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Hahaha… in my State. I’ve driven on this highway.
(Source: e-m-p-t-y-s-e-t, via hermeticlibrary)
Beyond The Wand: Of Witches, Magic, And Fairytales
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A couple of days ago, I dug out my copy of The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimmand started to read it, and I’ve noticed some interesting things about witches and magic in them.
Fairytale witches are pretty much Always Chaotic Evil, but what’s interesting is that the protagonists are…
I think the implication in Cinderella is that the bird is the soul of her mother, because the tree grows out of her grave, right? And then that motif is repeated in The Juniper Tree.
There are instances of the “good” witch, such as the old woman in The Six Swans. But they’re not usually called witches, and there’s even some confusion as to whether these characters should be understood as humans or otherworldly beings, or what. Early editions of Grimm’s Tales would term a lot of characters like this with the French word fée (fairy.) But Germans criticized their use of French words/ideas, and so in later editions, fée was typically replaced with “wise woman”/weise frau (or in one case, “enchantress”/zauberin.) I don’t know about every instance, but I’d love to compare versions and learn more about what the original terminology might have been…
Palo Mayombe: Practical Work: Alcohado
Nsala Malongo,
So, headaches suck. They suck a lot. In Palo Mayombe we have many natural tools for addressing this sort of ailment, and we should refer to those natural tools First if we’re to build up the kind of trust and understanding necessary for complicated herbal-magical cures to…
Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
DIE CIS SCUM!
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
SIGN THIS NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Why does this make me so happy? It’s like those solar smiley faced bobbing head dolls at Target.
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