Michelle Cunningham ⛤
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Michelle Cunningham ⛤
@oldstoneways.bsky.social
Queer Witch | Pagan Writer | Folklore Collector | Lover of Stones | She/they

UK / Aus / Can
Tla’amin, Homalco & Klahoose Territory
Oh that’s shocking, I’m sorry 😞
December 14, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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).
December 13, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Merry meet! Yes of course feel free to use it… would be a lovely thing if it caught on!
December 7, 2024 at 8:43 PM
I’m a pagan writer, I’d love to be considered 🖤
December 1, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Madcap clabbernapper! 🤣
November 29, 2024 at 11:03 PM
These are delightful!
November 28, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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!
November 26, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Really looking forward to diving into it. Also, Underland is one of my favourites! Robert Macfarlane is brilliant, of course.
November 26, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Absolutely!
November 26, 2024 at 2:21 AM
So wish I could have attended. Congrats!
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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…
November 25, 2024 at 11:09 PM
He’s (almost) always there!!
November 25, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Yes! Pliny is so pervasive, isn’t he. Such a lasting influence on folk remedies / folk charms.
November 25, 2024 at 10:01 PM