#no one believed me in highschool when i said i was indigenous until i recognized “the smell of burnt flesh” and they asked me how i knew

[anqaspond]

western spiritual bitches will be like "ahh i love folk treatments and potions" bitch the elixirs my mom gives me taste like spicy garbage and whenever she thinks im particularly posessed she drugged a 17 yr old me with a herbal sedative and whenever im sick she burns each one of my fingers with a lit piece of twine and my parents parents before them burned their skin with iron till they had permanent scars and my grandfather who suffered a stroke has bleeding burn blisters all over his body because they genuinely think burning him with hot steel can heal him and cancer patients are being given camel piss instead of chemotherapy because its supposed to be a cure all and grown men are dipping flies into their tea because they have "the cure for all known diseases in one wing" i PROMISE you spiritual folk medicine is a terrifying thing you should not be glorifying because you like the aesthetic of outcast witches talking to the moon you should NOT be this into "mysterious mysticism" when it comes to fucking medical treatments and healing