Re: Yes, I'm a Witch

[Gost]

Hoćeš da upitam poznanicu za lapis lazuli? Ona te kristale nabavlja preko neke tete.

Pitam i za smaragd kolika je cijena.  Ima li kakav popust i tako to.

[Buffy]

Pitaj

[besposlenpop]

Meni su stalno govorili da moram samragd nositi, ali malo mi to bio preskup sport , ametist bi se vec dalo.

: )) Ma lijepo. Smaragd, ha? Koja su njegova svojstva?

...

Pravo pitanje je: đe toga ima!

[darla_]

Pitam i za smaragd kolika je cijena.  Ima li kakav popust i tako to.

Moze

[Buffy]

Kaj sad, sve su nam vještice pobegle, moramo popuniti redove... Od danas sam ja vještica ovdje

[besposlenpop]

Kaj sad, sve su nam vještice pobegle, moramo popuniti redove... Od danas sam ja vještica ovdje

Evo ti onda metla: 

[Buffy]

Fala, imam već...

[Tomica]

http://www.northernrenaissance.org/notes-on-john-dees-aztec-mirror/

[Tomica]

"For the ancient Celts, all boundaries were liminal, magical places; whether the boundaries between day and night (dawn, dusk), between the water and the land, or the portals between summer and winter (Beltaine and Samhain). The same applied to boundaries in the landscape. Offerings such as bog butter were often left for the Spirits of Place, at the spot where two landholdings meet.

In Scottish tradition, it was important to saine (sanctify or purify) the boundaries of your land yearly, by 'walking the bounds' with a flaming torch, making a sun-wise circuit. The house, the barn, the herds and the land could also be sained with salt or salt water, especially water taken from the ninth wave of the sea.

According to ancient Irish Brehon laws, a boundary could be marked by a standing stone, or large natural rock, a ditch, a tree, water or a roadway. Another sturdy boundary marker was the living hedge or hedgerow." (1)

"The name, Hedge Witch, comes from days of old when villages were separated by forests. The edge of a village where the forest began was called the hedge. In most villages there was an herbal practitioner, who lived in the forest or near the edge of the forest. This was the person the villagers appealed to when there was no doctor, or the doctor couldn't cure them. The practitioner who lived by the hedge and practiced herbal arts was called a Hedge Witch." (2)

"The word hedge witch is a direct translation from the Saxon word 'haegtessa' which means hedge-rider. Now many people seem to think that the 'hedge' in hedge witch means a 'fence' of plants and forrests. This is not what is meant. In those days wise women or healers lived inside a forrest or just before a forrest. Forrests were considered the 'unknown' because they contained all the spirirts and creatures in them. Thus it was meant that the witch or hedge witch is on the border of both worlds (Physical realm and the realm of the Fae, the mythical creatures, etc.). Hedge witches were said to be able to communicate and interact with both worlds.

Hedge witches would enter a trance by either hallucinogens, meditation, dancing, chanting. When they enter this trance they are able to communicate with the spirirts and other beings, where they would obtain information from. When they go about entering this trance, it was called 'hedge riding' simply meaning travelling in the other world.

They would then use this information to heal others or become closer to nature and make brews or potions. Hedge witches generally practiced shamanism and herbalism. They knew about nature, the cycles of nature, the moon phases, etc." (3)


(1) The Witches' Almanac, Issue 34, Spring 2015-Spring 2016: Fire: The Transformer
Spring 2015-Spring 2016 ed.
Edited by Theitic
https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Almanac-Issue-S…/…/188109815X

(2) http://hedgewitchforest.com/

(3) Article by LadyFury; Introduction to Hedge-witchery; http://www.spellsofmagic.com/coven_ritual.html…

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