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Do you know what I want to see more of in literature? I want more Pratchett-style witches. Not in the headology and the things which are unique to Pratchett’s world, but this whole notion of tough-as-old-boots old women doctoring and standing guard over a community, somewhere between James Herriot and Harry Dresden. Witches being called out at midnight to attend at a birth or cure a sick cow, and then having to stay on their feet to deal with an old lady who needs her medicine dropped off, or to lay out the dead and help wash the sheets they died in, because that’s not a job for the faint-hearted, and then have to go and take back another family’s child who’s been stolen by fairies or undo a curse besetting a man who wandered into the woods and disturbed things he ought not have touched. Witches who live their lives on call, spending most of their time going from one emergency to another and never stopping to breathe for a moment because there’s still work to be done. Witches who rarely receive thanks for their work, and when they do it's only for the most desperate, hard-earned struggle a witch could hope to live through, and sometimes not even then. Witches who are crabby and difficult and snappish all the time, but will still work all hours of the night to get a community through an epidemic or save a life that might otherwise have been lost. Witches who cultivate fearsome reputations, because if every horror in the dark is scared stiff of you they’re not going to come and cause trouble in your bit of territory, to the people you live and work among every day. Just…Terry Pratchett’s idea of witching can’t die with him, because it’s the most perfect notion of witchcraft I’ve ever read, and I’ve never wanted anything so much.

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PSA

You don’t need to feel obligated to believe in things that other witches seem to.

You don’t have to like or understand parts of witchcraft that other people have dedicated their lives to.

There are people who believe in spirits and not fairies, divination but not crystals, magic but not god-like dieties.

As long as you keep an open mind and respect people that believe in what you don’t, you are a witch and there is nothing wrong with you.

None of the beliefs you may come across are objectively more strange than any other religion, and you wouldn’t call them crazy.

THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

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messy witch aesthetic

-sigils scribbled on wrists, on used napkins, on the backs of receipts -hastily mumbling glamours while you get ready because you’re late again -always forgetting to keep track of the moon’s cycle -constantly performing finding-things spells because the floor of your room is an abomination and where on earth did that chunk of amethyst go?? -knowing that if you don’t write a spell down/tag it properly/put it in a place where you’ll find it then it’ll be lost forever -standing in the shower for forty minutes and only remembering the glamours/spells you wanted to work on after you get out -picking up every coin you see and dropping them in an old jar as a money spell -how am i already out of cinnamon i literally just bought some -enchanting your phone alarm so that maybe you’ll actually get out of bed on the first try for once -always having salt on the floor -i have thirty variations of the same spell tag on tumblr but the spell i’m looking for isn’t under any of them oh my god -never being able to decide which method for drawing sigils you like best, so all of them are a complete mish-mash -half-melted candles everywhere -starting a new notebook every two weeks and never finishing one -wanting to have a consistent practice and aesthetic but never managing to find the time so you guess you’ll just stick to reading your tarot cards on the floor in front of the TV while eating chicken nuggets

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messy witch aesthetic

-sigils scribbled on wrists, on used napkins, on the backs of receipts -hastily mumbling glamours while you get ready because you’re late again -always forgetting to keep track of the moon’s cycle -constantly performing finding-things spells because the floor of your room is an abomination and where on earth did that chunk of amethyst go?? -knowing that if you don’t write a spell down/tag it properly/put it in a place where you’ll find it then it’ll be lost forever -standing in the shower for forty minutes and only remembering the glamours/spells you wanted to work on after you get out -picking up every coin you see and dropping them in an old jar as a money spell -how am i already out of cinnamon i literally just bought some -enchanting your phone alarm so that maybe you’ll actually get out of bed on the first try for once -always having salt on the floor -i have thirty variations of the same spell tag on tumblr but the spell i’m looking for isn’t under any of them oh my god -never being able to decide which method for drawing sigils you like best, so all of them are a complete mish-mash -half-melted candles everywhere -starting a new notebook every two weeks and never finishing one -wanting to have a consistent practice and aesthetic but never managing to find the time so you guess you’ll just stick to reading your tarot cards on the floor in front of the TV while eating chicken nuggets

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i received my first order and got a 5-star review! come get yours!

selling 3 card tarot spreads for $5 on fiverr to raise money for rent!

you can also purchase a 13 card total year reading for $15 on the same page!

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You know what seems prevalent in the tumblr witch community? Resource blogs that don’t want to help. Personal blogs that claim they’ll help any newbie, and then giving no help at all.

“It’s in my FAQS.” “Check my tags.” “Our followers can give you information. *post has 4 notes and not a single follower has given aid*”

Come O N guys :(

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selling 3 card tarot spreads for $5 on fiverr to raise money for rent!

you can also purchase a 13 card total year reading for $15 on the same page!

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When the air is thick with insence and candle smoke bc your room has terrible ventilation and you won’t stop burning things reblog if you agree

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This post is a spell.

It makes your loved ones feel your love, and in turn, love themselves.

It works with Romantic love, Platonic love, or any other type of love.

It’s charged by notes and intention, so remember to think about why you love them as you Like/Reblog.

Optional: tag your loved ones, and/or put why you love them in the tags!

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Darkness Hex

Do not use this spell unless your intention is to cause complete havoc. There is no reversing the spell, so make sure that this is a last resort, and you will not regret doing it later.

When you begin this spell, think about all the pain and suffering this person has caused you (or someone close to you). Visualize chaos attacking them from all sides.

MATERIALS AND PROCEDURE:

You will need a 9″ piece of black yarn.

Tie 3 separate knots as you chant the following:

“With this knot I seal this hex you will not sleep, you will not eat, you will not rest dark knots of anger, dark knots of hate This black cord with knots brings you your fate As I tie this second knot this makes two As complete black darkness falls over you Slander, chaos, evil too I send the darkness straight onto you With this third knot, yes I bind Complete horror and chaos into your mind Hex of anger, hex of hate Bring (SPEAK THE PERSON’S NAME) down, I will not wait. I have spoken it and so it shall be. I have spoken it and so mote it be!”

Douglas Hensley, A Book Of Magic Spells And Hexes

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I was commissioned to draw cute modern day witches :”>

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Movie Witches: For this spell you must gather these sacred items three, soak them in water held by the skin of a deer, and drink half a cup each night before bed until the full moon...

Real witches: imma just draw a sigil or something on this toaster strudel and have it for breakfast

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you do have birth cards which you can find using your birth chart (aka google it ahaha)

make tarot signifiers a common part of bios like MBTI and sun sign are

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emoji spell to help strengthen your ‘godphone’ likes charge, reblogs cast! put a deity’s name in the tags to specify which deity you want clearer communication from!

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