Dec 22, 2022
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My grimoire has citations and a bibliography and tbh I think that's very sexy and cool of me.
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with straw and sea campion pelt, Gwydn rises from a winter of rest, hounds sent to slumber, fauns springing forth, the heralds of a new summertide
this is a request for non-Wiccan-based resources on Cornish folklore, folk practices, witchcraft, myths, and traditions.
I'm also currently learning Cornish so if anyone has resources for that, those would be greatly appreciated as well!
please do not put Gemma Gary. she's been recommended to me a million times and while her books are interesting, they are Wiccan-based and that's not what I'm researching
Silent Divination using ivy and rushes, to foresee lovers
All must be conducted in silence. Best worked on the Twelfth Night.
A fire must be laid that will produce plenty of embers, and while it is burning down the participants must touch their head to the mantle stone before departing to gather rushes and ivy. When participants have returned, they touch their head to the mantle stone again before sitting down.
Those who wish to divine their own luck in marriage and love, or couples who are sweethearts, place in the hot embers and ashes two pieces of rush (named or marked for the respective parties). This could also be done to matchmake within the group.
If both rushes burnt together well, they will be married.
As the pair of rushes are burnt, the angle and twisting of their burning defines the course of their love - united or parted.
The one rush that outlives the other rush will be reflected in which partner outlives the other.
When the rushes have been burnt and the couple have been decided upon as the potential married pair, an ivy leaf is thrown into the fire and the number of cracks and pops made during burning would count the years that would pass before they were wed.
Two ivy leaves are then buried within the hot ashes and the cracks and pops show how many children the couple would be blessed with.
Other portents can be drawn from the appearance and behaviour of the rushes and ivy leaves.
Adapted from 'The Smugglers of Penrose', recorded by Bottrell in the 1873 edition of Traditions And Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall
Dug out my camera on Halloween/Allantide/Samhain and finally organised my working altar so of course I take pictures!
I got some new flowers for the vase and I’m going to the woods tomorrow to pick up some nice sticks to add and make things with!
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I’m not on here much nowadays but I have started using Instagram to share my witchcraft practice again!
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Cornish Witchcraft by Kelvin I Jones
Pamphlet of Cornish witchcraft, posted here because mostly falls under folklore vs hard and fast witchcraft resources. Has some 'celtic soup' - author uses Irish holidays (that're put through Wiccan-ification) rather than the Cornish holidays he's referencing, along with mislabelling of piskeys as fairies/fairy folklore, speculates heavily on a triple goddess type figure (though doesn't outright call it that, references mother/crone aspects) and pre-Christian deities. Mentions Bucca by name for once! Generally pretty fun read though! Delves into a lot of niche Cornish traditions that're largely unrecorded.
Google Drive link (PDF)
Not Exhaustive Content warnings under the cut
Traditional witches that read Gemma Gary's interpretation of the Bucca and nothing else: Stop.
You wouldn't call any other Celtic/Brythonic deity the folk devil, or the witch-father, or any other tradcraft figure's name. Don't do it to Cornish celtic deities. The evidence Gary used to support the Bucca as a folk-devil figure comes from half-cited sources. Cornwall has lost enough to half-baked Christianisation. Some Cornish people are actually trying to find information about Them through folkloric sources & archives.