#arkansas witchcraft

[ouachitafolkwitch]

Local witchcraft | Endangered AR Species | Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis)

endangered in Arkansas

Near Threatened in general (G3 rating)

Associations/Correspondences (I created these myself based on what I've learned about their ecological roles so far)

Plants:

Pine trees, preferably Longleaf pines (Pinus palustris)

This species is the only American woodpecker that bores holes in only living trees (as opposed to the rest of the woodpeckers who bore their homes in dying trees).

Forages wild fruit and berries

Insects:

eats ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, spiders, and corn earworm moths

Magick:

Love (territorial, nonmigratory, cooperative breeding species, frequently having the same mate for several years).

Protection (territorial, cooperative breeding)

Harmony (Cooperative breeding)

Renewal, regeneration (I personally associate all threatened species with the possible capability of renewal, regeneration, and restoration; additionally, abandoned woodpecker homes make new homes for other birds and small tree-dwelling mammals.)

Perseverance (Cavities bored by these woodpeckers are generally excavated over 1 to 3 years.)

[mamamoon92]

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[arkanstonecrystals]

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[orbitingkepler]

i've finished s1 of midnight burger and man, i have some thoughts (so long i had to put a readmore on them).

what is caspar's whole deal with the diner? everyone has a story on how they found it (leif while spacehopping, gloria discovering on Craigslist [which is interesting but i'll get to that later] ava discovering it, presumably, while sciencing). going back, i don't think caspar ever really talks about how he found it, or even why he decided to stay (although i believe effie warns him that he might be running from something, which might be why he stayed). when ava goes through the time warp, she only hears a few moments of caspar's first day before it skips to leif's first day at the diner. at that point, caspar still doesn't know much about the diner but he seems far more comfortable in interacting in it (he slips into being a waiter immediately). and of course, from what we've heard, effie and zebulon don't seem to quite know how the diner works either. this makes me wonder if the diner is newer than originally thought, and perhaps caspar is actually the first employee. of course that couldn't exactly fit because iirc, effie and zebulon cannot see outside the diner so how would they know they were travelling through time and space? i guess that would mean that the diner is old enough to have had employees, who somehow disappeared before caspar arrived who might have been able to pass their knowledge onto effie and zebulon? but that would mean effie and zebulon would probably know more than they do, so maybe the radio is possibly a new installment to the diner (left by previous employees?)

are the radio and the diner even the same thing? the radio and the diner are somehow linked together, obviously, but effie and zebulon seem to have no control over where or when the diner goes, only that without them things would start falling apart (see: blackhole incident). it makes me wonder if despite being linked the diner has more sway in things. it's also always consistent that the diner shows up in a place where people need it (sometimes as a source of food, sometimes just to help problems). additionally, the diner seems to be able to seek out potential employees and draw them towards the diner (gloria). everyone was surprised when gloria showed up claiming that she saw their advert for a job interview, even though it was quite clear that none of them (including, iirc, zebulon & effie) ever put it up in the first place. i don't think it's a coincidence that leif showed up when he was looking for someplace new with Earth-people, or ava found the diner after she quit because she was trying to prove her scientific theories. i wonder if the diner is looking for a common quality in them and that's how it chooses its employees.

lastly: what's the deal with the radio? the vibes i'm getting are the effie & zebulon are just completely normal religious arkansas people, and that it's just the radio in the diner that's completely off-the-walls weird. originally i was thinking that effie & zebulon were like. preserved memories of people trapped inside a radio (maybe they were preserved before effie & zebulon ever had children, if the timewarp tunnel that ava had with the other arkansas people wasn't a completely different universe). but that's off the record now because i'm pretty sure memories can't get sick like effie did. which makes me wonder if effie & zebulon are in a pocket dimension of sorts? their time is like 1920s arkansas or whatever, which is moving at a much much slower pace than midnight burger. it'd explain how effie got sick (because their time is not static), plus how they don't have children, even though, in regular-world-time they definitely do have descendants (daniel & willow). and it'd explain why they think all science is witchcraft. if you were living in the 1920s, then the medical technology we have now would definitely seem to be witchcraft. the only thing i can't quite work out is the weird interference they had throughout season one, as well as how effie was able to locate leif. the first could be that whenever the diner radio lost connection with the pocket dimension effie & zebulon were in tried to fill their words with what the diner knew (which is why they would start quoting the book of the dead). i guess the diner being an entity of sorts could also explain how effie & zebulon managed to get into contact with leif when he was abducted, although what throws me off there is that if they're just normal people and the diner radio is actually controlling everything, then how would they have known about leif's radio? maybe the diner is capable of influencing them somewhat, or even maybe directing them a bit, but cannot outright control/tell anything to them. which makes me realize i am once again circling right back to religion: you know that one meme where it's like a guy who's being given divine information but because it's not in a language that they understand/can comprehend they circle right back around to being normal again? maybe that's the relationship that the diner, effie & zebulon have.

[viadescioism]

Henry Bibb on the practice of conjure

"There is much superstition among the slaves. Many of them believe in what they call "conjuration," tricking, and witchcraft; and some of them pretend to understand the art, and say that by it they can prevent their masters from exercising their will over their slaves. Such are often applied to by others, to give them power to prevent their masters from flogging them. The remedy is most generally some kind of bitter root; they are directed to chew it and spit towards their masters when they are angry with the slaves. At other times they prepare certain kinds of powders, to sprinkle about their masters dwellings. This is all done for the purpose of defending themselves in some peaceable manner, although I am satisfied that there is no virtue at all in it....

[A conjurer] said if I would pay him a small sum, he would prevent my being flogged. After I had paid him, he mixed up some alum, salt and other stuff into a powder, and said I must sprinkle it about my master, if he should offer to strike me; this would prevent him. He also gave me some kind of bitter root to chew, and spit towards him, which would certainly prevent my being flogged. According to order I used his remedy, and for some cause I was let pass without being flogged that time.

I had then great faith in conjuration and witchcraft. I was led to believe that I could do almost as I pleased, without being flogged. So on the next Sabbath my conjuration was fully tested by my going off, and staying away until Monday morning, without permission. When I returned home, my master declared that he would punish me for going off; but I did not believe that he could do it, while I had this root and dust; and as he approached me, I commenced talking saucy to him. But he soon convinced me that there was no virtue in them. He became so enraged at me for saucing him, that he grasped a handful of switches and punished me severely, in spite of all my roots and powders...."

- Henry Bibb, born to a white father and a slave mother in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1815, and was held in slavery in Kentucky, Louisiana, and in present-day Arkansas. In 1837, he escaped through Ohio and Michigan into Canada. In this selection, he describes enslaved peoples notions of conjure that existed alongside Christianity.

[finn-brooks]

Full Name: Finnley Thomas Brooks

Nicknames: Finn, Finnster

Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male

Age and Birthday: 31 years old, February 13th

Birth place: Arkansas, grew up in Salem, Massachusetts

Sexuality: Demiromantic Heterosexual

Status: Currently emotionally preoccupied

Occupation: New-hire at Tidal Wave Music Shop/Part-time college student

Education: BFA in Photography is in progress 

Residence: Ocean Crest Apartments

Time in Aurora Bay: 1+ years

Family: Thomas Brooks, Lilian Rose, Chloe Brooks (deceased)

Face claim: Devon Bostick

tw substance abuse, mental health issues, chronic illness, child abandonment, infidelity

HISTORY —

Finnley cannot say the childhood he had was a difficult one. It could have been easier, but for the most part it wasn’t terribly difficult. It is what he tells himself when he thinks about the golden grasses of Kansas, his father’s protective love, and the teen sister he lost when he was just six years old. He hardly remembers it, anyway. Just that his suit was too itchy and hot, and how his mother scolded him for getting his snot and tears all over it. 

And the arguments all sounded like television static in his memories - he even barely recalls sitting at the top of the staircase to listen to the very last time his mother dropped him at his dad’s house for the weekend. What remained a vivid memory was the one of his mother who abandoned them in the endless pursuit of a high to numb the pain of loss with a man that little Finnley never would have called even ‘step-dad’. 

By his eighth birthday his father scooped him up and relocated to Salem, Massachusetts, moving in with family residing in the outskirts of the New England tourist trap. The custody battle was an easy one to win, so all connections with his mother ceased to exist instantly. With the agreement to not have visitations came the loss of child support, but his father’s side of the family helped with financial struggles. Though his father never kept any letters she sent from him, Finn buried the unopened envelopes in an old chest under his bed. His youth did not mean he was blind to the error in her ways, and he held onto a grudge throughout his life for the woman who destroyed his father’s heart. 

Once Finn hit his teen years, the downtown life of Salem provided plenty of opportunities for him to develop a love for history, especially the darker parts of it left out in general education. It also spiked a love for the occult, not that he practiced anything or fully immersed himself in the world of witchcraft and tumbled stones, but Halloween easily became his favorite time of year while he lived there. He worked in shops downtown, performed in skits of historical events, and inevitably became a tour guide for the area. 

Finn’s love for history expanded, and he began to dive into books depicting information about the United States first, until he moved onto important events and everything that happened throughout the world. 

When high school graduation started to approach, he looked into colleges, hopeful to pursue a degree in history. It came with great disappointment when his father had to give him the bad news that it could not be financially covered. With grades that weren’t exactly stellar, and a truancy streak, his options for scholarships were nearly nonexistent. 

This resulted in Finn pursuing an associate’s degree in community college. Financial aid covered the costs, and it was a place for him to start. It also gave him time to try and save money for a four-year school and improve his grades to reapply for scholarships. This is also where he picked up a minor in photography after an elective course taught him the basics on the ‘golden rule’ and composition. 

Online courses here and there sped up the process, offering him credits to transfer when he settled on Rutgers University for his bachelor’s degree with a major in photography. Due to tight finances, he did have to stop pursuing history as an area of study, but he kept with it as a hobby. He worked hard despite feeling run down from his studies and the physical and mental strain from his jobs. Finnley graduated community college at twenty years old, hopeful for his future, and one and a half years following he walked onto that New Jersey campus with his head held high. It was in November of his first semester that the fatigue worsened. He struggled to keep going, sometimes suffered dizzy spells that kept him planted in his seat, and on occasion was too weak to even stand himself up. A day came when he could not even push himself from the mattress in his dorm room.

When Finn bounced back it was gradual, and it was assumed to be just stress and exhaustion from being overworked. Come spring, it happened again, and it was a worse episode of chronic fatigue accompanied with tingling in his extremities. Several doctors’ visits, a couple of MRI scans, and a diagnosis later, Finnley learned he had multiple sclerosis. Dropping out of school temporarily at twenty-two to get a handle on it had been his first step, before he would go into the next year. He could not complete the spring semester which put him behind but adjusting to this curve ball life had thrown him was his priority. The second one was the medical costs maintaining it, and how it took a hit against his future. 

Medication was expensive, and his father did not have the greatest of insurance plans to cover more of the costs, so Finn was back to trying to earn money back in Salem. Except he had to fall back on less physically demanding jobs. It knocked the wind out of his sails, and he almost immediately lost any hope in returning to Rutgers to finish his degree.

It was three years down the road he received a letter from an unknown address. It was from his mother who was in a rehab in Hartford, recovering from her addictions and reaching out to establish contact. At first it was tossed away until several more followed suit in the mail, and he’d come to learn his mother remarried to someone wealthy. It definitely wasn’t the man she ran off with, but someone older than her by at least fifteen years, and with a promise of keeping clean and practically begging him for an answer it clicked that maybe… he could play his cards right.

Finn responded one day, establishing a line of communication, and then he gave details on his situation. His medical diagnosis, his incomplete schooling, and financial struggles. That made it easy when he asked for funding to return to school. She obliged almost immediately as a means to get her son back. Of course, Finn never told his father, and to keep Lillian from coming around Salem Finn decided to transfer his credits and hop on over to the west coast. Far away from Hartford, and away from his mother.

This does not mean he doesn’t reach out to her and let her know how he’s doing, and there is no guilt in the matter. Her financial support begins and ends at tuition and supply costs, and as for his rent and day to day expenses such as food and medication. Finn works for that on his own. It’s how he ended up in Aurora Bay, a returning photography student halfway through his junior year with a new sense of hope and promise.

TRAITS.

+ Charismatic, intelligent

+/- Logical, quirky

- Judgmental, flighty

HEADCANONS.

1. finn is sober, by choice. he fears to have the same addictive tendencies as his mother so he just avoids alcohol consumption and drug use altogether. never has he tried anything, and he doesn’t intend to. 2. finn is allergic to cats and guinea pigs. 3. although it’s never been proven as finn would rather live in ignorant bliss, there is suspicion the man who raised and loved him is not his biological father. aside from the fact they look nothing alike and finn overheard him talking to his grandparents, the assurance of ‘he is my boy no matter what’ gave finn enough to never need to know the answer. 4. finn has one little 1692 tattoo in the bend of his left elbow. 5. other than photography and puzzle books, finn does bird watch because it is calm and peaceful. it’s also an opportunity to snap some pictures. 6. tied in with his love of history is all things of the occult. he loves hard facts, but touching on astrology, alchemy and natural magic in the historical concept it fun for him. 7. his favorite movie growing up was Stand By Me, and he loved listening to Aerosmith & AC/DC with his dad. 8. finn never learned how to swim.

CONNECTIONS. 

Finn is not open for any new romantic connections currently. He can use friends, fellow students, if anyone wants a negative connect please hmu. Neighbors at Ocean Crest, regulars at the music shop, and even old regulars he'd met when he previously worked at the diner.

♡ @luckylewis- friend, neighbor, fellow concert-goer, and late night partner in crime that menace the local Walmart.

♡ @darcyxanthonyx - little sister figure, close friend and confidante.

♡ @madiiscn - classmate, peer, and hook up turning into something more serious. 

♡ @cherryxkoch - new friend, bad-date story swapper.

♡ @jordanmitchell - fellow ocean crest resident, friend, and fun flirtationship.

♡ @jamesonxcassidy - neighbor and close friend.

♡ @emersonxcassidy - little sister figure, fellow book lover and mother hen to their gang of friends.

♡ @lorelailewis- .reoccurring french fry thief turned friend, and neighbor.

♡ @thelizaxlevin- an acquaintance turned friend.

♡ @cricketcampbell- fellow member of the ‘mommy issues club’.

♡ @wesxevans- old friends from salem, ma. and little brother figure.

♡ @thewrenxharlow- ocean crest neighbor and ex-friend with benefits, now coworker.

♡ @ithinkitscami - friend and model for some of his school portraits.

♡ @maura-cortes - ocean crest neighbors and friend.

pinterest: [ here ] top 25 songs: [ here ] playlist about finn: [ here ] inspo/about finn tag: [ here ]

@aurorabayaesthetic

[sane-human]

I got here because of many things Frank. At least, you could call it that.

Magic? Sure!

Witchcraft? Maybe!

The will of God? Okay!

Time Travel? That's actually the answer! :)

-Arkansas

(the Franks do not see Arkansas as a threat anymore, as they think you are insane)

[auntieaugury]

Grannies

Old Gods of Appalachia is amazing for a lot of reasons, but one of them has to do with how common all of the elements are to anyone who lives in country/mining areas. My family is from Arkansas, another place where mining was huge. My father's grandfather lived with and died from black lung. There were parts of their community that you just didn't go to. Too easy for things to cave in. My mother's father's grandmother (to give clarification) always kept a crow with her. She would bury jars in the yard with nails in them and keep bottles in the trees 'for safety reasons.' This sort of thing was passed off as eccentric. Thankfully. It's said she was very charming and if anyone suspected she was a witch, they brushed it off as superstition. My grandfather was her favorite. WWII was going on at the time, and he told her that when he was old enough to join, he wouldn't be returning to the area. His older brother was abusive to him and everyone else. He was tired of the violence and felt it was best to just get as far away as he could. They had kept her other grandson's violence from her, otherwise, things might have changed earlier. My grandfather told me that he remembers how after they had that conversation, she cried until he explained just how bad things were between him and his brother. He said she stopped crying then. She hugged him. Told him to get on home. There was a mining accident later that day. My grandfather's brother was the only casualty. My grandfather did not believe in witchcraft. He was socially Christian and to call someone a witch would have been disrespectful, at the very least. But I could tell he wondered about it, wondered what happened to his brother, and wondered if something could have been done earlier if he would have said something. Did he feel guilty about it? No. Not at all. His brother was truly horrible to him. The only law enforcement in the area was his father and if he wasn't going to stop things, how could anyone? Maybe sometimes these things just sort themselves out.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.15

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. 1184 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta. 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. 1246 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded. 1312 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba. 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage. 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine. 1607 – Virginia Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks. 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown). 1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania. 1800 – The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved. 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document. 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state. 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. 1846 – The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean. 1859 – Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers. 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins. 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by the family of Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors. 1896 – One of the deadliest tsunamis in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people. 1901–present 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000. 1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter. 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. 1920 – Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark. 1921 – Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent. 1934 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded. 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak. 1940 – World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation. 1944 – World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate. 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America. 1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders. 1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. 1972 – Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) kills 81 people. 1977 – After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain. 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor. 1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people. 1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries. 1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people. 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. 2007 – The Nokkakivi Amusement Park is opened in Lievestuore, Laukaa, Finland. 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls. 2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others. 2022 – Microsoft retires its ubiquitous Internet Explorer after 26 years in favor of its new browser, Microsoft Edge.

[greatamericansatan]

Spooktober 2022, Days Six, Seven, and Eight

Spooktober is a 31 day event of coming up with original horror ideas based on prompts my writing group argues over.  The arguing used to be fun but people are acting so weird about it this year.  Sigh.  These are my entries.

SPOOKTOBER DAY #6 — Clones

TITLE:  Doctor Philliplier

PREMISE:  It’s an early ’90s straight-to-cable midnight creepshow, now a moldy VHS retrieved from the ruins of a trailer in rural Arkansas.  You pop it in the old VHS player and it whirs to disgusting life, some intersection of Michael Keaton’s “Multiplicity” and Jeff Fahey’s “Body Parts.”

Dr. Phillips is a plastic surgeon and legit science genius, out of his mind on cocaine and narcissism.  He dabbles in womanizing on the LA punk scene, and stand-up comedy.  One night his experimental rejuvenation process goes out of control, reducing him to a pile of deformed limbs and a screaming head.  He buds clones that are much more well-formed and tries to boss them into helping out, but they are aberrant in the head.

Despite not really looking quite like him, everyone is somehow fooled.  The silver-haired one takes over his stand-up, veering the act into surreal voices and weird noises.  The lanky Lux Interior-looking one takes over the drugging and womanizing, despite only being able to mumble nonsense in an Elvis impression.

HORROR ELEMENT:  Will he ever get his body and his life back?  Good help is so hard to get.

Poster by AI, modified with photoshop.

SPOOKTOBER DAY #7 — Cabins

TITLE:  The Cabin of The Cyclops

PREMISE:  Dr. Jarecky is suave and beautiful, despite having lost an eye in youth.  Together with his assistant Helmut, he runs a mental health asylum in 1950s Oregon.  But all is not well.  He has a cabin retreat where he takes “special cases” – beautiful young women – for “intensive therapy.”  The girls are getting wise, and Helmut has realized that in his hubris, Dr. Jarecky has brought too many to the cabin.  The bad men are decidedly outnumbered, and these girls were locked up for reasons…

HORROR ELEMENT:  Corrupt care professionals are the real horror.  Well, at the beginning.  Later on the horror is justice.

Poster by AI, modified with photoshop.

SPOOKTOBER DAY #8 — Cryptids

TITLE:  Flatwoods

PREMISE:  Before she was a ghostly cryptid terrorizing modern people, Honora Knecht was an occultist in 1880s Sutton, West Virginia.  She wasn’t much of a showman, but had some fame by merit of being seven feet tall.  Sinope Locke was a daughter of power, adrift in a life not her own.  On a lark her fiancé paid for Honora to entertain at one of their parties, and Sinope fell in love.

Is it love or witchcraft?  Honora’s eyes glow red, her long fingers look like talons in lace gloves, her witch hat like the minaret of a Turkish mosque.

HORROR ELEMENT:  I could tell stable diffusion AI knew what the Flatwoods Monster was, but it refused to make a sensible result.  The horror is trying to cheap out on making art but still having to work for it lol.

Poster by AI, modified with photoshop.

SPOOKTOBER DAY #8 — Cryptids… ALTERNATE

TITLE:  Come With Me, Baby, to LoveLand

PREMISE:  While coming up with ideas for cryptid stories, I played with romance novel covers involving the Loveland Frog.  The fake author name is to obscure the torso, helping me spend less time making sense of that in photoshop.

HORROR ELEMENT:  Accidentally swallow a tadpole while swimming in Loveland, Ohio.  Go ahead.  Don’t be surprised if you turn into a frog.  Don’t be surprised when your lady loves you even more.  Don’t be surprised when she gives birth to horrendous amounts of tadpoles.  And don’t be surprised that it never ends.

Poster by AI, modified with photoshop.

In case you were curious what these look like before I try to fix them, enjoy this collage.  AI seldom gets me something I’d use unmodified, don’t know how people do it.

[tatum34w]

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[powerfulmagiccaster]

It only works to intensify the feelings within a person who already harbors them , but simply could be in a state of denial , or it does not realize or understand them or it could be that those feelings must have been suppressed owing to various negative forces and influences . Witchcraft love spells cannot harm anyone . Nor can they manipulate . They help you reach to your higher self which in normal circumstances one cannot . It is when you come into contact with this higher self within that you realize the significance , the beauty , and purity of the feelings and senses that have sprouted within your heart

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[ouachitafolkwitch]

Background photo: a bulky smoky quartz tower I liked at Mount Ida’s Memorial Day Gem, Crystal, & Mineral Show

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.15

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II. 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy. 1184 – The naval Battle of Fimreite is won by the Birkebeiner pretender Sverre Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson takes the Norwegian throne and King Magnus V of Norway is killed. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to Magna Carta. 1219 – Northern Crusades: Danish victory at the Battle of Lindanise (modern-day Tallinn) establishes the Danish Duchy of Estonia. 1246 – With the death of Frederick II, Duke of Austria, the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria. 1300 – The city of Bilbao is founded. 1312 – At the Battle of Rozgony, King Charles I of Hungary wins a decisive victory over the family of Palatine Amade Aba. 1389 – Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians. 1410 – In a decisive battle at Onon River, the Mongol forces of Oljei Temur were decimated by the Chinese armies of the Yongle Emperor. 1410 – Ottoman Interregnum: Süleyman Çelebi defeats his brother Musa Çelebi outside the Byzantine capital, Constantinople. 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage. 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine. 1607 – Colonists finished building James's Fort, to defend against Spanish and Indian attacks. 1648 – Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli is laid down in Malta. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown). 1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from Pennsylvania. 1800 – The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved. 1804 – New Hampshire approves the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document. 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain. 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state. 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. 1846 – The Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean. 1859 – Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between American and British/Canadian settlers. 1864 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins. 1864 – Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81 km2) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. 1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy. 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. 1888 – Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors. 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people. 1904 – A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000. 1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter. 1919 – John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. 1920 – Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark. 1921 – Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent. 1934 – The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded. 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. 1937 – A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak. 1940 – World War II: Operation Aerial begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation. 1944 – World War II: The United States invades Saipan, capital of Japan's South Seas Mandate. 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America. 1970 – Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders. 1972 – Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. 1972 – Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) kills 81 people. 1977 – After the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, the first democratic elections took place in Spain. 1978 – King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor. 1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. 1991 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people. 1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries. 1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations. 1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people. 2001 – Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. 2007 – The Nokkakivi Amusement Park was opened in Lievestuore, Laukaa, Finland. 2012 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls. 2013 – A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others.

[voodoomagiccaster]

It only works to intensify the feelings within a person who already harbors them , but simply could be in a state of denial , or it does not realize or understand them or it could be that those feelings must have been suppressed owing to various negative forces and influences . Witchcraft love spells cannot harm anyone . Nor can they manipulate . They help you reach to your higher self which in normal circumstances one cannot . It is when you come into contact with this higher self within that you realize the significance , the beauty , and purity of the feelings and senses that have sprouted within your heart

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