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hello! just wondering if you had any tips on deciding on a direction to take with making spirit houses? or any resources you use/reasoning for your methods? feel free to share as little or as much as you want :)

Much of what I know about the crafting of Spirit Vessels has come from intense gnosis, but I also learned some of the basics when I was much younger, and read on the subject some later in my life too. As far as the broad strokes of their creation go, I can share a bit on the process here.

In my experience, the most efficacious and reliable vessels for such a purpose tend to fall into five basic camps:

Firstly, there are consecrated biological items—such as a skull or a mummified heart, kept within a hallowed container.

There are also physical vessels (such as a sealable bottle or pot,) which are filled with an array of specialized materials while undergoing a carefully orchestrated ritual of hallowing, before being physically sealed.

Another option that has proven useful is the construction of a Spirit Mobile (an arrangement of bones, stones, roots, and/or other items that are ritually strung together using charmed knots, which can be hung and worked with in the personal temple.)

I have also consecrated beloved items, such as dolls or figurines sent by clients, to serve as Spirit Vessels with very good results.

Finally, I have found that if the spirit which is being housed is a Servitor, then hallowed stones, buttons, or other similar tokens, can make very good Spirit Vessels (so long as the Servitor in question isn't too complex in its directives.)

Whatever the case may be, much of the work has to do with adorning/empowering an item in such a way as to make it alluring to the spirit in question. This applies to Spirit Traps as well, though they are differently programmed, in order to constrain the entity upon its entrance into the vessel.

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"my special medicine plant got picked and used for actual medicine instead of just my abstract spritual admiration waaahhh!!! 😭" lmao you sound like an entitled child

You are going to get a very nasty hangnail soon, you odious pissant.

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WAIT THE CHURCH PAID FOR "A HAUNTING"? I USED TO BITCH SO MUCH ABOUT THAT SHOW BEING SATANIC PANIC PROPAGANDA (and then kept watching it because it was the spookiest thing I had access to at the time).

YES LITERALLY!!!!

In the early seasons of the show, when it was just exclusively on Discovery, you could see a little blurb in the credits that indicated some funding for the show had come from the Catholic Church. I just checked and it looks like that was removed when the show shifted over to the Travel Channel / Destination America. (It's not in the videos posted on their YouTube channel and there's no mention on their media pages. Also any mention of "A Haunting" is pretty much taken up by the forthcoming Agatha Christie film, "A Haunting in Venice," so I couldn't find any articles related to prior funding.)

Whether the Church still provides any funding for the show is unknown, but it looks like it's still in production through New Dominion Pictures and still airs in syndication on Discovery Networks channels.

And yes, it is FULL of Warrenisms and Satanic Panic propaganda. And it's because of "A Haunting" and shows like it that this misinformation became gospel to an entire generation of witches and spiritualists and paranormal seekers, and continues to be viewed as such to this day, to the point that even though we know the VERY mundane and non-satanic origins of things like Ouija boards and poppets, these things are automatically viewed as open doors for demons by most people you'd ask on the street or social media.

If you ever want a fun bingo night or drinking game, watch a few episodes and spot all the Warren Bullshit, Satanic Panic talking points, and complete ignorance of things like mental health problems and families that don't know how to communicate. If you're feeling brave, pick an episode that deals with witches, magic, or curses. Also, MST3k that shit with friends or provide color commentary, it's a riot.

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an appalachian environmental magazine i follow is calling for writing submissions from specifically indigenous people in southern appalachia and the broader southeast. the theme is indigineity, but the magazine covers ecology and climate change. there is no fee for submission. i am not indigenous, but i frequently see indigenous people sharing interesting perspectives regarding environmental science here on tumblr, so I thought i would share the link here.

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I dunno who needs to hear it, but if you're relying on binding spells and hexes to keep yourself safe, that's fine, but a can of mace is basically just extra strength war water and a restraining order is a binding spell that happens to be legally binding as well. Similarly, ash wood is traditional for both wands and baseball bats. Rub some sage on it and hex a motherfucker's kneecaps if that's what keeps you safe.

The world sucks. Do what you gotta.

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ANYWAY

gay trans nb and queer rednecks exist and we’re reclaiming the term redneck to mean what it always actually meant, a rural dwelling segment of the population often undereducated and impoverished and thus forced by our station to perform backbreaking thankless menial labor and repair our own shit and thus have sunburns on our necks all the time and we have redneck skills and redneck knowledge and are also sometimes queer people and people of color so stop calling racists who sit behind daddies money and white privelege and can’t even change their own oil rednecks when the term you’re looking for is “racist piece of shit” kthanks

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The importance of weird little dudes in Greco-Egyptian magic can not be overstated!

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Grandma always said, you are what you eat.

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XXI. The World

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Ministry of Mischief - Raccoon tumblers

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Your friendly reminder that if you've traded parts of your Self to the otherworld in exchange for power you have to let your spirits dwell within your flesh from time to time, you feel that way because you are a dehydrated toad and you need to get moist in the river of power from whence you were born, hope this helps

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You may think it cruel but when a white witch pisses me off I go through her etsy listings for native bird feathers and forward it to fish and wildlife services

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Love and light yeah but also sacred rage and darkness

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Uh oh!

You just got Akephelaos'd!

Now you will become one with he who created earth and heaven, who created night and day, who created the light and the darkness!

Tag all your friends to totally Akephalos them!

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Here’s what I have learned about “healing crystals”

Crystals have powers. Why do they have powers? I asked some weird crystal healing websites.

It is because they have energy. What kind of energy? Vibrating energy. Vibrating faster is better.

I would not like to vibrate faster. I have anxiety. I move on from this for now.

The “crystal healing” websites (there are dozens) maintain that the vibrational energy powers of crystals come from their crystalline structures, made of a repeating lattice of molecules. Things that have a specific chemical composition in a lattice structure are crystals, which have powers.

This is okay. This is a scientifically accurate understanding of what a mineral is, except for the powers.

Having established a firm foundation of scientific understanding of what “crystal” means, the crystal healing websites immediately flush that understanding down a toilet of ignorance into the septic tank of stupid.

How? Firstly, many of the most commonly recommended “healing crystals” are stones that are definitionally not crystals. Lapis lazuli, obsidian, tiger’s eye, and opal are some of the most commonly recommended crystals that have powers. The problem is that the powers come from the specific chemical composition in a crystalline structure, and lapis lazuli, obsidian, tiger’s eye and opal don’t have a specific chemical composition in a crystalline structure. But the websites say they have powers anyway.

Wikipedia says opal is amorphous and has no crystalline structure. THAT MEANS NO POWERS! What is the truth? Make up your mind!

I am troubled further still. By what, you ask? Primarily the quartz.

I look at lists of the rocks that have powers. On them is clear quartz, smoky quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, aventurine, chalcedony, jasper, agate, citrine, and carnelian. What do all these things have in common? Being quartz! The base chemical composition that is in the repeating lattice structure is quartz. They are different because of impurities. I thought the impurities meant no powers. But all these quartzes have hella powers—different powers! What is the TRUTH?

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