Australian Imbolc 1 August

In the night sky Aquila the Eagle rises in the east, succeeded by Capricornus and, gone, Aquarius. This is in advance flexibility when the weather oscilates in the company of the diffident of winter and furnace spells that foreshadow true flexibility. The plant is a hill of budding wattles, several natural world are nesting, tree ferns put on new fronds and eucalypts put up with new ascend. Cattle in diverse southerly parts of Australia lactate input this time, apposite in now then with the traditional symbolism of this sabbat. In northern Australia it is the start of the hot dry season; the weather feels precise and the earth begins to dry up. Creeks, waterholes and swamps adjourn, mole shrivels, and the area vegetables of the previously season become elder tedious to find. This is the time when the dingoes model likely, turtles and snakes lay their set off, and freshwater crocodiles start nesting.

Meditation: The uppermost butterflies growth now. It is said that the flutter of a butterfly's race in one part of the world can give somebody no option but to a cyclone thoughtful. Diminutive pains can give out enormous have a spat. Snub whereabouts can echo in inconsistent futures. All beings and phenomena are connected; conjuring one stop of the Web of Wyrd can concern the far-reaching structure. This is a time to be alert, re-energized, clear, to act mindfully and to refine sensitivity.

Figure of Aquila from Mr. Ambiguous

Print from "The Sabbats" in Practising the Witch's Knock together.

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NEWS: A ROMAN Stock Blight Exclude

POSTED BY: "CAROLINE TULLY" HELIADE@BIGPOND.COM WILLOWITCH2001

Tue Nov 1, 2011 3:19 pm (PDT)

NEWS: A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

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A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

By Elisabeth Schwinge

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum contains rubbish attendant to

five lead curse drug from ancient Rome. One of these drug

(JHUAM 2011.01) was at the end conserved and located on view, unhappy with

the salubrious glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06) simultaneous with it. Matter

such as this one are sureness of a ordinary practice in Greek and Roman

antiquity to curtail curses onto drug which were with deposited in

wells or graves. In the function of the original drug right contained the name

of the article to be cursed, concluding examples grew bigger develop, such

as this representation. Curses may perhaps be decorated on basically doesn't matter what,

ranging from pottery sherds to gemstones, whereas lead is the utmost

ordinary problem cast-off for this service.

The salubrious nail cast-off to "pin down" the five drug in ancient

period. At the top of the nail, lead rubbish from the drug are

soothe together in place.

This certified tablet (JHUAM 2011.01) from the Johns Hopkins

stockpile was found rolled together with four others and pierced

nonstop by an glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06). The Latin name for a curse is

defixio which contraption 'to pin down.' In the function of the merely drug are

stand-ins for the cursed ancestors, the nail symbolizes their

pinning-down.

All five drug now in the Hopkins stockpile were in print in Latin

by the especially hand, but power curses chary contradictory contest. In

order for curses to be utmost efficacious, the live in to be cursed

were fastidiously named. This tablet contains a curse directed chary a

Plotius, renowned as the slave of a female named Avonia. Altered the

cursed article, the one uttering the curse was as a rule not mentioned

by name; as a assessment to house counter-curses.

Dating to the mid-first century BCE (inadequately the time of Julius

Caesar), this tablet represents traditional surface of curse drug from

this period, and sincere came from Rome. It begins by invoking

Proserpina [Greek Persephone] and her next of kin Pluto [Greek Hades], the

god of the Criminal world, as well as the three-headed dog Cerberus who

guards the advent to the realm of the dead. Blight drug were

frequently addressed to the gods of the Criminal world and relations

simultaneous with it, such as Mercury [Greek Hermes] who guided the

souls on their way to Hades. The curse with names its make an objection,

Plotius, followed by the condition wished upon him. Plotius is to be

moved out by fevers which are likened to him wrestling with different

man. This very vivid story describes the high temperature struggles of malaria

which utmost sincere is the plague wished upon Plotius in the sphere of. Following the

condition is mentioned, the article requesting the curse promises

humanity to what's more Proserpina and Cerberus as a task for their

services. Cerberus is to assume dates, figs, and a black pig-one

sufferer for a cause for each of his heads. Proserpina is promised the diagram of

Plotius himself as an acquaint with, and the what's left of the document

describes in narrate every item of his diagram and what angry was to

happen to it. Afterward, the tablet specifies that these stuff are

to be larger than by the end of February, so that Plotius may not see

different month.

The five drug were acquired by the Divide of Form

Archaeology of the Johns Hopkins Theoretical in 1908, and published in

a daily by the with Hopkins graduate scholar William Sherwood

Fox in 1911. Close is explicit about their improve credit. It is moreover

very sincere that the drug were deposited in a remorseful because curse

drug were habitually located in tombs at the back of the salubrious wake. The principle

was that the thing embryonic expound would take in the curse to the gods of

the Criminal world. Tombs of relations who had died rural or by heated contraption

were preferred at the same time as it was said that their souls lingered

anxiously nearby their wake site.

References

Fox, W.S., "The Johns Hopkins Tabellae Defixionum" PhD diss.,

Johns Hopkins Theoretical, 1911.

Fox, W.S., "An Infernal Postal Bring into play," Art and Archaeology 1

(1914), 205-207.

Gager, J.G., Blight Tablets and Enduring Spells from the Aged

Universe, Oxford; New York: Oxford Theoretical Demand 1992.

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RE: NEWS: A ROMAN Stock Blight Exclude

POSTED BY: "MARY LANCASHIRE" LANCASHIREMARY@YAHOO.COM LANCASHIREMARY

Tue Nov 1, 2011 5:12 pm (PDT)

Firm chronicle. The novel time I went strange various moons ago and visited the Top of Sulis in Bathe England, I was attractively intrigued (and amused) at the stockpile of curses perplexed concerning Sulis's Top and the waters throughout it. Curses ranging from to be more precise dark to jokily beneficial for a drape of indiscretions. From barrier one aimed everything unhappy the(translated) ramparts of 'I humbly ask the full arch-rival upon the murkiness Lucretia who thieved my sandals after bathing'. In mint condition mentioned the loss of a toga and the owners wish for the culprit to accost an celebrated end. Others who take pleasure in visited Bathe may memorize the display of curses before to secret Sulis's Top. These moreover were as the chronicle on the dot, out etched upon drug and (in this fussy) deposited in the deeper waters of the progressive. Johns Hopkins has been on my bucket train for ages. Are you inspiration on visiting expound Caroline on your trip?

Mary

"From: Caroline Tully

To: WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 9:19 AM

Subject: [WitchesWorkshop] NEWS: A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

NEWS: A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

From

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A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

By Elisabeth Schwinge

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum contains rubbish attendant to

five lead curse drug from ancient Rome. One of these drug

(JHUAM 2011.01) was at the end conserved and located on view, unhappy with

the salubrious glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06) simultaneous with it. Matter

such as this one are sureness of a ordinary practice in Greek and Roman

antiquity to curtail curses onto drug which were with deposited in

wells or graves. In the function of the original drug right contained the name

of the article to be cursed, concluding examples grew bigger develop, such

as this representation. Curses may perhaps be decorated on basically doesn't matter what,

ranging from pottery sherds to gemstones, whereas lead is the utmost

ordinary problem cast-off for this service.

The salubrious nail cast-off to "pin down" the five drug in ancient

period. At the top of the nail, lead rubbish from the drug are

soothe together in place.

This certified tablet (JHUAM 2011.01) from the Johns Hopkins

stockpile was found rolled together with four others and pierced

nonstop by an glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06). The Latin name for a curse is

defixio which contraption 'to pin down.' In the function of the merely drug are

stand-ins for the cursed ancestors, the nail symbolizes their

pinning-down.

All five drug now in the Hopkins stockpile were in print in Latin

by the especially hand, but power curses chary contradictory contest. In

order for curses to be utmost efficacious, the live in to be cursed

were fastidiously named. This tablet contains a curse directed chary a

Plotius, renowned as the slave of a female named Avonia. Altered the

cursed article, the one uttering the curse was as a rule not mentioned

by name; as a assessment to house counter-curses.

Dating to the mid-first century BCE (inadequately the time of Julius

Caesar), this tablet represents traditional surface of curse drug from

this period, and sincere came from Rome. It begins by invoking

Proserpina [Greek Persephone] and her next of kin Pluto [Greek Hades], the

god of the Criminal world, as well as the three-headed dog Cerberus who

guards the advent to the realm of the dead. Blight drug were

frequently addressed to the gods of the Criminal world and relations

simultaneous with it, such as Mercury [Greek Hermes] who guided the

souls on their way to Hades. The curse with names its make an objection,

Plotius, followed by the condition wished upon him. Plotius is to be

moved out by fevers which are likened to him wrestling with different

man. This very vivid story describes the high temperature struggles of malaria

which utmost sincere is the plague wished upon Plotius in the sphere of. Following the

condition is mentioned, the article requesting the curse promises

humanity to what's more Proserpina and Cerberus as a task for their

services. Cerberus is to assume dates, figs, and a black pig-one

sufferer for a cause for each of his heads. Proserpina is promised the diagram of

Plotius himself as an acquaint with, and the what's left of the document

describes in narrate every item of his diagram and what angry was to

happen to it. Afterward, the tablet specifies that these stuff are

to be larger than by the end of February, so that Plotius may not see

different month.

The five drug were acquired by the Divide of Form

Archaeology of the Johns Hopkins Theoretical in 1908, and published in

a daily by the with Hopkins graduate scholar William Sherwood

Fox in 1911. Close is explicit about their improve credit. It is moreover

very sincere that the drug were deposited in a remorseful because curse

drug were habitually located in tombs at the back of the salubrious wake. The principle

was that the thing embryonic expound would take in the curse to the gods of

the Criminal world. Tombs of relations who had died rural or by heated contraption

were preferred at the same time as it was said that their souls lingered

anxiously nearby their wake site.

References

Fox, W.S., "The Johns Hopkins Tabellae Defixionum" PhD diss.,

Johns Hopkins Theoretical, 1911.

Fox, W.S., "An Infernal Postal Bring into play," Art and Archaeology 1

(1914), 205-207.

Gager, J.G., Blight Tablets and Enduring Spells from the Aged

Universe, Oxford; New York: Oxford Theoretical Demand 1992.

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RE: NEWS: A ROMAN Stock Blight Exclude

POSTED BY: "JOHN COLLEY" HELLICONIA54@YAHOO.COM.AU HELLICONIA54

Tue Nov 1, 2011 11:50 pm (PDT)

Prominently considerably since the votive cloth found in british wells and rivers,produced since a leg or arm.

"Hand over is magic in the feel of a disagreement and the occupation of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, representation, detachment, and regulation."

-Sigurd Olson

"From: Caroline Tully

To: WitchesWorkshop@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 9:19 AM

Subject: [WitchesWorkshop] NEWS: A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

NEWS: A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

From

:
[Go expound for pix and linx]

=

A Roman Stock Blight Exclude

By Elisabeth Schwinge

The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum contains rubbish attendant to

five lead curse drug from ancient Rome. One of these drug

(JHUAM 2011.01) was at the end conserved and located on view, unhappy with

the salubrious glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06) simultaneous with it. Matter

such as this one are sureness of a ordinary practice in Greek and Roman

antiquity to curtail curses onto drug which were with deposited in

wells or graves. In the function of the original drug right contained the name

of the article to be cursed, concluding examples grew bigger develop, such

as this representation. Curses may perhaps be decorated on basically doesn't matter what,

ranging from pottery sherds to gemstones, whereas lead is the utmost

ordinary problem cast-off for this service.

The salubrious nail cast-off to "pin down" the five drug in ancient

period. At the top of the nail, lead rubbish from the drug are

soothe together in place.

This certified tablet (JHUAM 2011.01) from the Johns Hopkins

stockpile was found rolled together with four others and pierced

nonstop by an glib nail (JHUAM 2011.06). The Latin name for a curse is

defixio which contraption 'to pin down.' In the function of the merely drug are

stand-ins for the cursed ancestors, the nail symbolizes their

pinning-down.

All five drug now in the Hopkins stockpile were in print in Latin

by the especially hand, but power curses chary contradictory contest. In

order for curses to be utmost efficacious, the live in to be cursed

were fastidiously named. This tablet contains a curse directed chary a

Plotius, renowned as the slave of a female named Avonia. Altered the

cursed article, the one uttering the curse was as a rule not mentioned

by name; as a assessment to house counter-curses.

Dating to the mid-first century BCE (inadequately the time of Julius

Caesar), this tablet represents traditional surface of curse drug from

this period, and sincere came from Rome. It begins by invoking

Proserpina [Greek Persephone] and her next of kin Pluto [Greek Hades], the

god of the Criminal world, as well as the three-headed dog Cerberus who

guards the advent to the realm of the dead. Blight drug were

frequently addressed to the gods of the Criminal world and relations

simultaneous with it, such as Mercury [Greek Hermes] who guided the

souls on their way to Hades. The curse with names its make an objection,

Plotius, followed by the condition wished upon him. Plotius is to be

moved out by fevers which are likened to him wrestling with different

man. This very vivid story describes the high temperature struggles of malaria

which utmost sincere is the plague wished upon Plotius in the sphere of. Following the

condition is mentioned, the article requesting the curse promises

humanity to what's more Proserpina and Cerberus as a task for their

services. Cerberus is to assume dates, figs, and a black pig-one

sufferer for a cause for each of his heads. Proserpina is promised the diagram of

Plotius himself as an acquaint with, and the what's left of the document

describes in narrate every item of his diagram and what angry was to

happen to it. Afterward, the tablet specifies that these stuff are

to be larger than by the end of February, so that Plotius may not see

different month.

The five drug were acquired by the Divide of Form

Archaeology of the Johns Hopkins Theoretical in 1908, and published in

a daily by the with Hopkins graduate scholar William Sherwood

Fox in 1911. Close is explicit about their improve credit. It is moreover

very sincere that the drug were deposited in a remorseful because curse

drug were habitually located in tombs at the back of the salubrious wake. The principle

was that the thing embryonic expound would take in the curse to the gods of

the Criminal world. Tombs of relations who had died rural or by heated contraption

were preferred at the same time as it was said that their souls lingered

anxiously nearby their wake site.

References

Fox, W.S., "The Johns Hopkins Tabellae Defixionum" PhD diss.,

Johns Hopkins Theoretical, 1911.

Fox, W.S., "An Infernal Postal Bring into play," Art and Archaeology 1

(1914), 205-207.

Gager, J.G., Blight Tablets and Enduring Spells from the Aged

Universe, Oxford; New York: Oxford Theoretical Demand 1992.

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POSTED BY: "THERESA" GREGORYTK@BIGPOND.COM THERESA.VENUS

Wed Nov 2, 2011 2:40 am (PDT)

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