Oh that’s shocking, I’m sorry 😞

If the pins remained in the wick after the candle had burnt away around them, their lover would swiftly appear. If they fell out, their lover would be disloyal.

A few variations are recorded in Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (1866).

Merry meet! Yes of course feel free to use it… would be a lovely thing if it caught on!

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I’m a pagan writer, I’d love to be considered 🖤

Madcap clabbernapper! 🤣

These are delightful!

Absolutely. Frankly I’m so tired (bored?) of the perfected aesthetic. There was so much hidden in plain sight in the past. Regular objects, farming implements, etc, were important for their symbolic / functional essence. Use what you have on hand is really a cornerstone of practice!

Really looking forward to diving into it. Also, Underland is one of my favourites! Robert Macfarlane is brilliant, of course.

Absolutely!

So wish I could have attended. Congrats!

Very different things seem to be happening in Bald’s Leechbook and the Lacnunga, however. Distinctly northern magic that doesn’t appear to perpetuate Pliny…

He’s (almost) always there!!

Yes! Pliny is so pervasive, isn’t he. Such a lasting influence on folk remedies / folk charms.