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violetwitchcraft:

pastorwitch:

I am pleased to announce that we only have two episodes left of season 1 of The Bastard Executioner and we know so far:

1. Annora of the Alders is a Christian mystic and Gnostic who has been entrusted with one of the nine scriptures written by Jesus himself. These scriptures do not uphold a Jesus who rose from the dead, which is why the Order of the Rosebud wants her and her cohorts silenced.
2. She was a Christian nun.
3. Her lover was a member of the Order of the Rosebud.
4. She knows the Quran.
5. She has a connection to all other members of the Seraphim who protect the nine gospels. When one dies she is aware and is able to cross their tree out on her mural.
6. She also has a connection to her lover.
7. She has visions and is capable of inciting visions in others.
8. She can see threads of the future when near a person and is able to guide people towards specific ends. She also has been shown to change the future.
9. Thorns have manifested out of her skin as a warning that the Bishop was coming. This was not a hallucination as she was able to show the local priest the thorns coming out of her skin. Though this might have simply been spiritual forces acting on her and not necessarily her acting on the world.
10. She finds living snakes inside of dead people and after she kills them she hangs them up in her house.
11. Somebody brought the dead snakes to life in order to attack people who came upon her lair. Was it her?
12. She has a massive cauldron.
13. She is an expert on explosions.
14. She serves the people as a healer. The people already have rumors that she is a witch, but she prefers the term healer. She is so good at healing that the court physician calls her in.

It’s official! Annora is a Gnostic Christian mystic who is likely a magick practitioner. The coding they use in the series suggests that she is a witch (cauldron, healing, mysticism, living in nature.) The Bastard Executioner is portraying Christian mysticism and magick as a normal part of Medieval Europe, serving as a reminder to all that mixing magick and Christianity is nothing new.

Thanks Katey Sagal and Kurt Sutter for giving us a character to look up to and to spread awareness of some of our roots.

Some good representation for my Christian witch friends 🙂

awakenedvibrations:

Burning Frankincense in the form of incense has been a big part of religious and other cultural ceremonies for a millennium. The resin from the Boswellia tree also known as Frankincense or olibanum is believed to be an aroma that will help your soul reach spiritual exaltation.

Frankincense resin is mentioned in many different ancient texts including the old and new testament and is said to have mystical capabilities, a belief that has been carried forward to the spiritual practices of today.

Recently a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem did a study to see what the effects were of this age-old practice. They studied Frankincense to determine why it has psychoactive effects.

In order to conduct the study and observe the effects of Frankincense on the mind, the researchers administered a primary Boswellia resin incensole acetate to some mice. The team found that the ‘incensole acetate’ influences the areas of the brain which regulate emotions.

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