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🌾 Dozhinki Offering Incense 🌾 Harvest Rituals have been performed since ancient times. Offerings were left in fields & some burned to honour the Gods & Ancestors, thanking them for providing for our earthly vessels.

🌾This sacred mix of auspicious herbs has been blessed with whispered spells & prayers. Offer a sprinkle to the earth, or burn to bring prosperity & bountiful harvests. Be thankful for everything that you have in your life… but also thankful for all the things you don’t have.

🌾To start this old tradition of “plowing the field”, a young woman would be dragged through the crops, marking the start of Dożynki, & signifying that the harvest was over. Depending on what region you lived in this festival would start anytime from Aug 15 to Sept 23. When all the crops have all been gathered, the last bundle of wheat was picked as a symbolic sacrifice, & used for creating the Didukh (Grandfather Spirit who was thought to contain the benevolent spirits of ancestors who would protect the fields & home.)

🌾This wheat was also used for wreath making, as all the luck & prosperity for the following year to come were alleged to be contained in it.

🌾Women rolled around on a cleared patch of the field with the purpose of absorbing strength from the soil & finishing the harvest.

🌾Offer to your households land, sprinkle in your garden, or burn on charcoal & waft the smoke outside & in to bless your home & property & to act as an offering to attract Spirits, Familiars, & Ancestors into your sacred space.

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🛖 The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore & Practices 🛖 Why do we hang horseshoes for good luck or place wreaths on our doors? Why does the groom carry his new bride over the threshold? These customs represent the last vestiges from a long, rich history of honoring the spirits of our homes. They show that a house is more than a building: it is a living being with a body & soul.

🛖 Examining the extensive traditions surrounding houses from medieval times to the present, Claude Lecouteux reveals that, before we entered the current era of frequent moves & modular housing, moving largely from the countryside into cities, humanity had an extremely sacred relationship with their homes & all the spirits who lived there alongside them–from the spirit of the house itself to the mischievous elves, fairies, & imps who visited, invited or not.

🛖 Shows how every aspect of constructing & keeping a house involved rites, ceremony, customs, & taboos to appease the spirits, including the choice of a building lot & the very materials with which it was built. Uncovering the lost meaning behind door & window placement, the hearth, & the threshold, Lecouteux shares many tales of house spirits, from the offerings used to cajole the local land spirit into becoming the domestic house spirit to the good & bad luck bestowed upon those who seek the help of the “Little Money Man.”

🛖 Drawing on studies & classic literature from old Europe–from Celtic lands & Scandinavia to France & Germany to the far eastern borders of Europe & into Russia–to explain the pagan roots behind many of these traditions.

🛖 Revealing our ancestors’ charms, prayers, & practices to bestow happiness & prosperity upon their homes, Lecouteux shows that we can invite the spirits back into our houses, old or new, & restore the sacred bond between home & inhabitant.
Examines how the ancient customs of constructing & keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes & their inhabitants

🔮 Magical Mood Ring 🔮 “Our magical mood ring tells all! Its chameleon stone reacts to your body chemistry and reveals your hidden emotions by changing colours. Goes from inhibited black to happy blue. Discover the real you!”

🔮 The etherial iridescent glow of a mood ring is much like a fortune teller’s crystal ball, appearing magical, all-telling, and mysterious. Mood rings have intrigued people for decades, serving as a unique piece of jewelry and a conversation starter about the wearer’s emotional state.

🔮 Mood rings first made their appearance in the 1970s, captivating the public with their claim to reflect the emotions of the wearer through color changes. Mood rings are a trendy temperature-sensitive, color-changing ring marketed to change color according to your current mood when worn.

🔮 Colour-changing mood rings have been around for nearly 50 years, with spikes in popularity at their release in the 1970s and during the 1990s.

🌿 77 1/2 Magical Healing Herbs 🌿 This unique book is an essential guide for tapping into the power of herbs. It highlights centuries of & historical facts about healing & magical uses of herbs from & other traditions. It includes rituals, herbal remedies, & simple recipes, you’ll learn about several renowned Bulgarian healers throughout history from St. Ivan Rilski to Baba Vanga.

🌱 High-quality colour photos, as well as a full-page botanical illustration, accompany each plant, so anyone can use the book as a field guide in their backyard or when they go foraging. An index identifies some of the more interesting medical and abilities and the herbs that fall under them.

🌱 77½ Magical Healing Herbs is an introduction to herbs found in a special wreath during Midsummer, an especially enchanting time of year. Among the Bulgarians, the day is called Eniovden, in Ukrainian : Івана Купала, Купайла, Belarusian: Купалле, Polish: Noc Kupały, Russian: Иван-Купала. Herbs are not only for spicing food, they can be for healing the body and mind, as well as having many magical uses.

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✨ Crown Of Success Oil ✨ Many people anoint the head with this for financial, school, or career success. This oil is one of my most popular oils and is quite the catch all.

✨ Can be used as a dressing oil on yourself or anoint candles, petition papers, spell papers, charms, fetishes or anything else you wish.

✨ To attract things to you use anoint or dress upwards (bottom to top / toe to head). To expel or get rid of som**hing in your life rub in a downwards motion (top to bottom / head to toe)

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💀Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte ~ the Skeleton Saint 💀 This book offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the past decade. Although condemned by mainstream churches, this folk saint’s supernatural powers appeal to millions of Latin Americans & immigrants in the U.S.

💀Devotees believe the Bony Lady (as she is affectionately called) to be the fastest & most effective miracle worker, & as such, her statuettes & paraphernalia now outsell those of the Virgin of Guadalupe & Saint Jude two other giants of Mexican religiosity.

💀In particular, the book shows Santa Muerte has become a Mexican Folk Saint & patron saint of drug traffickers, playing an important role as protector of peddlers of crystal m**h & ma*****na; DEA agents & Mexican police often find her altars in the safe houses of drug smugglers.

💀 Saint Death plays other important roles: she is a supernatural healer, love doctor, money-maker, lawyer, & angel of death. She has become without doubt one of the most popular & powerful saints on both the Mexican & American religious landscapes.

💐Assumption of Mary 💐 Our Lady of the Green ~ Herbal bouquets are blessed all over Poland on Assumption Day (August 15th). They used to contain many species of crops and medicinal herbs, mainly collected from the wild.

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💀 Baba Yaga’s Baltic Green Amber Skull Ring 💀 She is wise & is all knowing, all seeing & tells the whole truth to those who are brave enough to ask. Do you dare enter the hut?

💀 Vasilisa walked all day, until at last she came to Baba-Yaga’s hut, which stood forbidding on its large chicken legs. A fence made of human bones surrounded the hut. It was crowned with human skulls. As the sky darkened the eyes of the skulls began to glow. Their light illuminated the forest. She trembled & wanted to run but her legs would not move. Almost immediately she heard a hideous noise. The earth shook, the trees groaned & there was Baba-Yaga, riding in her mortar.”

💀 Glowing as if on fire, Warm to the touch, & often containing insect fragments amber was believed to contain the very essence of life itself – the animating principle. It had associations with time, cycles & longevity. As it once was a living substance, it is related to spirit. Slavic people thought amber magical because of its warm feel, its lightness & luster. Some believed amber was the petrified tears of gods.

💀 Amulets were worn as protection from diseases & against being killed in battle. People believed that it “pulled out” disease from the body & “attracted” good luck, averted misfortune, kept its owner safe from black magic, cast out devils, guarded one from the evil eye, brought luck in love, & made it’s owner stronger & more clever.

💀 Green Amber makes up about 2% of all Amber found across the Baltic Sea. It is alleged to relieve depression, anxiety, and promotes joy.

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🦋 Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, & other Airborne Females 🦋 From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women – some carried by wings, others by rainbows, floating scarves, or flying horses – reveal both fascination with & ambivalence about female power & s*xuality.

🦋 The motif of the flying female or winged woman, & the tales told about them, embody themes including heroism & womanhood; the conflict between freedom & domesticity; understandings of transcendence versus immanence; & ancient fears about shape-shifting, especially from animal to human & back again.

🦋 Throughout, the book Young traces the inextricable link between female power & s*xuality & the male desire to control it.

🦋 The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, & pop culture, Women Who Fly is an exciting, fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced & been understood by society & religious traditions around the world.

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❤️‍🩹 Healing & Grief Witch Bottle ❤️‍🩹Alleged to aid in healing the body & soul of physical & emotional problems. The process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased, damaged or unvitalized organism. The result of healing can be to cure the cause of a health challenge, but one can grow without being cured or heal without “a cure”. Anoint with Healing Oil  to bring clarity in healing matters of the mind, body, & spirit.

❤️‍🩹 This bottle has been hand blended with consecrated charged herbs, & are only created on the full moon. Fixed, dressed, & consecrated on my altar with whispered spells & prayers. It may be placed in a window, used as an altar piece in your own ritual work, placed in your work space or buried beneath the home.

❤️‍🩹 A small glass bottle, filled with charged & blessed herbs, anointed with oil, & sealed with wax. It will remain potent & charge itself as long as the seal remains unbroken, you can add more influence & your own energy by anointing it with oil or personal concerns.

🌱 Veneficium: Magic, Witchcraft & the Poison Path 🌱 Beyond their functions as agents of bodily harm, poisons have also served as gateways of religious ecstasy, occult knowledge, sensorial aberration, as well as the basis of cures. This book treats the occult parameters of poison, toxins, & venom, & their presence in witchcraft & allied magical arts.

🌱 Allied with Samael, the Edenic serpent of first transgression whose name in some interpretations is ‘Venom of God’, this facet of magic wends through the rites of ancient Sumer and Egypt, through European Necromancy, Alchemy, the arcane the rites of the Witches’ Sabbath, and modern-day folk magic.

🌱 The second edition of Veneficium is now properly contextualized within a trilogy of forthcoming books entitled Triangulum Lamiarum (‘Triangle of the Witches’), each of which concerns a specific ontological aspect of witchcraft.

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👹 Between the Devil & the Host ~ Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland 👹 Through the dark glass of witchcraft Ostling explores the religious lives of early modern women & men: their gender attitudes, their Christian faith & folk cosmology, their prayers & spells, their adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist, & their relations with goblin-like house demons & ghosts.

👹 Outside the imagination, witches don’t exist. But in Poland & in Europe & its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results.
�👹 For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion & accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through a close reading of accusations & confessions, Ostling also shows how witches imagined themselves & their own religious lives.
�👹 Paradoxically, the tales they tell of infanticide & host-desecration reveal to us a culture of deep Catholic piety, while the stories they tell of demonic s*x & the treasure-bringing ghosts of unbaptized babies uncover a complex folklore at the margins of Christian orthodoxy. �
👹 Caught between the devil & the host, the self-imagined Polish witches reflect the religion of their place & time, even as they stand accused of subverting & betraying that religion.

🔥Black Madonna Wood Plate Vintage 🔥 Her image (Our Lady of Częstochowa) juxtaposes several ideals of womanhood: a powerful, heavenly queen, a suffering mother, a perfect nurturer…(the) scars a sign of suffering she shares with her worshippers. ~ Trochimczyk

🔥 Those that know me, know I love old religious iconography. I use saints & religious artifacts in my spellwork, & have no issues or qualms doing so.

🔥Black Madonna of Częstochowa will hear the calls of those with depression, one who is searching to fill the void, folks with fertility & menstruation issues, & people that need her guidance. She is a healer & the light at the end of a dark tunnel although she appears burned by fire she is filled with answers.

🔥The legend concerning the two scars on the Black Madonna’s right cheek is that the Hussites stormed the Pauline monastery in 1430, plundering the sanctuary. Among the items stolen was the icon. After putting it in their wagon, the Hussites tried to get away but their horses refused to move. They threw the portrait down to the ground & one of the plunderers drew his sword upon the image & inflicted two deep strikes. When the robber tried to inflict a third strike, he fell to the ground & writhed in agony until his death. Despite past attempts to repair these scars, they had difficulty in covering up those slashes as the painting was done with tempera infused with diluted wax.

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🔥 One of a kind when she is gone she is gone.

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🕯️ The Word and Wax: A Medical Folk Ritual Among Ukrainians in Alberta 🕯️Explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring used by some members of the Alberta Ukrainian community as a means of driving away fear & curing minor ailments.

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🕯️ The ceremony is of the magico-religious & oral-incantational genre of folk medicine, incorporating Christian as well as non-Christian imagery.

🕯️ The Word and Wax is essential reading to anyone interested in the rich folkloric tradition brought to Alberta by early Ukrainian immigrants to Canada.

🕯️ The volume includes transliterations of the incantations

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🐝 The Golden Honey Feast Incense Sticks 🐝 On Aug 14th the Honey Feast begins & beekeepers honour their bees. The harvested honey would be consecrated to give it healing & magical powers. During Spases it is forbidden to quarrel, have negative emotions or hold grudges, instead you have to help people.

🐝 Much like the smoke that calms the bees burn this incense to bring peace, happiness and to remove negative emotions and energy from your home.

🐝 Burn incense as offerings, to carry your wishes, desires, and when casting your spellwork.

🐝 10 handmade incense sticks

🐝 Honey Spas, in Ukrainian (“Medovy Spas”) is traditionally the time to collect the late-summer honey. On this day people bless water, flowers & poppies in the churches. Each had a bouquet of flowers called “Makoviychik” or “Makoviyka” it might also contain marigolds, asters, cloves, cherry flowers, various grass (which are commonly called to “potions”) such as voloshky, cornflowers, mint, wormwood, yarrow. It is common to eat honey on this day. After the honey is blessed at the church, one would consume it, for its magical healing properties. People cook porridge with honey, baking pies, cakes & buns with poppy seeds & honey, making honey kvas. Honey was considered to have mystical & healing powers, which were able to overcome many diseases.

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🪨 The Witches Tower Shungite Pyramid 🪨 Alleged to offer protection against the evil eye, & also keep away s**tty negative energies. This Ancient stone is said to be around 2 billion years old.

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🪨 Due to the stone’s electric-conducting properties, it is a great grounding stone that can be used for focus & meditation. It aids in protection, stops bad luck & keeps negativity at bay. Magical & mystical its deep primordial energy brings ancient spirits into the process in a protective role.

🪨 Also known as the stone of rejuvenation, this mineral is hailed as containing a healing power incomparable to any other. Shungite purifies, protects, normalises induces recovery, and promotes growth in living organisms.

🪨 If you would like to learn more about this amazing mineral I highly recommend the book Shungite: Protection, Healing, & Detoxification.

🪨 NOTE 🪨 New towers feature a very cool, extremely pointy death spike at the top, please be carful when handing.

🌿 Welsh Witches & Wizards 🌿 The widespread belief in witches & wizards in Wales reflects a land steeped in legend & myth since ancient times. The witch’s power to harm people, livestock, & crops was greatly feared; for this reason country people consulted with so-called ‘cunning men’ & ‘wise women’ who had the power to negate their spells with counter-magic.

🌿 Cunning-folk practitioners were also consulted for love spells, to find lost property or missing persons, exorcise ghosts & banish evil spirits. The figures of both witch & wizard form part of a broader continuity in Wales. This popular belief in bears little relation to modern neo-pagan Wicca, & there is little evidence of its linkage to a nature religion based on a pre-Christian fertility cult.

🌿 This book describes the historically-attested Welsh practitioners of folk magic & witchcraft.. the Dark Sisters & the Toadmen, the Druids & Wizards, the Cunning Men & Faery Doctors & the charms & spells they used.

🌿 Also examined are surviving pagan beliefs associated with holy wells & the cult of the sacred head, & the mysterious & sometimes sinister ‘creatures of the night’ such as faeries, lake monsters, dragons & Black Dogs.

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🌚 Shungite Altar Offering Bowl 🌚
This Ancient stone said to be around 2 billion years old. It is said to offer protection against the evil eye and negative energies, & is alleged to ground spiritual energy, aid in psychic protection, & offer physical protection.

🌚 The stone of rejuvenation, this mineral is hailed as containing a healing power incomparable to any other. Shungite purifies, protects, normalises, induces recovery, & promotes growth in living organisms.

🌚 Perfect for offerings on your ritual space or altar.

The harvest was one of the most important events of the year. It marked an end to the period of fertility, ruled over by the gods associated with these natural powers.

All Indo-European harvest traditions were quite similar. The last ripened sheaf of grain was considered to be sacred, and was treated in a special manner. It was believed to contain the power of the spirit or deity associated with the fields. Usually young women would braid the sheaf, or create some shape, and wrap the grain stalks in red ribbon, or decorate it in some way.

The activity of threshing was also a symbolically important event. The process of separating the edible part of the grain from the chaff was done at a special place that was considered to be sacred. In former Yugoslavian regions it was called ” gumno”. The threshing floor was circular in shape, often with a wooden pole in the middle of the room, which animals were tied to, and made to walk in circles, their great strength used to effortlessly thresh the grain. This was large powerful farm animals, like horses, oxen and other cattle. The next phase of this process was called winnowing. The grain chaff mixture was tossed into the air with pitchforks, so that the grain would be separated with the help of the wind. This was, in fact, the reason that the threshing room was built in windy places.

https://slaviccalendar.com/2024/08/01/the-harvest/