#salem witches

[meanvictoriann]

Mean Victorian.

[its-kayyyy]

time to make some witches angry!

you are not a reincarnated from the salem witch trials.

if you believe you are, sorry to break it to you hun, but your wrong.

there's a few problems with this, (1. only 25 people where executed, their are not enough souls to go around. (2. the people who were executed were not witches but normal christian people. they were just doing stuff that wasn't regular in the community and got accused of witchcraft because it wasn't normal in the community.

has my point been proven yet?

and before i get super attacked I am a pagan witch who does believe in reincarnation. so i am not 'sticking my nose in others business' i am putting my opinion out in my own community, which is, in fact, my business.

and feel free to attack me, block me, tell me how im oh so wrong, but my opinion will still stand indifferent.

[evvygrimm]

¿𝑄𝑢𝑒́ 𝑝𝑜𝑑𝑟𝑖́𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑜́𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑜 𝑦 𝑙𝑎 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑢𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑒?

- 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑦 -

[thetudorslovers]

"America’s tiny reign of terror, Salem represents one of the rare moments in our enlightened past when the candles are knocked out and everyone seems to be groping about in the dark, the place where all good stories begin. At a time of shuddering devastation, they all stepped in as the dragon-slayers. Witchcraft tied up loose ends, accounting for the arbitrary, the eerie, and the unneighborly.

The sky over New England was crow black, pitch-black, Bible black, so black it could be difficult at night to keep to the path, so black that a line of trees might freely migrate to another location or that you might find yourself pursued after nightfall by a rabid black hog, leaving you to crawl home, bloody and disoriented, on all fours.

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers. Although, the witch hunt stands as a cobwebbed, crowd-sourced cautionary tale, a reminder that—as a minister at odds with the crisis noted—extreme right can blunder into extreme wrong." - Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692

[thelastemzy]

I know this is probably stone age old, but I just noticed something as I was re-watching TVD...

In the last episode of s2, Bonnie and Stefan were trying to contact the Salem witches to reach a cure for Damon's werewolf bite. Emily was being bitter and had Stefan believe that she wouldn't help because he was asking for Damon, because Damon was "a monster" (whatever that means to the witches who refuse to help often for selfish reasons). The witches wouldn't tell them anything, but Bonnie did hear them say "Klaus."

Now, you wanna know what I think? No? Well, sucks to be you, cuz Imma say it anyways.

As far as I can recall, Emily had no personal reason to hate Damon. In fact, she had reasons to like him, because he tried to keep her safe (as a ticket for "Katherine's escape from the tomb", but... Eh), so the reason why she didn't wanna help was, in fact, Niklaus. Neither she nor the other witches wanted him to appear sacred or rare to vampires, because imagine vampires knowing they no longer had to fear wolf bites? That would disrupt the real balance of nature. Also, at the time Nik wasn't doing any real self development to be a good person, so the last they knew of him was all the witches he wronged, abused and daggered, so they also had a selfish reason.

But they would have Damon, Stefan, every character in TVD and us think that no one liked Damon, because he's a real monster with no redeeming qualities, even tho we've seen what witches can do.

Cheers.

[midnightripping]

In honor of “Day of the Dead”…

Happy Halloween!

[festiveadventurer]

Winter in Salem 😍

[behindthescreamz]

continuity photos / makeup test for bette midler on the set of “hocus pocus” (1993)

[the-angel-of-the-crows]

You can just tell when an author has a favorite afflicted girl from the Salem Witch Trials. For example, Arthur Miller liked Abigail Williams so much that he elevated her to the leading role (and aged her up so she could have an affair with his fave accused, who himself was aged significantly down). Stephanie Hemphill liked Mercy Lewis so much she gave her a glowup, physically and morally. Katherine Howe's favorite was Ann Putnam Jr. Etc.

[meanvictoriann]

Mean Victorian.

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[velvetdarkarts]

Happy Samhain, Witches 😘

[noctemlibrary]

From Witchcraft in Salem Village by John Fiske, 1904

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[thetudorslovers]

On February 25, Parris and his wife left Salem under teeming rain. In their absence a close neighbor paid a call. The Parrises presumably asked Mary Sibley to look in on Abigail and Betty, roaring now for over a month. The mother of five, Mary Sibley was six months pregnant. Among the wealthier couples in the community, she and her cooper husband were pillars of the church; Samuel Sibley stepped in when an estate needed to be settled or a bond guaranteed. His wife felt comfortable in the Parris household.

Less comfortable with the pace at which her minister resolved the mystery there, she arranged a furtive experiment. The question was no longer what afflicted the children but who; Sibley determined to catch a witch. At her instruction, John, the Parrises’ Indian slave, mixed the girls’ urine into a rye-flour cake, baked amid the embers on the hearth. Sibley then fed the concoction to the family dog. There was some fogginess about how thecountermagic worked—by drawing the witch to the animal, by transferring the spell to it, or by scalding the witch—but the old English recipe could be trusted to reveal the guilty party." - Stacy Schiff, The witches

[wiccafairy]

[the-technicolor-yawn]

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