN POINT IS THE INFERNAL DUKE ABRIGOR WHO SERVES UNDER KING BAAL BUT FUNCTIONS AS QUARTERMASTER FOR ALL OF HELL

THIS IMPLIES THAT BAAL'S ROLE IN HELL IS AKIN TO SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

- HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL

- BIODIVERSE WITH ALIEN LIFE SEEMINGLY BASED AROUND BLOOD AND SOULS

- CONTAINING TWO MAJOR CITIES

- CONTAINING FIVE LARGE BODIES OF A WATERLIKE SUBSTANCE

- CONTAINING AN UNCERTAIN NUMBER OF MINOR CITIES

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A friend got a text from an unknown number that said “do NOT answer the door” during a sleepover, which was instantly followed by someone knocking at the door and an elderly woman calling out, asking if any of us had any honey to spare. Given the fact they lived up a crazy long driveway, surrounded by forest, and it was 3 am, it was pretty sus.

Our small group kind of freaked out, and naturally I was delighted.

It was at this point that I remembered we had gone shopping for sleepover provisions earlier in the day, and had mistakenly bought honey instead of syrup, and no one liked honey (there was much complaining). So I did a dash for the kitchen and snatched the honey, then rather gleefully bounded over to the door, much to my friends horror.

Sure enough, very old lady is standing at the door, looking like every grandma stereotype you’ve ever heard of. I looked rather manic myself, with what my friends called, “That freaky unhinged grin you do.”, and handed her the whole thing of honey, and told her she could have it.

She looked genuinely surprised and kind of straightened a bit, then got this glint in her eyes and started fighting a grin. 

We stood there and bantered for a while as my friends freaked the fuck out inside, before she finally said goodbye, told me to “Keep making mischief” and then strode off down the drive with a walk that was very much at odds with her hunched “feeble” appearance from a few moments earlier.

None of my friends slept that night, and I took particular glee in making strange noises whenever they would start to calm down. I was always a little shit like that.

@jaeebitch

This is the bitch I’m talking about. Simple and banged up looking.

THE FACT THAT THAT HAD THE BALLS TO ACTUALLY APPROACH THE THRESHOLD OF YOUR HOME IMPLIES A FAIRLY OLD OR HIGH RANKING ONE AS WELL

YOU HANDLED THE SITUATION PERFECTLY YOU DID THEM THEIR FAVOR WITH NO QUESTIONS OR IMPOLITENESS AND WITH UTTER SINCERITY YOU DIDNT GIVE THEM THE CHANCE TO MAKE IT MORE COMPLICATED AND THUS THEY WERE LEFT INDEBTED TO YOU

2. Flesh any membrane or bits off if any are left. 

3. Smear with mayo. Work it in there. Both sides. Should be a good thick coat, like you’re making a BLT. (The traditional fatty solution used for this is brains, but I didn’t have any. You can also mix egg yolks with oil yourself, but hey Aldi has jars of mayo, aka egg yolks already mixed with oil, for like, $2.)

4. Roll in wet towel and let sit. How long? Depends on the hide. Thicker it is the longer you let it sit. I left it for 12 hours. If it was a larger thicker fur I’d have left it for a day or two. 

5. Rinse in warm water to get mayo off. 

6. Let dry, breaking in as it does. Do NOT use heat. If you find some stiff bits that won’t go white as they break in, it needs more time in the fat. Go back to step 3. 

7. Once dry and broken in, smoke it to waterproof it and preserve the flexibility. Sorta fold it in half, sew the edges together to make a sack with an open end, jam a couple sticks in there to prop the sack open, and suspend over some coals with punky damp stuff on top to make lotsa smoke. Smoke until an even golden color. 

8. Cut threads you used to sew it into a sack. Wash fur with shampoo to get any grease out, and let dry. If properly smoked, it’ll stay soft and nice as it dries.

Researching Kyphi ingredients of the time is a wonderful puzzle, that will at times lead to informative details: the ancients associated minerals, resins and plants to the divine sphere - not only frankincense and myrrh, but also coniferous resins, which were considered to originate in the blood of Geb (Papyrus Salt 825 II).

Lebanon cedars spring immediately to mind, because their wood is so present in ancient objects, because their oil was important in funerary context - although taking a closer look at the way in which they did associate products, the species of a tree or the botanical origin of a resin are usually secondary in importance. The primary way of sorting them in a theological way corresponds to trees with similar attributes and resins that behave/smell in a similar way. This is the reason for the use of few names concerning incense (nenib, ‘ntw, sntr) - they are group names for products with shared properties, although different ones from each other in the detail.

Thus, not only cedar can be meant, but also resins from pine trees, spruce trees or fir trees - they fall under the category of ‘ntw and appear in the Edfu temple list of resins described as being of a similar red like Asian lands, of soft consistence and appealing scent. When pressing a pouch full of it one quarter will flow out.

So I decided to check. I had during the summer access to a spruce tree that exuded enough resin for me to harvest it. I harvested liquid resin and some that had already solidified a bit on its cones.  The liquid resin took weeks to reach enough solidity to be scraped off and added to the drier one. It was a mess of a sticky job which I would not repeat anytime soon.

I hoped it would dry in the same way frankincense and myrrh dry and waited for 2 months.

Well, all the resin is now dry enough to handle it, but the bigger chunks are still very soft. Even the small droplets can still be squished a bit. So I put them into a glass pot, closed it and thought I had the perfect storage.

Well - no. The next day sticky and very soft contents greeted me. I had to take it out and place it again on the earthernware dishes I had used for drying. A few days later it was “solid” again. So now I will store it in an porous earthernware open jar as I will with all further fresh resins I may harvest.