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temple-of-mars · 2 days ago
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Temple Of Mars Hexerei is Now on Etsy!
♦️⭐🔷 We are Temple Of Mars Hexerei. We're powerful occultists who have decades of experience with the paranormal and witchcraft, particularly Hexerei, Norse witchcraft, and satanic witchcraft. We were born and raised in beautiful rural PA, where we're surrounded by farmland, mountains, wooded areas, barns, vibrant hex signs, and Pennsylvania Dutch folk magic. Pennsylvania is a rarely spoken about hidden gem when it comes to both magic and the paranormal.The Keystone state is rich in various lore, stories, history, witchcraft, traditions, mysteries, spirits, and creatures, making it a potent spiritual area that's brimming with magic, energy, and paranormal activity. This is where we learned to master our natural magical skills in seclusion for many years, as well as work with various spirits and entities. Much of our knowledge of Hexerei has been passed down from old grimoires, teachings, spoken words and traditions from Pennsylvania Dutch witches and hex masters from the generations before us. Today, we're keeping old traditions alive and thriving. We're an animal friendly, family owned and operated business. We provide a variety of unique, powerful, and effective metaphysical curios, talismans, and spells that you won't find anywhere else!
What is Hexerei?
Pennsylvania Dutch Hexerei is a form of old, powerful rural witchcraft that encompasses working with both light and dark magic, utilizing your own energy. Hexes (German and Pennsylvania Dutch witches) work with nature, weather, planets, sun, moon, stars, herbs, roots, stones, oils, powders, magic staffs, trees, written words, spoken words, painted symbols, hex signs, barn stars, wooden effigies, metals, hex bags, coins, and tools. Dream and astral work, a practice to be mastered known as Draamerei (Dreamcraft, or continued practice of dreaming), is important to them. Hexes frequently work with various spirits, such as elemental spirits, house spirits, and field spirits, with tree spirits often coming forward as helpful guides. Star people were occasionally mentioned in old stories and beliefs, sometimes being tied to certain hex signs featuring specific stars, colors, and patterns. Hexes have their own belief system (Hexeglaawe) and unique practices. Hexes believe in taking care of and working with nature, plants, trees, spirits, and animals, treating them with respect. Independence, strength of character, self-reliance, and free will are encouraged. This is mainly due to living in isolation on vast areas of farm land and in wild wooded areas.
In addition to Pennsylvania Dutch Hexerei, we work with old Norse witchcraft (Seidr) and satanic witchcraft. We have decades of experience with astral magic, black magic, light magic, aura magic, green magic, weather magic, and elemental magic to name a few. We have been around the paranormal our entire lives and we have experience with a variety of spirits, beings, and entities, especially elementals, demons, and extraterrestrials. We've named our shop after Mars, the beautiful red planet. Mars is highly significant to us in a number of ways. It's an unyielding planet that signifies power, strength, durability, action, manifestation, and the energy of warriors.
Here at Temple Of Mars Hexerei, we are keeping old, rare traditions and magic alive while also offering a range of other one of a kind products. Here you will find a blend of powerful products and services, so there's truly something here for everyone to enjoy. Rest assured that by choosing to do business with us and our shop, you are choosing seasoned occult practitioners with decades of experience.
♦️⭐🔷Keep in mind that some pronunciations and spellings of Pennsylvania Dutch words differ somewhat from German language. They are NOT incorrect words, terms, or spellings. The Pennsylvania Dutch were isolated from Germany for years, English had some influence on words and pronunciations, and naturally, the language had begun to change. Pennsylvania Dutch is its own dialect♦️⭐🔷
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poisonappleprintshop · 2 years ago
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I am excited to share that my original artwork ‘Witches’ Night on Hexenkopf Rock’ is featured in the third edition of Ned D. Heindel’s ‘Hexenkopf: History, Healing, & Hexeri’! You can grab a copy for yourself from The Sigal Museum. It is an honor to be included in such a wonderful book that preserves a part of Pennsylvanian history and the history of Pennsylvanian folk magic!
In 2016, I unearthed a rare copy of the first edition of this book (published under a slightly different title in 1974, seen in the third photo) at my grandmother’s house and it is what inspired me to create ‘Witches’ Night on Hexenkopf Rock.’
The rock itself is a stony summit in Williams Township, PA that has long been associated with magic, ritual, and witchcraft. ‘Hexenkopf: History, Healing, and Hexeri’ takes an in-depth view at the history and folklore surrounding Hexenkopf Rock and examines how Braucherei, or PA German folk magic, first developed in the area and contributed to the rock’s legends. Also discussed are stories of Native American magic, witch gatherings, ominous omens, and apparitions that have helped bolster Hexenkopf rock’s mysterious reputation. I highly recommend this book if you are interested in American folk magic and Pennsylvanian lore!
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dairedara · 10 months ago
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Is this the year I finally get into braucherei??
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lailoken · 4 months ago
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Hello! I recently came across your post about pennsylvania dutch folk magic being a closed practice. I obviously agree with this but I was hoping you could help me in a bit of a personal journey if you have the knowledge or know where to find it.
My family, maternally, comes from germany and immigrated to the pennsylvania dutch area. I was wondering it you knew if this blood connection to the culture would be enough to warrant looking into the culture's traditions? I spent much of my life talking to my great grandma from PA and spend as much time as possible talking to my grandma and great-aunt (her daughters) and while we discuss their culture, i believe much of our knowledge died with my great grandmother.
If you have any thoughts or advice I would love to hear them. Thank you very much 💕🌿✨
Hello there. 🌱
In all honesty, I don't feel like I'm the best authority on this. But, to me, if you have Pensylvania Dutch ancestors in living memory—especially if at least some of their traditions have been passed down to you—then it doesn't seem unreasonable to explore that some, so long as it's done steadily and respectfully. For myself, I have never felt like I was really being called to fully "embody" my Penylvania Dutch heritage, and I would never try and call myself a Braucher or anything like that, but the traditions that I did inherit are very dear to me.
If you're wanting to explore Pennsylvania Dutch traditions in a serious way, your best bet is probably seeking someone who is actually part of that tradition, and doing your best for prove yourself worthy of learning some from them. Of course, there's no guarantee that someone would be willing to share with a person from outside of their direct community.
Best of luck moving forward!
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aughtpunk · 5 months ago
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if you magically had like, a spare 1000 dollars but the stipulations on it were that it had to go somewhere frivolous and selfish (ie, not for bills and not on other people), what would you do with it?
Ooooooooo good question
Okay so before I moved to the South I used to go to the Kutztown Festival every year in Kutztown, PA. (It's where I went to college) ((Well it's where I dropped out of college)) See it's this big festival that celebrates the Pennsylvania Dutch and it always has great arts and crafts and food and stuff, right? Well I would plan my entire yearly vacation around it. I would stay at a fancy B&B in town and spend a few days traveling around to various yarn shops and used bookstore and thrift stores and then of course hit up the festival! It was a real laid back vacation but I absolutely loved going every year. It's one of the biggest things I miss from living up north.
Well with a thousand dollars I could catch a flight to Kutztown and do the whole festival and be able to totally splurge on food and crafts and have a whole awesome relaxing vacation!
Man I miss that place.
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thorraborinn · 6 months ago
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So a while back (and I mean a *while*) someone I was following posted about modern practitioners of the Germanic folk religion brought over by the Pennsylvania Dutch. I can’t remember if it was you or not, but do you know what I’m talking about anyway? I’m trying to find the modern group but I can’t remember the name they gave themselves or how they were referring to the religion itself, like what name they were calling it.
That's not quite an accurate description of it but you are probably talking about Urglaawe (which does have a relationship to PA Dutch culture going back to that period but in and of itself is a self-consciously very recent phenomenon), just based on the fact that I and others have talked about it before. If you were looking for a specific group it was probably Distelfink Sippschaft though they're not the only one.
It's possible you could also mean Braucherei, which is an initiatory folk magical practice with lineages that go back to that time period though that also has gradually but continuously changed.
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sleepdeprivedsimp234 · 1 year ago
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🔫 random loui hcs. now. /silly
OK OK DAMN PUT THE GUN DOWN-/silly
-Loui has a weird habit of hanging off edge of the couch and just staring into the soul of whoever makes eye contact with him. Those that are close to him know that it isn't a stare of malicious intent, and think it's adorable. Those that ain't close to him, fear that they are going to get killed in their sleep.
-Loui can make some DAMN good food okay!? He's really good at cooking, and is one of the main cooks of the Statehouse. He mainly cooks southern and Cajun food, but he's not opposed to Spanish food or other cuisine (like Italian, German, Asian, ect...). Hes very open to trying new stuff.
-he carries around this notebook and keeps recipes and notes in it (tho a few other states think that it is full of spells and curses):
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-Loui mainly speaks French, but he learned Spanish from Florida, Vietnamese from Sippi and Texas, Dutch from NY, and Gaelic from Mass. He also used what he knew about Dutch and whatever he picked up from PA to teach himself German.
-Texas took Loui to meet his horses, and Loui both loved it and was terrified. Eventually tho, Texas taught Loui how to trick-ride and was very patient and kind when Loui was scared to try something. Now they both give Kentucky, Florida, Sippi, and Mass heart attacks :3
-Loui can distort his voice and make it glitch, along with himself. He often uses this when threatening people and trying to scare them. Sometimes tho, he does it unintentionally and that can be annoying.
-he bites as a form of affection. He can also bite as a defence, but it is usually affectionate. He'll just sneak up on somebody he loves and bite their shoulder, arm, or neck (not in a sexual way-). But wave your finger in front of his face teasingly and youre gonna have to hope that you don't lose it.
-so his hair is naturally curly, but sometimes he puts it into braids or dreads and will put beads (usually Mardi Gras themed to match his necklace), flowers, or dainty little gold/silver pieces in it.
-he tattoos himself and draws on himself alot. Sometimes, Florida, Sippi, Texas, Mass, York and Georgia will let him draw on them since they trust him and he's good at it.
-Loui is ✨B E N D Y✨. Just at any second, he could drop into a split or backbend. He hides in cupboards if York isnt already occupying them.
-This mf may be lanky af, but he is REALLY strong. Just ask Texas and Alaska. They'll begrudgingly tell you all about it.
-because he mostly uses his hands for magic, hands very from either being too numb, or too sensitive. Sometimes he can barely feel them and has to check that they're still there (he knows they are, but still-). Other times, they are way too sensitive to pain and touch. If he burns his hand on something, he will be cradling his hand and possibly crying for a bit, and if Florida decides to be a little sh*t and swipe a finger down his palm, he will be blushing and trying to not laugh cuz it tickles him a little bit.
-I imagine Loui's singing voice to sound like a mixture of Brendon Urie (Panic! At The Disco's lead singer), Tom Rosenthal, and XXXTentacion. Idk bro. You ask for random I give you random.
-ive said it before and I'll say it again. DON'T give this man a gun. Even Florida won't.
-He is somehow a bit afraid of fire and is a pyromaniac. He sees fire and is like-"Eh no touch....But touch- but hot and dangerous- But touch and play-"
-he gets headaches pretty often from the spirits
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hesperie-s · 2 months ago
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If you're looking for a particularly obscure branch of religious folk healing, there's Braucherei (it's also known as powwow, but I'm not a fan of that term). It's pretty much magic, but make it pre-Reformation German translated to early American settler. You can cast spells using Scripture, and rituals need to be performed on specific holy days, etc. Hex signs might be involved, but probably not (could still work for a fantasy setting, though).
Since the PA Dutch who brought this over were mostly Protestants or Anabaptists, there really wasn't a central authority telling them not to do this (though I'm going to assume that the Church frowned upon it when they still had an influence). And there was at least one pretty infamous murder case where the victim was a Braucher.
I'd recommend these article for better details:
I understand why a lot of fantasy settings with Ambiguously Catholic organised religions go the old "the Church officially forbids magic while practising it in secret in order to monopolise its power" route, but it's almost a shame because the reality of the situation was much funnier.
Like, yes, a lot of Catholic clergy during the Middle Ages did practice magic in secret, but they weren't keeping it secret as some sort of sinister top-down conspiracy to deny magic to the Common People: they were mostly keeping it secret from their own superiors. It wasn't one of those "well, it's okay when we do it" deals: the Church very much did not want its local priests doing wizard shit. We have official records of local priests being disciplined for getting caught doing wizard shit. And the preponderance of evidence is that most of them would take their lumps, promise to stop doing wizard shit, then go right back to doing wizard shit.
It turns out that if you give a bunch of dudes education, literacy, and a lot of time on their hands, some non-zero percentage of them are going to decide to be wizards, no matter how hard you try to stop them from being wizards.
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parkerbombshell · 4 months ago
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ridgeviewcampground · 8 months ago
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Beyond S'mores: Unconventional Camping Activities for Every Kind of Adventurer
Living in Huntingdon, PA, or the surrounding areas, means you have access to some of Pennsylvania's most stunning natural landscapes. Rolling hills, whispering forests, and sparkling lakes create the perfect backdrop for a memorable camping trip. But camping isn't just about roasting marshmallows and swapping ghost stories around a crackling fire (although those are certainly time-honored traditions!). Here at Ridgeview Campground, the premier campground destination in Huntington, we believe camping should be an adventure tailored to your interests.
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pasta alla norma
A few years ago I decided to try to eat more beans. I liked the idea of eating beans (healthy, filling, environmentally conscious) more than I liked the practicalities (texture) of it. I consider this initiative largely successful (chickpeas and black beans are now in my rotation a lot!), and it culminated in my purchase of COOL BEANS (a cookbook written by someone who absolutely adores and respects beans, which I think is wonderful).
Once that was successful, I embarked on a quest to eat more eggplant, another one of those elusive veggies that seems to be used a lot to create filling, tasty, vegetarian meals but that I've always felt slightly negative about. I'm like 80% done with this endeavor. The first 40% is this black pepper tofu & eggplant which is so easy and tastes absolutely incredible. The other 40% is the pasta alla normal from Six Seasons, a lovely cookbook that somehow turns vegetables, salt, and butter or olive oil into something magical with every recipe.
Rigatoni and Eggplant alla Norma
Ingredients
1 eggplant (~3/4 lb)
2 garlic cloves
1/2 pound raw hot Italian sausage (I like spicy, you can use mild. For a vegetarian version, replace with 1 caramelized onion)
1 pint cherry tomatoes (halve them if they're big)
oregano (fresh or dried) (I never use fresh oregano)
chile flakes
8 oz rigatoni (or whatever short pasta)
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1/2 cup crumbled ricotta salata (or more parmesan, or skip it altogether if going vegan and add some nutritional yeast! I'm weirdly unmotivated to acquire ricotta salata, so I don't usually have it.)
Directions
First - prep the eggplant.
This is sort of a do-ahead recipe. The thing about eggplant is that it's sort of wet and spongey. It's sometimes better if you let it be dry and spongey (aka let is soak up the stuff), so this recipe asks you to cut the eggplant into 1/2-inch rounds, then into 1/2-inch wide strips then stick it in a colander and sprinkle with a little salt. Leave for 1-2 hours to draw out the excess water. When ready to cook, dry the eggplant with paper towel. Get it realllll dry-like.
I've expedited this step before - cut eggplant, put it in colander with salt for as long as it takes to cook the garlic and sausage, blot dry, and put in pan - and it still turns out amazing.
Cook garlic & sausage
Heat some olive oil in a Dutch oven, not too hot. Smash the garlic cloves and put them in the olive oil and cook slowly, til it's soft and smells nice and is golden but not burned, ~5 minutes.
If you're doing sausage - shape the sausage into 3 patties. (I really love this trick from this cookbook - for dishes requiring sausage chunks, do it by shaping raw sausage into patties, cook them til they're almost done, then breaking them up just to finish cooking. The texture is really nice). Ok so make your patties, cook them in the Dutch oven for about 5 minutes total (flip a few times), then break up into bite sized chunks. Scoop out of the pan and set aside.
Cook the eggplant
If the pan looks dry or you didn't do sausage, add another couple tablespoons of olive oil and raise the heat to medium high. Add the eggplant in a single layer and cook, turning as the strips brown on each side (6-8 minutes total). The recipe wants you to do this in batches. I rarely have the patience to do more than 1 batch for this, so sometimes I just toss it all in and fuss less over the exact brown color, and it still turns out really nice.
Cook the noodles
Boil water and cook noodles as instructed. Save 1/2 cup of cooking water before you drain. The recipe calls for very salty noodle cooking water, I have a hot take that it tastes good no matter how much salt you put in your pasta water!
Start making the sauce
Add the tomatoes, oregano, chile flakes, and caramelized onion (if using) back to the pot. Season with salt and black pepper. Cook until th etomatoes break down and everything gets all saucy, 6-10 minutes. Return the sausage to the pan if using.
Bring it home
Add the pasta to the pan. Stir and cook for a minute or two to let the flavors get into the noodles a little. Add the parmesan and stir some more. Adjust for salt, pepper, or chile flakes, and add pasta water as needed to get it to the right saucy consistency. Top with ricotta salata/parm and drizzle with olive oil to serve.
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temple-of-mars · 2 days ago
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These are just some of the positive reviews that our shop has received on Mercari, where we sold over 750 talisman bundles and Pennsylvania Dutch ritual powders to customers, many repeat customers. We are always grateful to be able to offer our powerful talismans to many people, and we greatly appreciate our customers, as well as the opportunity to do business and branch out even further. Our talismans have helped people who faced many spiritual obstacles, as well as those who wanted to become spiritually stronger, and those who wanted to be introduced to spirit and entity friends. We thank our customers and our followers for making this possible. In addition, we enjoy seeing other occult shops grow their small businesses too! We're glad to see the spiritual community not just survive, but THRIVE!
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livealittleoc-cb · 2 years ago
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"The clouds look so pretty today~ ^^"
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:・゚✧:・.☽˚。・゚✧:・.: Skyler "Sky" Van den Berg
⋆。°✩ Warlock, with medium magic pool, Specializes in Moonlight/Moon Magic && Cloud Magic
⋆。°✩ His Pa is a Moonlight Warlock && his Dad is a Clouds Warlock
⋆。°✩ Can gain energy from the moon use it for light spells && other useful spells along with being able to create cloud formations && create small clouds in his hand
⋆。°✩ Is an artist, has gallery shows, does graffiti, along with illustraition && animation
⋆。°✩ Became an instagram influencer/model && tiktoker by accident-
⋆。°✩ Has a Bee Hummingbird named Blue [wants more bird familiars]
⋆。°✩ From Escain, the human equivalent to Manhattan, New York [Is mixed: Otrar/Netherlands [Dad] Escain/New York [Pa]]
⋆。°✩ He/Him | Bisexual, Demisexual, Polyamorous | 24 years old [Collage Junior] | 9/23 [Libra] | 5’3”
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Bubbly
Super happy
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Loves to talk
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Actually super scary when mad or annoyed
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⋆。°✩ has tan skin, looks like a twink but is actually really fit, has no tattoos but wants some, has earrings && hip piercings along with cheek piercings, has freckles on his wrists && the tops of his hands
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⋆。°✩ strict sub, obedient && bratty; some of his kinks are body worshipping [giving && receiving], size kink, praise [receiving && giving], degradation [receiving], shibari [receiving], marking [giving && receiving], breeding [receiving], toys, hair pulling [giving], impact play [receiving], orgasm control [receiving], choking [receiving], pet play [will be your puppy~], oral [giving && receiving]
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⋆。°✩ he is open to most kinks but will need a talk through harder kinks
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Please info dump about your magical traditions! I would love to hear more about them 😊
Yes! So. I’ve got.... a fascinating family to have received these traditions from. So I have a weird mix of Northern Appalachian folk magic and Braucherei (also called “Pow wow”). There’s definitely some overlap between the two because of the region of Appalachia I live in (hello being an hour from Lancaster, PA) but in general I’m still piecing together which aspects of the traditions I was raised in are magical and then from which side of the family did they originate. So it’s all very muddled over here at the moment- in large part because my grandfather won’t give me a straight answer on anything despite very clearly knowing the answers I’m looking for. Story time under the cut because this got LONG.
The area I live in is primarily German. And I mean this in the “they literally taught us basic German in elementary school so that we could pronounce road names and we have our own Oktoberfest” sense. One of the more interesting aspects of the area I grew up in is that it’s about 50/50 descendants of German Lutherans and German Anabaptists (predominantly Old Order and Conservative Mennonites). The area is so densely populated with Mennonites and PA Dutch culture that our public school art curriculum included how to design a hex sign.
But Mari, you’re asking- why is this background important? Fear not, we’re finally at my actual relatives.
My great grandparents grew up as neighbors. My great grandfather (Russell) was for all intents and purposes a German Lutheran. My great grandmother (Ethel) was raised in a Conservative Mennonite family/church that leaned pretty close to the Old Order customs. They both grew up speaking German in the home. (Ethel is my inspiration in life and everyday I aspire to be more like her will probably post a big thing for ancestor veneration on her soon).
Them getting married was..... to put it mildly, something of a problem. Russell was well liked by her church and her family but he wouldn’t convert to their denomination. Ethel refused to submit to the church leadership and married him anyway. She was subsequently excommunicated from the only faith she ever truly believed in. They had three children, Ethel sent her daughters to college and made my grandfather stay home and learn domestic things and it’s fairly obvious that he learned Braucherei from her.
There’s no doubt whatsoever that her family practiced Braucherei, I grew up on that same road that she did and her siblings’ descendants still live there and they and many of my former neighbors were not at all secretive about the fact that they practiced Braucherei- there’s a sort of awe to it, the use of it reinforces their belief because it requires calling on a higher power, so when it works it is evidence of that power at work.
When I was younger I was relatively friendly with one of the neighbor boys, and one of the big examples of Braucherei that he was told growing up was actually that of my great grandmother. When Ethel was born she was three months premature and weighed just around two pounds (I have in fact verified this to be true), it was a home birth, and she was not taken to a hospital as they feared that the ride to the hospital (over an hour over rough terrain) would kill her- but her mother was a braucherin and through her work and prayer Ethel was saved and lived and grew into a healthy child and then an adult. For several months they carried Ethel around on a pillow because they were afraid that she would break otherwise- and as she had eleven siblings they had a rhyme to remember everyone’s name and hers was “Ethel Irene small as a bean.”
Russell’s family was (and still is) very odd. Yes they were German Lutherans and thus also brauchers to an extent but their family had been in America for a much longer time, having arrived in 1789 as opposed to 1856. And thus their practices while still distinctly Germanic had garnered something of a twist through exposure to local indigenous populations, the enslaved and free African populations, the Scotch-Irish, and the English who settled and moved through the area, at times intermingling or cohabitating with the family. In essence they are more what most people think of when I say “Appalachian folk.”
This magical tradition is harder to nail down, particularly as it is still primarily Germanic and there are a significant number of brauchers within the family who have no Mennonite or Anabaptist ancestry. Basically the essence lies in the understanding that many of the spells or rituals that I’ve been able to attribute as being magical and coming from this side of the family do not necessarily require a Bible or a prayer to work. The opposite is true of Braucherei.
Ultimately I’m still figuring it out, families are bad at communicating, especially mine. But I was raised to view the Bible as both a charm and a spell book on top of being y’know the Bible, in the Beaucherei I was taught hex signs can have talismanic properties (though some really are just for decoration), what is and is not a spell is hard to quantify, and I’m in the process of piecing together an understanding of how Ethel used fiber arts as a medium through which to express her Braucherei (spurred on by the pressing question- why do we have so many identical homemade lace table cloths?).
I do urge everyone to look into Braucherei because it’s SUPER COOL. And I’m experimenting with replacing God and the Bible with my gods and the lore to see if the premise works. But yeah, it’s horrifying trying to dig through all of this when not a single goddamn member of my family could spell things in English until the lates 1940s-early 1950s. They straight up just ran around spelling English words as though they were German words, and while I respect the hell out of that, most of them also didn’t speak English that well but insisted on writing in it anyway so a fair amount of this is just gibberish, or names followed by dates that then don’t match anything I can find in their census records 🤷🏻‍♀️
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haxxy · 4 years ago
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was given this book by my dad bc he saw that i had a similar one on my wishlist + someone fucking stabbed it to death?? these holes go all the way through 
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all-knowledge-is-powerful · 6 years ago
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Rukschtee or “Rest Stone”
So I have been reading through “The Red Church” and came across something that I just had to share. Before I proceed I will provide my typical disclaimer I am not an expert on the subject of PA Dutch Folk Magic and Healing, also don’t forget to consult a licensed medical professional, modern medicine is still important.  So Any who....
The Rest Stone is a sympathetic Remedy used to absorb pain from wounds, and would be placed under the pillow of the party you wished to heal. After each use you would want to cleanse it. ex. bathe in salt water, and sunlight for a day (This is direct from “The Red Church”)
The Rest Stone would need to be a stone located at “an area of a boarder”, that is small, round and above ground. Traditionally this would be like a fence on the property and the stone would be close by the fence.
Once you find your stone the book also instructs you to speak to the stone. Again this is not a prayer, you will actually instruct the stone what you want from it. Repeated use of this stone is said to build a “memory” of what it is supposed to do. Some of this may not be specific to PA Dutch magics, still found this to be cool. 
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