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THEME BY LOSTMEMENTO
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Rather than writing a lengthy and frankly contrite post about how my praxis is somehow unique and different from everyone else I think posting some of my favorite books will speak volumes, heh.
“Old World Witchcraft” by Raven Gramassi, “Pagan Cornwall: Land of the Goddess” by Cheryl Straffon, “Sorgitzak: Old Forest Craft” by Veronica Cummer, “West Country Witches” by Michael Howard, and “Witches’ Book of the Dead” by Christian Day.
All of these books I highly recommend minus perhaps the last one because the author falls into the pitfall of fakelore and omits sources, which misleads the reader but otherwise a decent book~!
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Ritual of the Chough
During Allantide, also called Kalan Gwav or Nos Kalan Gwav, which in itself has associations with the mighty dead, the ‘Black Bucka’ and his faery rade, and the totem of the north, The Chough, a ritual was performed by a person of skill to receive insight, wisdom, and cunning knowledge which would require them to venture off into the veil. This place was called many things: Wyrmsele, The Corpse Road, Hell, Fairyland, Elfhame, etc.
Although, there are other mentioned methods for so ‘hedge-riding’ one such rite of note is called ‘The Ritual of the Raven’, which is Welsh in origin but well known in West Country. Traditionally the ritual involved the capture of a raven but most Cornish cunning folk used the chough instead. It was then fed a strict diet of short loaves but my grandmother used Saffron Loafs with a knob of butter on them and water from a churchyard. This was done for a week and during this time the chough must not die.
On the eve of St. Arlen’s Day, which is another name for Allantide, the chough was killed with a ritual cut that drained almost all of its blood. I have been told by persons of good standing this is done with a bronze dagger and the blood is then combined with mixed earth, white lime, fly agaric, and woad. From this two colors are obtained: black and white. The raven was then gutted except for it’s heart. The reason why the heart is not removed is because it is where the ‘spirit’ dwells.
Tim Burton at the press conference to release “Dark Shadows” in LA
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Own. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
