Tag: magic

barebackbearyak:

deathdaydream:

the dream: you’re living in the woods with the person you love. it’s fall, you’re knitting and drinking cider with cinnamon, black metal is playing. you’ve built a fire from the driftwood you found on the beach. your partner is making dinner from the food you’ve been growing in your garden. an effigy of bones and sticks has been woven and hung above the door to protect the property and the crops. you’re going to make a pie later. the locals are afraid of you.

I agree with 100% of this, but may I add: you and your partner both pull tricks, pranks, and illusions (albeit small ones) that fool local children into thinking you can do magic, so that when you and your partner have grown old, the now-grown children will immortalize you and your partner as literal witches/wizards and an entire population will debate whether or not you could do actual magic for generations to come, and long after you’ve gone, your house will be That House.

Now I’m trying to imagine an episode of a real estate show where the couple in question searches for this house.

“We need a three bedroom, two bathroom home with a huge kitchen for making potions and practicing herb witchery. We also need a large yard for growing our own vegetables and medicinal herbs, and for burying things. We keep chickens, sheep and pigs, and these are all free range, so they need plenty of space to roam. My magic is linked to the woods, so any green space with old trees is fine, but hers is anchored to running water, so a permanent stream or ocean nearby is a must. Our budget is $500,000, but we’re not afraid of hexing the property we want to drive down the price.”

madmaudlingoes:

tygermama:

penfairy:

why DO teenage girls go through a witch/occult phase? I had tarot cards and a spellbook and I knew a group of girls who messed with ouija boards and another who had ghost hunting equipment. “oh yeah Cindy’s just going through that girly phase where she tries to raise the dead.”

theory – we want power and know our culture doesn’t want to give us any?

Addendum: witches are one of the few cultural figures of female empowerment that don’t derive their power from their relationship to a man.

Plus, most forms of christianity and christian society is full of layers upon layers of contradictory rules and customs that you’re supposed to somehow untangle and balance to work out how to be a Good Person TM.

Witchcraft, at its most elemental, boils down to ‘do no harm but take no shit’, which not only simplifies things a lot, but also puts the weight of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ back on your individual choices and isn’t anchored to some overarching set of benchmarks that most people don’t actually need to follow to the letter to live a happy, productive, and compassionate life.

The true magic is the freedom you carve out for yourself, and I can’t think of anything more appealing to a young woman trying to work out who she is rather than what she’s been told she is her whole life.

jabberwockypie:

ylixia:

tawghasa:

Out of Phil Coulson and Clint Barton, which one seems more like a witch to you? Because on the one hand I can see Phil taking magic very seriously and having spell books and all that stuff and working hard and getting recognised and climbing the ranks. But also I can see Clint being a hot mess of a witch who kind of wings it? Like works hard and knows his stuff, but also kinda flings magic around and maybe makes bad decisions and makes them worse with magic.

Clint Barton grew up in the circus if anyone is a witch it is definitely him

Sounds completely legit.

(Also might explain some things in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, which is basically just Nat & Clint in previous lives.)

Hee. I bet Clint’s room for his magic/witch stuff is just as much a mess as … um, basically everything about him.. *pets* I mean witches and wizards tend to accumulate a lot of STUFF anyway. You never know what you might need.

“Aw, grimoire, no!” he says as he drops this centuries-old manuscript into a bubbling cauldron.