So lads and lasses and whatever else…
I was born in the month of November, which today leads me to wonder - what kinds of weird and wonderful lores and myths and whatnots are associated with this marvelous month?
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Witchy Ways: thedawnrenewed: witchyways: Cure Boredom with Sigils: it’s Cheaper...
This whole website is actually really neat :U Like cracked for magic nerds.
Which uh, is actually a really small demographic of my followers, so uh… yep.
AHHH, I know. I seriously had like 12 tabs…
I think this site and I shall get along splendidly.
You Are Essentially What You Wear
In the case of clothing, a recent study by researchers from Northwestern University demonstrated that wearing a white coat triggered more diligent attention on a task if the participants were told that it was a doctor’s coat than if they were told that the same coat was a painter’s coat. Apparently, we are more likely to associate thoughts of a doctor as signifying detailed mental focus than the thoughts related to an artistic painter. The important point was that there was no effect unless the participants wore the coat. Simply seeing the doctor’s coat was not enough to induce a shift in performance on the attention task. Embodied cognition is certainly an advance in explanation over simple associative priming, but why does wearing the clothing have such an important influence on our thoughts?
I can see this being useful in chaos magic like whoa nelly. Convince yourself that a coat used to belong to some great wizard or that a pendant used to belong to a priestess…
Ritual to invoke the Doctor
I wanna do this so bad.
The birth of a god and subsequent shenanigans
Or, why I believe EVERY god was created by humanity and not the other way around or any other way at all, really.
How to cast a spell the easy way
Nick Dutch does a pretty nice job of explaining the basics of spellcasting. Compare with my article The Universal Ritual.
I wanna smack all the kids on tumblr that take ouija lightly
actually the occult in general
And on the other end of the spectrum, the people who are like “OMG NEVAR USE THE OUIJA BOARD IT’S A PORTAL TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!”
So I be reading about incubi and succubi… (tw: rape, obvs)
And what I can glean from between piles of information from tabletop RPGs and trashy romance novels is that they’re shape-shifting sexual-predator demony-things. Some sources claim that they’re always horrible, while others claim that they can be pleasant. I suppose it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that different ones could have different personalities. It would seem that some might be some truly sick bastards, because if this story is true one assumed the form (more or less) of a woman’s husband and caused a miscarriage. Oy.
Along the way, I found this website that offers to tell you how to summon and banish them… if you pay up. Man, I’ve seen some shady fixes for one’s FOREVER ALONE status, but this takes the cake.
Beyond The Wand: TO ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO STILL USE THE TERM "SPIRIT ANIMAL" BECAUSE "WHAT ELSE CAN I USE TO DENOTE MY FEELZ ABOUT HOW...
so next i suppose i shouldn’t be on a welsh-based path because i’m not welsh.
Is the Welsh pantheon an open pantheon? Do the Welsh gods happily interact with you? Then there’s no problem.
There’s a bit of a difference between trying to interact with a deity or spirit and ganking another language, especially when the word doesn’t even mean what the ganker is using it for. It’s kind of like calling a cakes-and-ale ceremony a Eucharist or referring to all psychopomps as Valkyries or shinigami.
(Source: lightspeedsound)
