Witchcraft thread

[thistlewick]

The Gone Medieval podcast (an excellent podcast about history)
has an episode out today about Magic in medieval days.

I've listened to it and it's excellent, all scholastic rigour, zero silly woo.

It might upset some people in the sense that they might not be aware that magic was absolutely entwined with the Catholic church in the Middle Ages. *EVERYTHING* was entwined with the church in the Middle Ages haha

Lots of astrology - because that is what they believed and used!!

I really do recommend reading The Witch by Ronald Hutton for a rigorous scholarly history of Witches (and magic) written by a pagan professor of history (Bristol University) (tldr; *all* magic practice (ritual) in the world percolates out of Egypt. They reached everywhere and everyone. Read the book!!! It's fascinating. Shamanism/Animism is it's own completely separate and different thing - he writes about that in a different book as well.)

And his numerous books on Druids, which shed light on how desperately *little* we know about them and how we came about inventing all we think we know about them now.

Astrology, as we know, is from India (and just as ancient as Egyptian magic)

So medieval magic is a fun and creative blend of all these practices and looks very much like how people practice now -- except no animal sacrifice (which they were still definitely doing then!)

 

[RebelFord81]

Hey ya'll!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hi

 

[cassandrapettersson]

got a pagan market coming up at the end of june, 3 days long and we've got a table- i have no idea what to sell! I want us to get more traction, but i don't know howww .. All I can contribute with is bones and selling eggs, because,, idontknoww i've got chickens

id like to do some paintings or something, since i do paint but thing is.. i draw animals, not pagan,, themed stuff

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

got a pagan market coming up at the end of june, 3 days long and we've got a table- i have no idea what to sell! I want us to get more traction, but i don't know howww .. All I can contribute with is bones and selling eggs, because,, idontknoww i've got chickens

id like to do some paintings or something, since i do paint but thing is.. i draw animals, not pagan,, themed stuff

Maybe you should try your hand at abstract pour painting? I once made a really interesting painting by layering purple, pink, light blue, and black acrylic paint in a cup. Then I just flipped it over onto a canvas and it looked like outer space. My grandma has a painting setup with a spinning thing (I think just a cheap pottery wheel) and she uses one of those plastic pools you can find at Walmart this time of year, to make sure the paint doesn’t spray all over her workshop. So you can get these really interesting swirls and strands, and if you wait for them to dry, you can put a clear coat over the paintings to make them shiny.