Drogo Coffee

✨ NEW TEA RELEASE ✨

-Spirit Bomb-

This blend of echinacea, eucalyptus, tulsi, spearmint, ginko, and butterfly pea-flower will do it all: clear your sinuses, boost your immune system, help respiratory health, and give you more of a kick than a senzu bean.

Plus it brews blue. So that’s pretty cool.

When every thing else fails? Throw a Spirit Bomb at it.

Link: ✨https://www.drogocoffee.com/product-page/the-spirit-bomb✨
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✨ NEW TEA RELEASE! ✨

Also- one of THREE new releases today! Keep your eyes peeled today for more!

THE KIRIN 🍃

This delicate and refreshing tea is a blend of Lotus, Bamboo, and Jasmin green tea.

It is our fresh new Cryptid tea for March! Link: ✨https://www.drogocoffee.com/product-page/the-kirin ✨

The Kirin, or qilin (Chinese: 麒麟) is a legendary hooved chimerical creature that appears in Chinese mythology, and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. Kirin are a specific type of the lin mythological family of one-horned beasts. The Kirin also appears in the mythologies of other cultures, such as Japanese and Korean mythology.

Kirin generally have Chinese dragon-like features with similar heads with antlers and manes that always flow upward. The body is fully or partially scaled and often shaped like an ox, deer, or horse. They are always shown with cloven hooves. While dragons in China are also most commonly depicted as golden, Kirin may be of any color or even various colors, and can be depicted as bejeweled or exhibiting a jewel-like brilliance. Common color choices for depictions are often associated with the elements, precious metals, stars, and/or gemstones.
The Kirin is depicted throughout a wide range of Chinese art, sometimes with parts of their bodies on fire. On occasion, they will have feathery features, decorations, or fluffy, curly tufts of hair. It is said their voice sounds like the tinkling of bells, chimes, and the wind.

Janhunen, J. (2011). Unicorn, Mammoth, Whale: mythological and etymological connections of zoonyms in North and East Asia. Linguistics, Archaeology and the Human Past, Occasional Paper, 12, 189–222.

http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Myth/personsqilin.html

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✨NEW CRYPTID TEA RELEASE!✨

-The Wendigo-

An unusual black tea blend, containing rosemary, blackberry, and peppermint.
This tea is now available on Drogo Coffee and Tea’s site!

✨Link: https://www.drogocoffee.com/product-page/the-wendigo ✨

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‼️Please continue to read for an in-depth history of this complicated Cryptid.‼️

Wendigo (/ˈwɛndɪɡoʊ/) is a mythological creature or evil spirit which originates from the folklore of First Nations based in and around the East Coast forests of Canada, the Great Plains region of the United States, and the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, grouped in modern ethnology as speakers of Algonquian-family languages A list of those in that group can found here including background, history and culture (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples)

The wendigo normally is said to be a malevolent spirit, sometimes depicted as a creature with human-like characteristics, that can possess humans. The wendigo is known to invoke feelings of insatiable greed/hunger and a need to commit murder/cannibalize humans that fall under it’s influence.

In some traditions, humans overpowered by greed could turn into wendigos. Other sources say wendigos were created when a human resorted to cannibalism to survive. Also, humans could turn into wendigos by being near the creature for an extended period of time.

Clashing with its portrayals in twentieth-century and twenty-first-century settler culture, in indigenous representations the wendigo is described as a giant humanoid with a heart of ice; a foul stench or sudden, unseasonable chill might warn of its approach. Possibly due to longtime identification by Europeans with their own superstitions about werewolves, Hollywood film representations often label the Wendigo as a beast hybrid. Normally including antlers or horns in the depictions, but such animal features do not appear in the original indigenous stories. Though, in our representation of the Wendigo we tried to include a blending of the two- while respecting its origin.

PLEASE, we encourage you to continue to educate yourself on the origin of this Cryptid and the cultures that it belongs to. Here are some pieces of media to help get you started:

Zarka, Emily (2019-10-17). "Windigo: The Flesh-Eating Monster of Native American Legend". Monstrum. Season 1. Episode 13. PBS Digital Studios.
Horn, Kahntineta (March 14, 2013). "Boogie Men". mohawknationnews.com. Kahnawake: Mohawk Nation News.
Marie Merasty (1974). The World of Wetiko: Tales from the Woodland Cree. Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College.
Ridington, Robin. “Wechuge and Windigo: A Comparison of Cannibal Belief among Boreal Forest Athapaskans and Algonkians.” Anthropologica, vol. 18, no. 2, Canadian Anthropology Society, 1976, pp. 107–29, https://doi.org/10.2307/25604963.
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New Year, New Additions to the Drogo website!

The first addition is that you can now be emailed when a sold-out product is restocked! Under any of our out of stock items, there is now a "Notify When Available" button. Click that, input your email address, and we'll do the rest! An email will be sent when the product is back in our online store.

The second, and even more exciting addition, is...

WE NOW HAVE DROGO GIFT CARDS!!!

These will be eGift Cards available on our website and will only be useable in our online store. You can buy one of these eGift Cards for yourself or as a gift for someone else. eGift Card codes will then be emailed directly to you (or your intended recipient). "How to Use" instructions are listed out on the Gift Card page when you go to purchase. We're offering Gift Card denominations of $10 through $300. If you need an amount larger than this, please reach out and we can add the option to the website!

You can find the eGift Cards here:
https://www.drogocoffee.com/egift-card

✨✨✨✨RAFFLE TIME!!!!!✨✨✨✨

Raffle ticket sales end tomorrow, December 14th, at Midnight! Get your tickets and tune in Wednesday, December 15th, to see the results!

Sneak Peek Number 2! 💥NEW TEA RELEASE💥

Drogo’s new Cryptid tea line will be highlighting 12 of our favorite Cryptids, but also be highlighting not so common tea ingredients. Bamboo, Chickory, Hawthorne- we are trying to include multiple complimenting flavors to show off these rare ingredients with these elusive creatures.

Our first Cryptid Tea, The Mermaid, will have Mango, Passionfruit, and Coconut- more about the blend later but we wanted to give another peek into this blend! 💜

This will be released January 1st 2022- BUT, you have a chance to get a bag before everyone else.

Our tea subscribers get their bag in December, and we will be raffling off one bag in this year’s holiday raffle.

The Raffle will happen at noon EST on Wednesday December 15th -LIVE- on our Facebook and Instagram pages (as long as technology behaves itself). Cut-off time for purchasing your raffle tickets will be 11:59 pm EST (midnight) on Tuesday December 14th.

Get your ticket or Drogo tea subscription before December 15th to get first dibs on the cryptids!
Keep your eyes peeled for more sneak peeks this month! 👀👀👀

Raffle: https://www.drogocoffee.com/product-page/raffle
Tea Subscription: https://www.drogocoffee.com/tea (scroll to the bottom 💜)
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