The Willow Wisp
@agnosticmystic.bsky.social
An agnostic mystic. Still trying to sort out what that is. Pagan-adjacent. Trying to restore some semblance of a spiritual path after a long hiatus. In Jewish community but not of Jewish community. Epistemologically Neo-Kantian sensibilities.
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Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up 5 records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed.
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#pagan #heathen #music #folkmetal #greenlung #theneptunepowerfederation #spellbook #ealdorbealu #dungeonweed
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#pagan #heathen #music #folkmetal #greenlung #theneptunepowerfederation #spellbook #ealdorbealu #dungeonweed
New Heavy Music for Pagan Hearts, Volume 2 - Arts & Culture, Culture, Music Reviews, Paganism, Reviews
Witchcraft & Pagan News - Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up five records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed. | Arts & Cult...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Karl E.H. Seigfried spins up 5 records sure to appeal to Pagan rock and metal listeners, including new releases from Green Lung, SpellBook, and Dungeon Weed.
wildhunt.org/2025/12/new-...
#pagan #heathen #music #folkmetal #greenlung #theneptunepowerfederation #spellbook #ealdorbealu #dungeonweed
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#pagan #heathen #music #folkmetal #greenlung #theneptunepowerfederation #spellbook #ealdorbealu #dungeonweed
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Christmas Trees aren’t pagan…So why are people so obsessed with this myth?
Let’s trace it back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, the Nazis who promoted it, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, Yule Log….all with citations.
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Let’s trace it back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, the Nazis who promoted it, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, Yule Log….all with citations.
open.substack.com/pub/jewitche...
Christmas Trees Are Not Pagan
a Brief History of the Christmas Trees, White Supremacist Propaganda, & Popular Related Lies
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December 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Christmas Trees aren’t pagan…So why are people so obsessed with this myth?
Let’s trace it back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, the Nazis who promoted it, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, Yule Log….all with citations.
open.substack.com/pub/jewitche...
Let’s trace it back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, the Nazis who promoted it, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, Yule Log….all with citations.
open.substack.com/pub/jewitche...
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New excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure & a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, political authority, and martial power long before the famed Thirteen Towers were built.
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#archaeology
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#archaeology
Earliest Astronomical Architecture in the Americas Uncovered: A Place Where Warriors Watched the Sun - Indigenous Land, Latin America, News, TWH Features, Uncovering the Past, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - ew excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure and a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, polit...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
New excavations at Chankillo uncovered an early astronomical structure & a ritual vessel of warrior-astronomers, revealing that ancient Andean elites linked cosmology, political authority, and martial power long before the famed Thirteen Towers were built.
wildhunt.org/2025/12/earl...
#archaeology
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#archaeology
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"This is a wonderful book for freaks and perverts, for scared and tired academics, and for Witches who like to see Witchcraft done in new and interesting ways... my Witchy read of the fall." - Meg Elison
😳😻🥰
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😳😻🥰
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"Lessons in Magic and Disaster" is this fall's must-read Witchy book - Arts & Culture, Book Reviews, Culture, Paganism, Politics, TWH Features, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - "Lessons in Magic and Disaster deals better with what it is to be a Witch than almost any of the how-to manuals that have come out since the ‘90s renaissance," writes Meg Eli...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"This is a wonderful book for freaks and perverts, for scared and tired academics, and for Witches who like to see Witchcraft done in new and interesting ways... my Witchy read of the fall." - Meg Elison
😳😻🥰
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😳😻🥰
wildhunt.org/2025/09/less...
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Originally published in @derspekter.bsky.social , this week's Pickle lets @jewitches.bsky.social imploring of the Left to claim back Judaism from the far right, resonate across the Atlantic in time for the High Holidays.
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Why the Left should embrace Jewish tradition
We cannot cede religion to the far right.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Originally published in @derspekter.bsky.social , this week's Pickle lets @jewitches.bsky.social imploring of the Left to claim back Judaism from the far right, resonate across the Atlantic in time for the High Holidays.
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The Women Who Threw Corn:
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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The Women Who Threw Corn
Cambridge Core - Latin American History - The Women Who Threw Corn
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September 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Women Who Threw Corn:
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
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Trees in the Middle Ages: The Good and The Bad www.medievalists.net/2025/08/tree... #trees #medievalsky
Trees in the Middle Ages: The Good and The Bad - Medievalists.net
Explore the symbolic world of medieval trees—sacred lindens, deadly yews, and feared walnuts—in faith, folklore, and daily life
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August 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Trees in the Middle Ages: The Good and The Bad www.medievalists.net/2025/08/tree... #trees #medievalsky
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As 2025 sets global heat records, Indigenous wisdom remains sidelined. New scholarship shows that Sámi & Aboriginal knowledge, rooted in generations of lived experience, still struggles to shape climate policy & land use decisions worldwide.
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#climatechange #science
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#climatechange #science
Listening to the Land: Indigenous Wisdom Still Struggles for Recognition - Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Indigenous Land, News, Paganism, The Wild Hunt, U.S., World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - As 2025 sets global heat records, Indigenous wisdom remains sidelined. New scholarship shows that Sámi and Aboriginal knowledge, rooted in generations of lived experience, st...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
As 2025 sets global heat records, Indigenous wisdom remains sidelined. New scholarship shows that Sámi & Aboriginal knowledge, rooted in generations of lived experience, still struggles to shape climate policy & land use decisions worldwide.
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#climatechange #science
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#climatechange #science
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AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 300: GRANT MORRISON on MAGIC & APOCALYPSE
Friends, on the 300th ep of AEWCH I talk with one of the greatest artists of our time, GRANT MORRISON, on magic, comics, art, and our madly brilliant kaleidoscopic future.
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/12wF...
Friends, on the 300th ep of AEWCH I talk with one of the greatest artists of our time, GRANT MORRISON, on magic, comics, art, and our madly brilliant kaleidoscopic future.
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/12wF...
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
AGAINST EVERYONE WITH CONNER HABIB 300: GRANT MORRISON on MAGIC & APOCALYPSE
Friends, on the 300th ep of AEWCH I talk with one of the greatest artists of our time, GRANT MORRISON, on magic, comics, art, and our madly brilliant kaleidoscopic future.
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/12wF...
Friends, on the 300th ep of AEWCH I talk with one of the greatest artists of our time, GRANT MORRISON, on magic, comics, art, and our madly brilliant kaleidoscopic future.
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/12wF...
"To destroy a revered tree is to metaphorically sever a limb from the body of our cultural memory."
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#Trees
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#Trees
An Untimely Death at Sycamore Gap - JSTOR Daily
The outcry over the violent felling of a beloved tree in 2023 affirms the power trees hold in our cultural memory.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"To destroy a revered tree is to metaphorically sever a limb from the body of our cultural memory."
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#Trees
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#Trees
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"So when you say Thoth is ibis-headed, does that mean he has a head like an ibis, or an ibis coming out of his face?"
"Ibis coming out of his face, definitely."
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"Ibis coming out of his face, definitely."
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July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"So when you say Thoth is ibis-headed, does that mean he has a head like an ibis, or an ibis coming out of his face?"
"Ibis coming out of his face, definitely."
(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
"Ibis coming out of his face, definitely."
(www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)
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New research supports the health benefits of forest bathing, showing real forests reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost immunity, offering evidence for nature’s role in mental and physical well-being.
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#shinrinyoku #forests #mentalhealth #pagan #witchcraft #pagansky
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#shinrinyoku #forests #mentalhealth #pagan #witchcraft #pagansky
Healing Trees: New Research Shows Benefits of Shinrin-yoku - Asia, News, Paganism, Religion, Science, The Wild Hunt, U.S., Witchcraft, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - New research supports the health benefits of forest bathing, showing real forests reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost immunity, offering evidence for nature’s role in men...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
New research supports the health benefits of forest bathing, showing real forests reduce stress, improve sleep, and boost immunity, offering evidence for nature’s role in mental and physical well-being.
wildhunt.org/2025/07/heal...
#shinrinyoku #forests #mentalhealth #pagan #witchcraft #pagansky
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#shinrinyoku #forests #mentalhealth #pagan #witchcraft #pagansky
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4 episodes (each in English & German) already available. Would be keen to hear what you lovely people think! 🥹
The latest addition to the FH multimedia universe: The podcast, where contents are discussed in an entertaining dialogue format.
Each episode can be streamed & downloaded in English & German. Here is the introduction (in English): forbiddenhistories.podbean.com/e/introducti...
Enjoy!
Each episode can be streamed & downloaded in English & German. Here is the introduction (in English): forbiddenhistories.podbean.com/e/introducti...
Enjoy!
Introduction: From Magic to Science? | Forbidden Histories
Introduction to Forbidden Histories - evidence-based history of science & magic that will boggle your mind. :)
Also make sure to visit the Forbidden Histories Website.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
4 episodes (each in English & German) already available. Would be keen to hear what you lovely people think! 🥹
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Actually -- I, an intellectual, already knew this because of (hbomberguy's review of) Pathologique.
July 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Actually -- I, an intellectual, already knew this because of (hbomberguy's review of) Pathologique.
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Gundestruposting
I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of the Gundestrup cauldron until people start blocking me.
Have some.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
Have some.
National Museum, Copenhagen.
July 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Gundestruposting
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples
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Silence of the Gods | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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June 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples
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If you want to educate yourself on antisemitism (and I highly recommend you do so) and you don't want to be fed imperialist and pro-genocidal talking points from the ADL, I highly recommend @rudaleh.bsky.social's website. jewitches.com/pages/antise...
Antisemitism Education
As antisemitism is rising globally. And as a result, it is swelling online. It is a duty for not just the Jewish community, but for the people who claim to be our allies, to know this information. It ...
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January 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If you want to educate yourself on antisemitism (and I highly recommend you do so) and you don't want to be fed imperialist and pro-genocidal talking points from the ADL, I highly recommend @rudaleh.bsky.social's website. jewitches.com/pages/antise...
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GOTHIC PRECARITY
Very pleased to announce that my book, ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’, will be published late this summer by @uniwalespress.bsky.social
More details to follow…
#Gothic #climatecrisis #migration #war #precarity #neoliberal
Very pleased to announce that my book, ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’, will be published late this summer by @uniwalespress.bsky.social
More details to follow…
#Gothic #climatecrisis #migration #war #precarity #neoliberal
January 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
GOTHIC PRECARITY
Very pleased to announce that my book, ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’, will be published late this summer by @uniwalespress.bsky.social
More details to follow…
#Gothic #climatecrisis #migration #war #precarity #neoliberal
Very pleased to announce that my book, ‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’, will be published late this summer by @uniwalespress.bsky.social
More details to follow…
#Gothic #climatecrisis #migration #war #precarity #neoliberal
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December 21, 2024 at 4:24 PM
"May your demons slumber and your wine glass be full" by @wolfskulljack.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
"May your demons slumber and your wine glass be full" by @wolfskulljack.bsky.social
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Extremely proud of this work with the wonderful Stephen Mitchell. Available for pre-order: A Cultural History of Magic, 6 vols. 🔮🧿🧙♀️ #bloomsburyacademics #magic #witchcraft www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Magic
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December 19, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Extremely proud of this work with the wonderful Stephen Mitchell. Available for pre-order: A Cultural History of Magic, 6 vols. 🔮🧿🧙♀️ #bloomsburyacademics #magic #witchcraft www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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A Fox born of light illuminates the heavens on this cold winters night.
December 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
A Fox born of light illuminates the heavens on this cold winters night.