#Joanna Yeates

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Crimes That Shook Britain (West Country)

Murder of Joanne Yeates Landscape architect Joanna Yeates, 25, disappeared on 17 December 2010, following a night out with colleagues.  The last CCTV footage of Joanna showed her in a Tesco Express at around 8:40pm. 

Following a huge manhunt, Joanna’s frozen body was eventually discovered on a snowy roadside verge that Christmas morning. The murder investigation was one of the larges ever undertaken in the Bristol area, dominating the news. 

On 20 January her Dutch neighbour Vincent Tabak, 32, was arrestedfor murder. He was obsessed with violent sex and pornography.  In October 2011, after being found guilty of strangling Joanna, Vincent Tabak was jailed for live, to serve a minimum of 20 years. 

The Wests Married couple Fred and Rose West tortured, raped, and brutally murdered scores of young women unlucky enough to end up at their Gloucester house. 

The victims were dismembered, and many buried in the family home. The Wests’ decades of depravity were only uncovered in February 1993, following a tip-off. 

Fred West hanged himself in his cell on New Years Day 1995 while awaiting trial for 12 murders. That November, Rose West was convicted of 10 murders and given a whole-life tariff. 

Carnkie Killings  The killings shocked the Cornish hamlet of Carnkie in 2000. Lee Ford, 33, had told friends his wife Lesley, 36, had left him. Now she and her children - Sarah-Jane, 17, Ann-Marie, 16, Steven, 14, and Craig, 13 - had been found in the shed, two in a field six miles away. 

All had been garotted with a rope.  Ford was arrested and pleaded guilty to murder. He gave no motive but the court heard he’d had a sexual relationship with Sarah-Jane. Ford was jailed for life. 

Murder of Becky Watts In February 2015, schoolgirl Becky Watts, 16, vanished from the Bristol home where she lived with her dad and step-mum. 

After a huge police search, her stepbrother Nathan Matthews and his girlfriend Shauna Hoare were arrested for murder - to the horror of Becky’s family.  During the trial, Nathan claimed he’d killed Becky by accident, trying to scare her. But the court heard Becky was suffocated and stabbed in an alleged sexually motivated kidnap plot. 

The couple put Becky’s body in their car boot, driving home hours later. They used a power saw to cut up her body, bagged it and arranged to store it in a shed.  Matthews, 28, was convicted of Becky’s murder and sentenced to life, with a minimum term of 33 years. Hoare, 21, got 17 years after being convicted of manslaughter. 

Christopher Halliwell When Sian O’Callaghan, 22, went missing after a night out in Swindon, in March 2011, police soon suspected taxi driver Christopher Halliwell. 

His car was caught in CCTV close to where she was last seen. After his arrest, Halliwell led police to Sian’s semi-naked body dumped on a country road. She’d been stabbed to death. 

He then confessed to killing Becky Godden-Edwards, 20, who’d disappeared in January 2003, and led them to her shallow grave nearby.  At Bristol Crown Court, Halliwell pleaded guilty to murdering Sian. And, after a separate trial, he was convicted of murdering Becky and handed a whole-life term. 

Eunice Spry Known as Britain’s most evil mother, for over 19 years Eunice Spry abused three foster children, viciously beating, starving them and making them live in a barn.

As a toddler, Spry’s adopted daughter was made to eat cat food, and even her own vomit, at their Tewkesbury home.  After Spry moved the family to an isolated farmhouse, a 10-year-old was tied by his feet to Spry’s van and dragged at speed across a field. 

She forced sticks down the children’s throats and scrubbed them with sandpaper.  When one found the courage to speak out, Spry was arrested and found guilty of 26 charges, including unlawful wounding and assault occasioning ABH.

Initially jailed for 14 years, reduced to 12, Spry was freed after serving half her sentence. 

[morbidology]

The unjust scrutiny of individuals based on their appearance can be deeply disheartening, as evidenced by the case of Christopher Jefferies in December 2010. The murder of 25-year-old Joanna Yeates led to Jefferies, her landlord and a retired English teacher, being unfairly targeted for questioning. The media, quick to sensationalize, zeroed in on Jefferies' perceived "strange" appearance, prematurely labeling him as the prime suspect solely due to his looks.

Various newspapers exacerbated the situation by publishing slanderous and mocking articles about Jefferies. One publication went so far as to insinuate his sexual orientation, falsely linking it to his disinterest in sports, while another criticized his choice of attire, describing his scarf as "cheesy" and branding him a "peeping Tom." These reports were not only baseless but amounted to complete slander.

Enduring months of being unjustly portrayed as a creepy murderer, Jefferies' innocence was eventually confirmed when Yeates' neighbor, Vincent Tabak, confessed to the crime.

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Welcome!🌿

MINORS DNI

Welcome to Marimo's Corner—your corner for chaotic, queer, mindful magic and paganism. This blog is meant as sort of a public grimoire of our path as well as a reference for other witches and pagans who wish to view it. We are by no means the authority on any subject nor perfect, but we want to contribute our small voice to the pot and hope it can help someone out. We want to foster community and find other like-minded souls to befriend! 🌿✨

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This blog will widely cover what it is we study on our shared path. We study the following, but branch out as well.

Mythos: Celtic, Hellenic

Deities: Cernunnos, Pan, Danu, Dionysus, the Dagda, Apollo, among others.

Topics: Druidry, Celtic Magic, Hellenic Magic, Ancestral Magic, Green Magic, Kitchen & Home Magic, Knot Magic, Osteomancy, Tasseomancy, Bardism, Queer Inclusion in Magic, Animism, Ecclectic/Chaos Magic, Wheel of the Year, Convergence of Science & Magic, among others.

This blog will also be a sort of journal for us, so please do not expect perfection. We are excited to share with you!

About Us

We are a diagnosed DID system, so you'll see posts from a few of us! We'll do our best to remember to tag who writes what. Here are our primary spiritual alters.

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We all have slightly different interests, and are excited to share with you. We hope to see you again soon! Feel free to follow along on our journey. Thank you!

References

In an effort to make this blog a better resource, we will do our best to remember to log resources we’ve read here for your own research. Most will be directly witchy in nature, but others are simply lifestyle.

Irish Fairytales & Folklore by Y.B. Yeats (1888)

The Spirit of the Celtic Gods & Goddesses by Carl McColman & Kathryn Hines (2005)

The Book of Celtic Myths by Jennifer Emick (2017)

Celtic Mysticism by Tracie Long (2023)

The Book of Hedge Druidry by Joanna Van Der Hoeven (2019)

Queering your Craft by Cassandra Snow (2020)

Feral Self Care by Mandi Em (2023)

Etc. (Others I’ve sold, given, or borrowed)

[naivesilver]

Parenting the Court + Quotes

Stand by Me, dir. Rob Reiner // I've Been Waiting For You, Amanda Seyfried // Your Faithful Servant, S. Bear Bergman // A Prayer for my Daughter, W. B. Yeats // Lullaby, John Fuller // A Mother To Her Waking Infant, Joanna Baillie // That's My Job, Conway Twitty

(Court Compilation)

[sophiechoir]

Books Read in 2022

In 2021, I aimed to finish 12 books and finished only 10. In 2022, I once again aimed to finish 12 books - and this year, I surpassed my goal and finished a full 30! :)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Rilke's Book of Hours translated by Anita Barrow and Joanna Macy

The Fantastic Four by John Byrne - Vol. 2 Omnibus

Siuil, a Run - The Girl from the Other Side - Vol. 1 by Nagabe

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell

A Collection of Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

War is a Racket by Brigadier General Smedley D. Butley

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To See a World in a Grain of Sand (a present)

6 assorted vintage comic books (WW, Conan, Vault of Evil, House of Mystery)

The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona

Love Me, Love Me Not #1 by Io Sakisaka

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles #1 by Naru Narumi

Face by Rosario Villajos

Seeing the Getty Center

Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles #2 by Naru Narumi

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsburg

Rainbook by Claire Wendling

The Cathedral is Dying by Auguste Rodin

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Vol. 1) by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Vol. 2) by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Rain Like Hammers #4 by Brandon Graham & The Sandman Convergence #39 by Neil Gaiman and John Watkiss

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Epic of Gilgamesh

To be fair, some of the comic books that I bundled together were very slim, so I'm probably inflating my final count... but I remember and enjoyed every one of them, so they count to me >:)

Looking back, there are so many books here associated with distinct memories. I remember reading Howl on the plane from LA. I remember exactly where I sat at the kitchen counter reading Rodin's Facebook-style rant about cathedrals (and thoroughly enjoying it, it felt like sitting in his studio!). I dragged my boyfriend to the local ramen place after reading Ms. Koizumi. I still get angry about the translator's note at the end of the Rilke book that I picked up in Beloit lol (okay those translators LITERALLY deleted multiple lines from a poem that they translated because THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE CONCEPT THAT RILKE HAD ADDED THERE. I understand translation can require some creative interpretation but they COMPLETELY ALTERED the poem to better suit their taste, deliberately denying Rilke's intent, and called it translation. UGHHH)

I want to read a lot more Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse was a vision! She's a genius and has stolen my heart.

I also want to return to Proust; finally check out Eliot, Shelley, Byron, Milton, etc beyond Tumblr snippets; conquer The Ambassadors; continue to pursue Dostoevsky, Yeats, LeGuin - I've got a taste and I want more!

Last year I was afraid of taking on too much. Now I'm afraid to take on too little :) I suppose I'll still aim for at least 12 books finished in 2023, but with the intent of matching/surpassing 30.

Right now I'm reading Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson. Just finished crying over Herakles. It wasn't the tragedy but Theseus' love that made me break.

I can't wait for what 2023 will bring! Happy New Year, everyone! <3

[innervoiceartblog]

" The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

~ W.B. Yeats

Photo by Joanna Pollaris (2011)

[piovascosimo]

@ifidanzati tagged me on the albums i've been listening to a lot i've not really been listening to much music lately, but i am really into the waeve's album. kali is also great, happy to have more things from her. i am still obsessed with weyes blood's god turn me into a flower. over the last couple of years i took a much needed break from the beatles, and now i can appreciate and love them again, mlir is always there for me, and i was just thinking about joanna and have one on me, which is one of my favourite albums, so i was overjoyed when i saw her playing new music yesterday. tagging @yeats-infection @faceirices @hamtyler @dumbsurfer @holdoncallfailed if you feel like doing it

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slipping through my fingers

William Butler Yeats, A Prayer For My Daughter

Berthe Morisot, The Arist’s Daughter, Julie, With Her Nanny (c. 1884)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones

Daði & Gagnamagnið, Think About Things

Joanna Baillie, A Mother To Her Waking Infant

Berthe Morisot, Reading (La Lecture) (1888)

Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

John Fuller, Lullaby

[waterbodiez]

inktober 27 + 28

[cruelsister-moved]

tender poetry moodboard but it's about bread being ugly and shit

the legend of finn mccool // penis bread // yellow magic orchestra - pure jam // joanna newsom - only skin // ezekiel 4:15 // as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty, dir. jonas mekas (2000) // church and state - w.b yeats

[morbidology]

Nobody likes to be unfairly judged on their appearance and there is something truly disheartening about a witch hunt based on the appearance of somebody. In December 2010, 25-year-old Joanna Yeates was strangled to death. Her landlord, Christopher Jefferies, who was a retired English teacher, was called in for questioning. The media immediately zoned in on his “strange” appearance, indicating that this alone was evidence that he was the one who killed her.

A number of newspapers published slandering and mocking articles, with one implying that he was gay because he disliked sports and one berating him for wearing a “cheesy” scarf and calling him a “peeping Tom.” Everything spread in these newspapers was unfounded and complete slander. After months of being treated like a creep and murderer, Yeates’ neighbour, Vincent Tabak, confessed to the murder.

[randomwordbyruth]

Who is Christopher Jeffries?

Who is Christopher Jeffries?

Most people actively try to bury their differences and become like everyone else for fear of ridicule. They want to belong. They want to ‘fit in’. They don’t like to be singled out, have their differences scrutinized, put on microscope slides or in Petri dishes and poked by society. I on the other hand, rejoice in it. I don’t want to belong if it means having to wrestle your individuality into a…

[siddysthings]

Their Daughter Went for Drinks With Her Friends Then Her Body Froze in the Snow on a Christmas Morning | by Lioness Rue | Aug, 2022 | Medium

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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

~ W.B. Yeats

Photo by Joanna Pollaris (2011)

[quoteoftheweekblog]

QUOTATIONS - SALLY ROONEY’S ’CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS’ (FIRST PUBLISHED 2017)

First sentence:

'Bobbi and I first met Melissa at a poetry night in town, where we were performing together.' (Rooney, 2022, p.3).

On 'normal people':

'Things matter to me more than they do to normal people ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.30).

' ... a genius hidden among normal people.' (Rooney, 2022, p.34).

' ... he was just another normal person ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.175).

On music:

'I put "Astral Weeks" on the stereo in the living room and slumped right onto the floor to listen.' (Rooney, 2022, p.30).

'That James Blake song "Retrograde" was playing outside in the kitchen.' (Rooney, 2022, p.57).

' ... listening to Bobbi singing a Francoise Hardy song in the next room.' (Rooney, 2022, p.101).

'Then she put on the Animal Collective CD and turned the music up really loud.' (Rooney, 2022, p.107).

'I put a Joni Mitchell album in the CD player and looked out the window ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.111).

'Nick had sent me an email that day containing a link to a Joanna Newson song. I sent back a link to the Billie Holiday recording of "I'm a Fool to Want You", but he didn't reply.' (Rooney, 2022, p.207).

'In the conservatory, the stereo was playing a Sam Cooke song ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.280).

On studying:

'I liked to sit in the library to write essays, allowing my sense of time and personal identity to dissolve as the light dimmed outside the windows. I would open fifteen tabs on my web browser while producing phrases like "epistemic rearticulation” and “operant discursive pratices”. I mostly forgot to eat on days like this and emerged in the evening with a fine, shrill headache.' (Rooney, 2022, p.34).

'I stayed at home for the next few days, lying around and reading. I had a lot of academic reading I could have been doing in advance of the college term, but instead what I started reading was the gospels. For some reason my mother had left a small leather-bound copy of the New Testament on the bookshelf in my room, sandwiched between "Emma" and an anthology of early American writing ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.173).

On writing:

'Then I read his email again several times. I was relieved he had put the whole thing in lower case like he always did. It would have been dramatic to introduce capitalisation at such a moment of tension.' (Rooney, 2022, p.61).

'I loved when he was available to me like this, when our relationship was like a Word document which we were writing and editing together ... ' (Rooney, 2022, p.185).

On Philip:

'I mentioned to Philip that I had kissed someone I shouldn't have kissed, but he didn't know what I was talking about.' (Rooney, 2022, p.65).

'Wow, Philip said.' (Rooney, 2022, p.189).

'You're joking, Philip said. You're not really having some kind of affair with him, are you?' (Rooney, 2022, p.211).

On life:

'People can be in love and have affairs.' (Rooney, 2022, p.147).

'Everyone's always going through something, aren't they? That's life, basically. It's just more and more things to go through.' (Rooney, 2022, p.256).

On W.B. Yeats:

'If there's one thing you can say for fascism, it had some good poets.' (Rooney, 2022, p.208).

'No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy.' (Rooney, 2022, p.203).

REFERENCE

Rooney, S. (2022 [2017] ) 'Conversations with friends'. London: Faber and Faber.

[alwaysalreadyangry]

@yeats-infection posting the original (which i love) reminded me of this glorious cover of tugboat by joanna gruesome, which i also love v dearly