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Reviving Mayan Blue

A Mexican artist, Luis May Ku, rediscovers a lost color sacred to his ancestors.

BY ELENA KAZAMIA December 13, 2024

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Found Spanish resources on local witchcraft and folk magic.

What’s difficult is that looking up just brujeria in general mostly gives the same euro-centric witchcraft with occasional local traditions mixed in. So I had to research all the different names for different magics.

I have to use Google translate a lot but it’s also helping me learn some Spanish.

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I hadn’t done a bigger ritual in a long time. I hadn’t really needed to. For the past few years most of my rituals were huge curse works against people who caused great harm (sexually assaulted or tried to rape me, stole from me, etc) or works about my transition.

Recently had a falling out with a pair of acquaintances regarding being trans so I wanted to take a bit of time for something more dedicated and thorough.

Two black candles, evocation ritual to several trusted demons to watch over, two additional demons in association with what I wanted to do (ruin their reputation, ruin their wealth). I have two bottles and one jar of my own blood from surgery I’ve been wanting to use. “Painted” / “bathed” a baphomet statue in my blood. Cleansed myself and the space. Created a curse jar with my mars oleum, death oil, hemlock, chile, alcohol (isopropyl and jack), salt, dirt from an angry grave, sulfur, and my commanding oil.

My main points were: make them suffer petty losses at first, cause strife and discord among them, make their friends part ways with them, and make them miserable at their jobs.

it's been a few weeks since, so far things have been quiet but I've seen more and more people publicly agreeing with my opinions in their social circle, so I hope they feel isolated and egg-faced. Ideally, I want them to crawl back with an apology. If not, though, I'm glad to feel supported by my community.

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Created a dark prayer very painstakingly in Nahuatl to Tezcatlipoca. It hailed really hard and rained all day. I take it he appreciated it.

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✨Send me curious asks (anon or not)✨

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Extremely satisfying to put a curse of a pair of super rude individuals who refuse to acknowledge their very blatant transphobia and the very next day they’re surrounded with people who agree with me.

No one knew about their opinions (that I know of) it was just happenstance everyone started talking about it due to recent related events. The events suck but it’s very satisfying to both feel protected by community and to see these bastards watch everyone loudly disagree with their views. I hope they feel isolated, egged, betrayed, and frankly I wish I could explode them with my mind. I’m sure there’s a demon for that.

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i need a witchcraft-themed Wreck This Journal.

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There's often this belief that witchcraft has universal tenants or concepts. There is no real such thing as a "generic" witchcraft without condensing all witchcraft into a colonized idea of what witchcraft is "supposed" to be. If it isn't Wiccan, then it's White. And even then, it's usually bastardized without sources.

Almost everything is anglo-centric unless you look into specific vocabularies and jargon of specific cultures you want to study from, which is difficult when some of us come from nonwhite or non-WASP backgrounds.

I always found it to be better to research specific practices of occultism, witchcraft, spirituality, "superstitions" and folklore of specific regions and time periods.

Additionally, gentrified witchcraft I've noticed comes with the idea that witchcraft is inherently tied to a specific definition of nature, and that humans or human intervention is tainted or sinful somehow.

There's this interesting fetishization for "celtic" (specifically Irish and Scottish, as the other celtics are forgotten or ignored) in tandem with this idea that because media depicts them as Very Green (literally green grass plains), they therefore must be The Most connected to Pure, Untouched Nature.

I've always had a bone to pick with the idea that witchcraft is inherently about "nature" as if cities and people aren't also part of nature, or that all human advancements are grotesque, or that the only advancements allowed are things that are as raw as possible.

It starts to sound like the old discourse of citrine being "not real" because it's often colored via human intervention, or even more extreme anti-GMO and similar discourses, that because humans intervened with something it is now "tainted" which more or less just sounds like Catholic Original Sin with extra steps to me.

Divorcing people from nature while simultaneously noble-savaging Irish, Scottish, and Indigenous peoples does no one any favors in witchcraft and occultism. Everything comes from nature because there is literally nothing else But nature and the things we extract from it.

A lot of these cultures mixed, you're going to find bits of X, Y, and Z cultures kind of mixed together naturally, either because they happened to be similar, live in similar environments, or simply because they are neighbors and maybe one person married another and they mixed their cultures. Sometimes, you're going to find aspects of mixed beliefs, such as colonization giving way to certain aspects of syncretism. So while I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with mixed witchcraft books and resources, it's frustrating that people seem to believe there is an actual, identifiable universality to witchcraft.

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Always assumed it’s a European thing.

Many animals are connected to sorcery in some Mexican brujeria practices. A brujo can transform into an animal, where the transformed spirit is called a nagual.

The nagual could walk through the underworld or be sent to spy on others.

Any animal common to the region could be used, such as coyote, opossum, bats, owls, dogs, and more.

The way that people view black cats as an omen if they “cross your path” is similar to owls, who are sometimes seen as brujos in disguise or messengers of the underworld. A dead owl is an omen of something horrible to come, usually death of a loved one.

Different regions will have different interpretations. A nagual (animal spirit you turn into) and tonal (spirit you have since birth) can be the same or different.

I know that cats and witchcraft go somewhat hand in hand but I genuinely curious about the significance with cats amd witchcraft

Some sources say that cats and witchcraft were just some big misunderstanding and they aren't actually connected at all

While some sources say cats were a major significance for witches.

I am curious witchblr what is your take on cats and their association with witchcraft?

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Wanting to offer educated posts on brujeria vs not wanting white ppl to get their hands on it

Posiblemente necesito más español

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" Magic works through the practitioner, not around him. This means that anything I call forth tends to pass through me on its way out into the world. Sending a curse, in my experience, is a little like spitting poison from your own mouth. It can be rinsed out... but it changes your spirit ever so slightly."

- Roger J. Horne's Folk Witchcraft: A Guide to Lore, Land, & the Familiar Spirit for the Solitary Practitioner.

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Witchcraft Asks #1-105

Here is the list of the 105 witchcraft questions I just finished answering. I answered one each day but feel free to answer them all at once or however you want to do it. Tag your it!

1. Are you solitary or in a coven? 2. Do you consider yourself Wiccan, Pagan, witch, or other? 3. What is your zodiac sign? 4. Do you have a Patron God/dess? 5. Do you work with a Pantheon? 6. Do you use tarot, palmistry, or 
any other kind of divination? 7. What are some of your favorite herbs to use in your practice? (if any) 8. How would you define your craft? 9. Do you curse? If not, do you accept others who do? 10. How long have you been practicing? 11. Do you currently or have you ever had any familiars? 12. Do you believe in Karma or
Reincarnation? 13. Do you have a magical name? 14. Are you “out of the broom closet”? 15. What was the last spell you performed? 16. Would you consider yourself knowledgeable? 17. Do you write your own spells? 18. Do you have a book of shadows?
If so, how is it written and/or set up? 19. Do you worship nature? 20. What is your favorite gemstone? 21. Do you use feathers, claws, fur, pelt, skeletons/bones, or any other animal body part for magical work? 22. Do you have an altar? 23. What is your preferred element? 24. Do you consider yourself an Alchemist? 25. Are you any other type of magical practitioner besides a witch? 26. What got you interested in witchcraft? 27. Have you ever performed a spell or ritual with the company of anyone who was not a witch? 28. Have you ever used ouija? 29. Do you consider yourself a psychic? 30. Do you have a spirit guide? If so, what is it? 31. What is something you wish someone had told you when you first started? 32. Do you celebrate the Sabbats? If so which one is your favorite? 33. Would you ever teach witchcraft to your children? 34. Do you meditate? 35. What is your favorite season? 36. What is your favorite type of magick to preform? 37. How do you incorporate your spirituality into your daily life? 38. What is your favorite witchy movie? 39. What is your favorite witchy book, both fiction and non-fiction. Why? 40. What is the first spell you ever preformed? Successful or not. 41. What’s the craziest witchcraft-related thing that’s happened to you? 42. What is your favourite type of candle to use? 43. What is your favorite witchy tool? 44. Do you or have you ever made your own witchy tools? 45. Have you ever worked with any magical creatures such as the fea or spirits? 46. Do you practice color magic? 47. Do you or have you ever had a witchy teacher or mentor of any kind? 48. What is your preferred way of shopping for witchcraft supplies? 49. Do you believe in predestination or fate? 50. What do you do to reconnect when you are feeling out of touch with your practice? 51. Have you ever had any supernatural experiences? 52. What is your biggest witchy pet peeve? 53. Do you like incense? If so what’s your favorite scent? 54. Do you keep a dream journal of any kind? 55. What has been your biggest witchcraft disaster? 56. What has been your biggest witchcraft success? 57. What in your practice do you do that you may feel silly or embarrassed about? 58. Do you believe that you can be an atheist, Christian, Muslim or some other faith and still be a witch too? 59. Do you ever feel insecure, unsure or even scared of spell work? 60. Do you ever hold yourself to a standard in your witchcraft that you feel you may never obtain? 61. What is something witch related that you want right now? 62. What is your rune of choice? 63. What is your tarot card of choice? 64. Do you use essential oils? If so what is your favorite? 65. Have you ever taken any kind of witchcraft or pagan courses? 66. Do you wear pagan jewelry in public? 67. Have you ever been discriminated against because of your faith or being a witch? 68. Do you read or subscribe to any pagan magazines? 69. Do you think it’s important to know the history of paganism and witchcraft? 70. What are your favorite things about being a witch? 71. What are your least favorite things about being a witch? 72. Do you listen to any pagan music? If so who is your favorite singer/band? 73. Do you celebrate the Esbbats? If so, how? 74. Do you ever work skyclad? 75. Do you think witchcraft has improved your life? If so, how? 76. Where do you draw inspiration from for your practice? 77. Do you believe in ‘fantasy’ creatures? (Unicorns, fairies, elves, gnomes, ghosts, etc) 78. What’s your favorite sigil/symbol? 79. Do you use blood magick in your practice? Why or why not? 80. Could you ever be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t support your practice? 81. In what area or subject would you most like your craft to grow? 82. What’s your favorite candle scent? Do you use it in your practice? 83. Do you have a pre-ritual ritual? (I.e. Something you do before rituals to prepare yourself for them). If so what is it? 84. What real life witch most inspires your practice? 85. What is your favorite method of communicating with deity? 86. How do you like to organize all your witchy items and ingredients? 87. Do you have any witches in your family that you know of? 88. How have you created your path? What is unique about it? 89. Do you feel you have any natural gifts or affinities (premonitions, hearing spirits, etc.) that led you toward the craft? If so what are they? 90. Do you believe you can initiate yourself or do you have to be initiated by another witch or coven? 91. When you first started out in your path what was the first thing or things you bought? 92. What is the most spiritual or magickal place you’ve been? 93. What’s one piece of advice you’d give someone who is searching for their matron and patron deities? 94. What techniques do you use to ‘get in the zone’ for meditation? 95. Did visualization come easily to you or did you have to practice at it? 96. Do you prefer day or night? Why? 97. What do you think is the best time and place to do spell work? 98. How did you feel when you cast your first circle? Did you stumble or did it go smoothly? 99. Do you believe witchcraft gets easier with time and practice? 100. Do you believe in many gods or one God with many faces? 101. Do you eat meat, eggs and dairy? 102. What is your favorite color and why? 103. What is the one question you get asked most by non-practitioners or non-pagans? How do you usually respond? 104. Which of your five senses would you say is your strongest? 105. What is a pagan or witchcraft rule that you preach but don’t practice?

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Statue of Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) Museum Rouen, 📍Paris

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Frankly, the idea that cursing is always a last resort or this evil tainted thing always put a bad taste in my mouth.

Curses here include in-laws seeking to run off spouses, children get sick because they trampled gardens, or getting back at a neighbor whose dog ate your chickens and won’t pay up.

Fuck around, find out. Do a cleansing if you need it.

If an in law hired a brujo to curse your spouse bc they disapprove, the spouse can just go to another brujo or curandero to be cleansed. Or maybe even the same brujo and learn the circumstances to lift it.

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Consecration and protection of the home

During the fall and winter, often at campfires or near the fireplace, stories of the paranormal and the unexplained are shared. These stories often center around the places that are closest to us, such as a family home, a favorite campsite, or a commonly traveled dirt road. Many people are hesitant to speak of these events, however, they often feel safe or encouraged to share them over a late-night cup of hot cocoa and s'mores.

Scary stories often get me jittery, and one thing that provides me comfort is protecting the home from stirred-up spirits and negative energies. Creating the home into a refuge is vital to the spiritual health of the home overall. While there are many ways and traditions regarding protecting the home, I will share two methods that I find the most useful.

Method 1 - Salt and Pepper Protection Ritual

Begin by cleansing your home with the method of your choosing. My go-to for this method is mopping the floors with a cleaner like pine-sol as it cleanses the entirety of the floors, which is important for this method.

Then, open all of the exterior doors. Using a broom sweep outwards over all of the thresholds. As you do this, command any unwanted energies to leave by repeating "I command ALL energies that do not serve me, that do not have good intentions, and that take away from the spirit of this home to LEAVE. You are NO LONGER welcome HERE. As I sweep, you EXIT."

Once that is done, it is time to prepare your herbs and ingredients. I use table salt mixed with rosemary, ceremonial tobacco, sun-charged beer, whiskey, or gin, and whole peppercorns. If you do not have authentic ceremonial tobacco, use the alcohol in its place. I was gifted my tobacco by a dear friend and mentor of mine who comes from that practice and cultural background. If you want to use tobacco as I do, I suggest you seek out a mentor yourself to learn about the practice. Once you have these items prepared and at hand, you may move on to the next step.

Begin by going to the exterior of your home. Using your charged alcohol, begin to offer it to the earth. If you have tobacco, offer that to the earth as you were taught to. I always give thanks to the wonderful space I occupy and am a steward of, and acknowledge that this land is older than I am and that it is my elder. I complete my offering by kneeling and touching my forehead to the earth, being sure to give profound thanks.

Now, locate the four primary external corners of your home. If your space has more than four sides or is oddly shaped, form a square around the space that wholly encompasses it. This may be represented as the fence around your property, or the outside corners of your apartment building. Beginning at the northernmost corner, pour a small mound of the salt mixture into a small dish in front of the corner, and say "As this salt is placed here today, it marks the beginning of its service to this home. It will fortify, protect, and create sanctuary here. It will blow away with the wind once its protective powers are used up." Then, soak the mound of salt in the alcohol. Repeat the above steps for the remaining three corners, going to the east, then the south, and conclude to the west.

Now, enter your home. Locate every external corner of your home and place four whole peppercorns at the base of each one. Try to tuck them in as best as you can so they are unintrusive and remain mostly undisturbed. Wet each pile with your charged alcohol and ask the pepper for its protection.

Once the above steps are complete, store the remaining alcohol and periodically pour it onto the peppercorns and salt to recharge them. If you see that the dishes of salt are low, refill them with the salt mixture.

Method 2 - Miraculous Soil Protection Ritual

This protection typically requires the 'holy' dirt from Chimayo. If this is inaccessible for you, you may be able to request some to be sent to you by the church. If you prefer not to I will teach you to make your own substitute.

To make a suitable substitute first you must locate some seemingly dry or infertile land such as cracked dirt from a drought. Now, look for signs of life in the dirt. Look for a small plant that is somehow defying the odds, or miraculously continuing to thrive in such harsh environments. Once you find a spot of soil with life, collect a cup full and leave the rest for the earth. Thank it by offering it water. Water the plant and tend to it; help it succeed at life. Then pray over a handful of table salt the following prayer:

Being of the earth. In the name of the ineffable God, and by the power of the tetragrammaton, be you consecrated in the service of the most high. Imbew this salt with the powers to protect this house and everything and everyone in it from all evil. Ometeo.

Once complete, wet the salt with distilled water and mix it into the cup of dirt. Allow it to thoroughly dry before use.

Once you acquire or make holy dirt, head to the front of your home with a small dish filled with the dirt. Begin to sprinkle it along the threshold of your door and ask for protection. State that no negativity may pass the sacred soil.

Then, sprinkle the dirt around the perimeter of the front facade of your house. Do not use too much. You should not be able to physically see the dirt. Then place the dirt on top of any plants near your front door. If there are none, consider planting a chile pepper bush for protection. Rosemary is another good option, along with juniper.

Now, repeat the above steps for any walls containing an external door. If there are none place the dirt at each corner. If there is another wall, do not place it at the corners, as it is not needed.

Once completed, pour a glass of water out from the inside of each external door while standing within it. As you do this say "As I pour this water it washes away all remaining evil. It may no longer reside here."

Protecting the home is a vital step to protecting those who reside within it. These methods are my two personal go-to methods for every home I inhabit, and I hope that you find use in these methods. Be sure to execute physical safety too, as that is equally if not more important than spiritual safety. Be sure to continue to regularly cleanse your home too, as you do not want negativity to fester within the home itself.

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Just a quick reminder since I'm seeing a trend in my recent new followers -

If you are a radfem/gender critic/gender essentialist/TERF, don't support trans rights, think that "witch" is not a gender-neutral term, or believe that magic comes from the womb / only cis-women can be "real" witches, get the fuck off my blog.

Don't follow me, don't ask me questions, I don't care about your journey, I don't care about your reasoning, I'm not interesting in talking to you, I will block you on sight.

This is not a safe space for TERFs. There is nothing for you here.

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Regional witchy asks!!!

Because I wanted an ask game that went beyond the basics and focused more on local / regional magic. Can serve as a guide of things you may want to look into aswell!

☀️: Do you have a seasonal calendar or wheel of the year? what events mark the changes of seasons in your area?

🌙: Share one UPG you have on your local cultus.

⭐​​: Tell us about any myths or stories related to the stars in your area.

🗺️​: Do you have any sacred spots or places of power in your region? if yes, how did you pick them?

🦇: Do you know of any renowned witches in your region? what’s their story?

👻: Tell us one myth, supernatural tale or ghost story from your area!

🏠: Tell us one local tradition or superstition relating to the home & hearth

🌿: Name 3-5 local plant species and your correspondences for them

🦊: Name 3 local animal species and your correspondences for them

🌊​: Are there any superstitions, beliefs or stories regarding water (rivers, lakes, ocean, etc) in your region?

🔥: Are there any superstitions, beliefs or stories related to fire in your region?

🌪️: Are there any superstitions, beliefs or stories related to the winds in your region?

⛰️​: Are there any superstitions, beliefs or stories related to the earth / mountains in your region?

☠️: Are there any superstitions related to the Dead in your region?

⚡: What is a must-have in your altar to the local land spirits?

💐: ​ Who are the traditional land owners / indigenous peoples of your region and how do you honor them in your practice?

🦴: What are staple offerings in your practice that are native to your region / may be difficult to find elsewhere?

🔮: Name one magic tool you use that is unique to your region or is based in your area’s history!

👹: Name one local entity/spirit that you wouldn’t want to mess with and how to protect from them.

🌬️: Name one local guardian or beneficient spirit and how to ask for their aid.

🪔​: Name one local custom to protect a loved one

🎶: Name one song (or even music genre) and their connections to local beliefs, magic & witchcraft