#folkwitch — Public Fediverse posts

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom recently joined the UGA Coastal Ecology Lab for a fantastic journey into the Okefenokee Swamp. If you get a chance to see the whole segment, do it! Here is the promo for it: #Nature #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Ecology youtu.be/n10G5Qp0Wio?...

How American Alligators Shape ...

An alligator bellow is one of the most incredible sounds of the Okefenokee. Alligators bellow for several reasons - to attract mates, establish their size, intimidate their rivals, & to socialize. There's nothing quite like hearing this in person! #FolkWitch #Nature #Okefenokee #WitchSky

While the head simmers, the claws are resting in a bed of borax to cure. If the scutes are the armor and the head is the guardian, the claw is the grip. Saving these to fix into hands that hold fast to blessings and tear through tricks. The grit continues! #FolkWitch #WitchSky #SwampMagic #Nature

While the head simmers, the claws are resting in a bed of borax to cure. If the scutes are the armor and the head is the guardian, the claw is the grip. Saving these to fix into hands that hold fast to blessings and tear through tricks. The grit continues! #FolkWitch #WitchSky #SwampMagic #Nature

While the head simmers, the claws are resting in a bed of borax to cure. If the scutes are the armor and the head is the guardian, the claw is the grip. Saving these to fix into hands that hold fast to blessings and tear through tricks. The grit continues! #FolkWitch #WitchSky #SwampMagic #Nature

While the head simmers, the claws are resting in a bed of borax to cure. If the scutes are the armor and the head is the guardian, the claw is the grip. Saving these to fix into hands that hold fast to blessings and tear through tricks. The grit continues! #FolkWitch #WitchSky #SwampMagic #Nature

While the head simmers, the claws are resting in a bed of borax to cure. If the scutes are the armor and the head is the guardian, the claw is the grip. Saving these to fix into hands that hold fast to blessings and tear through tricks. The grit continues! #FolkWitch #WitchSky #SwampMagic #Nature

Processing the Old One's head today. It's a major job of work to separate the flesh and free the bone. The path to 'fixin' this swamp guardian is gritty work... It's required and worth it. #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Nature

Processing the Old One's head today. It's a major job of work to separate the flesh and free the bone. The path to 'fixin' this swamp guardian is gritty work... It's required and worth it. #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Nature

Processing the Old One's head today. It's a major job of work to separate the flesh and free the bone. The path to 'fixin' this swamp guardian is gritty work... It's required and worth it. #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Nature

Processing the Old One's head today. It's a major job of work to separate the flesh and free the bone. The path to 'fixin' this swamp guardian is gritty work... It's required and worth it. #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Nature

Processing the Old One's head today. It's a major job of work to separate the flesh and free the bone. The path to 'fixin' this swamp guardian is gritty work... It's required and worth it. #FolkWitch #WitchSky #Nature

The Work is the antidote to doubt. Simmering the gator hauls today, skull & armor, which strips away the "imposter" and reveals the practitioner. You can’t fake the steam, the stink, or the grit of the harvest. Reclaiming the bones of the St. Mary’s is my signature on the Land. #FolkWitch #WitchSky

To govern the muck, you must be willing to touch it. Today is about the simmer & the scrape - refining a "St. Mary’s gift" into a relic. Folk magic is often heavy, stinky, & honest. I don't just witness the mirror - I reach into the depths to bring the bone back. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

The St. Mary’s was a liquid glass yesterday. In the Lore, a surface this still is a window - a chance to see the "stars in the mud" without the distortion of the wind. The blackwater doesn't just hold the reflection of the trees; it holds the memory of the rain. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch #WitchSky

Every cypress knee is an anchor for the Basin’s sovereignty. They continue to weather the killing dry; standing watch as the blackwater returns. Collected a few witnesses yesterday to remind myself: strength isn't always in the reach; sometimes it’s in the anchor. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Every cypress knee is an anchor for the Basin’s sovereignty. They continue to weather the killing dry; standing watch as the blackwater returns. Collected a few witnesses yesterday to remind myself: strength isn't always in the reach; sometimes it’s in the anchor. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Every cypress knee is an anchor for the Basin’s sovereignty. They continue to weather the killing dry; standing watch as the blackwater returns. Collected a few witnesses yesterday to remind myself: strength isn't always in the reach; sometimes it’s in the anchor. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Every cypress knee is an anchor for the Basin’s sovereignty. They continue to weather the killing dry; standing watch as the blackwater returns. Collected a few witnesses yesterday to remind myself: strength isn't always in the reach; sometimes it’s in the anchor. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Every cypress knee is an anchor for the Basin’s sovereignty. They continue to weather the killing dry; standing watch as the blackwater returns. Collected a few witnesses yesterday to remind myself: strength isn't always in the reach; sometimes it’s in the anchor. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

The St. Mary’s River offered a gift yesterday: the weathered remains of a basin guardian. In the lore, an alligator carcass is the ultimate "body sign" of the land’s cycle: life, drought, and the eventual return to the mud. Memento Mori in the piney woods. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Etymology as Lore: the white water lily is the Nymphaea - the Nymph of the swampy basin. These are the stars that didn't just fall; they stayed to govern the muck. Seeing them rise after the rain is like watching a thousand spirits wake at once. #SwampSunday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Rain is falling over the piney woods of Brantley, Clinch, and the Swamp Heart. I can feel the marrow-ache lifting as the blackwater mirror is being refreshed. The stars aren't resting in the muck anymore; they’re rising. The sky has answered. (1 of 2) #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky

My Grandmother would sweep her sand yard. No debris would be left - just a nice white, sand yard. A common person would say it was to deter snakes or vermin. A Cunning Person would say it was to deter far more than that. Brooms have many uses! #WyrdWednesday #FolkWitch #WitchSky

The bull gator’s bellow isn’t just sound; it’s a frequency. As a Swamp Wytch, I know that vibration in my marrow - the "Earth’s Breath." One of my familiars speaks through the blackwater, a pull into the depths where the ancestral cypress knees whisper swamp secrets. #WyrdWednesday #FolkWitch

In the Lore, we work by the body signs. Today, the marrow feels like dry peat. I’m mapping the ache, matching the Land’s thirst with my own. The bigger work is in the bones now; hushing until the blackwater returns to the blood and the mirror is restored. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch

Thinking of starting a themed hashtag here on BlueSky and I'd love to hear if there would be interest. What about FolkWitchFriday? I'd like to plan out monthly/weekly themes for it possibly. Thoughts? Support? #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Thinking of starting a themed hashtag here on BlueSky and I'd love to hear if there would be interest. What about FolkWitchFriday? I'd like to plan out monthly/weekly themes for it possibly. Thoughts? Support? #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Thinking of starting a themed hashtag here on BlueSky and I'd love to hear if there would be interest. What about FolkWitchFriday? I'd like to plan out monthly/weekly themes for it possibly. Thoughts? Support? #WitchSky #FolkWitch

The Okefenokee Swamp is out of balance. Skink brings the heat, but I’m the counterweight in the Satilla mud. I match his fiery crown with the medicine of the dark mirror, stirring the water to call the heavy clouds back to the 'dust-choked cage.' Balance or burn. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch #WitchSky

The 'Red-headed Scorpion" is at the door, a fiery scout for the Serpent. I’m matching his heat with rain-work, stirring the blackwater medicine to call back the clouds. The Okefenokee is 16" late on its blessing, but this folk witch won't stop until the sky finally cracks. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch

The 'Red-headed Scorpion" is at the door, a fiery scout for the Serpent. I’m matching his heat with rain-work, stirring the blackwater medicine to call back the clouds. The Okefenokee is 16" late on its blessing, but this folk witch won't stop until the sky finally cracks. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch

The 'Red-headed Scorpion" is at the door, a fiery scout for the Serpent. I’m matching his heat with rain-work, stirring the blackwater medicine to call back the clouds. The Okefenokee is 16" late on its blessing, but this folk witch won't stop until the sky finally cracks. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch

In the Okefenokee, hydromancy isn’t practiced in clear pools, but in "blackwater" mirrors. Deeply stained by peat tannins, these obsidian surfaces don't just reflect the sky, they trap it. Peer into the amber depths to see the future written in amber shadows. #SwampSunday #FolkWitch #Okefenokee

Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch

Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch

Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch

Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch

Not all swamp beauty is benevolent; the yellow jasmine hides a strychnine-like poison within its climbing vines. It’s a botanical reminder that the marsh demands respect and that beauty often carries a sharp, hidden edge. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Nature #FolkWitch

"When a west country witch wishes to draw to her spirit forces... she makes use of a wind roarer... Little wonder that the spirits come flocking in to see what all the ghastly moaning is about." (ALT: Cecil Williamson) (1 of 2) #FaustianFriday #Pellor #FolkWitch #WitchSky youtu.be/5PgGDMmBtDg?...

Loud Bullroarer Demonstration

During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

During sun-showers in the South, you will hear someone say, "The Devil is beating his wife!" Some say he is angry with God for creating beautiful sunny days, & takes his anger out on her. In turn, she cries large tears / raindrops. #FaustianFriday #SouthernFolklore #WitchSky #FolkWitch

Some mornings I just never know what type of research or rabbit hole I might fall into. This morning it has been exploring using egg-white (glair) as a binder for lampblack ink. What rabbit hole are you exploring? #FolkWitch

Dragonflies - the embodiment of all elements, riding atop an alligator. Mysteries, upon mysteries! "We probably enjoy observing animals so much because we learn a great deal about ourselves in doing so." ~ Charles Baudelaire #SwampSunday #Auguries #FolkWitch

Dragonflies - the embodiment of all elements, riding atop an alligator. Mysteries, upon mysteries! "We probably enjoy observing animals so much because we learn a great deal about ourselves in doing so." ~ Charles Baudelaire #SwampSunday #Auguries #FolkWitch

Dragonflies - the embodiment of all elements, riding atop an alligator. Mysteries, upon mysteries! "We probably enjoy observing animals so much because we learn a great deal about ourselves in doing so." ~ Charles Baudelaire #SwampSunday #Auguries #FolkWitch

Stalled is good. Completely abandoned & NOT going to happen will be even better! #OkefenokeeSwamp #Georgia #FolkWitch #WitchSky apnews.com/article/okef...

Mining project near the Okefen...

Cool East wedge tomb, Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland. I visited in 2017. Located up on an elevated ridge on gated farmland, this megalithic tomb is an amazing spot! #TombTuesday #Ireland #FolkWitch #WitchSky

Aloe bloom update! Really starting to show out! Loving this process! 💚 #WitchSky #FolkWitch #HerbSky #Aloe