#stone folk

[chronivore]

Stone Friend

[sleepysigil]

I’ve got a smige of time before work.

Just a doodle based on my pixel art.

[fallbabylon]

Memento Mori in the churchyard St Nicholas, Standish Gloucestershire.

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

I'm

Halfway through the last (Manerkol) scene of the game and

There is more touching happening with Manerkol than in the other two books combined 🥹

And I'm not even done yet, there's more coming, I'm getting drunk on the affection--

Holy shit 😳😳😳

[tothebestofmyabilities]

@seemoreseymoursbay day 4!! Platonic relationship day

I chose Nat and Louise for today! I just love how she looks up to Nat, Louise seems to have a lot of insecurities about her place in the world and how she expresses herself and her gender (being worried about not liking girly things or about her interests being too scary or dangerous and about those things making her bad or wrong) so the way she seems to see Nat as a positive rolemodel for non traditional femininity and aspires to be more like her is just really sweet to me. I also personally hc Louise as a lesbian and I think when she starts to crush on a girl (in this case jessica bc i love them together) she wouldn't want to talk to her family about it for fear of them trying to involve themselves so she starts going to Nat to vent about her crushes and get advice (and hold snakes probably)

[facts-i-just-made-up]

My uncle just had kidney stones. His neighbor told him to chug a few beers and it'd help him pass them, and apparently it worked like immediately. That's about all the advice I've got for ya

Appreciated. I'm not big on beer but I'm gonna be willing to try friggin' leeches and sacrificing an unblemished Murrayglossus soon.

[guerrilla-operator]

MARK LANEGAN

[bad-moodboard]

The Boa Island Janus & The Lustymore Figure. From the Irish early Christian period.

[winebastard]

[loreofthelandblog]

[fallbabylon]

Medieval wood carving and a modern stone counterpart of St. Procopius who, legend has it, plowed a field with the chained devil- Prague, Czechia

[frenchnewwaves]

Bob’s dylan’s muse/ girlfriend from 1961-1964, Suze Rotolo

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

Desperately need my femme in a tender all encompassing way. Need to make love to her so long I lose myself in her. Lose the ability to speak because I'm dedicating every ounce of my mental faculties to just. Her. Taking care of her, worshipping her, loving her. Something about being stone for me is these states of mind where all I can do is pour more and more of my being into my femme, knowing she will always be ready to accept more. I used to fear I was too much for someone, and for many I was. But having found someone who can accept my energy so enthusiastically and loudly, I find myself wanting to dedicate entire swathes of time pouring myself into her. She never needs to worry about being too greedy because I will always have more to share.

[cunning-frog]

Holed Stones in English Folk Magic

Sources at the end

Stones with naturally occurring holes in them have many uses in magic all over the world. In England they have been used for protection and luck as well as in medicine. Holed stones are known by many different names, In England they have been and are known by numerous names such as Hag stones, Witch stones, Serpents'/Snakes' eggs, Adder stones, and Lucky stones. For the sake of clarity, I will be referring to them as ‘holed stones’.

Luck and Protection

Holed stones are used as amulets for protection against Hags, witches, faeries, and other spirits, when they are used in this way they are referred to as hag or witch stones. People would hang a holed stone above the door of their home or barn, and sometimes passageways within the home. People would also keep a small holed stone in a pocket for luck and protection.

Holed stones have also been known for being lucky, being worn around the neck for luck or tossed over the shoulder after spitting through the stone's hole to grant a wish. It was also said that is a person tied a holed stone to their house keys, those who resided in the home would be prosperous.

In communities where fishing and/or sailing was common the use of holed stones for protection was common, tying them to the bows of boats or inside of smaller rowing boats for protection while at sea. Holed stones were also used to protect against drowning, Christopher Duffin (2011) writes, “The coxswain of the Ramsay lifeboat [during 1929], also a fisherman by trade, always wore a small discoidal [holed] stone around his neck, threaded with copper wire. The amulet, passed down through three generations of fishermen, was credited with preserving the life of the wearer through terrible maritime circumstances.”

Medicine

As these holed stones protected against hags, witches, faeries, and other spirits they would often be used in medicine, as magic was often thought to be the cause of illness.

One of the illnesses holed stones were used to treat is ‘hag-riding’, in the book A Dictionary of English Folklore it is defined as  “a frightening sensation of being held immobile in bed, often by a heavy weight pressing on one’s stomach or chest […] In folklore, it was thought of as a magical attack, though whether by demonic incubus, ghost, harmful fairy, or witch varied according to place and period.” (Simpson & Roud, 2003) Today hag-riding is understood to be sleep paralysis. To treat hag-riding a holed stone would be hung above the bed of the sufferer or, if the sufferer is an animal, placed in a stable.

This belief applied to both humans as well as other animals; hag stones were often used in the treatment of ill livestock. In Lancashire holed stones would be tied to the back of cows to protect them from all forms of harm, “self-holed stones, termed ‘lucky-stones,’ are still suspended over the backs of cows in order that they may be protected from every diabolical influence.” (Harland and Wilkinson 1873).

Sources:

 Thwaite, A.-S. (2020). Magic and the material culture of healing in early modern England [Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.63593

Vicky, King (2021, November 11). Hag Stones and Lucky Charms. https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/hag-stones-and-lucky-charms/

Pitt Rivers Museum, Accession Number: 1985.51.987.1 https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-239947 (c) Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Date Accessed: 21 January 2024

Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653., 2013, A commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams, Oxford Text Archive, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/A00665

Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud (2003). A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095941856

Christopher J. Duffin (2011) Herbert Toms (1874–1940), Witch Stones, and Porosphaera Beads, Folklore, 122:1, 84-101, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2011.537134

Harland, J., & Wilkinson, T. T. (1873). Lancashire Legends: Traditions, Pagents, Sports, & C. With an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract on the Lancashire Witches, & C., &c. G. Routledge. https://archive.org/details/cu31924028040057

Photo source:

File:Hag Stones (8020251781).jpg. (2023, February 2). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 04:11, January 26, 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Hag_Stones_(8020251781).jpg&oldid=729610598.

[ceteradesunt]

Deadly Blessing (1981) dir. Wes Craven

[spiralhouseshop]

We just restocked our natural hag stones and they are a big bigger than the ones had before. Get yourself a hag stone for peering at faeries or making charms, or whatever creative thing you can come up with.