#witch Predator

[pixelsilver]

New wife material just dropped.

[soqueengardener]

Witch Predator From Predator Hunting Grounds

[obskurity]

Predator: Hunting Grounds - Witch Predator

[saltedbirdcat]

Brainrotting HARD about @c-rose2081 versions of Birr (Cowardly Lion) and The Hungry Tiger so I’m dumping my hcs for them right here cause I’m too scared to dm

Tiger grows up to be a lot bigger than Birr when they hit adulthood, to the point where people often think he is the older brother instead of Birr which annoys Birr every time

Despite being the younger brother, Tiger is very protective of Birr. Chasing away and threatening to eat anyone who teases his brother for his anxiety or for being an Animal (“I had to do something big brother, not like you were going to do it yourself”)

Birr shares a love of reading and learning with Elphaba while Tiger enjoys navigating the social scene like Glinda, especially if there’s food involved

I promise I have more but brain can’t think good rn so to be continued~

[mysticdragon3md3]

[astra-ravana]

Beware The Skinwalker

Understanding Skinwalkers

The Skinwalker (Yee Naaldlooshii) originates from Navajo (Diné) tradition and is considered a witch or shapeshifter capable of transforming into animals and manipulating energy for malevolent purposes. In Navajo culture, Skinwalkers are not just mythical beings but are deeply feared and believed to be real, dangerous, inhuman witches who use their power for harm.

From a Pagan perspective, especially within witchcraft and animistic traditions, the concept of Skinwalkers can be understood through the broader lens of shapeshifting, spirit work, and the ethical use of magic. However, it is essential to approach this topic with deep respect for Indigenous traditions, as the Skinwalker legend is not a general folklore story but a sacred and protected part of Navajo spiritual belief.

Traditional Navajo Belief

Skinwalkers are corrupt witches who have violated sacred laws to gain their shapeshifting powers, often through acts of extreme taboo (such as harming a close relative). They are feared for their ability to transform into animals, possess people, and use dark magic to cause illness, death, and suffering. Talking openly about Skinwalkers is often avoided in Navajo culture, as it is believed to attract their attention.

Shapeshifting in Paganism and Witchcraft

Many Pagan traditions incorporate shapeshifting in a spiritual or symbolic way, but these practices are often very different from the Navajo Skinwalker legend:

• European witchcraft & folklore – Many historical witch trials accused witches of turning into wolves, cats, hares, or owls (similar to the "werewolf" legends).

• Norse Seiðr & Berserkers – Some warriors and witches were said to take on the "spirit" of animals in battle or ritual.

• Animism & Totemism – Some Pagan traditions involve spiritual shapeshifting, where a witch enters a trance to take on an animal’s essence.

Unlike Skinwalkers, these traditions usually do not involve harmful intent or the violation of sacred laws.

Not Just A Shapeshifter

Many Native American tribes, including the Navajo, do not openly share their spiritual practices with outsiders. Skinwalker lore is not meant for non-Navajo people to practice or claim.

Pagan & Witchcraft practitioners should avoid using "Skinwalker" as a casual term for shapeshifting, incorporating Skinwalkers into modern witchcraft practices, or treating the legend as just another cryptid or folklore story. These creatures are a serious threat and should be regarded as such.

Instead, practitioners interested in shapeshifting should learn about ethical shapeshifting practices within their own spiritual traditions. Study animism, hedge riding, or astral projection as alternative methods. Always respect Indigenous boundaries and listen to Native voices on the subject.

The Skinwalker is a serious and sacred belief within Navajo culture, and it should not be used, claimed, or practiced outside of its cultural context. Unlike folklore creatures such as werewolves, Skinwalkers are real entities within Navajo belief and are associated with dark magic, breaking sacred laws, and bringing harm to others. They are feared within the Navajo community, and their existence is not taken lightly—discussing them openly is often avoided, as it is believed to attract their attention.

According to legend, Skinwalkers gain their abilities by committing an extreme taboo, often involving harm to a family member or violating spiritual laws. This act severs them from the natural order, allowing them to take on animal forms, move at unnatural speeds, and manipulate energy to cause illness, death, or fear. They are known for their ability to mimic voices, control minds, and bring misfortune to those who cross them. Their transformations are said to be more than physical; they embody the animal’s spirit, making them highly dangerous and difficult to detect.

Unlike common shapeshifters in folklore or witchcraft, Skinwalkers are not considered a neutral or positive force—they are a corruption of spiritual power. In Navajo culture, there are healers and medicine people who use magic for good, but Skinwalkers represent the opposite: those who have chosen a path of destruction and selfish power.

What to Do If You Encounter a Skinwalker

Encounters with them are not to be taken lightly, and traditional Navajo teachings advise avoiding, escaping, or protecting oneself spiritually rather than engaging directly.

1. Do Not Acknowledge or Speak About It

• Naming or acknowledging a Skinwalker can draw its attention. Navajo teachings suggest that speaking about them too openly—especially at night—can invite their presence.

• If you suspect a Skinwalker is near, stay calm, do not call out to it, and avoid mentioning it by name.

2. Leave the Area Immediately

• If you see a creature that looks unnatural (e.g., a strangely proportioned animal, glowing eyes, or something moving unnaturally fast), leave as quickly as possible.

• Do not chase or follow it, even if it seems injured or calling for help. Skinwalkers are known for using mimicry to lure people in.

3. Avoid Eye Contact

• Skinwalkers are believed to have the ability to control or curse individuals through eye contact. If you see something unsettling, do not stare directly at it—look away and remove yourself from the situation.

4. Protect Yourself Spiritually

• If you are Navajo or have knowledge of traditional protection rites, use sacred herbs like corn pollen, cedar, sage, or juniper to cleanse your space and create a barrier.

• In broader witchcraft or spiritual traditions, protective talismans, iron, salt, or fire-based protections can help ward off negative entities.

• Prayer, chanting, or calling on protective spirits or deities can strengthen your spiritual defense.

5. Do Not Engage or Try to Fight It

• Skinwalkers are dangerous entities, and most accounts describe them as having inhuman speed, strength, and resilience.

• Weapons are believed to be mostly ineffective, except for sacred or blessed objects. Some stories say that a bullet dipped in white ash can harm them, but this is not a guarantee.

6. If You Are Being Targeted

• If you believe a Skinwalker has cursed or marked you, seek guidance from a Navajo medicine person or an experienced spiritual practitioner.

• In witchcraft or pagan practices, strong banishing and uncrossing rituals (such as salt baths, fire cleansing, or binding spells) may be used, but respect Indigenous teachings and do not try to appropriate Navajo practices.

Skinwalkers are deeply feared within Navajo culture, and encounters are taken seriously. The best course of action is to avoid, leave, and protect yourself spiritually rather than engage directly. If you are in the Southwest or near Navajo land, respect local beliefs and avoid seeking out Skinwalkers, as doing so can invite danger—whether physical, psychological, or spiritual.

[whoopseydaisy]

she has fangs and claws and is wearing the skin and antlers of a deer she ripped apart with them. a child is perched on her shoulders, eating a heart. she helps her venerable great aunt walk like a loving niece. she’s covered in dirt and has blood running down her chin, between her tits, down the inside of her leg. if you run in her presence no magical law will stop her from killing you. the prey fear she invokes. powerfully strong. one titty out in the cold north wind. she grabs ame’s chin in the crook of her index finger and thumb, and asks to see her teeth, and sticks her head deeply in her mouth. she offers her own, because she wants ame to know how strong she is. (and ame looking in her eyes for a long time with flickering glances) her musk smells like electric death!! she was going to try and lick ame’s nose!!!

[samble-moved]

reminder that homura is a middle schooler. she is 13 or 14 years old, depending on source. she is not old enough to drive or have a permit. she is not old enough to live on her own (it's implied her parents are out of the picture in some way — in the US she'd need to be in adoptive or foster care, or at least have a guardian or social worker, but this appears to be handwaved in the series and none are ever shown). she cannot vote. she is not old enough to get a job (earliest i've seen is 14 in the US, and that's usually in not great environments, in summer, and for low pay and short hours). she is only "independent" in the sense that it's forced upon her by lack of any adult support — nobody helps her fill out school transfer forms, she lives alone, she has no shown family or even mentions of relatives, nobody visits her in the hospital, etc.

i say this because a lot of "anti homura" arguments act as if this information doesn't exist, and that homura is "actually an adult" or at the same level as one due to looping. she canonically is not. her brain and physical body are not developing, she is only learning walpurgis tactics and memorizing test answers. her brain is not developing so she's not "mentally 26", like is often claimed by "homura is a predator" truthers. i'm not even going to touch on how weird and borderline creepy it is to say "she's a child but so mature for her age (from extreme, repeated, potentially pre-series trauma), so she must be an adult and can be treated like one".

there is a reason that children are typically tried differently in the US. unless "tried as an adult" for very serious crimes, it is widely accepted that children (and even young adults) are more impulsive, think less rationally, and are generally "less responsible" for their actions due to not having the experiences of a full grown adult. children are less mature, more prone to "overreaction" and panic, and are immature — because they are kids.

homura is a child. she also has extreme trauma, potentially from before the series even began (where are her parents? are they just neglectful? dead? why isn't there even a single adult helping her?) that is never helped or addressed. homura doesn't get help for any issues she has (obvious ptsd and depression, borderline delusions over the past being "just a dream" in wraith arc). she is not some spoiled, rich, mentally stable almost-adult who's never faced a consequence. she is a young and traumatized teenager, young enough to be a middle schooler, and has experienced:

neglectful, absent, missing, or dead family/parents

watching her friends die horrifically almost a hundred times

having zero adult support at all, no caseworker or help

bullying, half being because she's disabled

having her soul ripped from her body without consent and learning if she ever loses her soul gem (or god forbid accidentally drops it somewhere), her body will basically be "dead"

learning she and all her friends turn into eldritch horrors when they die, a process shown in rebellion to be something they are aware for (aka the horror that witches aren't "just" bodies being moved, they are actively and constantly suffering and aware to some degree the whole time)

learning that the witches they fight are girls around their age who fell into despair, and not purposeless monsters

learned of the prospect that witches can potentially "regrow" via familiars, thus if their consciousness transfers, this shows the possibility of literally eternal suffering as the witch is "reborn"

realization that, the more she tries to save madoka, the worse the situation gets

having a full on breakdown with delusions in wraith arc, thinking maybe madoka was all just a hallucination or a dream she had

finding out in rebellion it wasn't a dream, but then thinking she betrayed madoka by not stopping her from contracting

becoming a witch whose whole theme is based around suicide and wanting and waiting to die, but not being able to

being a witch whose familiars are malicious towards her and belittle her

trying to "fix" her believed betrayal of madoka by making a new world, ending up hated by sayaka and isolated from her friends

is still stuck as a witch while the last event happens!!! (her soul gem is never shown purified)

all of this while she is 13-14.

homura is not some cruel adult playing god because she is bored and likes the power trip and wants the world to burn. she is a deeply traumatized and mentally ill child who never got help. she is not a predator — and i honestly don't know if that is more of a "she's a predator because she's the most openly sapphic" or "she's a predator because she's traumatized and thus 'acts weird' due to trauma" belief nowadays in most anti-homura spaces, i've seen both. she is not a murderer or rapist or whatever else i've seen (yes, "homura is a sexual predator" claims exist, despite this never once even being implied). she is not an abuser — you can argue she's cold or rude, but she is not "an abuser".

if a child like homura existed irl (and they do exist), a professional's first thought would not be "this is an evil, irredeemable, abusive predator who can be treated like an adult", it'd likely be a reaction of horror and deep concern of "what happened to this child to make her act this way?". someone being "the perfect victim" — that is, being soft, demure, sweet, docile, flawless — in response to trauma is a harmful myth for a reason. some trauma victims will react with anger. some may be overly happy in an attempt to prevent further abuse. some, like homura, end up acting "cold" to try and avoid being further hurt. it doesn't mean homura doesn't experience emotion, hates her friends and wants them to suffer, is a predator, is "a bad person", etc.

think! when you write posts about how homura is actually an evil, awful, no good, very bad person with no positive traits, remember she is a middle schooler. of course, she's not a "real" child, and thus doesn't exist to have her feelings hurt over it, but consider this: would you say these things to/about a real child? are you aware that "real children" (often victims of trauma themselves) relate to homura due to this? i was one of them at 14ish, and while "homura is evil [for acting like a traumatized child often does]" discourse never left me particularly hurt, i know it does genuinely upset several people i know. and if you had, say, a real life child relative who acted "cold" after seeing their friends die horribly, would you call them an evil and irredeemable abuser as well?

[xerxeswitch]

Huge Spirit Work Red Flag

Warning: Talking about a p3dophile. --- --- --- --- --- I literally saw a post here about spirit work...involving predatory behavior towards children spirits. The context of it is going to a children's cemetery, luring a child spirit with candy and toys into a vessel then trapping them in that object.

You do realize that is equivalent to being in a white van promising candy to some kids down your street before kidnapping them right?

It's one thing to help children spirits when they're lost. It's another to go to a children's graveyard, disrupt the sanctity of their burial grounds there and try to trap children. Luring spirits then trapping them in general is hardly ever a good or smart thing to do. -- Also, picture this. Imagine someone's child dies, their lives taken before they could even start and you have to watch your child's funeral and burial. Then you hear about someone wandering around the children's cemetery, trying to befriend your dead child's spirit and lure them with candies and toys to be bound to an object. No matter how you spin this or try to twist this to a positive light, it's horrible and utterly disrespectful. I will boldly say that the Tumblr staff needs to look into this post...since it's involving the topic of minors. This is blatantly a child predator trying to disturb children's graves for their sick fantasies. -----

Dm me if you want more details.

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Edit update:

Saw the reblogs.

I'm not wasting my time when someone just wants to defend pedophilia, and distract the topic with a false accusation. Why do you suddenly bring in the topic of you being queer randomly as a meat shield to pedophilia?

Just...what does that have anything to do with luring and trapping children spirits into vessels have anything to do with that? This person is MAKING this about that for some strange, illogical reason.

And, the user in question implied that this wasn't the first time they were under scrutiny for something controversial/sketchy. But, that's all I will say with what I was given.

So, blocked. If you're a child predator -- there's nothing to discuss.

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Edit update 2:

It's now heavily implied they're using multiple accounts to harass me. They're still doubling down and claiming that their queerness aligns with preying on children, when I said this has gotten nothing to do with that whatsoever and my main post never mentioned anything about the topic.

I can say 100% that no screenshot will ever show that. The only way for that to even remotely exist if the person manipulated a screenshot and put words in my mouth.

I'm going to keep blocking, especially after seeing their true colors.

Again. Why is this person tying being queer to ped0philia? I never once even mention, or cared about the person being queer. Ever.

That's so...vile. ...Using queer folks as a meat shield to blunt the blow and direct the attack towards that. That's not even a good defense.

This person needs help.

Reported as well.

...

I'm REALLY considering on now showing the post title alone. I however will not include the person's username, despite them harassing me. The main focus is the topic at hand.

If I see predatory behavior towards minors under any topic, I will do my part in the community to notify the situation. Edit 3: I decided to post the visual look of the disgusting post. I blocked out their username. If you see this post, report it. That's all. No need for any interaction other than that. I just realized this person didn't even deny the accusation of pedophilia. They just straight up mock and gaslit when the evidence is right here.

[dreadfuldevotee]

peace and love, but are yall really trying to say you dont want to watch these gorgeous, theatrically trained performers talk dead seriously about how vampires come from aliens and atlantis is real and also trying to fight off these aliens that are Back For Some Reason

[pratchettquotes]

The other snake instinctively turned to follow the movement, which is why instinct is not always the keynote to survival, because Magrat clubbed it on the back of the head. With the wand.

It sagged, losing shape as it fell.

The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.

And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose.

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad *

*for the anon who asked me to hunt down this singular reference to a mongoose in one of the Witch books. Turns out it was from Witches Abroad, and it's a good teaching moment about the danger of assumptions.

[gospel-orchestrated]

i gotta say, there's nothing that makes me feel safer than working with "demonic" entities.

sure, some of them bite, but a man who harrasses girls at my work location pulled through the drive through the other day and gave me his number. like, banned from the store kind of "harassing girls." not supposed to be served. i just didn't know because i was new.

i dropped his phone number on cou's altar this evening.

can't wait to see how this goes.

[killershrike]

Imagine Han-e'sain walking around Yautja Prime absolutely covered in plants and flowers from his beloved So-yin. A crown of tiger lilies and black roses on his forehead. Moonflowers and their vines wrapped around his dreadlocks. A necklace of orchids and snapdragon. Amaryllis pushed into the openings of the skulls that adorn him. He would wear them with pride, often stopping to smell them or admire them and think of her. If a yautja so much as chuckles under their breath, Ghost is right up in their face, in all his flowered anger- just daring them to say it again.

The only thing that gets Han-e'sain to part with the plants you decorate upon him are the younglings who flock around the yautja and beg for one of the flowers to wear.

[alter-koker]

i keep second guessing some of my 100 movie choices and thinking of movies i forgot/should have put instead... oh well!!!!

[figures4fun]

Red Capes Club, part 2 - recruitment! (See our earlier post for part 1)

[lyinginbedmon]

Reminder that if you like Witch in the Woods, you will absolutely enjoy the 2007 Mononoke series as well as the Karakasa movie.

Think the Witch as a ghost hunter doing detective work with Heavy artistic license.

It's not the Witch but it is almost disturbing how similar the Medicine Seller is to the Witch. Beyond even just aesthetic. You'll have fun.