I get a lot of asks asking about fitness witchcraft; what it is, how to do it, tips, etc. So, here is my consensus of witchy work out tips! I think combining witchcraft and fitness is a wonderful thing to do. It can help you stay motivated, get rid of excess energy, and help create more.
Beginning So, how do you get started? Well, this is pretty much up to you. There’s a lot of ways a fit witch can incorporate witchcraft into their healthy life style. I’ll mostly be discussing the basics of incorporating it into working out, healthy eating, and little tips here and there.
Routine/ritual – You can pretty much turn any routine into a spell ritual. All that energy you exert can be transmuted into the manifestation of your desire. This can work for any routine; your routine at the gym, for yoga, dance, hula hooping, whatever you do to workout there’s usually a routine. Each part of your routine is more or less an ingredient of manifestation. For example; I have a weekly routine, if I manage to do everything in my weekly routine it becomes a catalyst for energy kind of like an exchange of goods – I do this for you and you do this for me. Just like some people do spells in steps, this is similar.
Invoking – If you think thirty minutes on the stair stepper, sweating through every layer of clothing you have won’t invoke Freyja you’re fucking wronggg.
Devotional Work – This kind of ties in with invoking. Whatever way you choose to exercise, you can do it for a deity. For example, when I do weights at the gym it’s often for Freyja or Thor. If it’s for Thor I’ll talk to him while working out and really try to push myself, any new weight that I add or reps are offerings to him and proof of the strength of my love! Or if you have more playful deities you can make a deal, I often make bets with Thor saying if I can add x amount of weight or do it in x amount of time he has to make it storm.
Healthy Eating – Working on being fit and healthy isn’t only about working out, eating what’s good for you matters too. You can use healthy eating as a way of kitchen magic and incorporating the properties of what you eat into your spells. I sometimes use it as devotional work to Eir or as a way of cleansing my body. I don’t mean like a juice cleanse or anything, I just choose foods for the day that have strong cleansing/grounding/purifying qualities.
Weights/Gym/Cardio – I found weights to be particularly grounding and sobering. It’s my go to for days that I really want to manifest a spell or be “put in my place”, sometimes I get so caught up with my anxieties and thoughts that I think they’re much bigger than they really are and I need to be humbled. While these are my personal associations I find weights help with grounding, vitality, self-discovery, intrusive thoughts, discipline, manifestation, good health, strength, perspective, personal growth, and inner radiance. It’s also associated with element earth or water.
Aerial/Pole Dancing/Hula Hooping/Yoga – I use aerial, aerobic, and balance exercises as a way to harvest and release energy. Granted you could do this with literally ANY form of exercise(it’s your practice) I just happen to like the feeling of energy release while these types of workouts. I associate these types of work outs with the elements water and air. I also find they help with emotional healing, creative inspiration, personal magic, spiritual truth, cleansing, release of negativity, inner peace, empathy, endurance, self-healing, and a release of bad habits.
Boxing/Self Defense/Martial Arts – Self-defense and martial arts have been something I’ve recently taken an interest in. I personally have mostly used it as a devotional act and as a way to build myself up. When I say build myeslf up, I mean that in every sense of the term, to be better as witch, to harvest more energy, to be able to harness more energy, to have a better mental and physical resolve, it’s a challenge to myself(although any form of workout can be). I personally tie it to the elements of fire and earth. I associate it with helping gain resolve, patience, strength, spiritual protection, ascension, persistence, activation of mind and will, life force, personal power, magic, vitality, self-loyalty, self-love, and inner radiance.
Archery/Fencing – While I can personally only speak for archery I feel like it ties into introspection and wisdom really well. It’s a good time to focus on yourself, broaden your mind, and focus on silence, solitude. I associate these with the elements water and air. I also associate them with positive self-expression, enhanced communication, intuition, psychic openings, link to the unconscious, regeneration of hope, rejuvenation, self love, heart-centered awareness, manifestation.
Lepidocrocite – element: fire, water; properties: emotional healing, release of self-destructive patterns, love and empathy, soul retrieval, inspiration
Ocean Jasper – element: earth; properties: enjoyment of life, release of negativity and stress, relaxation, positive self-expression, physical and emotional healing
Deity Crystal – This is up to totally up to you! If you’re invoking or devoting your workout to a certain deity you can use whatever crystal reminds you of them.
Intention – Whatever your intention for your work out magic is! If it’s self love or growth rose quartz would be great. Think about what you’re hoping to achieve.
Herbs/Foods These are fruits, veggies, herbs, flowers, etc that I like to use in my fitness witchcraft. You can either include it in a sachet, cook it in a meal, or infuse your water/tea with it! I love bringing fruit/herb infused water to the gym to help keep me motivated.
Rice – element: air; properties: protection, calling on rain, prosperity, hallowing, and abundance
Blueberries – element: water; properties: sense of calm, protection, self-love
Tips
Keep in mind your sweat consists of sodium, sugars, and potassium. Use your own sweat as an ingredient in your magic, your body produces enough of it while working out.
Salt can be used for purification, healing, and protection. Sugar can be used for love, compassion, sweetness in life, and joy. Potassium can be used as an energy amplifier, for strength, will, and healing.
You can draw sigils on your clothing, body, shoes(I love doing the bottom of my tennis shoes so no one else can see it), water bottle, etc. to help keep you motivated and your energy strong! I personally find myself using a lot of runes and staves in my workouts because I feel it ties me closer to my gods. I personally use:
Sowulo for goal setting and success.
Fehu for action and motivation
Uruz for strength and power
Take a crystal with you to the gym! If you’re lucky enough to have pockets you can slip it in there but take into consideration what you’re doing that day. I stuck some citrine in a pocket on my backside once without considering I’d be on my back half the time and ended up with a bad bruise!
Or you can add it to your shoe laces!
Put it in your bra.
Put in your gym bag or yoga mat.
Have some water before you go to stay hydrated! Better yet have some green tea or black tea; both are rich in anti-oxidants and have a small enough amount of caffeine to get you going but won’t make you crash.
Bonus: Crystal charge the water you plan to take to the gym. Double check that your crystal is safe to be used in water first! You could even use moon water for that extra magical boost.
Music! Make a playlist that makes you feel strong and confident. It doesn’t even have to be witchy, just whatever gets your blood pumpin’ and you feelin’ good!
Glamours can be super helpful! Whether it’s something small to have you feeling better about yourself before you go the gym or something to help keep creeps away.
Don’t be to hard on yourself. We’ve all missed a gym day or workout class. It’s not the end of the world, all that matters is that you keep trying. Don’t compare your progress to anyone else other than yourself. It’s okay to go at your own pace.
Lately, I’ve been really drawn to reading through my old grimoires, and feasting upon old ideas that are starting to resurface in my dreams. I used to be fascinated by the idea of turning into animal. Indeed, when I was younger I would often travel in my dreams as a wolf, waking up with what one author called the “wolf spittle”, though at the time I did not realise this was what it was. I’ve been turning into a raven, more recently, but I sometimes still feel the wolf deep within my bosom.
The old stories of werewolves were never about being bitten, and then turning into a wolf at the full moon. No, they were also, as the witches, separated into groups of werewolves, though I hesitate to call such groups “covens”, the name seems appropriate. If we look even further back we see magicians donning the skins of wolves, and transforming into these dire beasts to roam the world. Or we see berserkers wearing a bear pelt and shapeshifting into terrifying beasts. Sometimes, we read of sorcerers smearing ointments on their skin, which helps them to magically change into an animal.
This latter idea persisted well into the 17th century. Many accused werewolves claimed that they became wolves by smearing an ointment upon themselves. This is rather reminiscent of the witches using a flying ointment to help them fly to the sabbat. There were some werewolves that claimed to able to go down into hell and battle with other werewolves to stop them stealing crops, which reminds me of the Italian Good Walkers.
Below I wrote up a quick little ritual inspired by these folkloric myths, as well as a recent re-reading of Nigel Jackson’s The Compleat Vampyr. I want to make it noted that I myself have never attempted this ritual, and therefore it is a work in progress. However, from what I have experienced with spirit flight, this just seems a logical leap. Spirit fills form. To our ancestors, who were most likely in the throes of ecstatic trance, or high out of their minds, the was no separation between their body laying catatonic on the ground and what they were experiencing in spirit flight. Today, many sorcerers experience a sensation of bi-location: of being in their beds, but also having shapeshifted outside of their body.
That being said, I have seen a pack of men shapeshift into wolves and chase down a deer (also, incidentally, shapeshifted). They were men in body, but wolf in spirit. And they certainly seemed like wolves to me as they ran by, their eyes rolling with feral hunger, a couple of them even so low to the ground that they could have been running on all fours! A good friend of mine has even recounted the story of a man she saw at a festival who was truly a wolf-man, his hair ragged, his nails long and yellow, his teeth ferocious. It is possible to go too far on the path of the shapeshifter, and remain trapped as an animal forever. We must always remember our humanity.
So, let us begin.
At the full moon, take yourself away to some liminal place, such as a crossroads, a cave, a border, or even a graveyard. There you shall light candles giving a dim light, as well as certain resins and incensum of an earthly and mercurial nature (pines and such). Face the north, that dark realm of spirits, and begin your incantations.
There are many traditional incantations of transformation, such as Isobel Gowdie’s famous chant to turn herself into a hare. Perhaps the incantation is spontaneous, making the noises of that which you wish to change into. Or perhaps, as recommended by Nigel Jackson, you intone the name of the Dark Wolf God Volkvh/Pykkulos/Velinas. It is good and appropriate to make a sacrifice at this point, maybe even of a live animal. How visceral.
Smear noxious ointments of shapeshifting upon your skin. Or perhaps drink deeply of a red wine. Don the pelt of the animal skin, and begin to dance as you chant, and drum. Spirit fills form: Take to the form of a wolf, melding the body to its shape. Howl, growl, snap your jaws, bark, and yip.
This ecstatic chanting will eventually, if you allow it, lead the body into a state of immobility. From the Sorcerer’s Trance, your consciousness shall fly out and take the form of the wolf. Spirit is malleable, and easy to shape. Your body is to the world as one dead, but the spirit flies free and roams the world as a wolf.
As you must, you will return to your body. You have died, and have been reborn. And so it is.
I find it interesting that there are so many parallels between shapeshifting trance, and flying to the sabbat trance. The body lays catatonic, dead to the world. Le petit mort, the little death, the ecstatic trance.
I do not need to remind you, dear reader, that, because of this vulnerable state of the sorcerer, we are in danger. Whether because of possible spirit possession, or the discovery of the body by less than welcome humans, it is intelligent to guard the sleeping sorcerer with protective amulets and wards. And even better than that is having a trusted friend by your side to watch over your body until you revive.
So, I’ve come to find knowing how magic works for each individual can help immensely when it comes to studying and perfecting each person’s form of witchcraft. Everyone tends to be different, and finding out where you stand and how you personally use, store, and/or release energy can help when it comes to visualization. This can, in turn, greatly impact the success rate of each spell, working, or ritual a witch does. Obviously, it’s not an end-all, be-all. However, I’ve found knowing the information can help even just a tiny bit (or a lot, depending on the person.)
Internal vs External
The way energy moves throughout the body is a great way to start understanding how you can use and manipulate your own in your everyday life as well as in your practice. There are hundreds of different types of paths for energy to go, but for the most part, the two largest categories are: internal and external.
Internal
Internal energy pathways are self-explanatory. Typically, these people were born during the day and possess power from within their own bodies. They have a connection with the Sun. Internal is quite common, and these individuals may have to ground and cleanse themselves more than their counterparts. They can be gifted at enchantments, astral work, communing with deity or spirits, etc. Their cores emanate energy, which can be activated with a touch. Touch with the hands, feet, chest, and the top of the head would be ideal as these are their center points of energy. Internal magic users tend to rely on their instincts and intuition and often have extra-sensory abilities. My recommendation: focusing on visualization and using touch-based rituals/spells (sigils, baths, etc.)
Oil to help loosen up the internal energy flow:
Olive oil base
Sea Salt
Amethyst (chips or tumbled)
Rosemary (herb or oil form)
Yerba Santa, Sage, or Palo Santo
Burn either on a charcoal disk or rub on a candle to breathe it in.
External
External magic users are the lucky ones! Typically born at night, these are those lucky people who could wish for something and have it happen. They have an ability to influence the world from afar, like the Moon. They can trigger changes around them without thinking about it too much. Simply saying things like “I really wish I had some extra money,” might aid them in finding a spare $20 on the street. These are typically the people who can reblog emoji spells, and/or “money cat”-type posts and have a high success rate. Their bodies radiate energy and manipulating it may come naturally to them, to the point where they have no idea they’re doing it. They rely on their intellect and are disciplined, determined, and intelligent. They excel at area of effect rituals, such as wards. Energy manipulation, healing magic, and forms of divination may also be easier for them to master. My recommendation: learning how to manipulate their energy more and using repetitive mindset spells (ie, vision boards. AKA, wishing for something super hard.)
Oil to help loosen up the external energy flow:
Coconut oil
Lavender (herb or oil)
Sea Salt
Mint (herb or oil)
Selenite (Charge oil with it or add chips. Disclaimer: selenite dissolves in water, so either charge the oil or use pieces you don’t care for.)
Rub on skin, do NOT consume if you add selenite chips as it is unfit for internal consumption.
@witchfroot I applaud you for understanding, explaining, and sharing such a useful yet hidden phenomenon. I’m so happy to have learned from this! I’m just really excited when I can share/spread new eye-opening information like this ahh
Aker – A god of the earth and the horizon[3]
Ammit – goddess who devoured condemned souls[4]
Amenhotep son of Hapu – A scribe and architect in the court of Amenhotep III, later deified for his wisdom[5]
Am-heh – A dangerous underworld god[5]
Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom[6]
Amunet – Female counterpart of Amun and a member of the Ogdoad[3]
Anat – A war and fertility goddess, originally from Syria, who entered Egyptian religion in the Middle Kingdom[7]
Anhur – A god of war and hunting[8]
Anti – Falcon god, worshipped in Middle Egypt,[9] who appears in myth as a ferryman for greater gods[10]
Anubis – god of embalming and protector of the dead[11]
Anuket – A goddess of Egypt’s southern frontier regions, particularly the lower cataracts of the Nile[12]
Apedemak – A warlike lion god from Nubia who appears in some Egyptian-built temples in Lower Nubia[13]
Apep – A serpent deity who personified malevolent chaos and was said to fight Ra in the underworld every night[14]
Apis – A live bull worshipped as a god at Memphis and seen as a manifestation of Ptah[15]
Arensnuphis – A Nubian deity who appears in Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia in the Greco-Roman era[16]
Ash – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt[17]
Astarte – A warrior goddess from Syria and Canaan who entered Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom[18]
Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of Akhenaten[19]
Atum – A creator god and solar deity, first god of the Ennead[20]
Baal – Sky and storm god from Syria and Canaan, worshipped in Egypt during the New Kingdom[21]
Ba’alat Gebal – A Caananite goddess, patroness of the city of Byblos, adopted into Egyptian religion[22]
Babi – A baboon god characterized by sexuality and aggression[23]
Banebdjedet – A ram god, patron of the city of Mendes[24]
Ba-Pef – A little-known underworld deity[25]
Bast – Goddess represented as a cat or lioness, patroness of the city of Bubastis, linked with fertility and protection from evil[26]
Bat – Cow goddess from early in Egyptian history, eventually absorbed by Hathor[27]
Bennu – A solar and creator deity, depicted as a bird[28]
Bes – Apotropaic god, represented as a dwarf, particularly important in protecting children and women in childbirth[29]
Buchis – A live bull god worshipped in the region around Thebes and a manifestation of Montu[30]
Dedun – A Nubian god, said to provide the Egyptians with incense and other resources that came from Nubia[31]
Geb – An earth god and member of the Ennead[32]
Ha – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt[33]
Hapi – Personification of the Nile flood[33]
Hathor – One of the most important goddesses, linked with the sky, the sun, sexuality and motherhood, music and dance, foreign lands and goods, and the afterlife. One of many forms of the Eye of Ra.[34]
Hatmehit – Fish goddess worshipped at Mendes[35]
Hedetet – A minor scorpion goddess[36]
Heh – Personification of infinity and a member of the Ogdoad[35]
Heka – Personification of magic[37]
Heket – Frog goddess said to protect women in childbirth[38]
Heryshaf – Ram god worshipped at Herakleopolis Magna[39]
Hesat – A maternal cow goddess[40]
Horus – A major god, usually shown as a falcon or as a human child, linked with the sky, the sun, kingship, protection, and healing. Often said to be the son of Osiris and Isis.[41]
Hu – Personification of the authority of the spoken word[42]
Iah – A moon god[43]
Iat – A goddess of milk and nursing[44]
Ihy – A child deity born to Horus and Hathor, representing the music and joy produced by the sistrum[45]
Imentet – An afterlife goddess closely linked with Isis and Hathor[46]
Imhotep – Architect and vizier to Djoser, eventually deified as a healer god[47]
Ishtar – The East Semitic version of Astarte, occasionally mentioned in Egyptian texts[48]
Isis – Wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, linked with funerary rites, motherhood, protection, and magic. She became a major deity in Greek and Roman religion.[49]
Iusaaset – A female counterpart to Atum[50]
Khepri – A solar creator god, often treated as the morning form of Ra and represented by a scarab beetle[51]
Kherty – A netherworld god, usually depicted as a ram[52]
Khnum – A ram god, the patron deity of Elephantine, who was said to control the Nile flood and give life to gods and humans[53]
Khonsu – A moon god, son of Amun and Mut[54]
Maahes – A lion god, son of Bastet[55]
Maat – goddess who personified truth, justice, and order[56]
Mafdet – A predatory goddess said to destroy dangerous creatures[57]
Mandulis – A Lower Nubian solar deity who appeared in some Egyptian temples[58]
Mehit – A lioness goddess, consort of Anhur[59]
Menhit – A lioness goddess[59]
Mehen – A serpent god who protects the barque of Ra as it travels through the underworld[60]
Mehet-Weret – A celestial cow goddess[60]
Meretseger – A cobra goddess who oversaw the Theban Necropolis[61]
Meskhenet – A goddess who presided over childbirth[62]
Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them[63]
Mnevis – A live bull god worshipped at Heliopolis as a manifestation of Ra[64]
Montu – A god of war and the sun, worshipped at Thebes[65]
Mut – Consort of Amun, worshipped at Thebes[66]
Nebethetepet – A female counterpart to Atum[67]
Nefertum – god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time. Son of Ptah and Sekhmet.[67]
Nehebu-Kau – A protective serpent god[68]
Nehmetawy – A minor goddess, the consort of Nehebu-Kau or Thoth[69]
Neith – A creator and hunter goddess, patron of the city of Sais in Lower Egypt[70]
Nekhbet – A vulture goddess, the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt[71]
Neper – A god of grain[72]
Nephthys – A member of the Ennead, the consort of Set, who mourned Osiris alongside Isis[73]
Nu – Personification of the formless, watery disorder from which the world emerged at creation and a member of the Ogdoad[74]
Nut – A sky goddess, a member of the Ennead[75]
Osiris – god of death and resurrection who rules the underworld and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls[76]
Pakhet – A lioness goddess mainly worshipped in the area around Beni Hasan[77]
Ptah – A creator deity and god of craftsmen, the patron god of Memphis[78]
Qetesh – A goddess of sexuality and sacred ecstasy from Syria and Canaan, adopted into Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom[79]
Ra – the foremost Egyptian sun god, involved in creation and the afterlife. Mythological ruler of the gods, father of every Egyptian king, and the patron god of Heliopolis.[80]
Raet-Tawy – A female counterpart to Ra[81]
Renenutet – An agricultural goddess[82]
Reshep – A Syrian war god adopted into Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom[83]
Renpet – goddess who personified the year[81]
Satet – A goddess of Egypt’s southern frontier regions[84]
Seker – god of the Memphite Necropolis and of the afterlife in general[85]
Sekhmet – A lioness goddess, both destructive and violent and capable of warding off disease. The consort of Ptah and one of many forms of the Eye of Ra.[86]
Serapis – A Greco-Egyptian god from the Ptolemaic Period who fused traits of Osiris and Apis with those of several Greek gods. Husband of Isis who, like her, was adopted into Greek and Roman religion outside Egypt.[87]
Serket – A scorpion goddess, invoked for healing and protection[88]
Seshat – goddess of writing and record-keeping, depicted as a scribe[89]
Set – An ambivalent god, characterized by violence, chaos, and strength, connected with the desert. Mythological murderer of Osiris and enemy of Horus, but also a supporter of the king.[90]
Shai – Personification of fate[91]
Shed – A god believed to save people from danger and misfortune[92]
Shesmetet – A lioness goddess[92]
Shezmu – A god of wine and oil presses who also slaughters condemned souls[93]
Shu – embodiment of wind or air, a member of the Ennead[94]
Sia – Personification of perception[95]
Sobek – Crocodile god, worshipped in the Faiyum and at Kom Ombo[96]
Sopdu – A god of the sky and of Egypt’s eastern border regions[97]
Sopdet – Deification of the star Sirius[98]
Ta-Bitjet – A minor scorpion goddess[99]
Tatenen – Personification of the first mound of earth to emerge from chaos in ancient Egyptian creation myths[99]
Taweret – Hippopotamus goddess, protector of women in childbirth[100]
Tefnut – Goddess of moisture and a member of the Ennead[101]
Thoth – A moon god, and a god of writing and scribes, and patron deity of Hermopolis[102]
Tutu – An apotropaic god from the Greco-Roman era[103]
Unut – A goddess represented as a snake or a hare, worshipped in the region of Hermopolis[104]
Wadjet – A cobra goddess, the tutelary deity of Lower Egypt[105]
Wadj-wer – Personification of the Mediterranean sea or lakes of the Nile Delta[106]
Weneg – A son of Ra who maintains cosmic order[106]
Wepwawet – A jackal god, the patron deity of Asyut, connected with warfare and the afterlife[107]
Werethekau – A goddess who protected the king[108]
Wosret – A minor goddess of Thebes[109]
Yam – A Syrian god of the sea who appears in some Egyptian texts[110]
I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
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You’re welcome heauxs
Cause school is starting soon and this might be helpful ☺
I will be using the Swedish names/words as there are no English translations.
Rådare
comes from the word “råda” which means “to rule/take care of” so a rådare is a creature that rules over
something.
Every rådare
rules over their own thing. For example there’s a skogsrå for every forest.
The easiest way to make them happy is through
respect and gifts.
You can protect yourself from them by wearing
metal.
Remember that the gift has to be biodegradable!
A lot of sources say that you should give coins, clothes, tobacco etc. But this
is extremely disrespectful as you’re destroying their home (and it’s generally
shitty to pollute).
Even if
you haven’t done anything to make them angry it’s always good to show respect
by acknowledging them when you enter their home.
Skogsrå
Rules
over the forest and the creatures that live there.
Usually looks like a beautiful woman with a
hollow back and/or hooves and tail. She can also take the shape of different
forest creatures.
If in a good mood she helps those who are lost
and warns people about incoming storms.
If in a bad mood she makes sure people get lost.
If you live on your own in/close to a forest (or
if you are camping) she might come at night when you’re sitting by the fire and
attempt to seduce you. If you sleep with her she will keep a part of your soul
and you will always have a longing and obsession with the forest.
If
hunters give her gifts she might “give” them an extra big animal. Though if
they manage to shoot one of the animals she protects they have to face her
wrath
Havsrå
Rules
over the ocean and the creatures that lives there.
Usually looks like a beautiful woman with long hair, gills, fins, and a
fishtail. She can also take the shape of different sea creatures.
If in a good mood she shows fishermen where they can find the best fish or
warns them about incoming storms. She can also give them good wind and help
boats that are taking in water.
If in a bad mood she can trick boats into storms so they get lost or sink.
Sometimes she will seduce people and drag them down to her home at the bottom
of the ocean where they are forced to work as servants.
She might stop boats and offer to buy their load, if this happens it’s best
to accepts as if you say no she might get so angry that she takes down the
entire ship.
Sjörå
Rules over lakes
and the creatures that live there.
Usually looks like a beautiful woman with a hollow back. Unlike havsrået she
has legs. She can also take the shape of different freshwater creatures.
If in a good mood she might help fishermen and warn them about incoming
storms.
She only drowns people who have made her angry or if she is very hungry.
Just like skogsrået if fishermen give her gifts she might “give” them an
extra big fish. Though if they manage to catch one of the creatures she
protects they have to face her wrath.
Gruvrå
Rules over
mountains and mines.
Usually looks like a tall woman in an elegant, grey dress. If seen wearing
black it is a sure sign of death.
If in a good mood she shows miners better ore veins or warns them about any
dangers.
If in a bad mood she tries to scare people away, if they ignore the warning
signs she makes sure they get lost in the mine.
Enjoys silence and solitude.
Doesn’t like it when people make too much noise.
Becomes very angry if miners manage find one of the ore veins she protects.
Källrå
Rules over
natural springs.
Usually looks like a young girl but most of the time she’s invisible. She can
also take the shape of a toad.
If in a good mood she might show you the future though the water surface. It’s
important to remember not to look for too long or too deep as you might lose
yourself.
If in a bad mood she can make you sick after you’ve drank the water.
A lot of sources
will say that if you sacrifice something to her before you drink the water it
will heal you as well as make the water clean/drinkable. This is not true. There’s not a magical cure for
deceases or disorders. Also there’s no way to magically make water drinkable.
Always make sure a natural spring is clean before you drink from it.
This is compiled from my own grimoire / what I was taught growing up
So, since you’re bi and Kemetic, I’ve gotta warn you that you probably need to brace yourself for white nationalists hijacking the post and might want to turn asks/submissions off if they’re on. That said, here are some LGBT-friendly, non-folkish links.
As you research, be aware that most of the books written by Heathens for Heathens are
either written by racist, homophobic, or otherwise dangerous people or just
generally very inaccurate. Until you have a basic grasp of the lore to
help you differentiate between fact and BS, I really recommend sticking
with academic sources. Not that academics can’t be full of it too, but
assuming you stick with recent sources, they are less likely to be
neonazis. (For obvious reasons, this does not apply to academic stuff
from the late 19th/early 20th century when certain movements were at
their height.)
Thank you so much for the help and thanks for the heads up about that. Partly why I have been avoiding learning about Norse Paganism were because of those people but..yeah.
Wonderful resources and I will be sure to read through them c: Thank you again.
fair--y backup 