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Where the man ended, and the mask began

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Are you sure you want to do this?

It’s not what I want. It’s what honor demands.

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5.04 // 7.02

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for @ask-anthea-j

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for @ask-anthea-j

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“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.” 

― Rowland E. Robinson

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The Signs as Witches

Aries: uses bodily ingredients such as hair or teeth or nails, wild and free and howling at the moon, fire tells them what they want to know, embraces all but does not tolerate betrayal, gifted in the use of poppets and curses, full of energy and static and power

Taurus: a collector of many things, uses crystals and herbs, proficient in kitchen magic, has an inner strength that knows no bounds and no true master, a home full of colored glass and jars filled with anything you could ever need, rooted and able, wears robes with many many pockets

Gemini: a card reader and game changer, spoken spells fill the very air with magic and potential, an avid learner and sharer of their craft, books and tomes and candles fill their space, knows the power of words and names, tattoos sigils and spells all over their body and they seem to move when you aren’t looking, vast and uncontainable

Cancer: rests under the moon and whispers magic in their sleep, uses astral projection to explore and learn and play with ghosts, elaborate and detailed dream diary, deep understanding of astrology, somehow already knows what you’re going to say, mysterious and soft but only on the surface, a knower of secrets, sleepy eyes, lives in a tree in a misty forest and makes friends with the plants and spirits there

Leo: strongest in the day and has eyes that light up the night, mighty voice and skilled hands, breath carries a spark, animalistic energy you can feel when they look at you, makes their own spells borrows their own power, incredible visualization makes their dreams realities, difficult to look at directly for reasons you don’t really understand, wild hair and adorned in gems

Virgo: techno witch, weaves magic into code and text, keeps a blog as their book of shadows and altar, urban magic, has a restless mind and busy hands, deletes negativity out of their life, has much information to share despite their hollow look, eyes are lit from the inside, their phone is full of pictures that keep moving and notes only they can read

Libra: covered in veils and breathes perfume to hide themselves and confuse you, summons creatures and demons to do their bidding so their hands remain clean, almost transparent at times like a ghost or vision, is stronger than they look and delights in you not knowing their power, their mouth is almost always moving but you can’t hear what they say, soft to the touch but their skin is cold, trinkets and charms and chains adorn them and their home

Scorpio: eyes and nails are dark and caked in black, frequents graveyards and learns from the ghosts and crows, solitary witch who makes friends with bones, will help you learn what you want to know for a price, is afraid to sleep, quiet and haunted, is reborn each new moon, is full of knowing and fog and promise, takes a lock of hair from all they help, you feel them in your core

Sagittarius: rides their broom with reckless abandon, plays with the children on Halloween and shows them magic is real, their home has legs and never stays still, keeps many familiars and most are birds, gifted in charms and potions and sells their work with a smile, you can hear them laughing with the moon at night, chapped lips and wide eyes, magic is erratic and spontaneous and they couldn’t control it if they wanted to

Capricorn: loose black and gray clothing that flows when they walk, keeps a pouch of salt around their neck at all times, face is often covered or hard to see, protection spells and sigils are their innate ability, the floor trembles when they are angry, always watching watching watching, lives in a stone cottage covered with moss and scrawlings and carvings, other witches are silent around them out of fear and awe

Aquarius: hermit, storm witch, plays with rain and dances with lightning and shouts thunder, keeps trinkets and mementos in small jars around their bed, asks favors and learns from the clouds, raw and swift and ready to act, soft as a summer rain and cold as hail, hair is full of leaves and wind, feet are dirty but their mind is clean and sharp

Pisces: smells of salt and dressed in rags and burlap and pearls, misty eyes that look through you and deep deep down in you, water witch with a soft face and an ocean for a heart, thing of the sea, empath who sometimes knows you better than you do, bottles own tears and keeps them for spells, witch of all trades master of none, head is full of crashing waves, overflowing with magic and wonder

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“What is a witch? I. A flirt with darkness. It’s a long standing affair with the shadows and an even longer one with the day. A drift and existence that hinges on the balance between the sun and the moon. The stars become your witness, your confidants, your lovers. II. Power. Raw. It seeps from your hands to the earth and the earth to your hands. Quakes and storms that submit at your feet. It is cradling divinity in your arms and pressing light kisses to the back of eternity. It is the feeling of immortality, even if immortality is but a second. III. Fear. Screams and curses. Blood staining the corners of your mouth. Trust is a term thrown around loosely. People do not trust what they do not understand, and they answer fear with death. Magic is not to be understood. Magic is to be felt. IV. Mortal. No matter what a witch can do, a witch still dies.”

— Mortality swings so easily from the gallows // L.H.Z (via lhzthepoet)

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the signs as real witches

Aries: Agnes Waterhouse// Had a deal with the Devil and wasn’t afraid to say so. The Brave witch.

Taurus: Joan Wytte// Clairvoyant and healer who eventually became possessed by the Devil, getting involved in many fights.

Gemini: Marie Laveau// Voodoo Queen. Performed necromancy, mind control, telekinesis and pinning.

Cancer: Chedipe// Witch-vampire who rode on tigers in the moonlight, choosing houses to visit to cast spells on men.

Leo: Agnes Sampson// Tried to sink the ship of Queen Anne, wife of King James VI of England.

Virgo: Isobel Gowdie// Could control the weather and would often write poetry about witch practices. Allegedly marked by the Devil.

Libra: Circe// Transformed random sailors into wolves and lions and all kinds of animals.

Scorpio: Mother Shipton// Clairvoyant, sorceress. An outcast with a great talent.

Sagittarius: Maret Jonsdotter// Frequently tricked men. Attended witch sabbaths.

Capricorn: Alice Kyteler// Poisoned her rich husbands, disappeared the night before her execution.

Aquarius: Angele de la Barthe// Allegedly had sex with the Devil.

Pisces: Catherine La Voisin// Fortune Teller & Love Potions expert. Plotted to murder Louis XIV.

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Marie Antoinette (2006), dir. Sofia Coppola

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RESURRECTION – witchy moodboard i

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I myself have seen this woman draw the stars from the sky; she diverts the course of a fast-flowing river with her incantations; her voice makes the earth gape, it lures the spirits from the tombs, send the bones tumbling from the dying pyre. At her behest, the sad clouds scatter; at her behest, snow falls from a summer’s sky.             — Catullus

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“We’re all born a Witch. We’re all born into magic. It’s taken from us as we grow up.”

— Madeleine L’Engle (via briqou)

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“Never put your faith in a prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a witch.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden (via mysharona1987)

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“I. i’m not a witch, but i know tales of boys who got lost in the woods for they did not know how to control their fury. of boys who were sent to gather lumber for the winter & were found with their flesh skinned & their bones thrown to the dogs. . II. i’ve seen mothers weep for those lost boys as they buried nothing but their dirty skulls. . III. ( their childlike meat is slowly boiling somewhere / rotting & delicious, a warning raw and unforgiving - we will feast on their flesh & gift their blood to our gods as you sink their naked bones into the graves. / we promised we’ll hunt the ones who roughed their souls & made their hands monstrous & calloused, & reap them to smoke. ) . IV. THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: to burn one WITCH is to slay a thousand HUMANS.”

— Demi Ev./ tales of lost boys (via nehmesis)

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Prompt #980

“You taste like dishonour,” the knight said, leaning in for another kiss.

The witch laughed, and kissed them again. “And you,” they murmured, “taste like a death sentence.”

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