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sometiktoksarevalid · 5 months

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#cc #hagstone #adder stone #lgbt #queer #gay

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wishful-seeker · 1 year

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Let's Talk About Hagstones

Hagstones are rocks with naturally occurring holes in them. These rocks are usually found by bodies of water, and the hole is created by erosion from the water. I personally also consider shells with holes in them hagstones.

Editing bc someone mentioned this: the holes in shells are not caused by erosion but actually by creatures burrowing holes into shells. I know this and still consider them hagstones because they both involve holes and water, but that's just what I do in my craft personally.

Hagstones are considered to be good luck, to help with fertility, protection, healing, and seeing and communicating with spirits.

Some claim the only way to use a hagstone at "full" power is by finding it yourself or if it was given to you as a gift. Some people even say it has no power if you buy it yourself. "It only works if you find it yourself." I honestly think that's some superstitious (and slightly ablist) bs because mine were purchased and work just fine. Don't let superstition stop you from buying a pretty rock.

Anyways, here are some other superstitions regarding hagstones:

It is said that hagstones can ward off or attract the fae, as well as see through glamours. if you wish to attract some, you can pour morning dew through a Hag Stone hole and anoint yourself with it.

It's said that if you find a large hagstone, big enough to walk through, if you walk through with your partner you'll be blessed with a baby.

To have a good dream and calm mind tie one to your bedpost.

Nailing a hagstone to a boat will disperse oncoming storms

To make a wish come true place a hagstone in your left hand and rub it clockwise while thinking about your wish.

Tie them to something you want to protect to protect it.

Some say if you hold a hagstone you can't lie.

I personally keep one infront of my scrying mirror to keep spirits from leaving the mirror. I haven't anointed my stone with morning dew or seen much but looking through it definitely gives me a strange feeling. It definitely feels like a film infront of the world has been stripped away when you look through it.

Either way it's a pretty and cool rock

#witchcraft #witchy #witch #witchblr #hagstone

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lailoken · 22 days

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The Gloaming Tethers

The Gloaming tethers are a pair of ritual fetishes that hold great significance in my personal tradition.

The first of the two pictured here (from left to right) serves a talismanic link to my Witch-Queen—who I often call Bone Mother—and to the Chthonic Realm of the Underworld that she oversees. It was fashioned from a Black Basalt Hagstone, secured by a cord strung with 13 bone beads, including six beads made from Prehistoric Horse Bone, six beads made from Prehistoric Deer Bone, and one bead made from Antique Whale Bone that I inherited. The end-piece is a token of 6,000 year old Bog Yew, carved with a triskelion, and glazed with a wood varnish made using Storax resin. I utilize this Talisman when working with Ancestral Spirits, or with Chthonic Wights, such as psychopomps.

The second of these serves a talismanic link to my Witch-Father—who I often call Wilding King—and to the Upper Realm of the Elemental World that he oversees. It was fashioned from a White Quartz Hagstone, secured by a cord strung with 13 handmade wood beads of alternating Elder, Hazel, Hawthorn, and Rowan. The end-piece is a token of local Elk shed-horn, carved to resembled a great tree, and glazed with a wood varnish made using Amber resin. I utilize this Talisman when working with Animistic Spirits or Elemental Wights.

Each of these Ritual Tethers are sacred to me. They each rest in places of power, pertinent to their respective magical nature, when not in use.

#gloaming tethers #ritual implements #ritual tools #wending way #hagstone #quartz #basalt #spirit work #Wilding King #Bone Mother #Witch-father #witch-queen #witching gods

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elvthron · 9 months

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This must be the biggest hagstone I’ve ever found.

#witch #witchcraft #pagan #nature #witchy #magic #personal #traditional witchcraft #magick #wicca #hag #hagstone #faerycore #faerie magic #hag stone

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froggishgremlin · 1 year

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Cryptidcore Starterpack: The Guide

Notes: I'm gonna be leaning into Cryptozoology with this one, just a heads up :)

Enjoy part two!

I cannot stress this enough, GO OUTSIDE. How are you gonna track cryptids if you don't actively look for them?

Get a binder so you can add pages to your research journal

KEEP TRACK OF LOCAL EVENTS. Cryptid sightings, paranormal sightings, local mysteries, ect.

Find a hagstone near a body of water, it's a stone with a natural hole through it. In Celtic folklore, when you look though the hagstone(also known as a witchstone), you can see fae folk and other worldly entities. (I did not write all the info here, please do research for yourself if you'd like to)

Explore abandoned places and look for clues. Also in forests, but be safe about it.

Also- just going on a flat roof and making blanket forts with the FLUFFIEST blankets with a lantern is just- 🤌🤌

Moths.

Finds some books on this, "The United States of Cryptids- J.W. Ocker", "Cryptozoology A to Z- Loren Coleman" and "Cursed Objects- J.W. Ocker" are some good ones

Maybe find some friends who are into Cryptidcore too

But remember,

Most weird shit happens in Ohio

Update: Please check out my most recent post it's very important

#cryptid #Cryptids #cryptidcore #cryptozoology #only in ohio #paranormal #sasquatch #bigfoot #nessie #mothman #loch ness monster #jersey devil #loveland frogman #hagstone #goblincore #gremlincore #moths

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kahuna-64 · 7 months

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cunning-frog · 3 months

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Holed Stones in English Folk Magic

Sources at the end

Stones with naturally occurring holes in them have many uses in magic all over the world. In England they have been used for protection and luck as well as in medicine. Holed stones are known by many different names, In England they have been and are known by numerous names such as Hag stones, Witch stones, Serpents'/Snakes' eggs, Adder stones, and Lucky stones. For the sake of clarity, I will be referring to them as ‘holed stones’.

Luck and Protection

Holed stones are used as amulets for protection against Hags, witches, faeries, and other spirits, when they are used in this way they are referred to as hag or witch stones. People would hang a holed stone above the door of their home or barn, and sometimes passageways within the home. People would also keep a small holed stone in a pocket for luck and protection.

Holed stones have also been known for being lucky, being worn around the neck for luck or tossed over the shoulder after spitting through the stone's hole to grant a wish. It was also said that is a person tied a holed stone to their house keys, those who resided in the home would be prosperous.

In communities where fishing and/or sailing was common the use of holed stones for protection was common, tying them to the bows of boats or inside of smaller rowing boats for protection while at sea. Holed stones were also used to protect against drowning, Christopher Duffin (2011) writes, “The coxswain of the Ramsay lifeboat [during 1929], also a fisherman by trade, always wore a small discoidal [holed] stone around his neck, threaded with copper wire. The amulet, passed down through three generations of fishermen, was credited with preserving the life of the wearer through terrible maritime circumstances.��

Medicine

As these holed stones protected against hags, witches, faeries, and other spirits they would often be used in medicine, as magic was often thought to be the cause of illness.

One of the illnesses holed stones were used to treat is ‘hag-riding’, in the book A Dictionary of English Folklore it is defined as “a frightening sensation of being held immobile in bed, often by a heavy weight pressing on one’s stomach or chest […] In folklore, it was thought of as a magical attack, though whether by demonic incubus, ghost, harmful fairy, or witch varied according to place and period.” (Simpson & Roud, 2003) Today hag-riding is understood to be sleep paralysis. To treat hag-riding a holed stone would be hung above the bed of the sufferer or, if the sufferer is an animal, placed in a stable.

This belief applied to both humans as well as other animals; hag stones were often used in the treatment of ill livestock. In Lancashire holed stones would be tied to the back of cows to protect them from all forms of harm, “self-holed stones, termed ‘lucky-stones,’ are still suspended over the backs of cows in order that they may be protected from every diabolical influence.” (Harland and Wilkinson 1873).

Sources:

Thwaite, A.-S. (2020). Magic and the material culture of healing in early modern England [Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.63593

Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud (2003). A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095941856

Vicky, King (2021, November 11). Hag Stones and Lucky Charms. https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/hag-stones-and-lucky-charms/

Pitt Rivers Museum, Accession Number: 1985.51.987.1 https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/prm-object-239947 (c) Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Date Accessed: 21 January 2024

Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653., 2013, A commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams, Oxford Text Archive, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/A00665

Christopher J. Duffin (2011) Herbert Toms (1874–1940), Witch Stones, and Porosphaera Beads, Folklore, 122:1, 84-101, DOI: 10.1080/0015587X.2011.537134

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Harland, J., & Wilkinson, T. T. (1873). Lancashire Legends: Traditions, Pagents, Sports, & C. With an Appendix Containing a Rare Tract on the Lancashire Witches, & C., &c. G. Routledge. https://archive.org/details/cu31924028040057

File:Hag Stones (8020251781).jpg. (2023, February 2). Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved 04:11, January 26, 2024 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Hag_Stones_(8020251781).jpg&oldid=729610598.

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browniefox · 8 months

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Hagstone my beloved

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#browniefox speaks #ocs #hagstone #ollie #coda #eldan #kyle

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captnbas · 1 year

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days 10 & 12 of folkbruary! selkie & hagstone

#folkbruary #folk february #selkie #hagstone #folklore art #folk art #fantasy art #peapappa draws #traditionl art #british folklore #selkie art #witchblr #paganart #pagans of tumblr #folklore #travelling alone #travel art #basil draws

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kozmiknougat · 1 year

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heres a new years eve Hag stone for you all... dear friends.. may you only get good vibes now :)

#hagstone #folklore #ukfolklore #witchcraft #fantasy #sorcery #mythical #paintedstone #stone #magicalstone #goodluck #nobadvibes #hagstones #plants #nature #folkart #folk #folktales #kozmiknougat

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the-east-art · 10 months

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I have never done colored refs for the main cast of Hagstone in the five years I’ve been working on the story, so I’m gonna fix that! Of course starting with the main character Kyle :3

#the easts ocs #hagstone #wtgp #way to go paul #Kyle

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wishful-seeker · 8 months

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Ok witchy idea, hear me out

So firstly, scrying/seeing visions is best done on either a blank surface, or something without clairty (crystal ball). So either blank surface with nothing, or something that has stuff going on where your brain interprets the patterns you see into visions.

Secondly hagstones, stones with naturally occurring holes in them, are said to grant you second sight and the ability to see spirits when you look through them.

So hear me out

What if

I could like, somehow combine these two ideas into one using kaleidoscopes? What if i could enchant one to have the same purpose as a hagstone, but utilizing the way the brain does scrying in order to "see" the spirits or visions?

Sometimes hagstones are activated by anointing them with morning dew, so what would happen if i anointed an enchanted kaleidoscope with morning dew?

I have a really thin metal kaleidoscope, what if i got a big hagstone with a massive hole and put the kaleidoscope through the hole and looked through it?

Lmao what if i taped a hagstone to the end of the kaleidoscope?

#witch ramblings #witchcraft #witchblr #witchy #kaleidoscope magic #hagstone #the fae #spirit work

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nmpositive · 9 months

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