#witchbottle

[autumnmobile12]

For the sake of curiosity, I’m going to talk about witch trials and how they relate to the events in Castlevania.

The time period is accurate.  The earliest documented case of witch trials in Europe is believed to be the Valais Witch Trials, taking place between 1428 and 1447.  What makes Lisa’s situation worse (and the Bishop more evil and insane) was amount of time that passed from when she was first arrested to her burning in Târgoviște.

We see in the premiere of Season 2 that the Bishop’s cronies burned her house to the ground, but in the very first episode, Dracula finds the fire extinguished but still smoldering.  So Lisa can’t have been gone more than a day.  And also note that it was raining that night.

Witchcraft was a serious accusation, and in most cases, the accused were assumed guilty and no one dared to prove them innocent for fear of being accused of witchcraft themselves.  However, in most cases, the authorities needed a confession from the alleged witch and would resort to any methods to obtain one.  Given a proper time frame and ‘investigation,’ Lisa likely would have been tortured within an inch of her life, given time to recover, and then the process would have repeated until she admitted ‘guilt’ if only to make the pain end.  However, since she was apparently burned less than twenty-four hours after her arrest, none of this could have taken place.  Besides, given her character’s personality, she definitely would have held out as long as she could until her husband or son rescued her.

Conclusion:  The Bishop in his ecclesiastical fanaticism had reached a point of political power and religious corruption that he was able to bypass ‘the process’ and commit an act of vigilantism with impunity.  This bastard had friends in high places, which is all the more terrifying and impressive in the most twisted way when you take into account the religious context of Catholicism not being the dominant religion in Wallachia.  In fact, Catholicism and the Pope were largely treated with suspicion.

Note for clarity:  Wallachia was greatly influenced by the dying Byzantine Empire (Eastern Orthodox Christians,) and when Constantinople was on the verge of being invaded by the Ottomans, a man by the name of Lukas Notaras famously declared, “I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City than the Latin mitre.”  So yeah, the Wallachians were not fans.

[paaxindigenouswitchcraft]

[julieschulerart]

The Witch Bottle. Print. https://www.etsy.com/listing/181865451

[poisonerspath]

Witch Bottles are restocked! Vintage style glass filled with cemetery herbs, grave wood, rosary pea, bleeding heart and more. More info linked in bio. - - #witchbottle #witchbottles #witchcraft #folkmagic #protectionmagic #necromancy #cemeterywitch #graveyardmagic https://www.instagram.com/p/ClG1QgGr5cg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aftanith]

Castlevania S1E1&2, “Witchbottle” & “Necropolis”

Today, I'm covering the first half of Castlevania season one, and I am so relieved that it looks like this is going to be better than Vampire Knight turned out to be!

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[thewitchery]

The Golden Goat of Plenty // Stuffed with Money Drawing & Prosperity herbs to bring abundance to your household. It was then ritually wax sealed with a sigil that is alleged to guard against going without & to fill your life with prosperity. Obtain at #TheWitchery.Ca via https://www.thewitchery.ca/product/the-golden-goat-of-plenty/ Goats all have hollow horns, the cornucopia or “horn of plenty” that we know today & which holds the bounty of fruits & grains symbolizing fruitful abundance, was symbolically derived from her broken horn; the same horn from which the infant Zeus drank. Place on your #Money Altar or where you keep your wallet. Limited in stock! I am down to the final few of these! When they are gone they are gone! . . . #witchbottle #witchbottles #bottlespell #bottlespells #witch #witchcraft #spells #prosperity #witchy #witchythings #witchystuff #witchyvibes #spellwork https://www.instagram.com/p/CpahnKpJHPh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[quixotickaya]

#WitchBottle (at Claremont, New Hampshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4CedWur-K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[alucarddaily]

The Top 10 Castlevania Episodes—as voted by fans

1. "For Love" 2. "Monument" 3. "Devourer of Light" 4. "The Endings" 5. "Witchbottle" 6. "The Harvest" 7. "Guilty Men To Be Judged" 8. "It's Been A Strange Ride" 9. "You Don't Deserve My Blood" 10. "Abandon All Hope"

[ghostmanblog]

Castlevania 017 s1 e1 Witchbottle- #castlevania #vampire [18]

[cyberneticlagomorph]

Absolutely insulting! Don't you worry, I will check the rest of the house to ensure it is horseshoe free for you! Also may I have the iron horseshoe.

someone also strung a witchbottle up in one of the pasture trees the other day, cereza shot it down at a distance but like

wtf man

thank you, please take it, if you don't the Knights will and i don't want them in my house

[chattering-magpie-uk]

Witchbottles Re-examined - My appearance at the Nottingham Empyrean (Vat & Fiddle) Wednesday 12th April 2023) #3

[julieschulerart]

The Witch Bottle. Art Print.

[iridescent-witch-life]

Ritualcravt

[alucarddaily]

COUNTDOWN TO CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE—ONE EPISODE PER DAY

Day 1: "Witchbottle"

[wiitchbottle]

an expressive fella

[teawitch]

This is essentially the idea behind the old witchbottles. Though the bottles didn’t look like a person, they were tagged (often filled with urine) and then usually buried at a doorway so the bad energy would think they were the person, go into the bottle and be trapped.

So, following this principle, you could design the poppet in a way that the energy would be trapped. A bit of black stone, like tourmaline, can be used to absorb negative energy. You could include a few chips in the poppet to keep the energy there.

I have an idea but I want to put it out in the universe first to see if I either came up with something genius or something terrible:

Make a poppet of myself but it’s like a “dummy” of myself, so any negative/bad energies go to the poppet of me instead of the actual me.

My question is will the poppet just retain all of that energy or will it go to me and backfire? Thoughts?