For Puck's Sake
Ded Moroz, unlike most Santa figures, doesn't come with a Krampus-like companion as most do around Europe. Ded Moroz embodied both archetypes - the benevolence and wrath of wintertime. Read more
Ded Moroz, unlike most Santa figures, doesn't come with a Krampus-like companion as most do around Europe. Ded Moroz embodied both archetypes - the benevolence and wrath of wintertime. Read more
The book is well balanced between how-to, poetry, research, anecdotal stories, and messages from the feary folk themselves. As such the book has a very interesting mix of informative, practical, imaginative, style of writing. Read more
Unlike her depiction in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Grýla isn't depicted as a beautiful woman who wears dark eyeshadow, wine red lipstick and dark contour. Grýla, like your average troll, has an appetite for misbehaving children. She's often depicted with several tails, horns, a beard, and a hag-like appearance. In other words, she's appealing enough by troll standards to put a ring on it. Read more
Utterly Wicked: Curses, Hexes & Other Unsavory Notions by Dorothy Morrison is one of the most important books that I own in my library. It's a book that I think every serious witch and magickal practitioner should own, even if you have no interest or desire in casting curses or hexes. Read more
To make a long story short, the children begin devouring the witch's house and the witch, out of the kindness of her heart allows the children to stay with her despite the vandalism and property damage. Gretel is asked to help out around the house before she murders the poor witch by shoving her in the oven. Okay, I may be taking some biased liberties with the story, so I should probably mention that the witch had locked Hansel in a cage and was fattening him on sweets because she was planning to eat him. Read more
In part of Norway St. Lucia is associated with the various hidden folk of the region and its said that on both Yule and her day that trolls, witches and evil spirits roam wild in a procession called Lussiferda, where St. Lucia under the name Lussi leads the event as a witch and demoness. Read more
Some traditions had people giving offerings to the Yule Cat who would eat its offerings outside and move house to house peering into the windows to see if new clothing were among their holiday gifts. Read more
His hermitage in the woods made him go insane and soon he found himself craving the taste of human flesh. He became obsessed with the idea of cannibalism and so he came up with a plan. He would disguise himself as a scarecrow, wearing raggedy clothing and stuffing it with straw and sticks and would wait in the fields for his prey to come by. Read more
I do self-worship and, for me, to honor (worship) myself means that I honor my Spirits. I have never had to compromise who I am to honor or work with a Spirit, Daemon or God. I very much work with the Dark Goddesses, in all their forms, and their lessons have been paramount in molding me as a Witch and Woman. Read more
Something that I am extremely grateful for about growing up in the witchcraft community is that I was able to start my relationship with spirits very young and it was fostered rather than being shut down. I see a lot of people struggle to work through their disbelief enough in order to be open to spiritual and psychic experiences later in life and I am glad that I didn’t have to fight through those same layers of disbelief. Read more
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