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By Tom Gauld
Reblogged datura-inoxia
starting tomorrow i will be super normal fun kind sexy and functioning
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I love tumblr tags so much. Like okay here’s the main post and here’s my little secret thoughts and addendums for the besties
prev. you get it (via @freya-faust)
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“Dead flesh was also used in certain types of love magic, notably an buarach bhdis, the “spancel of death,” a strip of skin removed in one unbroken piece from the top of the corpse’s head to its heels. If the loved and desired person was touched by this, their undying devotion would be gained.”
— The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, edited by Peter Narvaez, pg. 312
she touch my flesh ribbon until the root is on her
You can break this curse by learning about the dead person who’s skin touched you and visiting their grave site with flowers whenever you feel a compulsion to revisit the person who cursed you or do their will.
Just saying.
There really is no definitive recorded method for breaking this curse. However, because this curse comes to us from historical records of Irish folk magic, it is most likely that the victim of the curse would go directly to a Bean Feasa for the remedy.
The Bean Feasa, or wise woman, most likely would inform the victim that they would then need to find and destroy the an buarach bhàis in a very specific manner. Appeasing the spirit of the spancel might also play a part in this but that would assume that the victim could learn the identity of the dead person, so it seems more likely that prayers would be made to higher powers.
I just told you how to break the curse.
It’s a love spell and they used someone else’s body as the sacrifice and main material component.
So you supercede the compulsion by giving love to the sacrifice instead and this deprives the compulsion of anything on which it can feed.
Did I stutter?
And I'm telling you why your UPG is unlikely to be successful. Irish folk magic does not operate off of a concept of "uwu only love can break this curse".
Anyway! You seem like you got some anger issues, so please feel free to block me and move on ❤️
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“Dead flesh was also used in certain types of love magic, notably an buarach bhdis, the “spancel of death,” a strip of skin removed in one unbroken piece from the top of the corpse’s head to its heels. If the loved and desired person was touched by this, their undying devotion would be gained.”
— The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, edited by Peter Narvaez, pg. 312
she touch my flesh ribbon until the root is on her
You can break this curse by learning about the dead person who’s skin touched you and visiting their grave site with flowers whenever you feel a compulsion to revisit the person who cursed you or do their will.
Just saying.
There really is no definitive recorded method for breaking this curse. However, because this curse comes to us from historical records of Irish folk magic, it is most likely that the victim of the curse would go directly to a Bean Feasa for the remedy.
The Bean Feasa, or wise woman, most likely would inform the victim that they would then need to find and destroy the an buarach bhàis in a very specific manner. Appeasing the spirit of the spancel might also play a part in this but that would assume that the victim could learn the identity of the dead person, so it seems more likely that prayers would be made to higher powers.
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Stars, Songs, Faces
by Carl Sandburg
Gather the stars if you wish it so Gather the songs and keep them. Gather the faces of women. Gather for keeping years and years. And then… Loosen your hands, let go and say good-bye. Let the stars and songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-bye.
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“Dead flesh was also used in certain types of love magic, notably an buarach bhdis, the “spancel of death,” a strip of skin removed in one unbroken piece from the top of the corpse’s head to its heels. If the loved and desired person was touched by this, their undying devotion would be gained.”
— The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, edited by Peter Narvaez, pg. 312
You know you've hit a certain point in your magical practice when you're really excited about the arrival of a circular chalkboard. I really can't wait to use it in my Black Dragon work.
No random insights for tonight because I spent the day doing scrying exercises and my brain is completely useless right now. Maybe that is the insight: don't overdo it, and don't forget to rest.
Milldust and Dreaming Bread arrived today with a beautiful art print and a lovely note from the author (to be quite honest, I just wanted a hardcover edition but these are nice perks that went along with that tier). I didn't realize backers would be named in the acknowledgments 😂 whoops.
Scrying and spirit work require similar focus and dedication. That tried and true advice to keep a notebook handy when scrying and write down everything you see - when you see it, exactly as you see it?
It's because if you wait and return to it later, you have a good chance of losing details. But even worse than that is the chance of embellishing something that you didn't initially experience, which hinders progress. The mind rails against missing data and tries desperately to fill in the blanks with imaginative details, creating false images rather than letting itself accept the missing pieces of an imprecise art.