#folkdevil

Wind Stones 🌬

A wind stone is a tool to aid in both conjuring and suppressing wind. Simply tie a hag stone (a beach stone with natural hole) to a good piece of cord and tie eight knots along its length.

To use:

Take the stone out to an exposed area and whirl the stone above your head, whilst invoking the spirits of air. Remember the speed at which the stone is swung, must be adjusted according to the speed you wish the wind to roar.

Awww gosh!! ;u; That means so much to me!! Thank you so much <3 I know the kidcore community is a safe space for a lot of people, specially survivors and those who are mentally ill [myself included], so I want to always be as friendly as I can, to emphasize that this blog is also a safe space for everyone.

I know a lot of people get anxious when sending asks-- I know this because I feel the same, so I always want to reassure them that it’s okay and that I love receiving messages <3 That they’re never being annoying or anything.

I feel like I’m projecting a lot, but I know someone out there feels the same. 

1. What is the difference between a moral panic and moral regulation according to the author? What are their traditions and paths?

A moral panic according to Stanley Cohen's (1972) Folk Devils and Moral Panics is an episode whereby a condition, person, or group of persons is constructed and presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media, enacted as a threat to societal values and interests, and attended to by a social, legal, and/or political control culture. In other words, moral panics are typically undesirable responses to addressing social issues that involve some exaggeration and disproportional representation between the harm claimed and the remedy pursued. On the other hand, moral regulation studies focus on the ways that discourses/practices are deployed to act on the conduct of self and other. "Moral regulation involves the deployment of distinctively moral discourse that construct a moralized subject and an object or target that is acted on by means of moralizing practices (Hunt 54). These two main approaches to moralization are different in ways however, they can also be harmonized to make complementary contributions to the field of moral politics. 

The moral panic approach begins with the identification of heightened concern about some social issue. Next, it sets out to explain the dynamic of how the action of social agents stimulates and amplifies a panic that is conceived in terms of some combination of exaggeration and disproportionality between the harm claimed and the remedy pursued. In contrast, the moral regulation approach focuses on a process in which moralizing discourses, techniques, and practices are brought to bear in order to regulate the social groups or practices deemed to be the potential cause of social harm.

2. What problems does the author have with the moral panic concept?