Getting lost, here. My brain has been easily confused, lately. I think I’m on
Challenge Entry 6
Your Magickal Roots - Peritus viatorem
I awoke wanting to share a story my grandmother told me, long ago.
My great great great grandma Mary Boeuf married into the Jetmore family as she moved away from France. When the wedded couple was still young, her husband rode home late at night in a storm. He put the horse to bed without drying it or walking it to cool off from the hard run. The horse got sick. Mary pulled the illness out of the horse and put it into a rose bush which grew near the barn door. The horse got better, and the rose bush died. Mary told her husband to make sure he never did that again: the power used to save the horse took years off her life.
When I heard the story, I decided that living a short life well was much preferable to living a poor or mediocre life for a long time. It was one of the first lessons I learned from witchcraft, and one of my first big decisions in life.
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Challenge Entry 7
Books, Times, and Tales
I have been reading a series called The Three Investigators. There are 44 books to the series, penned by several authors. I’m still finishing off the last couple, but I’d like to review the series in case others are interested. This is my opinion, so others may think differently on the subjects.
First, the books were obviously written by Brits, some of whom had never been to America, complete with spelling and naming issues which broke the spell of good writing for me. Set in California. The kids never grow up over the years. No age is specifically stated for the boys, but timing goes back and forth over school holidays until it seems like either many years are passing or too many things are happening in a very short period of time. This form of error in time happens with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys as well, so I chose to overlook quite a bit.
Witchcraft was mentioned in several of the books. Despite being used by the bad guys, thus including the books in typical Hollywood ideas of the Craft, there was an attitude of encouraging the readers to research the subjects. These books could have taken the mysteries to a much darker place, so I am grateful to the writers for a gentler than usual handling of the belief systems mentioned.
I usually read young adult mysteries when I’m healing from an illness- to separate myself from the weaknesses of my reality until I’m strong enough to resume normal life. These books were tricky in that resolve. They took me only a few hours to read, which is perfect, and were light enough in content that I didn’t have emotional issues in connection with them (no murder, no gore- perfect for me), though talk of lorries and petrol instead of trucks and gas did pull me out of the illusion too often.
Would I read the books again when the occasion arrived? Not sure as yet. I’ll hold onto my copies a while until I know for sure.
Did they advance my path in any way? They were intended to hypnotize me for the illusion of health until I could physically return to work. Instead, they may have pulled me in far enough to hold me still a bit longer than necessary, but that may have been my fault. This was the first time I’d read them, so I kept going, purely out of curiosity and because I had them in my collection of books to read.