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2/1/2010 Writing Prompt: Witchcraft
You would think in an era when you have Iphones, laptop computers and technology to do almost anything, magic would be something of fairy tales. But
in parts of the world it looks like witches can earn a living good enough to build a castle.
This is a video portraying what witchcraft looks like for gypsy witches living in a part of Romania.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTJpaAlk9VQ&feature=player_embedded
and part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnizP4q1Tno&feature=channel
P.S. No person with a sane mind should really believe what these women say for more than entertainment purpouses. Take it from someone who reads
palms.
[Edited on 2/2/2010 by Kiro]
~ Your friendly neighborhood vampire, Cristian
"Keep dreaming, Brad Moonglowaftervodkaski.... "
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I can't get the videos to load - my pc. But there are some that make it rough for all of us. I read tarot cards - don't live in a palace, let me tell
ya!
I don't have a problem with people charging money IF they are fair and honest. Why should anyone work for free? I charge $5 per and it takes about 20
minutes, but I'll answer questions for as long as they want to ask - I've done 1 hr readings.
I charge, but I don't really do it for the money. I have to charge so that everyone and their brother isn't asking me to come. People take anything if
it's free.
I do it because I am supposed to assist people, and I'm good at it.
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Rudy, I wish I lived close to you. I'd love to have my cards read. I like to think I'm sensible enough to tell when to believe something and when not
to. Some things are amazing, and some are bunk.
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I talk to dead people in my dreams...Does that count??
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Do you learn anything of value when you talk to them? Or are you just chatting?
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Sometimes they are just visiting me. WE both know they are dead and they won't answer any meaningful questions . Like the time my grandmother came
to visit me right before my daughter's Bat Mitzvah. She had just gotten her hair done and when I asked her where was there a beauty parlor in
heaven., shew just smiled and shook her head.
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Well I'm certainly glad I can get my hair done in heaven. I wonder if they do nails too?
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My late Aunt Margie came to me in a dream once and said, "Honey, we are never really gone."
She also said, "Laugh at your troubles - it really pisses them off." That was such an Aunt Margie thing to say. She told me to tell my sister Hello
from her daughter, and that was about all of that dream.
But I always kee in mind both things she said to me. Very helpful.
The first odd dream I had was at my new friend's house - I was 8 or 9, sleeping over like kids do.
I had a nightmare that a man, dressed in old looking clothes was hanging (dead) from the attic hatch in the ceiling. Woke up screaming. She woke up,
and got her mother.
I told her mother the dream, and she told me that about 100 yrs back, one man had shot and killed his brother in this house, then hung himself in the
barn - through the hatch that looked just like this attic hatch.
I was a little kid, but I thought she was joshin' me.
A few years later, I was alone in that house when I heard somebody walk around upstairs, the rock in a rocking chair. When my friend came back, I told
her I thought her sister was awake upstairs. She claimed nobody was home.
No way did I believe that, so we searched the whole place. Not one soul was there but us. No way anyone could have gotten in/out past me.
Later, I read in the history of that town, that the murder/suicide really did occur there.
As kids, we saw those mens' tombstones in the cemetary.
Still gives me chills!
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Quote: Originally posted by andisaid  | | Sometimes they are just visiting me. WE both know they are dead and they won't answer any meaningful questions . Like the time my grandmother came
to visit me right before my daughter's Bat Mitzvah. She had just gotten her hair done and when I asked her where was there a beauty parlor in
heaven., shew just smiled and shook her head. |
I think that is the point. Just to let you know they are still right there. Isn't that way more impoortant than anything else they could say?
I know alot of people that watch stuff like John Edwards or even Medium and think it would be cool to have that gift, thinking they could ask for
lottery numbers. That is not how it works.
I say, can you hear? Can you see? And yet, you cannot see my mom's car, can you? Can you hear wht they're saying in my post office right now?
No. Because even though you have those senses, you only hear and see so much, no every single thing.
You get the info you are supposed to get, to help the people you are supposed to help - and nothing more. WE are not allowed to change anything that
is not supposed to be changed.
Two things happen when it is time for me to really get out the cards and get at it. One, the dreams come - a lot of dreams. Then, also a lot of bad
luck, a lot of struggles. I know I am supposed to be helping others, and that will make things better for me.
And I know that this info will come to me in dreams if I do not look for it in the cards.
I do not know how the cards work. It makes no sense. All I know is that thye show up like they are supposed to, the right card in the right place.
There are 72 in my deck, and you think I have them memorized? Yeah, right! lol...
To go through them, I can't tell you what most of them mean. I cannot read for myself - what cards fall where, it makes little sense. So why I know
what they are saying for everyone else is a mystery to me. But that's how it is.
If I get to your neck of the woods, Nancy, I'd love to read for you. Or if you get up to Ohio, drop me a note and we can meet up.
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I have ALWAYS wondered about witchcraft, hoodoo and the like. I figure it **has** to be more than just legend, because folks believe it to this day.
I really would like to (when I become independently wealthy, of course) travel to the deep south and be the annoying white guy moving through little
towns in search of someone with knowledge of the black arts. Maybe I could sell the documentary  .
I seemed to be looking down from an immense height upon a twilit grotto, knee-deep with filth, where a white-bearded daemon swineherd drove about
with his staff a flock of fungous, flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing.
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I **love** creepy trees!
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Skwerly that sounds like something interesting
I don't know about talking with the dead but I do have dreams that come true. I dreamt about how I hit my head on cobblestones while falling from a
bike. At the time I was far too young to ride a bike, but I remember it. Ii hasn't happened to me in a while to dream about something that will happen
later, but it's a pretty cool feeling when you remember you dreamt about it since you forget your dreams. I thought about an exercise to write down my
dreams to improve my descriptive skills but never really followed up. I did get the inspiration for it after dreaming a one-on-one stare contest with
a gargoyle
"It saw me from the other side of the window and flew around like a bat until it found a way inside my house. It had a small body, about the size of a
little person but very skinny with a grotesquely large humanoid head. It had winged arms and very long fingers with skin grey as stone and thin since
I could tell its veins on its forehead. Only malicious eyes the color of mustard pinned me down. I think it was examining me the way I was examining
it. But I was only a child and tried to hide under the blankets in my bed. It touched the material and peeked underneath to see my face once again, a
most curious being in more ways than one. "
I never personally believed in tarot cards the way I don't believe in crystal balls and the likes. I kind of believe in reading coffee since you
actually had an influence on that but still palm reading is the only halfway credible "art". When I palm read I don't tell the person about their
future much but I can tell them more about themselves which I think is more helpful. I can however tell how many kids a person will/should have
~ Your friendly neighborhood vampire, Cristian
"Keep dreaming, Brad Moonglowaftervodkaski.... "
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Your feelings are never wrong. Remember that when someone is trying to show you they are right and you are not. |
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Kiro - I've had my palm read, tea leaves read and several card readers do my cards. There are some better than others in any field.
I've never heard of reading coffee, but I'll guess it's similar to tea.
Actually, you do have influence over the cards. The person cuts the deck - at least they do when I read for them. Or they draw three cards, if that's
the reading we're doing.
In tea readings, it's the reader, not the drinker, who swirls the cup and turns it upside down, so the he/she has less influence over the outcome.
But part of me thinks that all these cards just end up where they are supposed to - just as w e are right where we are supposed to be. That there are
no mistakes, that life happens - good and bad - as it is meant to unfold.
Maybe that is all a bunch of shit, too.
I don't know. I'm not supposed to know. I'm supposed to have faith, though.
I know I have read people who were pretty skeptic and given them goosebumps, telling them things I had no way of knowing. I told one young man I
didn't think I'd be buying a dirt bike if I had a baby on the way - everyone in the room screamed. He did have a baby on the way, and he had just
bought a dirt bike!
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I dreamed the other night I was in a room of people I did not recognize. I told them I had decided to retire in May. They were very disappointed to
hear that. I got the impression I was a very popular entertainment for them that they did not wish ended.
I have been retired since June 30, 2007.
I am concerned this announcement of a May retirement is my soul's decision to depart this incarnation sometime in May.
Hmm, there's a story here.
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Indeed there is, my friend. Indeed, there is.
Besides Zombies, Witchcraft is probably the scariest thing my mind can *kind of* wrap its... well... mind around. The power is what affects me, I
guess. The raw, untraceable power.
I seemed to be looking down from an immense height upon a twilit grotto, knee-deep with filth, where a white-bearded daemon swineherd drove about
with his staff a flock of fungous, flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing.
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Rudy I've never heard of reading tea myself (Guess it makes sense - you never heard of mine and I never heard of yours ). I'm no expert but I think you have to use ground coffee and swirl the fluid
around for a while and then throw it away (or it can be after you're done drinking). You have to look at how the ground coffee sticks to the cup and
different things appear, sort of like cloud reading
The one thing I learned in the palm reading industry is that there is no certain how-to guide. The different lines mean different things in different
people's perception even though they are still linked to the same things (life line still is linked to your vitality, head and heart line are the same
for everyone) but how you interpret the signs differs.
I've had my share of giving goosebumps especially when I told a person they might have had temporary insanity or something similar and they said they
attempted suicide at one point.
I think I'll start a "The story of your dreams" thread in here and ask people to describe their dreams/nightmares
~ Your friendly neighborhood vampire, Cristian
"Keep dreaming, Brad Moonglowaftervodkaski.... "
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Your feelings are never wrong. Remember that when someone is trying to show you they are right and you are not. |
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Oh, if anyone wants their palm read over the internet you can send me a picture of your palm(s) and I'd be happy to do it. The practice would do me
good.
Just make sure the lines are visible and your hand is relaxed.
~ Your friendly neighborhood vampire, Cristian
"Keep dreaming, Brad Moonglowaftervodkaski.... "
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Your feelings are never wrong. Remember that when someone is trying to show you they are right and you are not. |
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Card reading has been passed down in my family for god knows how long. Though mostly my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother used playing cards
(which are actually a simplified version of tarot). I myself have been learning the tarot for a few years now, and also am going deeper into paganism.
I don't follow a specific pagan path, more I take elements from a good few of them, so that makes me an Eclectic Pagan.
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You know, I had forgotten all about my great-aunt who told fortunes with ordinary playing cards. I was a small child when she visited with us (under 5
years old) and don't remember much about it, other than she did it. Aunt Molly was sister to my deceased grandmother (my mother's mother) and another
sister was Aunt Ethel, who saw a big ball of light any time someone was going to die. I used that in one of my stories, "A Birth in Shadow Cove" but
that story didn't make the cut with the judges. I'll have "Death Comes to Shadow Cove" and "Johnnie falls in Love" published in the anthologies, but
not the Birth story, so Aunt Ethel and the ball of light won't see print, at least not now.
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For the past four years, I have given myself a year-long Tarot reading thingy on January 1st of each year. I wrote down the monthly 'forecast' in a
notebook.
For all four years, there has only been one month where I could not say that the reading was considerably accurate. I find it quite interesting, and
would like to learn more about it, but don't really have a strong commitment to it.
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