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Here’s yet another creature to add to your roster of dark Christmas characters: the Yule Goat.

The Yule Goat was a Nordic tradition where a guy dressed as a goat would barge into people’s houses during the Christmas feast and be as unpleasant as possible. Sometimes he’d just make a lot of noise, sometimes he’d tell raunchy stories with a lot of faul language, but he’d also tell unpleasant truths about the people in the house.

To make him stop people had to give him food or other treats and it was believed he’d take all the bad things with him when he left the house so people could enter the new year free of last year’s burdens, almost as a sort of scapegoat except he WANTED your sins/food.

Today the only Yule Goats you’re likely to see are ones made of straw.

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One of my Yule Altars 🌲🕯

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Ran’s Runes (divination tool in honor of the sea goddess)

From a dream I had. A plain mason jar with sand, shells, rocks and sea glass from our local shores. Added in small blue garden stones with runes painted on them. Simply turn and watch the changing sandscape until a rune - or several - are clearly visible to guide you. :)

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when I make a soup I cut all the vegetables into hearts it takes me longer but it makes the soup taste better

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I wanna be this one day, having the confident to wear in public

Just veiled in public for the first time !!

I only went to the grocery store but I felt so badass !! I was really nervous, but Apollo was basically holding my hand the whole way through :)

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😂😂😂

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This is so fucking important!!

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Okay, whatever’s hanging around that keeps flitting through my right eye’s peripheral vision….

Knock that shit off.

I’m going out to buy cinnamon and cayenne pepper and when I get home, your ass is SO getting booted.

Ain’t got time for your ghostie nonsense today. Nope.

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Marry Poppins was a witch!!!!

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“Tarot cards are evil, they’re for summoning the devil!” Yeah, uhuh, sure thing Karen, watch me summon satan with my mystical Pictionary cards. I’ll use the magical evil power of guessing games regarding “how will the deck will call me out today” to lay siege to your young and spread plague amongst your crops.

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Winged shawls by Miss Monster/Melita Curphy

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Breathing Life

Dolls and poppets are utilized across many faiths, however often witches neglect to “breath life” into them. Not doing so doesn’t make them wholly ineffective, however going the extra step really amps up the potency, especially when using it as sympathetic magic or creating a protective being! It’s a relatively simple step, but highly dependent upon which path you follow. I’ll briefly cover my methodology.

Foremost, I would like to specify the difference between the two types of dolls I utilize. One being sympathetic magic, the one most often thought of when people think of dolls and witchcraft. Voodoo dolls. This is a misnomer, as the common portrayal off voodoo dolls in media have skewed the original purpose of such dolls. Originally the dolls were used by practitioners not to affect people, but as a guide to the sufferers ailments and treatments – more akin to a “medical chart.” However, they have since (and really, in European magical traditions for centuries) been used to heal or harm a specific victim in which the doll was made to their likeness. This is a sympathetic doll, made in their likeness, usually incorporating some sort of personal affect (hair, clothing, blood, etc.).

The second type, and the kind I most often use, are dolls not based on any individual, but instead exist to act as a guardian of sorts or facilitate change/growth/health/etc. These are unique and very much a product of your imagination. Create them to be whatever you see fit.

That being said, let’s begin;;

Sympathetic Dolls: Begin by first, stitching the doll together in the likeness of he/she you wish to influence. You can be as general or as specific as you want – matching hair, eyes, facial features, build are all common concepts. Traditionally the dolls were stuffed with Spanish Moss (most probably due to the abundance in the American South) however you can stuff it with anything you have on hand. If you have anything of the persons, now would be the time to use it, hair can be wrapped and stuffed in the doll, pieces of their clothes can be folded and placed inside, blood should be on a scrap of cloth, dried and then added.

Once the doll is complete and you’re satisfied with its image (in truth, dolls have been made out of anything and everything, the only crucial step is the following), you must give it life. For sympathetic dolls, this can be as simple or difficult as you wish. I prefer to take the simple route and sit with the doll and focus intently on the person you wish to connect to it. I then mentally stitch the spirit of the person to the doll (either at the heart or at the feet – as a short of shadow). Vocalize your intent and revel in your creation.

Conceptual Dolls/Guardians: These are my personal favorites to create, in all honesty. I find poppets to be a lot of extra work, however they are useful in remote healing/hexing. These, as I mentioned, are beings of your thoughts. Tulpas, in a way. Begin by gathering your materials and ideas. Create a doll to symbolize whatever you wish to accomplish. As far as this tutorial goes, I’ll use the example of a Guardian or a doll for protection. It can look however you wish, and be as simple as sticks tied together, to the most intricately created doll you could muster. I, personally, stick with a small doll (no bigger than 8 or 10 inches) with yarn hair, simple clothing and a painted face. I often stuff mine with herbs associated with my will, as well as batting and sometimes stray scraps of fabric.

After your doll is complete, take it to the Crossroads. It can be a door, a gate (I use the gate of a remote cemetery near me), a cemetery, even a maternity ward if you’re that committed and light a candle. Fill your mind with intention, then connect with the energy of your crossroads. Feel the planes converge, and bend this erratic energy to your will, funneling it through your consciousness and into your doll. See the energy shape, bend, coalesce into a being of your intent and give it a Name, as there is much power in a Name. Connect its energy to our physical plane by allowing it refuge within the fabric of the doll you have created. Leave a gift at the Crossroads, and blow out your candle, sealing in the doll’s spirit. Use it as you desire, but do not neglect it.

Thus ends this tutorial!

Best of luck,

Q

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Working on a spell to make my homophobic mom keep seeing gay people and having gay ads on her devices and seeing gay posts. Basically I’m cursing her to be confronted with the gay. Constantly.

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Trash Witch

“Trash witch? What’s a trash witch? I’ve never heard of that before.”

Well, welcome! I’m a Trash Witch! It’s basically a witch focused on repurposing and reusing trash and other items one may consider garbage for spells or items. It also includes just genuinely unconventional forms or witchcraft or tools. Example you say? Well, I have plenty!

My cauldron is a cut open coke can! The edges are sharp, I just brute forced it open with an box cutter. Actually cut my hand doing it. It’s mine though! And it works really well!

I use party poppers to cleanse or scare off spirits if I’m feeling lazy or want a little fun.

A lot of my spell bottles are just empty pill bottles!

I once used a cigarette to cleanse my space. I’m allergic to them but I didn’t have anything so I asked my neighbor for one. She asked what I was gonna use it for when I said I wasn’t gonna smoke it, I just told her I wanted it for Wicca and she just said sure as long as he could watch.

Hoarding things!!!

Used a soda can tab chain for a knot spell but instead of tying a knot it was for each tab added.

For awhile my wand was a rolled up monster can!!! I just cut off the top and bottom, cut a line so I could roll it up, and then duct taped it. Very easy to put crystals in!! I still have it uwu

More soda cans, but for candle holders

I don’t have incense cus I’m in the broom closet and live with a devout Christian, so I soak washed popsicle sticks in sage oil or other essential oils and then just light then! They burn a lot like incense.

Most of my candles for spells are old birthday candles.

Wrote a curse for this rape culture guy in my art class, I wrote it on a paper wasp made from a piece of school milk carton, shot it at his head.

If you want to be a trash witch, reuse! Do the unconventional! The trash is grateful you’re making use of it! Good karma!