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Witchy PSA: Cascarilla and "Egg Cleansing"

The other day I saw a post on my dashboard about the uses of eggs in magic. The post, seemingly meant for a general audience contained two appropriative elements: the mention of cascarilla and and instructions for limpia con huevo

First, cascarilla — at least in terms of witchcraft, religion, and spirituality — is not egg shell powder. Cascarilla is the Spanish name of a sacred ritual powder originally of West African origins that found its way into Afro-Diasporic and LatAm practices via the slave trade, most notably Santería. It became known as "cascarilla" because due to a lack of access to their native plants, enslaved West Africans in what is now Cuba had to use the cascarilla plant as a replacement. Yes, some modern cascarilla powders are made from egg shells. However, to say that cascarilla = egg shell powder is similar to claiming that smudging = smoke cleansing

Egg Cleansing (or alternatively Egg Testing) was culturally appropriated from Latines. Before anyone tries arguing: Yes "Egg Cleansings" do exist in other cultures. However, the "rub an egg on yourself, crack it into a glass of water, and 'read' it method that has become the "default" over the past several years is specifically Latine. We Latines have stated countless times that our method of Egg Cleansing — limpia con huevo — is closed. Limpia con huevo is more than just rubbing an egg on yourself, cracking it into a glass of water and reading it. It is often part of a larger ritual called "limpia" involving prayers, other forms of cleansing, and even the consumption of herbal remedies and other drugs. My own mother, who is from Mexico, has memories of seeing some limpias take days to complete. Limpia con huevo has only become the "default" method of Egg Cleansing because gringos (ie non-Latine white USAmericans) appropriated it from us

tl;dr: Cascarilla is a sacred closed West African / Afro-Diasporic ritual powder, not a fancier name for eggshell powder. The "default" method of Egg Cleansing is cultural appropriation of limpia con huevo, which is for Latines only

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I know the holidays are tight for everyone but to keep our vehicle we're being asked to make a good faith payment of $75. If anyone can donate even a dollar it would be a great help as I'm currently -30 in my bank account. I can't thank you enough.

$callmesparrow

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If anyone can spare it, we're short on rent again because of illness keeping us from going to work. We need at least $100 for the eviction process to not be an issue, $200 to cover what we're short. Even a dollar helps.

$callmesparrow

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do you ever form close relationships with people in your dreams and then feel a little sad when you wake up

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If anyone can spare even just a dollar or something, my family needs to eat this week and we just used our entire paycheck for rent. We have a 2yo, we need food. $callmesparrow or $beatlemii. PP is .me/wtchswypnt

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Worst fucking day ever

Woke up at 4:30 am just to find that we were robbed as my boyfriend was leaving for work and all of my boyfriend's tools have been stolen.

This is his job, our main source of income . How we feed our kid. There was about $3000 worth of tools in that bag that we need to replace by tomorrow so that he can at least go to work.he had to call in today bc of this. We had our electricity turned off on us at the beginning of the month. Bills are starting to pile. negative balance in my account. We're already hurting for money and this is just the icing on the cake. We're trying to remain positive for our child but shit shit shit this is the worst

I just got off the phone with insurance and they're treating it like it's our fault. Someone broke into our garage and yet it still our fault 🫠😵😵😵

Hopefully when we submit what was stolen to the police our insurance will change their tune a bit But police are saying that no one can come out to investigate for another 4 hours... So yeah they're about as useful as a spoon is to cut a steak at the moment

Ugh I just don't know what to do 😥

Please if anyone would like a paid reading or would like to purchase something from my shop, please order 🙏🙏 I'm on hands and knees at this point

If I can at least make enough to buy him a drill to get him through the week, that will be so helpful

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Idk what new witch needs to hear this but, practicing and doing spells is one of the ways you learn.

Just like how you can read up on how to do wood working, and learn all the tools and techniques, at a certain point, you need to make your hands learn to actually do the things required to apply those tools and succeed at those techniques. It's the same with spells.

Learning the theory and foundations is great, but don't let people scare you away from learning to *do* the spells too, not just the theory.

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This meme is a MURDER ATTEMPT.

I am absolutely fucking serious. The original meme, without the big red denial, is someone's attempt to fucking kill people.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE of pennyroyal oil. Even Mother Earth News says there's no reason to use pennyroyal essential oil for ANYTHING, even topically or as a fragrance, for fuckssake! That should give you some idea about how dangerous it is!

Pennyroyal tea, plant matter in hot water, is a traditional abortifacient. It is *incredibly* dangerous, induces abortion by bringing the body close to organ failure (and frequently pushing the system right over the edge, because dosage is impossible to meter), but I would drink a gallon of it before I took a half-teaspoon of pennyroyal essential oil.

Two teaspoons, taken across 48 hours, has successfully killed someone.

Three teaspoons taken as a single dosage killed the consumer within THREE HOURS.

There is NO SAFE DOSAGE! FOR PENNYROYAL OIL INTERNALLY! NONE!

The person who made this meme is PURPOSEFULLY, ACTIVELY, trying to get desperate people killed!

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Does anyone have extra cash to spare so we can recharge our AC? It's looking like it's gonna cost us about $80 total. I don't want my 18mo to fry in the 100+ Texas heat, and I'm still three weeks from my first paycheck.

0/80

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I'm saying this from a place of genuine care: if you are seeing ghosts or shadows or having nightmares... and sageing, eggshells, Crystal's, and psychics arent cutting it..

Please.. please... check for things like gas leaks, water damage, vermin. I'm not saying your house isnt haunted, I'm just saying that carbon monoxide poisoning looks a LOT like being haunted.

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I hate to keep asking but groceries and gas completely wiped us out. Any donation at all helps.

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I hate to keep asking but groceries and gas completely wiped us out. Any donation at all helps.

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I hate to keep asking but groceries and gas completely wiped us out. Any donation at all helps.

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Help Out a Pair of Queer Parents

Our situation is once again underwater. We're going to be unable to pay for groceries thanks to my spouse missing work a few times due to sickness. If anyone can help our p@yp@l is /wtchswypnt and our ca$h@pp is $callmesparrow $BeatleMii

[sageandstudies]

Help Out a Pair of Queer Parents

Our situation is once again underwater. We're going to be unable to pay for groceries thanks to my spouse missing work a few times due to sickness. If anyone can help our p@yp@l is /wtchswypnt and our ca$h@pp is $callmesparrow $BeatleMii

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I need to come up with 20 bucks by 10pm to pay for our dinner box this week so if anyone wants a tarot reading let me know!

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My fellow witchposters I am begging you to stop dogpiling on beginners.

When you see a problematic post which has already been reblogged by someone providing education and resources, please stop and ask yourself what good you are doing by reblogging it in order to restate that exact same information in your own words.

I genuinely believe that one of the reasons we see so little original content in witchblr is that people know if they cross an invisible line they might not understand, they're going to get jumped on by bigger blogs who yell at them over and over, parroting the same takes.

If you're sitting in front of a post where a blogger you agree with already provided helpful corrections, I am asking you to consider whether or not your own contributions are useful, helpful, or good.

At a certain point, it's hard to see these contributions as anything other than virtue signaling. And a beginner's mistake should not be a vehicle for you to display your own moral virtue.

If you see a post that has already had corrections linked to it, please let the beginner off the hook. You can always reblog without commentary, or make your own post sharing your feelings without pointing a finger.

And if the original post was problematic because of cultural misappropriation, but someone from that culture already came in and provided corrections, and your only connection to that culture is reading about it on Tumblr, I am begging you to just keep your mouth shut.