🪶🔮🪶'Medea' - by Evelyn De Morgan. #MythologyMonday #FairyTaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

Last year at this time I gathered materials from my backyard & made a dollie. #FolkWitchFriday

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 7d ago

#FolkWitchFriday: Handcrafted Harvest 🌽 From corn dollies and masks to woven grain, harvest rites rely on physical craft. What ritual tool or object do you make or use for this tide? Show or tell us about the crafted pieces anchoring your seasonal work! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #FolkMagic #Folklore

Small ‘wickerman’ for the backyard fire

In Ukrainian culture, some harvested wheat is reserved in summer to later make a didukh (a bunch tied together with divisions to make feet-like sections to stand on). The didukh is then put out before Christmas as a symbol of bounty and a place for ancestors' souls to reside (1/3) #FolkWitchFriday

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 7d ago

#FolkWitchFriday: Handcrafted Harvest 🌽 From corn dollies and masks to woven grain, harvest rites rely on physical craft. What ritual tool or object do you make or use for this tide? Show or tell us about the crafted pieces anchoring your seasonal work! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #FolkMagic #Folklore

This #art shows the sorceress Medea using a boline to cut herbs for potions. They are traditionally white handled to show they are for physical work rather than ritual, such as the athame, and have a sharpened edge. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3702... #FolkWitchFriday #witch #fineart #mythology

Medea the Sorceress - Valentine Cameron Prinsep by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

Medea the Sorceress - Valentine Cameron Prinsep Please look in my shop for more work by Prinsep and his contemporaries.

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I sometimes make a very simple corn dolly from large blades of grass for my altar. But I do a lot with Kitchen Witchery. Maybe I'll make Blackberry cordial or a crisp this weekend.

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 7d ago

#FolkWitchFriday: Handcrafted Harvest 🌽 From corn dollies and masks to woven grain, harvest rites rely on physical craft. What ritual tool or object do you make or use for this tide? Show or tell us about the crafted pieces anchoring your seasonal work! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #FolkMagic #Folklore

Tinctures in progress, and a finished St. John's Wort tincture #FolkwitchFriday #witch #herbs #hedgewitch

I posted a new blog! If you want to know more, check it out. In European regions and some of the Mediterranean, the day began at sunset rather than dawn. Wishing you all a great Lughnasadh Eve if you celebrate. #WitchSky goldenwebmysteryschool.com/witchcraft-m...

Lammas and Lughnasadh Folk Magic — Golden Web Mystery School

Discover traditional Lammas and Lughnasadh folk magic, harvest customs, John Barleycorn, corn dollies, bread baking, and seasonal witchcraft practices.

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A short YouTube video showing the sound of a bullroarer: youtu.be/4ElJHjjecw0?...

Bullroarer - ancient ritual musical instrument - rhombus - Stephono ZIP

YouTube video by Stephono-ZIP

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As a follow-up to sharing about my usage of a bullroarer, the Museum of Witchcraft & Magic in Cornwall has several pages on the topic. I rather like this one in particular: (1 of 2) museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/bull-... #FolkWitchFriday #Pellorys #FolkWitch

506 - Bull Roarers: Wind Roarers x 2 - Museum of Witchcraft and Magic

Working Tools

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Southern tradition holds that inner corn husks from the first harvest are saved to craft usually faceless dolls. Ritually, these "First Shuck" figures become vessels - bound with intention to guard the hearth, store seasonal virtue, and anchor home protection through the winter. #FolkWitchFriday

I've been busy making tinctures and salves. Each plant has medicinal and magical uses. I feel like they work together. #FolkwitchFriday #herbal #witch #hedgewitch

Within Pellorys, our next Tide doesn't fall until mid-August. This is the time we celebrate wind / air. This is the energy which "winnoweth the chaff from the corn" - both internally / externally. The sound of the bullroarer stirs so very much! #FolkWitchFriday #Pellorys #WitchSky #FolkWitch

🍂✨🍂'Dancing with the Fairies' - illustration by Arthur Rackham for 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens' by J. M. Barrie. #FolkloreThursday #FolkWitchFriday #FolkloreSunday

I like to find plants that have little folklore that has survived over time. That are around, consistently but not medicinal, not poisonous. Not edible for humans or livestock. During this time, the grasses are going to seed. I sit with these and learn their lessons. #FolkWitchFriday

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 7d ago

#FolkWitchFriday: Handcrafted Harvest 🌽 From corn dollies and masks to woven grain, harvest rites rely on physical craft. What ritual tool or object do you make or use for this tide? Show or tell us about the crafted pieces anchoring your seasonal work! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #FolkMagic #Folklore

#FolkWitchFriday: Handcrafted Harvest 🌽 From corn dollies and masks to woven grain, harvest rites rely on physical craft. What ritual tool or object do you make or use for this tide? Show or tell us about the crafted pieces anchoring your seasonal work! #WitchSky #FolkWitch #FolkMagic #Folklore

#FolkWitchFriday I start to clean the summer bedclothes, and put them away in the cedar chests until next year. ( leaving one set out. )

Vibrant Levendulamező Lavender Field

ALT: Vibrant Levendulamező Lavender Field

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Saving seeds, starting seeds, harvesting veg and flowers, cleaning up the dead stuff.

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

#FolkWitchFriday: Collect & dry plants for future, definitely. Prep ingredients for my retail Fall/Winter balm. Move slowly in the heat. Keep myself, plants & animals hydrated. 💦 Make time for daydreams. Feel breeze, soil & warm stone. Gaze into green. Listen… #WitchSky #DruidSky #PaganSky

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

This is a subject dear too me. I've been collecting herbs, berries, etc since I was a small kid. These days I have a few different herbs, flowers and berries I try to collect when they're ready. My fav are Yarrow, blackcurrant leafs & berries, Rosehip flowers & fruits and wild cherry seeds.

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

My ability to witch wains every June and July (the near-constant light and stickiness sap me). In August, as the first hints of autumn come early to Glasgow, I first reconnect with the spirits: ancestors, mentors, familiars (human-like and otherwise), the house spirit. #WitchSky #FolkWitchFriday

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

#FolkWitchFriday Thank you for sharing! 💚

Aster & Horne@asterandhorne.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're really feeling it. Expectancy and hope and harvest - in the garden and in the spirit! And first green beans today, haha!

I do a second big herb harvest. The first was at solstice. I also start focusing on harvesting small acorns, hazel, and sometimes walnuts. I like to have all sizes for charms and spellplates. My fennel seeds aren't ready for harvest yet. I use those in tea for clarity and focus. #FolkWitchFriday

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 2w ago

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

#FolkWitchFriday Thank you for sharing Colette!

Colette ~ Golden Web Mystery School @witchways.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's also the time of year for me when I begin preparing the ground for next year's class offerings. Assesing what worked, what didn't and what still needs to be completed within the various groups. I very much use the year's seasons in this process.

#FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky Thank you for sharing with us @templemom.bsky.social more about your Work with the Minoan sacred calendar!

Laura Perry@templemom.bsky.social · 2w ago

There has always been a point for me, about halfway between Summer Solstice and Lammas, when the energy shifts solidly toward the dark half of the year. The Minoan sacred calendar works in half-years, and I'm really enjoying that scale of experience.

Moving toward the dark half of the year starts as an internal shift. I’m examining my goals, clearing mental clutter, & asking hard questions: what stays, & what is left behind? The seasonal turn begins inside long before it hits the Land. Seasonal auditing is part of the Work. #FolkWitchFriday

As July turns toward August, my work shifts to an inverted spring clean. I’m drying fresh herbs in the sunroom, wiping down altars, and dusting working spaces. Before the first harvest arrives, we make clean, quiet room for what’s to come. #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #FolkWitch

As July turns to August, the energy shifts. We stand at the peak of heat and the early threshold of harvest. How does your practice reflect this time? Are you cutting herbs, saving seeds, or preparing your space for the season ahead? Share your lore! #FolkWitchFriday #WitchSky #OccultSky #Seasons

2nd sharing because this is a difficult topic for most people. Confronting death, either a brush with it yourself, OR dealing with the loss of another, brings it front & center. It's overwhelming. Every. Single. Time. We are forced to recognize what we love, hate, cherish, despise, always ends.

#FolkWitchFriday@folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 3w ago

A beloved Elder has joined the Ancestors in my community. Tomorrow, let’s discuss how your folk practice handles the immediate passing of a loved one or guide. What quiet vigils, mourning charms, or elevation rites do you perform to help ease their transition? Share your lore. #FolkWitchFriday