serpentandthejar:

Luciferian Challenge day 17: What symbols do you refer to in Luciferianism/Satanism? Why?

Snakes, of course. The fruit of knowledge. Peacocks for pride, and the green and blue of their feathers, particularly green fire or light. The planet Venus. Martyrdom by fire, for heresy and witchcraft. Goats, literal scapegoats. Everything queer, left-wing, or elsewise subversive.

valhallasguardian:

falchionknight:

doubt is good for your spiritual practice. it’s really good for it. too much doubt can poison it and make you spiral and no longer believe in yourself, yeah, but a healthy amount of doubt makes the real experiences stand out amongst the mundane-that-you-misinterpreted-as-spiritual.

critical thinking and spirituality should go hand-in-hand. i can understand not wanting to be hardcore about being critical about things, because it’s your faith and practice, but failing to be critical about anything is…well. you start allowing your brain to make things up and believing it when it does.

THIS. This is more important than I think people realize.

vastderp:

shiraglassman:

katehawkingbirdbishop:

shiraglassman:

grandenchanterfiona:

I feel like the reason there aren’t any ‘Jewish hero fights the Fair Folk’ stories is because we’d easily get out of that situation.

Like, put Hershel of Ostropol in any situation involving the Fair Folk and bro would talk his way out.

This is why I’m not really scared of paranormal beasties. But yes, I’d enjoy reading this happen.

Names have power? Give them your secular name and not your Hebrew one.

If you eat their food you’re trapped? It’s not kosher anyways.

They speak in riddles? What, and you didn’t grow up answering a question with a question?

Confuse the Fair Folk with impossible halachic questions: if a man falls off a roof and onto a woman and as a result she becomes pregnant, is he obligated to marry her and is the child a mamzer? If meat is grown in a laboratory from a mix of various animal cells is it kosher, and is it even meat, and what bracha would you even say on it? Is a unicorn permitted to cleanse a poisoned stream on Shabbat using the innate purifying powers of its horn or does it count as work? Can it be justified as pikuach nefesh? Can necromancy be justified as pikuach nefesh, if one approaches necromancy with the understanding that it is just delayed medical assistance?

And if all else fails, you can always get out a fleischig pan, kick ass and take names, and don’t forget to say the blessing for fucking someone’s day up:

BARUCH ATA ADO-NOT TODAY ASSHOLE

That ending line just killed me so hard omg 😂😂😂😂

There’s a writer on PodCastle who has a howlingly funny pair of stories concerning a rabbi debating supernatural forces. Highly recommended:

escape-artists.wikia.com/wiki/Rebecca_Fraimow

Bonus points for casual queerness doing its thing chilling in the bg of the story, not a lot of writers do that and its a Damn shame.