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@tonycervantes always with the sickest ride aways 📼✨ @fallen.footwear #ridethesky #2008 💎✨ #tonycervantes #memoryscreen https://www.instagram.com/p/CAi5DjXFKes/?igshid=r9h10w1f3hn7

Night Ride ✷ The besom, better know as a broom, is one of the most common objects associated with the witch today. It is one of the few tools symbolic of divine balance as seen in the phallic handle and the feminine bristles. Brooms held cleansing properties both literally and symbolically, having long been implemented in folk magic practices for purification, wholeness, fertility, and protection. In addition to cleaning one’s house, the broom was used to cast circles and create sacred spaces, move stagnant energy, and acted as a convincing disguise when witches had to hide their wand for fear of persecution. This simple tool was further embedded in the witch archetype when the concept of the infamous flying ointment was popularized in the 15th century. It is said that witches would smother their broomsticks with the hallucinogenic flying ointment and absorb it’s properties when sat upon nude, although this theory is still very much debated. ✷ Traditionally, brooms were made of three sacred woods: Ash for the handle, Birch for the bristles, and Willow for the binding cord. Ash trees exude masculine energy and are known to hold sway over the elements, whereas Birch trees are feminine, bringing purification and drawing spirits into one’s service. Lastly, Willow binds the masculine Ash to the feminine Birch as it represents fertility, as well as intuition, visions, and divination. Here, in ‘Night Ride,’ three witches ride besoms through the moonlit sky. The leaves drawn amongst each broom represent the three sacred woods of traditional besoms, Ash, Birch, and Willow, bringing an added layer of history and tradition to this hand drawn illustration. ✷ Prints and patches available at PoisonApplePrintshop.com ✷ #poisonappleprintshop #flyingointment #witchesbroom #besom #nightflight nightride #ridethesky #cultofdiana #supporthandmade #witchesointment #lamiarumunguenta

Freshly screenprinted and restocked! 🌿 Lamiarum Unguenta, meaning “witches’ ointment,” is a paste made primarily from psychoactive plants in a base of animal fat and used to aid in night flight. The unguent is applied topically and absorbed into the skin, allowing the psychoactive effects of the plants to induce a deep sleep in which astral projection may be achieved. In this trance-like state it is said witches would ride the sky alongside the goddess Diana or, more popularly theorized, fly through the night to meet at the Witches’ Sabbat. A few of the most consistent plant ingredients found in texts on the subject are Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum), Datura (Datura stramonium), Monkshood (Aconitum spp.), Belladonna (Atropa belladonna), Henbane (Hyoscyamous niger), Mandrake root (Mandragora officinalis), and Ergot (Claviceps purpurea). Each of these plants are known collectively as “witches’ weeds.” 🌿 Read the full description and pick up a patch at PoisonApplePrintshop.com 🖤 #poisonappleprintshop #witchesointment #unguent #lamiarumunguenta #poisonousplants #ridethesky #nightflight #cultofdiana #witchessabbat #supporthandmade

@brianhansen with a guest trick of @breezebloccloc in @fallen.footwear #ridethesky #2008 📼✨ #slash #memoryscreen https://www.instagram.com/p/CjoXkUhKUYq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"I want you too die in hallow... 🎃" #helloween #halloween #victimoffate #ridethesky #metalinvaders #innersorceress (at Santiago, Chile) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVR6LQOX_M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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