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“Witch bottles began as countermagical devices used as protection against other witchcraft and conjure. They are described in historical sources in England and the United States. However, modern magic practitioners now use witches bottles for casting spells of various natures. The first mention of a witch bottle appears in the 17th century.” - wikipedia

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Here’s something to chew on.

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So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

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sunlight by hozier playing from an empty cathedral

edit: tumblr took the audio down so now i’ve uploaded it to youtube!!!!! here friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW01eats_lE 

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These smiles though <3

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guillermo del toro can should and MUST direct an interpretation of frankenstein where the monster finally experiences tenderness

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the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.

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SALVUS IN IGNE, “SAFE IN FIRE

The latest creation of Dr. Henny: A pocket sized playing card conjure notebook! It is loaded with black cat hair, cottonmouth skin, moths, and traditional Appalachian herbs of secrecy for those things you wish kept in the dark against all creeping things and prying eyes!

I initially made this to contain some of my most used formula and prayers to travel with as my other notebooks were taking up too much space in my briefcase. I have softly named it the Trivett notebook, taking after my grandmother’s name as it derives from the old French “tripot”, a title for a person who plays tricks on people, and from the Middle English “tripet” which means an evil plan or scheme; it also means three legged, thus three sections in the book. Its formal name is Salvus in igne, the moto of the Trivett crest.

The number three in Appalachia is a famous magical number calling upon the imagery of the Holy Trinity, that death comes in threes, Christ rose in three days, God separated land from sea on the third day symbolizing balance, the list goes on.

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Further more the page numbers and number of segments per section are also numbered the same, multiples of three. Three pages folded making six and a total of nine segments.

Simply because not everyone may want three sections there are options of one, two or three, with different cards adorning the front and back, whether Aces, Kings or Queens, or even Jokers 😈, photos of templates for these other options will be updated here soon.

They are made to order and yours will be worked on in the order yours was submitted. Production time is about 5-7 business days per book, depending on supplies, the time needed, and your preference on the number of sections.“

Order here: http://littlechicagoconjure.weebly.com/charms-and-roots-for-man-and-beast.html

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https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2019/04/17/demolition-800-year-old-sacred-trees-compared-notre-dame-fire

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What happened to vintage garden parties!! Where are the ivories and sage greens!! Cakes and scones with tea on silver trays!! Fresh flowers and tents with those triangle-lined banners!! Light coloured suits with pale pastel ties and lacy dresses!!! The small quartet playing Gentle music!! Someone I can be gay with behind the rose hedge while everyone wonders where I wandered off to??? Who took this away????!!!??

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Shrike by Hozier but you’re sitting by your open window during a thunderstorm

(best with headphones)

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This is so wholesome

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If women were architects, feminist writer Melusina Fay Peirce argued in the late 1860s,  they would make houses without kitchens. Instead, people would share separate buildings for cooking and laundry. Women needed to be economically and emotionally independent from men, Peirce argued in a series of essays in The Atlantic Monthly. She suggested that they create groups and charge their husbands membership fees for access to domestic work through collective bargaining.

Today, in Lima, Peru, more than 100,000 women are paid to cook food at Comedores Populares, which provides inexpensive or free meals to nearly half a million people every day. While there are more openly nontraditional families and living arrangements than there were in the 1800s, the unpaid or low-wage work of cooking, cleaning and childcare still primarily falls to women. This binary is facilitated by design, in the products we use and the spaces we live in. If private kitchens, for example, represent a gendered division of labor, what happens when they become public? A home without a kitchen relies on a community that prioritizes affordable food and treats domestic work as a valued profession. It’s one ambitious solution to one piece of a pervasive, though at times subtle, problem: At home and in cities, in offices, bathrooms and online, design choices made by men in male-dominated fields make women’s lives more difficult. Employing women as the world’s makers could vastly improve women’s lives, because their needs would be better prioritized.

“Dwellings, neighborhoods, and cities designed for homebound women constrain women physically, socially, and economically,” urban historian Dolores Hayden wrote in her 1980 essay, “What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?” Many of the immediate solutions that help women have more mobility involve exploitive labor. By sending children to daycare or picking up fast food, women rely on other working women in “low-paying non-union jobs without security,” she wrote. Hayden’s solution was built on the ideas of feminists before her: group living arrangements that “eliminate residential segregation by race, class, and age” where men and women were required to do an equal amount of chores and child care.

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Over The Garden Wall + Historical fashion {inspired by this post}

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top 12 savage things Medea says in classical literature

featuring Euripides, Ovid, and Seneca

ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ᾽ ἀσπίδα/στῆναι θέλοιμ᾽ ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ (Euripides Med. 250-1)

for I would rather thrice stand by the shield/ than once bear a child

καὶ σοῖς ἀραία γ᾽ οὖσα τυγχάνω δόμοις. (Euripides Med. 608)

I am a curse unto your house as well

καὶ μανθάνω μὲν οἷα τολμήσω κακά/θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων/ὅσπερ με��ίστων αἴτιος κακῶν βροτοῖς. (Euripides Med. 1078-80)

I know what evils I dare to do/ my heart is stronger than my plans/ and great is my blame for the blood

dum ferrum flammaeque aderunt sucusque veneni/ hostis Medeae nullus inultus erit (Ovid Her. 12.181-2)

as long as I have iron and fire and poison at my disposal/ no enemy of Medea’s will go unpunished

viderit ista deus, qui nunc mea pectora versat/ nescio quid certe mens mea maius agit! (Ovid Her. 211-2)

the god who twists my heart will witness these deeds/ for surely I know not what vast act my mind devises!

tum me de tigride natam/ tum ferrum et scopulos gestare in corde fatebor (Ovid Met. 7.32-3) 

then I will be called the daughter of a tiger/ and they will say I carry iron and stone in my heart

maximus intra me deus est (Ovid Met. 7.55)  

the greatest god is within me

et vertice sidera tangam (Ovid Met. 7.61)

and I will reach the stars with the crown of my head

Medea superest, hic mare et terras vides/ ferrumque et ignes et deos et fulmina (Seneca Med. 166-7)

Medea stands alone, here you see the sea and the lands/ and iron and fire and gods and lightning

si placet, damna ream;/ sed redde crimen (Seneca Med. 245-6)

condemn me if you like;/ but give me back my crime

invadam deos/ et cuncta quatiam (Seneca Med. 424-5)

I will invade the gods/ and shake all things

Medea nunc sum; crevit ingenium malis (Seneca Med. 910)

Now I am become Medea; my nature has grown amidst evil