#witcherature

[tealeavesand-roses]

Status: read Rating: 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I am a Weyward, and wild inside.

Simply in awe. Weyward by Emilia Hart has stolen my heart and is easily my favorite read of the year. Weyward is a beautiful historical fiction tale with themes of witchcraft, nature, womanhood, and gothic horror, this story delves into the lives of three women throughout scattered periods of time. Altha's story takes place in 1619, Violet's takes place in 1942, and Kate's takes place in 2019. Each woman's story is as captivating as the next.

As I was finishing Violet's chapter regarding her mother and her family's history, I began to tear up, I flipped the page to the next chapter and I stumbled upon a beautiful white feather. I began to sob. My boyfriend had gotten me this book from a second-hand online shop and the previous owner must have left it in there. I felt like the feather was fantastically symbolic of what I was feeling and I felt so connected in that moment to myself, to nature, and spiritually to those in my life who have passed.

Could not recommend this book enough 🪶🌿🪲🐦‍⬛

[ailishsinclair]

If you like castles, Scotland, history, witches, stone circles and Christmas done medieval-style, you might like THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR. There’s also a love story. Paperback and kindle: getbook.at/Themermaidandthebear #HistoricalFiction #romance #books #Scotland #history #witchlit #witcherature #booksaboutwomen #booksaboutwitches #scottishbooks #readers #readerlife #bookaddict #booklovers #bookstagram #ukbookstagram #plussizemaincharacter (at Aberdeenshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqpKVSQIHdE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[aardvark-123]

Gensokyo Festival day 18: Growing Up

~Witcherature~

"Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes was so exciting! I must've read it three times!"

"Wow, you really made a good choice, then!" Laughing nervously, Marisa took the thick book handed to her by a chubby fairy in red robes. "Do you want to borrow another one?"

The fairy shook her head. "I have to go and hunt down the last of the Septim bloodline now. Tamriel ae Daedroth!" Piercing the sky with her sword (a stick), she ran off into the woods.

"Are you sure that was a good idea?" Reimu was leaning on the porch, observing the proceedings with some concern.

"It's fine! Broad horizons never hurt anyone," Marisa reassured her.

"Well, I hope not." Reimu shrugged as if telling the subject of conversation it was dismissed. "You know, I never expected to see you lending out books like this."

"Oh, you know... Books are meant to be shared."

"Did you ever think about giving them back to Patchouli?"

Marisa's face darkened. "No, that wouldn't do at all! She hoards her books because she likes having books, so she can say she has the biggest library in the world. It isn't right to treat books like a vault full of gold!"

"I thought you hoarded books because you liked having books!"

"Maybe the old Marisa did, but not any more. The new Marisa only steals for the good of fairykind!"

"All right, New Marisa, whatever helps you sleep at night."

[thatsnotcanonpodcasts]

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina with Kristen Barros and Jane Williamson

We've enlisted the help of fellow That's Not Canon podcasters Jane and Kristen for our discussion of everyone's favorite teenage witch. We dive into portrayals of witches on page and screen, witches and witchcraft throughout history, including the infamous Salem Witch Trials, and figure out which Sabrina character we each identify with.

Further Reading:

From Baba Yaga to Hermione Granger: why we’re spellbound by ‘witcherature’

Weird Sisters and Wild Women

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

The Lottery, Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

More information about Alewives

Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici (PDF available here)

The Devil in Massachusetts, Marion Starkey

Unobscured podcast

Cultural depictions of the Salem Witch Trials

Sabrina and real witches

Paganism in Sabrina

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[wakingwriter]

Witches in Fiction, Imagining Palestine through Fiction, and more...

From Baba Yaga to Hermione Granger: why we’re spellbound by ‘witcherature’ (The Guardian)

Since Trump’s election, which inspired mass spell-casting by thousands of “resistance witches” (the selection of judge Brett Kavanaugh for the supreme court also led to a mass “hex-in”), there has been a slew of novels, poetry collections and anthologies with witchcraft as their theme. Things haven’t felt…

[ailishsinclair]

If you like castles, Scotland, history, witches, stone circles and Christmas done medieval-style, you might like THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR. There’s also a love story. Paperback and Kindle: getbook.at/Themermaidandthebear “A delight from end to end.” Undiscovered Scotland #bookstagram #ukbookstagram #historicalfiction #romance #witches #witchlit #witcherature (at Aberdeenshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVBwIJIgYK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hub-pub-bub]

A witch is a woman who has too much power. Or, to quote the novelist Madeline Miller, a woman with “more power than men have felt comfortable with”. History teaches us that witches are dangerous and must be brought down, punished and silenced. Their wisdom and their force must be neutralised through interrogation, torture and execution. Yet these attitudes aren’t merely historical; women continue to be persecuted for witchcraft in the world today. There has been a perennial literary fascination with witches; they are, as Marion Gibson, professor of Renaissance and magical literatures at Exeter University says, “a shorthand symbol for persecution and resistance – misogyny and feminism in particular”. In a #MeToo world, where Donald Trump – a fan of the term “witch-hunt” – is US president, it is really no surprise that female writers are examining the role of the witch in new ways.

Since Trump’s election, which inspired mass spell-casting by thousands of “resistance witches” (the selection of judge Brett Kavanaugh for the supreme court also led to a mass “hex-in”), there has been a slew of novels, poetry collections and anthologies with witchcraft as their theme. Things haven’t felt so witchy since the 1990s, when there was a glut of TV programmes such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and books and films on the subject. It makes sense: the women of my generation were girls then, and now we have come of age, and are shaping our own narratives, joining other female writers in grappling with perennial questions of power and agency.

Resistance witches at a protest. Photograph: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

[ailishsinclair]

Taking place mainly in a castle, THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR blends an often overlooked period of history, the Scottish witchcraft accusations, in particular the 1597 Aberdeen witchcraft panic, with a love story. Paperback, kindle and on kindle unlimited: http://getbook.at/Themermaidandthebear #HistoricalFiction #witches #Scotland #books #bookstagram #scottishbooks #witchlit #witcherature #booksaboutwomen #booksaboutwitches (at Aberdeenshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoeUfpQrYYx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ailishsinclair]

Isobell needs to escape. She has to. Her life depends on it. She has a plan and it’s a well thought-out, well observed plan, to flee her privileged life in London and the cruel man who would marry her, and ruin her, and make a fresh start in Scotland. She dreams of faery castles, surrounded by ancient woodlands and misty lochs… and maybe even romance, in the dark and haunted eyes of a mysterious Laird. Despite the superstitious nature of the time and place, her dreams seem to be coming true, as she finds friendship and warmth, love and safety. And the chance for a new beginning… Until the past catches up with her. Set in the late sixteenth century, at the height of the Scottish witchcraft accusations, The Mermaid and the Bear is a story of triumph over evil, hope through adversity, faith in humankind and – above all – love. “A delight from end to end.” Undiscovered Scotland #witchlit #historicalfiction #romance #witcherature #booksaboutwomen #booksaboutwitches #aberdeenshire #scotland (at Aberdeenshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoClfuwIwwK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=