The Witch & How She Became Digital

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  @4649kasumi · 9 months ago

  im paying an Etsy witch to cast a spell so that we can see the cow

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  @williamzazill1489 · 10 months ago

  6 years of being promised that the cow would be in the next video and we still don't even know her name, I'm beginning to think she doesn't want to actually be in a video.

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  @FireSilver25 · 9 months ago

  This was great! As an Indigenous woman (from what’s now CA) the white sage thats so popular is only native to SoCal and into Mexico. Thats it. And there’s ZERO regulation around how it’s marketed. It can be poached by whoever and sold as “ethically harvested by Indigenous people”. <br>The plants are being stripped bare, which doesn’t just affect Indigenous culture but the ecological niche the plant fills. And it can’t reseed as well. <br>The same thing is happening to Palo Santo, ayahuasca, peyote, etc. A few years back an ancient peyote garden in Texas was totally poached. <br>Even the abalone shells used to hold smudge are problematic. Before colonialism Natives cultivated extensive abalone gardens in tidal pools. When I was a kid we could get them right on the beach. Then people had to dive for them. Now there’s a moratorium because when sea otters were over hunted for pelts the urchins took over and ate too much kelp, starving abalone. But that doesn’t stop poachers, especially those supplying the bougie sushi market. The shell is also an important material used in our regalia. <br>We can’t get the natural shells anymore, just farmed ones that are much thinner. And even those are being shipped all over the world for smudge. <br>There’s a documentary, Saging the World, that goes into more detail. <br>Even crystals come from mining in Brazil and other countries where child labor is exploited. <br>We’re told that HOW a medicine/food/etc is harvested is just as important as the innate properties. <br>I tell people their smudge is probably cursed!😂 <br>And a side note; early American feminists were directly inspired by Indigenous women who culturally had far more agency. And Baum was also vehemently anti-Indigenous. He wrote a frightening editorial calling for the extermination of Indians and right after that the massacre at Wounded Knee happened. <br>And the government collaborated with churches to eradicate our spiritual practices. Many treaties, that were coerced, forced Native communities to allow churches to be built, often before housing. <br>So seeing modern witchcraft become modern colonialism is another thorn in our collective side! Don’t even get me started on the dreamcatcher thing!

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  @SenbeiLover · 10 months ago

  &quot;Tara is the cow&apos;s familiar&quot; really caught me unprepared

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  @blewskidoo2110 · 10 months ago

  SHE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO CHURN MY OWN BUTTER

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  @htpkey · 10 months ago

  &quot;Etsy witch&quot; is such a dystopian capitalist phrase. Mixing belief in magic and the supernatural with capitalism.

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  @anabltc · 10 months ago

  &quot;my love language being info dumping&quot; lol same same

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  @Alex-cw3rz · 10 months ago (edited)

  I am so glad you talked about work there is the pervasive myth that &quot;women entered the workforce in the 1960s&quot; when this isn&apos;t true at all, what actually occured was the 1950s was the lowest point of womens participation in the work force in recorded history, so any decade after will have an increase in participation and the roles women could do opened up and new industry with no specfic gender mandated (same with men moving into the service industry from manufacturing). More women are working now, however it was not a 0-100

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  @delphinidin · 10 months ago

  In Hanover, PA, US, there is an ongoing legal kerfuffle over witchcraft. Pennsylvania has an obscure law on the books from 1861 making it illegal to practice fortune-telling for money. Beck Lawrence (they/them), owns a metaphysical shop in Hanover, where they offer tarot readings. They did all the normal legal things that should have protected them, such as posting signs that readings were for entertainment purposes only. Nonetheless, when the chief of police heard about the opening of the shop, he and another officer went to Lawrence&apos;s shop, refused them their legal right to record their conversation, and told them that if they got any reports about Lawrence actually doing any readings, they would be back to arrest them, put them in jail for up to a year, or charge them a fine of up to $2500. (There have never been any complaints to the police about Lawrence&apos;s shop. There are also 3 other metaphysical shops in town that have never been targeted.) Lawrence has now filed a lawsuit against the Hanover police, declaring the fortune-telling statute a violation of freedom of speech, hoping that the PA Attorney General will strike down the law. The issue is still ongoing.

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  @cherryleafy101 · 10 months ago

  I remember being enamoured with Terry Pratchett&apos;s witches as a child. While they were generally positive figures, they were allowed to be mean, standoffish, wicked, and to make mistakes. Like so many of his characters, they feel so human.

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  @carrotman · 9 months ago (edited)

  I really hope the cow is in this one 🤞<br><br>EDIT: oh man 😞

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  @FollyNymph · 10 months ago (edited)

  Thank you for talking about the appropriation of white sage and sage in general. As a First Nations person, it feels awful to watch cultural practices be made into a spectacle :( I recently unfollowed a YouTuber because she was using white sage to create a mainstream &quot;witchy aesthetic&quot; for her videos, rather than using it for its cleansing purposes.

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