#espingle

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Been hearing a lotta ship talk lately, guess it’s my turn

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Sketched the adorable sillies for you (not too good at drawing Espio BUT IT HAD TO BE DONE.)

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WORLD OF FOOD

evanescent character of the light when a wisp of straw was used is noted in the evidence

little Jonet Howat Helen Guthrie's young daughter: 'At this meiting there wer about twenty persones present with the divill and they daunced togither and eat togither having bieff bread and ale and shoe did eat and drink with them hir self bot hir bellie was not filled and shoe filled the drink to the rest of the company.'[550] Elspet Alexander confirms this statement 'The divill and the witches did drinke together having flesh bread and aile';[551] and so also does the Jonet Stout who sat opposite to Helen Guthrie at the table 'The divill and the said witches did eat and drinke having flesh bread and aile upon ane table and Joanet Huit was caper and filled the drinke'.[552] On one occasion they tried to wreck the Bridge of Cortaquhie; 'when we had done Elspet [Bruce] gaive the divell ane goose in hir own house and he dated hir mor than them all because shee was ane prettie woman.'[553] The Kinrossshire witches obtained their food from the Devil and this is one of the few instances

quelque enfant non baptisé qu'on faict secher puis meslant cette poudre avec ladicte paste elle a cette vertu de taciturnité: si bien que qui en mange ne confesse iamais.'[630] At Forfar in 1661 Helen Guthrie and four others exhumed the body of an unbaptized infant which was buried in the churchyard near the southeast door of the church 'and took severall peices therof as the feet hands a pairt of the head and a pairt of the buttock and they made a py therof that they might eat of it that by this meanes they might never make a confession as they thought of their witchcraftis.'[631] Here the idea of sympathetic magic is very clear

slight verbal alterations in the two MS. accounts of her confession suggest a confusion between the two ideas; the one appears to refer to the mark the other quoted here to the sacrifice: 'Such witches as have sharp bones given them by the devill to pricke them have no pappes or dugges whereon theire devil may sucke; but theire devill receiveth bloud from the place pricked with the bone; and they are more grand witches

young manwitch Isaac de Queyran told de Lancre that the witches sat at a table with the Black Man at the end and had bread and meat which was spread on a cloth.[562] The evidence at the trial of Louis Gaufredy at Aix in 1610 gives other details though the eating of children's flesh is probably an exaggeration

earliest account of the ceremony is at Chelmsford

sacrificial nature of the act is Cooper

infallible rule that euerie fortnight or at the least euerie moneth each witch must kill one child at the least for hir part.'[626] Sinistrari d'Ameno writing about a century later says the same: 'They promise the Devil sacrifices and offerings at stated times: once a fortnight or at least each month the murder of some child or an homicidal act of sorcery.'[627] It is impossible to believe in any great frequency

interesting case is that of the Rev. George Burroughs

same author quotes from the French authorities the crimes laid to the charge of witches among which are the following: 'They

soient baptizez par le moyẽ d'vne grosse espingle qu'elles leur enfoncent dans le cerueau.'[622] Boguet's words imply that this was done at every birth at which a witch officiated; but it is impossible

young black man ... and asked her for bloud which he drew out of her mouth and it dropped on a paper'.[605] At Auldearne in 1662 the blood was drawn for baptizing the witch; Isobel Gowdie said 'The Divell marked me in the showlder and suked owt my blood at that mark and spowted it in his hand and sprinkling it on my head said I baptise the Janet in my awin name.' Janet Breadheid's evidence is practically

animalsubstitute for the divine victim is usually

other ceremony of signing the contract the blood serving as the writing fluid; it also seems to be confused in the seventeenth century with the pricking for the Mark but the earlier evidence is clear

main facts are practically

most detailed account of such sacrifices is given in the trial

earliest example of the religious services occurs in 1324 in the trial of Lady Alice Kyteler: 'In rifeling the closet of the ladie they found a Wafer of sacramentall bread hauing the diuels name stamped thereon in stead of Jesus Christ.'[584] According to Boguet 1589 the Devil did not always perform the religious service himself but mass was celebrated by a priest among his followers; this custom is found in all countries

vous ou vous mourrez.'[632] Boguet says that in the Lyons district in 1598 the Devil celebrated mass and 'apres auoir prins la figure d'vn Bouc se consume en feu & reduit en cendre laquelle les Sorciers recueillent & cachent pour s'en seruir à l'execution de leurs desseins pernicieux & abominables'.[633] In 1603 a Belgian witch Claire Goessen was present at such a sacrifice and her account is therefore that of an eyewitness

ancient religion many of the beliefs and rites of these early religions are to be found in it

great scandall of witchcraft and being incarcerat in the Tolbuith of this burgh during her triall before the Justice died in prison The Comission of the Generall Assembly having considered the report of the Comittee appointed for that purpose Doe give their advyse to the Presbyterie of Dumfermling to show their dislike of that fact of the buriall of the Lady Pittadro in respect of the maner and place and that the said Presbyterie may labour to make the persons who hes buried her sensible of their offence in so doeing; and some of the persons who buried hir being personallie present are desired by the Comission

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Fellas, it’s Espingle hours💜🩶

Also small headcanon: they don’t kiss or hold hands really, but are the CEOs of forehead touches and tail holding

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They like to hang out in trees bc they tree animals🌳

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keeping warm on a cold winter’s night

hc: they both hate the cold, despite Tangle loving everything else about winter

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Grandma ships them too pjshqkshq

context

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Teasing💜🩶

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They make a pretty good “team”

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Ok last one fr this time I promise-

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oh you're being serious with the espiontanglr thing? I thought it was a bit not an actual thing you believed

I called it a crackship at first because I thought “crackship” just meant “a ship that doesn’t make sense to most people” or something

but nah I ain’t joking, I love them💜🩶

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UHHHH…

…warm-up doodle…?

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I saw your tag and now I gotta hear all your Espingle headcanons anshhxbs

I actually don't have THAT many, but besides that one, here's the ones I do have :

(I think I might've told you this one before) One of their first real bonding moments was just Tangle being like "WOAH. NINJA STARS! CAN I TRY?!" Espio agreed to attempt to teach her but she got too excited and. The end result was no more of those for Tangle ever. (It's okay though, she apologized afterwards. A lot.)

I remember reading someplace that Espio's favorite food was sweet dumplings, a Japanese dessert. He introduced Tangle to it once and she LOVED IT. DOES HE HAVE ANY MORE COOL FOODS SHE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT?! She adores trying new things

Tangle is super supportive of Espio's little poetry hobby (ever since TMOSTH I've adored the idea of Espio the poet okay-) Even if he's...MAAAAAAAAAAAYBE not the best at it, she'd still listen and clap at the end if he were to share XD

Both of them love nature. That's it. That's the headcanon because it expands in so many ways into whatever you want it to be <3

Espio is FULL of facts that seem like otherwise useless/unimportant knowledge. Tangle loves hearing about them and absorbing every little detail, possibly ready with even more questions to pair with Espio's extra background knowledge

Tangle thinks detective work is the coolest thing ever (not exactly an Espingle headcanon specifically but it can be)

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Fell first: Fell harder:

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

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I've always wondered, what made you start to ship Tangle and Espio in the first place? It's cute but what's the reasoning?

Saved this question for Valentine’s Day, grab a seat folks, bc it’s a bit of a story.

So, rewind back to the summer of 2023. I was writing down potential comic ideas, specifically unlikely characters interactions (think IDW Sonic 2022 Annual).

TMOSTH had recently dropped at that time, Espio having a prominent role in it, so naturally I wanted to write him interact with my favorite character.

Tangle’s the kind of character who’s seems to have a fun dynamic with just about everyone, but up until that point, I didn’t have more than a basic understanding of Espio’s character. My understanding of his at the time was that he was just a calmer, ninja version of Knuckles. Then Tmosth happened and he was becoming my one of my favs.

I don’t remember how I initially came up with the story idea, but it’s since then been scrapped bc I don’t have time to draw it all, but the story I had in mind was that Tangle wanted to train with Espio after seeing the Chaotix helping Jewel with some missing person cases at the Restoration.

As I tried to plan out little bits of their training session, I started to feel like they’d really get along well and be a fun duo. And then a split second thought occurred: “Lol what if I shipped them?” So I started to play with that concept, and what I got I thought was genuinely really sweet.

It only got better as I learned more about Espio. Like how he’s a pretty awkward with hugs, and while he can be reassuring and wise, his serious behaviors will sometimes be unintentionally comedic, he tries to be the levelheaded one, but he’s still a Chaotix, can’t deny he is also silly XD.

I thought he and Tangle balanced really well. Flash-forward to now, and Tangle and Espio are my two favorite characters, my rarepair, but more importantly just a duo I’d love to see in the comics💜🩶

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The rarepair brainrot has nuked me again (barrolin go brrrrr)

Take this as an excuse to talk about espingle

Someone asked on insta asked why I shipped Espingle a few weeks ago, so here’s that: