{"id":3253,"date":"2011-09-18T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2011-09-18T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:59:55","slug":"doing-what-the-spirits-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3253","title":{"rendered":"Doing What the Spirits Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post from <em>Walking the Hedge<\/em> on<a href=\"http:\/\/walkingthehedge.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/it%E2%80%99s-all-rather-a-lot-of-bother\/\"> daily practice, medicine bags, and the demands of tutelary spirits:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That\u2019s a whole other bother \u2026 fellow witches and pagans who don\u2019t get it. Who think that it all must be done elegantly, flowing and \u2026 and not weird. Do something odd or awkward like blowing on your divination set or baby talking to a crow skull and all your validity goes right out the window in their mind. Nevermind that fact that the elegant shit is just for show and the spitting, swearing, shaking, whispering, sweating, bloodletting, pissing and such is the real deal! It\u2019s supposed to look like the white witch on TV with her perfectly rhyming poetry and not the crazy voodoo chick with her eyes rolling back into her head on that documentary we watched once \u2026 right? Bullshit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walkingthehedge.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/it%E2%80%99s-all-rather-a-lot-of-bother\/\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting post from Walking the Hedge on daily practice, medicine bags, and the demands of tutelary spirits: That\u2019s a whole other bother \u2026 fellow witches and pagans who don\u2019t get it. Who think that it all must be done elegantly, flowing and \u2026 and not weird. Do something odd or awkward like blowing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,94,29],"class_list":["post-3253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animism","tag-canada","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Qt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8856,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8856","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":0},"title":"Pentagram Peach and Other Good Reads","author":"Chas S. 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(I am sure that someone has tried.)\u00a0 But per\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"fairies\"","block_context":{"text":"fairies","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=fairies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/skittles.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/skittles.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/skittles.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10153,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10153","url_meta":{"origin":3253,"position":4},"title":"The Japanese Do Animism So Well \u2014\u00a0But So Can You","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Two things I was reading this week came together. 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