A hunting horn is sounded three times in the direction of the North.
I call up the Faery Hounds, the Cu Sith, the Grims, the Hellhounds of the North! Black Dogs who are the hunters of our Lady of the Nightways, Come forth now upon a wind, upon the ground, from deep below the earth. By horn and horned hand, I call you forth! Great Queen of the Void, send forth your hounds! Send them now to guard and protect the Water Protectors, Send them now keep their children safe, as you did in Somerset, Send them now too watch over their cars and horses. And send them, too, against those who oppress the Land. Send them against the militarized police, Send them against their guns, and vehicles, and oil, and death, Send them against the Black Snake which would destroy the World. O, Black Furious Hounds of Hell, I call you now against those oppressors, Bite and snatch, claw and growl, stalk and hunt them down. Silent as shadows you move through the moonlight, Nary a sound you make as you creep close to your prey, Their souls shall shiver and flee from their bodies. By horn and horned hand, I deem it so! I SEND YOU FORTH BY WITCH’S RITE! GO YOU FORTH, YOU HOUNDS OF HELL! GO YOU FORTH INTO THE NIGHT! KA! KA! KA!
A ferocious dance begins. A clawing, biting, bristling, howling dance. Run, run, run! Into the wilds of the night you run. Eyes of fire, with ears of white and ears of red, to eat the souls of the oppressors of the this Land. GO!
Might be time to bring this back against ICE members to protect the children of immigrants.
forest witch: here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants’ sinews. around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. it felt like a good place, where there was old magic.
“Both demon and fairy familiars could appear dressed wholly in black, or wholly in white, or in any variety of colours in between. In many accounts the Devil appears in green, a colour which was often associated with the fairies … Both fairy and demon familiars could appear in a variety of animal guises ranging from apes, stags, horses, lambs, ferrets, dogs, cats and mice to birds, bees, spiders, grasshoppers, snails and frogs … [L]ong before the witch-craze and the furore about demon familiars, on both a popular and élite level the Devil was believed to assume animal forms. Some of the less-intimate early modern English animal familiars resemble the more “permanent” fairy familiars which were less close to mankind than the friendly fairy hobman in animal form. The most common permanent fairy animal to be found in English and Scottish sources up to the nineteenth century, the dog, was also one of the forms most frequently assumed by the animal demon familiar.”
— Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2010)
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