#piskey

[briefbestiary]

The purported Piskey Queen, Joan the Wad.

While its likely she didn't originally start out as fairy royalty, her current position is well-established in the tourism and trinket business.

[kodoukat]

quick sketch of my piskey Elmo(red) and @/angelcakes.bsky.social on bluesky Raven (blue)

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Send this to all your favourite moots and pass the pumpkin round! KEEP THE PUMPKIN TRAIN GOING 🎃🖤🎃🖤🎃🖤 🎃🖤🎃

A Jack O' Lantern for MEEE?? A funfact for you, friend!

Did you know that Jack O' The Lantern, Will O' The Wisp, and Joan O' The Wad are all Cornish Pixies (or Piskies, in Cornish). Joan the Wad being the Queen of Piskies. For a brief time in I think the 20s you could buy trinkets of her image to wear for good luck!

You can still buy them Here

[homosexual-fast-dancer]

(hehehe trollsona boi that @frozenhi-chews spurred me to make :3)

Name: Floydy Piskey (the y should be silent, it is not)

Matesprit: Cronus Amp.ora

Moirail: Kan.kri Van.tas

Classpect: Witch Of Doom

Sign: Lemino

Type-quirk: Uses abbreviation instead of proper words, uses kaomojis to show emotion, typical Tumblr speech-

Floydy acts much like a big brother type to the other trolls with a good head on his shoulders and a laid-back attitude he's always there when you need him. Yet with this he often finds it hard to let people know if he's actually upset or annoyed and always puts up a happy facade. The only people privy to knowing his true feelings are his moirail and matesprit.

Speaking of which he has a rather odd relationship with both, and he has no idea how he got to of the worst trollbeings he knows (affectionate) to be the two he's closest with. His moiraillance with Kan.kri is complicated as while they do definitely care about each other and find the other to be the easiest to talk too (besides their respective matesprits.) Floydy often teases him, and Kan often gives him a mouthful. The only thing more complicated is his relationship with Cronus, he knows that he shouldn't be fond of such a greasy sleazy troll yet with the flirts and even genuinely kind remarks he can't help but be enamored, well at least he won't have to worry about competition- (also he has to admit, the troll is kinda hot-)

He has a keen interest of humans scenecore aesthetics and their use of dark things in bright and poppy ways, he also enjoys shipping his friends together (his favourite being his moirail and a certain breakfast named troll), and stand-up comedy.

(Tagging: @frozenhi-chews, @wisp-herr, @raylex, cause I know you guys like home.stuck :3)

[mental-mona]

Critical reading for any Orthodox Jew involved in piskei halachah or care of GNC/nonbinary youth.

[newexcalibur]

I've never done an intro post so might as well do it now

I'm Kurt or Meeka (he/him or she/her)

adult (20s), stone butch bear, auDHD

ashkenazi & white. anarchist bundist

I'm a linguist & an aspiring polyglot

nonhuman & kin, ask for a list!

(irl mouse, i look like this: 🐁)

@piskey is my labels blog. follow if you'd like!

[mogai-neuro-keysmash]

@piskey ‘neurotic’ just refers to someone with a neurosis, which is basically mental conditions of stress- it can include anxiety, obsessive thoughts, panic disorder, depression, hypochondria (illness anxiety), psychosis, etc. these symptoms can be called ‘neuroses’.

‘neuroticism’ is also used to describe a personality trait and you’ll see it in personality tests. people who score high in neuroticism are usually more anxious than other people

but neurotic is also used in a non-clinical way, sometimes in a derogatory way, to describe mentally ill people or people perceived as overly anxious/paranoid.

so if you have a mental illness like anxiety, OCD, depression, etc or if you’ve actually been described negatively with an adjective like neurotic (similar adjectives: deranged, mentally disturbed, hysteric) then you can reclaim it

TLDR: mentally ill people (especially those with anxiety, ocd-spec, or mood disorders) can reclaim the term neurotic. so yes you can identify with neurolexic!

[wolverinesorcery]

I posted 3,820 times in 2022

That's 981 more posts than 2021!

100 posts created (3%)

3,720 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@springfey

@zarya-zaryanitsa

@dionysiandrama

@oleanderandsalt

@teawitch

I tagged 2,371 of my posts in 2022

Only 38% of my posts had no tags

#art - 431 posts

#scheduled - 392 posts

#fauna - 248 posts

#homes - 154 posts

#q - 130 posts

#flora - 82 posts

#landscapes - 76 posts

#heddwyn post - 67 posts

#politics - 66 posts

#about me - 55 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#im considering writing a review but i think half of it would be being unhinged over the entire book talking about sex and not mentioning the

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

If you're going to bat for regions and nations called celtic, take a second and remember that's MORE than just gaelic nations, lol, brythonic groups (cornish, Welsh, breton) need as much support and solidarity.

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#4

The way some people on witchblr talk about psychosis/schizophrenia, delusions, etc. is so degrading.

"We're not like those CRAZY people" yeah? say the wrong words to the wrong person and you too can experience the humiliation and lack of agency given to psychotic/schizophrenic people. Undo your own sanism.

42 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

#3

Cornish Witchcraft by Kelvin I Jones

Pamphlet of Cornish witchcraft, posted here because mostly falls under folklore vs hard and fast witchcraft resources. Has some 'celtic soup' - author uses Irish holidays (that're put through Wiccan-ification) rather than the Cornish holidays he's referencing, along with mislabelling of piskeys as fairies/fairy folklore, speculates heavily on a triple goddess type figure (though doesn't outright call it that, references mother/crone aspects) and pre-Christian deities. Mentions Bucca by name for once! Generally pretty fun read though! Delves into a lot of niche Cornish traditions that're largely unrecorded.

Google Drive link (PDF)

Not Exhaustive Content warnings under the cut

Bodily fluids (including blood + urine), animal death| + hunting, human death, drowning, immolation, use of human remains in witchcraft, mentions of various illnesses & parasites, some ableist outdated language

53 notes - Posted March 22, 2022

#2

What is a commonplace book

Commonplace books are a method of compiling knowledge into one place, traditionally by handwriting but more recently with computers/word processors. They’re different from journals in that rather than containing exclusively personal thoughts or feelings, they’re a collection of external writings, informations, or other snippets of things recorded whenever it is encountered + usually organised.

To simplify – a commonplace book contains anything that captured it’s owners attention! Poems, extracts of fiction & non fiction writings, remarks or comments by others, anecdotes, observations, pertinent images, or other things along the same lines are all things that belong in a commonplace book!

Commonplace books have quite the history – their uses range between reading logs, reference books for students, and historically they were required by young women to demonstrate their upbringing.

How do they work

The exact system you use in your commonplace book is entirely up to you and what you will remember to use. Usually information is organised under themed/topic-based headings, but this can be as flexible or stiff as the keeper desires. My personal commonplace book is organised by source material – all of my book extracts & notes are kept together and demarcated by paperclips.

A commonplace book has no requirements in terms of physical format, size, page type, etc. As long as it is something you will be able to keep using happily! There is also no rules around decorating any pages with stickers or washi tape, or any rules around using sticky notes to add information on the go.

A commonplace book can also be as expansive or restricted as possible in terms of subject matter. For example, I keep a specific commonplace book for Babalon & Sekhmet. Nothing else enters this book.

What’s their use in religious practice or witchcraft?

A commonplace book can function as an in-between for a Grimoire (a book of magical knowledge and instruction, usually written by someone else and usually for transmitting knowledge within a specific tradition or branch of religion/witchcraft) & a Witchbook/Book of Shadows (more akin to a magical/religious journal for recordkeeping). They’re also exceptionally useful if you read a lot of metaphysical, occult or spiritual/religious books and want to keep organised notes in a hard copy form!

Commonplace books can be used to record interesting information from other, non-metaphysical but useful sources too, foraging notes and recipes are an obvious choice to keep a record of, along with notes about celestial events from astronomy sources.

In some cases, a commonplace book can also be a devotional activity, or a shrine of sorts. Commonplace books as a devotional activity is easy to parse – collecting and mindfully recording information about an entity, deity, divinity or other spirit is a good means to show care and interest.

A commonplace book as a shrine has a similar function to an e-shrine on tumblr, by collecting things that remind or represent an entity, deity, divinity or other spirit, a notebook can be made into a shrine or sacred object. This can also be a useful way to have a sacred touchpoint with an entity and keep it relatively out of sight, for those who are not open about their practice.

Examples

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My #1 post of 2022

Paleoancestor veneration

Paleoancestors (also called deep time ancestors) are a collection of Ancestors I’ve not often seen talked about. There is a lot of overlap between paleoancestor veneration and paleoanimism/deep time spirit work – it is important to establish a firm connection with the paleoancestors you’re interested in venerating so they have a link to you as well. It’s also something I’ve found to be far more research-heavy than ancestor work involving humans and both more enjoyable and more challenging (palaeontology talks are enlightening but can also be an information overwhelm).

There are two main branches of paleoancestor work that I’ve found, that being paleoancestor archetypes and paleoancestor individuals (there are many mammoths, but only one Mammoth). I have a preference for the archetypes over individuals currently so the majority of this post will be from that perspective. Paleoancestor veneration is a practice I’ve found to be incredibly meaningful and a way to connect to the world around me.

There are a few methods I’ve used to contact paleoancestors, the main one being ‘walking back’ (a meditative exercise posted below). My second favourite option is connecting via the land and taking into consideration what megafauna + other extinct beings would have inhabited it before me - it’s easy to find what fossils have been discovered in your area and what more recently extinct animals called it home. 

‘Walking back’

A technique I’ve found fantastic for initially contacting paleo-ancestors is ‘walking back through time.’ It’s a meditative exercise that roughly follows this structure:

Find yourself at the mouth of a cave through whichever sense you find best – smell the damp cave walls, touch the rough rock, or look down into the depths.

Enter the tunnel, feel the ridges of rock layers on the wall and the fossils embedded within, feel the history of the rock and look at the striations of time.  

Walk deeper into the tunnel, find yourself travelling back through the ages, past the industrialisation of the world, past the spreading of agriculture. With each major mark of an extinction event, find a branching passage.      

When you find a passage that feels ‘right’, explore it – walk down it, feel and look at the fossils extruding from the walls. At the end, there is a light and fresh air – perhaps it has a peculiar taste to it if you are in the Cambrian era, or maybe it is heavy with moisture from a Cretaceous polar forest.  

Emerge from the tunnel into a new, exciting, unexplored place. Venture into the environment and see what approaches you. If at any point you are afraid, or in danger, there is an easy out – look down at your feet for a hole, crevice or chasm into the ground below and slip into it, back into the tunnel, and walk home.    

Communication

Ancestors communicate in different ways, depending on the era they are from. Pikaia has a much more basal version of communicating with me, a human, than Cave Lion does. Pikaia only communicates with the most basic essence of a sentence or message: it resembles talking with ‘feeling words’ only but has no bearing on the depth or complexity of the messages 

An example of this is, when seeking advice on a situation regarding anxiety for the summer, Pikaia’s advice was “warmth, joy, blue (colour)” and I roughly interpreted as the summer will be joyful and warm if I make it that way, but not to forget my needs (the blue colour’s meaning in my personal practice). 

Cave Lion’s communication style is much more familiar to me and uses full sentences (though, he is reserved with how much he speaks).

Something that has been invaluable with paleoancestor work is keeping a constant record of communication, advice, and lessons. This is especially important if engaging with them on a personal level outside of asking for general advice and favours at an ancestor altar. This has been most helpful with learning Pikaia’s communication style!

Not all deep time ancestors are receptive to human contact (at least initially), especially if they are a relatively recently extinct animal whorse distruction humans may have played a part in. I’ve found that giving them gifts and allowing them to dictate the terms of communication (within reason) is deeply helpful and even gives them space to grieve their loss. The most recent experience of mine that has made this necessary is Aurochs, who expressed grief and rage over her own species fate as well as the fate of her descendants (domesticated cows).

Outside of direct communication through meditation, it is entirely dependent on the ancestor what they’d prefer as an intermediary. Cave Lion talks through my animal tarot, Aurochs prefers only direct astral communication, and Pikaia works in mysterious ways and will only occasionally talk through specific decks, tools, or will sometimes appear through my intuition.

Altars and gifts

This is entirely dependent on the ancestor – Pikaia has not asked for anything beyond that I swim in the ocean regularly, while Cave Lion asked for a hand-drawn charcoal art piece reminiscent of cave art and an object so I can carry him with me regularly. Aurochs has asked of me that I don’t consume beef at all and dairy as rarely as possible (which is something I am okay with doing for her), because of her grief over the loss of her species. Altar-wise, I’ve given all of them the option of space on my main working place side by side with the deities I connect with. This is where Cave Lion’s art lives, along with a dish for any food gifts they may request or receive as a surprise.

As a semi-gift for my paleo-ancestors I follow rewilding projects closely and involve myself with the land & sea – it’s something that has been fairly continuous throughout time after all. Keeping the environment free of litter, well cared for and 'understood' has also helped strengthen my connections to them. This has extended into the political too – trespass and rewilding are political issues that I’ve thrown my weight behind (along with various others).

Paleoancestor veneration is a practice I’ve found to be incredibly meaningful and a way to connect to the world around me and something I am always excited to talk about and share with other folks that might not realise it's an option! My askbox is open for any questions about any of the above post.

Links

Dinosaurs in your locale (website, global)

DIY Animism (animism & spirit work text that has been foundational in how I interact with animal spirits, book, global)

The Missing Lynx (book about UK extinctions from oldest to most recent, book, UK)

Royal Tyrrel Museum (posts paleontology talks for free, YouTube, Global)

Paleoancestors mentioned

Cave Lion, Panthera Spelaea (wikipedia) / Pikaia (wikipedia) / Aurochs, Bos Primigenius (wikipedia)

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colored version of the WIP of my piskey

[chattering-magpie-uk]

Guest Blog - Skillywidden by Jack Daw (©2022)

https://www.tumblr.com/chattering-magpie-uk/717838906699235328/cornish-view-2008-3a In many parts of the world it is said that magical folk gain their magical powers from the spirits either by birth i.e. having the fairy blood or from some sort of interaction. In Cornwall some types of magical folk were said to be Skillywidden, i.e. child of the fair, fairy or piskeys. The following myth was…

[lucidityisabsent]

The Body of an American · The Pogues on the Poguetry In Motion EP ℗ 1986 Warner Music UK Ltd. - The Cadillac stood by the house And the yanks, they were within And the tinker boys, they hissed advice "Hot-wire her with a pin"

When we turned and shook as we had a look In the room where the dead men lay So big Jim Dwyer made his last trip To the shores where his father's laid

But 15 minutes later we had our first taste of whiskey There was uncles giving lectures on ancient Irish history The men all started telling jokes and the women, they got frisky By five o'clock in the evening every bastard there was piskey

Fare thee well, going away, there's nothing left to say Farewell to New York City, boys, to Boston and PA He took them out with a well-aimed clout, we often heard him say "I'm a free born man of the USA"

He fought the champ in Pittsburgh and he slashed him to the ground He took on Tiny Tartanella and it only went one round He never had no time for reds, for drink or dice or whores But he never threw a fight when the fight was right So they sent him to the war

Fare the well, gone away, there's nothing left to say With a slainte Joe and Erin go my love's in Amerikay The calling of the rosary, Spanish wine from far away I'm a free born man of the USA, yeah

This morning on the harbour, when I said goodbye to you I remember how I swore that I'd come back to you one day And as the sunset came to meet, the evening on the hill I told you I'd always love you, I always did, I always will Fare thee well, gone away, there's nothing left to say But to say adieu to your eyes as blue as the water in the bay To big Jim Dwyer, the man of wire who was often heard to say "I'm a free born man of the USA" I'm a free born man of the USA I'm a free born man of the USA.

Songwriter: Shane Patrick Lysaght Mac-gowan The Body of an American lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

[tsuyoshikentsu]

That quote not to point. More to point would be the rulings in Sefer Chassidim and Piskei Teshuvot on saying Kaddish for goyim, which is not done with the exceptions of a ger who is saying it for their parents and a goy who rescued Jews in dire times.

There are plenty of times when it is appropriate to bring up Gazan complaints. Tisha B'Av is not one of them, in the same way that it is inappropriate to bring up other groups who suffered during the Shoah on Yom Ha'Shoah. It is a uniquely Jewish day of mourning to reflect our uniquely Jewish losses, and injecting Gazans into it is incredibly disrespectful.

If you're looking for a kinah that also talks about Gaza, I found this one to be rather moving:

[rj-anderson]

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[fallbabylon]

Wood carvings of famous Cornish Piskeys Sam Spriggan, Nicky Nan and Billy Bucca from Polperro, Cornwall

[wolverinesorcery]

Theoretically, if fairy circle mushrooms were edible *and* I ate them, what would happen.............