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More nature. More mystic. More magic. Less society. More self.
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I live in longing, in fire, in rebellion, in the magic of its crafty poison
Adonis, ‘Nothing But Madness Remains’
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More nature. More mystic. More magic. Less society. More self.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And if that’s sinful, then let me be damned for it!
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (born on this day in 1911)
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There’s a magic in Russia that we breathe in all the time. We live our lives half drunk with it, with the beauty of it, the prostor all around us, drunk with air and sky, drunk with the incense and candlelight of the mass, with the ecstasy of snow in the winter…
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Anna
I thought the stories were for me, somehow. That I was a heroine. That the magic was for me.
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
I have worn nothing but blood and death for years. I have fought all your battles for you. I have learned all the tricks you said I must learn. I have learned to watch everything die. I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
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"The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from their relation to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They commune with nature/ Spirit/God/dess/Choose-your-own-semantics, freely, and free of any mediator. But most importantly: they make things happen. The best definition of magic I’ve been able to come up with is "symbolic action with intent” – “action” being the operative word. Witches are midwives to metamorphosis. They are magical women, and they, quite literally, change the world."
Source: The Huffington Post
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It was as though she practiced some shameful art: black magic, voodoo, or poetry.
Valerie Martin, The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
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Viking Magic Wand
For decades the experts at the British Museum believed that this item, discovered at a woman’s grave from Norway was just a hook used in fishing. However, new research suggests that it was her ‘magic wand’ and that it was deliberately bent to destroy its power. The Times newspaper reported that this item, a 90 cm long iron rod, was first brought to the British Museum in 1894. British Museum curator Sue Branning believes that it was probably a magical staff used to perform ‘seithr’, a form of Viking sorcery predominantly practiced by women. She told The Times: ”These are magical practices, which we don’t fully understand. It involves divination, prophecy, communication with the dead and making people do things. Our rod fits, in terms of its form, with a number of these rods that turn up in the 9th and 10th century in female burials. They normally take the form of these long iron rods with knobs attached to them.” The rod would have been ‘ritually’ destroyed in order to prevent the sorceress from rising from the dead, or to stop anyone else from using it. Branning adds, ”When we hear about the Vikings we hear all about the powerful warriors, but now we know there were also powerful women. These women were very well respected, but they were quite feared as well. They may have been on the margins of society. You might not want to get close to them because they have this power. The sources we have describe them as wearing blue and black cloaks with gems attached.”
The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration. Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from their relation to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They commune with nature/ Spirit/God/dess/Choose-your-own-semantics, freely, and free of any mediator. But most importantly: they make things happen. The best definition of magic I’ve been able to come up with is “symbolic action with intent" — “action" being the operative word. Witches are midwives to metamorphosis. They are magical women, and they, quite literally, change the world.
pamela j. grossman, the year of the witch