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Did a look up on sage smoke. Decided to do cleansing of my crystals after completing spring cleaning. Try to cleanse my crystals but smoke linger a short while on them and keep moving towards my direction. 

 

So i try to cleanse my hands, same thing happens. Thought it might be draft but check no wind and fan is not on. Thus i got curious.

 

Maybe my aura is not good thus need cleansing????

 

 

 

And the search let me stumble upon a new area called libanomancy.

 

 

 

Edited January 25, 2022 by chamfer

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4 hours ago, chamfer said:

Did a look up on sage smoke. Decided to do cleansing of my crystals after completing spring cleaning. Try to cleanse my crystals but smoke linger a short while on them and keep moving towards my direction. 

 

So i try to cleanse my hands, same thing happens. Thought it might be draft but check no wind and fan is not on. Thus i got curious.

 

Maybe my aura is not good thus need cleansing????

 

 

 

And the search let me stumble upon a new area called libanomancy.

 

 

 

I've heard of libanomancy before, but never tried it before.

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3 hours ago, Huat Zai said:

I've heard of libanomancy before, but never tried it before.

I know that in folk religion the height difference between 3 joss sticks combination got meaning.

 

My late grandmother told me if the incense stick curl and did not break after burning out is a good sign.

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Catalonia to pardon up to 1,000 people accused of witchcraft

Hundreds of people, mostly women, condemned during witch-hunts that persisted well into 18th century

 

The Catalan parliament has passed a resolution to pardon up to 1,000 people – the majority of them women – condemned for the crime of witchcraft in the region 400 years ago.

The move follows similar gestures in Scotland, Switzerland and Norway after more than 100 European historians signed a manifesto titled: They weren’t witches, they were women.

 

The resolution, which follows a campaign in the local history journal Sapiens, was supported by the leftwing and nationalist parties in the parliament.

Commenting on a TV3 documentary entitled Witches, the Big Lie, the Catalan president, Pere Aragonès, described the witch-hunts as “institutionalised femicide”.

It is estimated that between 1580 and 1630 about 50,000 people were condemned to death for witchcraft across Europe, of whom about 80% were women.

While witch-hunts raged across northern Europe, in Spain the Inquisition had its hands full rooting out heresy among Jews and Muslims who had been forcibly converted to Christianity. The Inquisition was sceptical about allegations of witchcraft.

Catalonia was the exception, however, and witch-hunts persisted well into the 18th century there. What is thought to be the first European law against witchcraft was passed in Lleida in 1424.

According to Pau Castell, a professor of modern history at the University of Barcelona, witch-hunts were more common in Catalonia because rural areas came under the absolute power of feudal lords, and confession alone was sufficient proof of guilt.

He added that, paradoxically, in cases where the Inquisition was called in, the accused were often set free for lack of evidence.

Witches were frequently blamed for the sudden death of children or for natural catastrophes and poor harvests, Castell said.

According to the historian Núria Morelló, suspects were often practitioners of traditional medicine or women of independent means, who were regarded with suspicion.

Unlike the rest of Europe, witches in Catalonia were hanged, not burned at the stake. Castell notes that hanging was cheaper and didn’t waste valuable firewood, although it wasn’t a matter of cutting back on execution expenses; rather that hanging was the regular procedure followed in secular courts of justice, which accounted for more than 90% of all witchcraft trials in Catalonia.

Some Catalan villages hired their own witch-finders. One such was Joan Cazabrujas (John the witch-hunter) in the village of Sallent, whose accusations led to the hanging of 33 women. When the Inquisition later discovered that most of the women were innocent, it had Cazabrujas burned at the stake.

Ivet Eroles, the author of a book on witchcraft in Catalonia, cites the feminist slogan “we are the granddaughters of the witches they couldn’t burn” but says that “more to the point, we are the descendants of those who murdered them; we are the oppressors’ heirs”.

Spain’s most notorious trial for witchcraft centred on the village of Zugarramurdi in Navarra, where it was claimed that men and women, including priests, practised witchcraft in a large cave.

Before the trial began in nearby Logroño in 1609, altogether 7,000 people were investigated – an astonishing number given that, even today, Zugarramurdi has a population of 225.

Two thousand suspects confessed, nearly three-quarters of them children, but nearly all later retracted. In the end, 11 were condemned, of whom five had already died in prison. The remaining six – four women and two men – were burned at the stake.

Children, one as young as five, were also prominent among the 200 accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, between 1692 and 1693. The witch-hunt was partly sparked by an influx of refugees resulting from Britain’s war with the French over Canadian territory, which fuelled local faction fighting.

Fourteen women and five men were hanged, while another man was pressed to death with heavy weights. The colony later accepted the victims’ innocence and paid compensation to the families.

Four children’s playgrounds in the Catalan village of Palau-solità i Plegamans have been named in honour of condemned witches and there are plans to name Catalan streets and squares as a form of memorial.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/catalonia-expected-to-pardon-up-to-1000-people-accused-of-witchcraft

 

 

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1 hour ago, chamfer said:

 

Should add the need to be silence, especially in Asian societies. It's dangerous to run around telling people you're a witch, learned that the hard way.

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12 hours ago, Huat Zai said:

Should add the need to be silence, especially in Asian societies. It's dangerous to run around telling people you're a witch, learned that the hard way.

True.  Both western & eastern societies find it hard to accept witches. Too ingrained to the image that witches = satanic practices.

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2 hours ago, chamfer said:

 

Personal experience is that if the offering isn't up to par or your request is unreasonable, the more powerful entities will just ignore you. If the entity you're making the request to, will get pissed with something so small, you probably should be making that request to a more powerful entity.

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1 hour ago, Huat Zai said:

Personal experience is that if the offering isn't up to par or your request is unreasonable, the more powerful entities will just ignore you. If the entity you're making the request to, will get pissed with something so small, you probably should be making that request to a more powerful entity.

For western deity side or eastern deity side?

 

For me is sometimes i use the wrong 语气或词语 when talking to my patron deities, they tend to ignore me.

 

Thus,i have to learn to calm myself down and gather my thoughts first. I asked for forgiveness too if i sound too rude. Learned it the hard way.

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2 minutes ago, chamfer said:

For western deity side or eastern deity side?

 

For me is sometimes i use the wrong 语气或词语 when talking to my patron deities, they tend to ignore me.

 

Thus,i have to learn to calm myself down and gather my thoughts first. I asked for forgiveness too if i sound too rude. Learned it the hard way.

Hindu, ancient Western/Middle East deities. I usually don't contact Chinese deities, too many rules

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What we Know About the Mysterious Female Shamans of Ancient Ireland

 

 

Much of the research and content for this piece was done by David Halpin for Ancient Origins.

Was Ancient Ireland under the influence of female Shamans? The answer to that question is complex and pretty fascinating. Not much is known about the presence of Shamans in Ireland, though the mythology of the Emerald Isle reveals various and deep connections to things beyond the mortal realm. How female Shamans came to be obscure – at least in relation to assorted male figures – says more about the human world than any higher plane of existence.

The word ‘Shaman’ itself is believed to come from the Siberian Tungusic language. Shamanic traditions go back thousands of years, with no-one knowing for sure how far they stretch. Shaman is the word “used to identify the medicine man or woman who was a blend of healer/ priest(ess)/caretaker of the earth/wisdomkeeper/counsellor”, according to Slí An Chroí – “Pathway of the Heart” in Irish Gaelic. This group preserves and practices Celtic Shamanism.

 

Female Buryat Shaman. Photo Courtesy © Alexander Khimushin / The World In Faces

Put in layman’s terms, a Shaman will essentially travel without moving, altering their state of consciousness to gain knowledge from the spirit world. Slí An Chroí’s website states today’s Shaman is “regarded as a person of power, one who ‘journeys’ back and forth successfully through territories of consciousness” in order to “bring harmony to the living energy systems of the individual human, their community, animals, plants and the greater world.”

 

Hupa female shaman, c.1923, Edward Curtis

Evidence of Shamans and their practices have been found across the world – not least in the form of ancient megaliths of stone, such as the portal tomb Poulnabrone dolmen. And in some cases there’s a clear emphasis on women as being perfect for the role. “Evidence from archaeology in the Czech Republic indicated that the earliest Upper Palaeolithic shamans were in fact women,” writes author Eric W. Edwards, referencing the research of Prof. Barbara Tedlock in 2005.

 

A Kwakiutl shaman performs a religious ritual. 1914

David Halpin for Ancient Origins notes that megalithic sites in general have long-established connections to ideas of sisterhood. The Nabta Playa in the Nubian Desert for example played host to the priestesses of Hathor, an Ancient Egyptian goddess who represented fertility and love, as well as the sky. Men were certainly allowed to practice, but numerous duties were specifically assigned to women.

It isn’t a great leap to imagine that beliefs, rituals and Shamanic abilities followed a similar path in Ireland. There isn’t any concrete – or, to be more precise, stone – guarantee as to how things worked, but some educated guesses can be made based on what we do have. The presence of megalithic sites alone is one indicator of such activity.

 

Drombeg is one of the most visited megalithic sites in Ireland.

Most famous Irish megalithic sites are dated to at least 3500 BC, says Halpin at Ancient Origins. As with many other similar structures, Irish monuments serve also as an astronomical tool and are aligned to the sun, moon, and stars. There have also been found alignments to Sirius, Venus, and the Pleiades, which are some of the first stars humans ever recorded. All of these have associations with spirit beings named in folklore and mythology as gods, goddesses, and teachers of humans

 

Newgrange, Ireland. An ancient ceremonial site and astronomical instrument older than the Pyramids of Egypt. Photo by Shira CC BY-SA 3.0

A look at Irish mythology reveals famous ‘characters’ who have obvious Shamanic ties. Amongst these is Badb, or “crow”, a Goddess of war. The website Deity of the Week describes her as “the mother aspect of the triple goddess” who “symbolizes life (the ever-producing cauldron of life), wisdom, inspiration, blessings and enlightenment.” Known for transforming herself into a crow, or raven, Badb could be seen at times “in the form of a miniature woman with tiny, webbed feet, screeching of doom.” Her talent for seeing the future is attributed to Shamanism.

 

Megaliths at Newgrange, Ireland.

According to Halpin at Ancient Origins, ancient Irish texts mention the mysterious Druí, fáithi, fili, and fénnidi, all of whom were said to be able to have access to and communicate with spirits and, through some kind of trance, enter the “Otherworld”. Also mentioned is a specific type of “journeying trance” called Imbas forosnai, which is described as a method of prophecy and shamanic ability practiced by certain ancient Irish “poets”.

 

Rare and beautifully executed Engraved illustration of Druids Worshiping at Stonehenge, England in Ancient Times Engraving from The Popular Pictorial Bible,

According to Irish tradition this may refer to two things: ‘normal’ poetry, which can be memorized and recited, or the mystical ‘received’ poetry, which was believed to be a power or gift from the Gods and Goddesses dwelling in the Otherworld.

But to what extent did these wise female shamans of old Ireland hold the balance of power? Is there sufficient evidence to show that an Irish matriarchal culture ruled the roost? And if that’s the case, why is it so difficult to get to the truth…?

 

 

When Christians arrived on the Isle by the early 5th century, they had the devout intention of shaping Ireland’s history in their image, meaning anything pagan was liable to go out the historical window. Monks are believed to have clamped down on a female-focused narrative. Sculptures known as ‘Sheela na gigs’, carvings showing women without clothes, are noticeable at some church locations in Ireland. These could demonstrate not only the presence of strong women, but also the monks’ desire to make an example of them by ‘containing’ them at Christian sites.

 

Related Article: Ancient Celtic Woman in Fancy Clothes Buried in a Hollow Tree Trunk

 

Though the image of female Shamans in ancient Ireland has partly disappeared into the mists of centuries, their traditions live on today. It may be an epic challenge to discover exactly what Ancient Ireland was like, but the harnessing of spiritual energy and accessing other planes of reality is a powerful legacy for these women to leave.

 

 

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/02/16/female-shamans-ireland/?firefox=1

 

 

 

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True story, one of the reasons why I stopped doing for public

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