@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialOregano, Origanum vulgare; squinanth, Cymbopogon schoenanthus, a relative of lemongrass. Oregano and squinanth (Origanum vulgare). History, not medical advice.
thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/oregano-and-squinanth
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@subrosamagick.bsky.socialRare 'red sprites' were captured over France ⚡️
These brief electrical flashes form 50–90 km above thunderstorms and can last for only a few milliseconds, making them incredibly difficult to see and photograph.
📷: florian.riou
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@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialWhite bryony, Bryonia dioica (syn. Bryony (Bryonia dioica). History, not medical advice.
thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/bryony
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@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialPliny says that a traveler who carries mugwort will not tire on the road. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). History, not medical advice.
thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/mugwort
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@wyrdwednesday.bsky.socialThank you for a fantastic gloomy #WyrdWednesday! We enjoyed your stories, folklore, and art about the Dark Arts.
We will announce a new topic next week. Stay safe and don't upset any otherworldly beings 👁️
@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialVervain, Verbena officinalis. Verbena (Verbena officinalis). History, not medical advice.
thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/verbena
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@crystalponti.bsky.socialCatoptromancy is divination using mirrors. Ancient and later traditions describe reflective surfaces as tools for discovering hidden knowledge. Before mirrors became ordinary household objects, their ability to hold a second world made them ideal instruments of mystery. #WyrdWednesday
@folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday 'The Magic Circle: Its successful organization and leadership. An Occult Leaders Handbook for novice or professional' by Rev. Yaj Nomolos, S.P. (1987)
Not a book I own so I don't know how serious it was meant to be but I like how it makes raising demons sound so corporate.
@crystalponti.bsky.socialOsteomancy is a broad term for divination using bones. Methods vary across cultures, from casting small bones to examining their arrangement. The remains of animals could become instruments for asking questions about the living. #WyrdWednesday
@neukelte.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#WyrdWednesday #Celtic: `In the episode „Witch's Wrath and Kelpie's Curse“ Jenny from „Stories of Scotland“ relates an intriguing tale of a witch who lives in the woods. The wicked witch is particularly fond of her precious dishes but has minimal desire to […]
@neu-kelte.bsky.social#WyrdWednesday Wyrd Wednesday #Celtic: `In the episode „Witch's Wrath and Kelpie's Curse“ Jenny from „Stories of Scotland“ relates an intriguing tale of a witch who lives in the woods.
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@thethinkingpress.bsky.socialThe Antidotarium Nicolai gives a different confectio gallie muscate, of mastic, gum, and camphor with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and musk. Gallia moschata. History, not medical advice.
thethinkingpress.org/materia-medica/gallia-moschata
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@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyWhen magic goes wrong, it will get bloody.
#WyrdWednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Practitioner_of_the_Black_Arts
@david-castleton.bsky.socialAn infamous London witch was Mother Damnable, whose cottage allegedly stood on the site of Camden Town Tube Station. She's said to have poisoned one lover & baked another in an oven. On the day of her death, locals witnessed the Devil strolling into her house. #WyrdWednesday #folklore #Halloween
@juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gyWitchcraft is often a family business.
#WyrdWednesday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Of_The_Woman_Who_Could_Use_Witchcraft
@ghirlandia.bsky.socialCome, bind thyself by prompt indenture,
And thou mine arts with joy shalt see:
What no man ever saw, I’ll give to thee.
Goethe / Faust
Harry Clarke #WyrdWednesday
@crystalponti.bsky.socialThe ancient Greek Homeromanteion used numbered lines from Homer for divination. Surviving papyri preserve systems for selecting verses as answers to questions. Long before magic eight balls, people were consulting epic poetry for personal guidance. #WyrdWednesday
@forgottenbeauty.bsky.social2/2 Hecate is a goddess of in-between spaces, guardian of doorways and communicating with the dead is in her realm. As such, necromancers may call on her.
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1656... #art #fineart #WyrdWednesday #witches #folklore #Halloween #spooktober #mythology
@forgottenbeauty.bsky.social1/2 Hecate is the goddess of #witchcraft, #ghosts, necromancy, crossroads and #magic. Her symbols are twin torches and a key, and dogs are sacred to her. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3590... #WyrdWednesday #art #wallart #witches #homedecor #interiordesign #mythology #folklore
@coffinboffin.bsky.socialBOOK OF SHADOWS A guide for #witches containing beliefs, symbols, rituals, lore, incantations, spells, divination methods, sabbat rites etc. Gerald B. Gardner, father of modern Witchcraft, claimed to have inherited a fragmentary book of shadows in 1939 #WyrdWednesday
