Alina Ashcroft
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Alina Ashcroft
@ashalina.bsky.social
Lover, writer, witch. 🌕

Following the will of wyrd
i get my news from a reliable source
March 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
oh ok. wikipedia’s got it. “The Utroba Cave, also known as Womb Cave, is a prehistoric cave sanctuary…”

and it has a light phallus?? pretty cool
March 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
look what i found
November 27, 2024 at 10:41 PM
conjunction of the moon and sun
sacred syzygy, thus begun
lovers of light, from fire to spark
let us not be afraid of the dark

#pagansky #eclipse
April 8, 2024 at 6:19 PM
On this Easter Monday, I have accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as my Lord and Savior, putting my pagan practices away. For lo, the Lord hath spoken unto me, and said it is idolatry to worship trees.
April 1, 2024 at 9:25 PM
i get my news from a reliable source
March 23, 2024 at 4:05 AM
“Cattle, which are suddenly seized with the cramp, are said to be Elf-shot, and the approved cure is to chafe the parts affected with a blue bonnet. The triangular flints, frequently found in Scotland, are supposed to be the weapons of fairy resentment, and are termed Elf arrowheads.”
March 20, 2024 at 9:56 PM
“on which they lead their dance by moonlight; impressing upon the surface the marks of circles; and within which it is dangerous to sleep, or be found after sunset.”
March 20, 2024 at 9:50 PM
“The Fairies of Scotland are represented as a diminutive race of beings, of a mixed, or rather dubious nature, capricious in their dispositions, and mischievous in their resentment. They inhabit the interior of green hills, chiefly those of a conical nature, in Garlic termed Sighan…”
March 20, 2024 at 9:47 PM
checking social media
March 20, 2024 at 6:36 PM
balance of the night and day
sweep the dregs of winter away
new life from the earth does spring
hope the dawning year does bring

happy ostara #pagansky
March 20, 2024 at 7:34 AM
March 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
only one way to find out

imagine being the first though
March 13, 2024 at 4:54 PM
lmao what, the eddas are so horny
February 16, 2024 at 3:57 AM
omg omg
February 10, 2024 at 8:29 PM
holy shit they opened up
run all ye little bugs beneath the rock!
February 7, 2024 at 1:54 AM
if you see this, post a rabbit
January 19, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Tolkien’s work is spoken of as a mythology for England. Perhaps it succeeded. But it cast all fantasy into a mold made for men.

I wish we had the same that belonged to women, and the infuriating thing is it’s all right there in the mythos — just stripped out.
January 16, 2024 at 9:55 PM
if i just post a picture of mushrooms is it going to show up on those mushroom feeds?
December 8, 2023 at 7:12 PM
Contrary to contemporary pagan understanding, which assumes the moon is feminine, there are quite a few old gods who are female solar deities. #pagansky

The sun goddess Saule has survived in the baltic’s Romuva pagan revival. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul%C4...
December 2, 2023 at 9:50 PM
The “song of the sorceress” from Slavic Witchcraft
December 2, 2023 at 6:48 AM
The air is acrid with the scent of smoke and dying leaves. The end of autumn always settles in with a bitter finality like the premonition of approaching death.
December 2, 2023 at 12:38 AM
the author claims to be a fifth generation hereditary witch born in the soviet state. as always, grain of salt.
December 2, 2023 at 12:22 AM
here’s what the book says
December 2, 2023 at 12:18 AM
“In the Russian tradition of magic, there are six main places of power. They are ancient ruins, burial grounds (cemeteries), nature, the sun, the black sun, and the church.”

- Natasha Helvin, Slavic Witchcraft
December 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM