not a cultural thing or anything, but I have an ash tree right next to my front gate, and I always give it a little kiss, hug, or a simple wave whenever I leave or enter the house for good luck and just to connect to the earth on a daily basis. Befriending trees helps me keep in touch with the seasons!

@TheOakWitch

Жыл бұрын

Aww I love this! I do this with any Robins I see each morning 😊

@Psych.o.delica

8 ай бұрын

I do that too 💚

I’m Australian. My mother is quite superstitious and for as long as I can remember she never let me or my brother put shoes on a table, believing it would bring bad luck. She claims it’s a very old Northern English custom. She strictly adheres to it even today.

@TheOakWitch

Жыл бұрын

Yes I've heard this before!

@Psych.o.delica

8 ай бұрын

Yeah here in Sweden we have the same custom too :) same with keys and /or to never put your purse/wallet on the floor (always put somewhere elevated like on a hook or shelf so "your belongings/wealth doesn't hit rock bottom").. the keys i'm not sure why, think it had to do with you losing them then 🤔

In my family, we always tell each other to be quiet when discussing the weather cause Hughie will hear you and he'll change the weather to exactly the opposite of what you want. (He's a contrary old spirit 😅)

Watched to the end! 😊Hagstones seem so interesting and I would be amazed if I found them myself, but I haven't been that lucky, haha! I can share some Polish charms and superstitions. Good luck ones are of course a four-leaf clover and a horseshoe; also knocking on the wood (especially unpainted) will ward off the bad things. Grabbing a button while seeing a chimney sweep will bring a good luck. If you want to have a good marriage you have to have a wedding in a month that has "r" in the name. Also the bride has to be brought in the home by the groom (it comes from an old Slavic belief - if she crossed the threshold herself she would irritate her new household spirits). If you go somewhere and suddenly need to come back you have to sit for a while, so nothing bad would happen to you. Financial good luck: one "grosz" (the smallest unit of our currency - brings wealth and financial success, but it's also a general good luck charm), keeping a carp's scale in a wallet or puffing at the coin you find and then putting it in the wallet. Bad luck superstitions: spilling the salt (general bad luck, but will also bring an argument into the family), passing under the ladder, a black cat crossing someone's way. You can't shake hands over the threshold (also an old Slavic belief that the home is a safe place, and the outside is dangerous - you don't want to make a passage between those). If you gift someone shoes they will leave you; and if you gift someone an empty wallet you will bring a poverty to them (so you need to include a coin in it, especially a "grosz"!). If a young girl/woman sits at the table's corner she will not find a husband. If you woke up and the first foot that touched the floor while you were leaving the bed was a left foot, you'll have a bad day. Cutting your hair before an important exam will reduce your knowledge.

Hi! Enjoyed the video. Watched it all. Love the folk magic videos you do. Superstitions from different places would b fun to learn about

I love finding out about superstitions and their origins. I knew about a few superstitions growing up and they always made me a bit nervous about getting bad luck. Some were opening an umbrella inside, walking under a ladder, a black cat crossing your path, stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, etc. Great video! :)

I remember reading something on breaking mirrors being bad luck. Part of it comes from the Roman (I'm pretty sure, but it might be greek) concept that if a soul is injured through super natural means, like a curse or evil spirit or whatever, it takes 7 years for the soul to recover and heal. So, the idea becomes that a mirror reflects the soul of a person, and being in a mirror when it breaks will in turn break your soul, and it'll take 7 years to recover from this injury.

Where I'm from in the USA, breaking a mirror is supposed to give 7 years of bad luck.

@goodlittleweird

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I wondered if I was remembering it wrong or something. I've broken two mirrors in the past few years honestly I prefer the bad luck ☠

This was really fun Ari. I find it so interesting how pervasive some folk customs such as 'touching wood' and the horseshoes etc are in wider society. I found the horse charms in The Wicked Shall Decay sooooo fascinating as well when I read it. Many blessings for 2023 Ari 🙏 Xx

Id love to see a video on horse brasses! my grandma had so many around her fireplace. I wish I had claimed them when she died

Very interesting to see how many of these customes made it over to the US. Great video.

Hi! Yes I watched until the end. (Good old imposter syndrome eh?) I'm an English witch so loved this video, the only thing I definitely hadn't heard of was the sea urchins. There's something nice about finding one yourself. I love how these things vary from county to county. Oh, I also sometimes wear an arts and crafts pendant made from bent horse shoe nails, apparently that's a thing?

My mom always kept a horseshoe over the door. When I was little my dad gave me a rabbit foot to carry and a rattlesnake rattle on a necklace for protection.

Hello from Ireland. The horse shoes the brass little things. And knocking on wood, has been apart of my life growing up, never associated with the craft I take part in,

I wore a horseshoe pendant for a bit, it was downward, no wonder it kept falling off. Knock on wood is a big thing in my family, I've even had mild anxiety when there was no wood near. Recently, I've naturally started doing the magpie bit with crows as "hello crow". The salt bit had an interesting explanation in Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Could you talk about jinxes? One I grew up with was when 2 people say the same thing at the same time, one says "jinx, you owe me a soda".

Fantastic video, thanks for the great content. Interestingly, I’m also an Australian, like the who person commented, below. My mother was a fearless Christian, and incredibly superstitious. She was full of stuff from the old country, which was England - she was Anglo - Irish. ( My father - Scottish : born in Edinburgh ). Blessings.

I love your videos! This one I really enjoyed. I felt alot of nostalgia with all these luck charms your saying! I forgot about a few but also still do some! I remember as a kid everyone saying knock on wood but nowerdays everyone says touch wood in Liverpool. Btw your earrings are fab and your top is gorge 🥰

Definitely horseshoes up in my house 😉 Oh, I'm currently on the USA western coast. However, my family was in Appalachia (WV) for several generations at least. I was told never to put my purse on the floor. "Purse on the floor, forever poor" My father keeps money in a money jar. I don't recall ever seeing it empty. I learned later to put corn kernels in the bottom of the jar for prosperity. Something like rice or wheat could work too. I prefer golden corn kernels as gold has historically been associated with wealth.

Fun! It's not really s good luck thing, more of a taboo. But you never eant to whistle while the aurora is out, or they'll come down and chop off your head!

Ahhh, speaking of birds…. The rook is something my family has always been superstitious of… we live on the countryside in Painswick England, and there are a great many rookeries near my home….they can offer a prediction of good or bad fortune, depending on circumstance. It’s a fascinating read, and if anyone has the time…it’s worth having a look. 💜✨

Awesome video. There is a horse shoe over my door filling with goodness. :) Request: I would love a video on feather lore. I read many similar worldwide stories and or customs deeply connected to feathers. So interesting. Love the story of the magpie. Thanks

Nice thanks

Thank you love bug for the VIDEO. 🐷 🐰 🐚 🐓

Have you done the horse brasses video yet? I got to the end. Wish I could see a Magpie. Pulling a chicken "Wishbone" with another person. If you get the long half you have good luck. Blowing out all the Birthday candles on your cake, after you make a wish 🧙🎂

I watched until the end. Just in case it was bad luck not to 🙂. I think knocking on wood goes back to knocking on doors, when all doors were made out of wood & they did not have door knockers or something to do with that kinda thing. I am very superstitious about some things or even most things. The thing about the horse shoes I think. Back horse shoes face down for good luck & front ones face up. Because if a horse kicks anyone with the back legs , they would have a imprint or bruise of a horse shoe facing up. But if the horse gets up on its hind legs & kicks forward .Then the imprint of the shoe will be facing down. I suppose it can be read differently by people. Some people have superstitions about mirrors & pictures. Like say for instance, if you put a mirror in a child's bedroom at a certain height. The child will grow tall enough to see themselves in the mirror one day. There are loads. I did enjoy your video though. Thank you 🙂👍.

So lovely 🥰

magpies make that long laugh :) (they predicted from the length of the laugh) if there´s a trickster bird there´s one, very smart (smarter than crows, faster too, they often compete in my forest place). here they say that the laugh is like chanting (they call her Har-akka, har-old-woman). also they say that they bring signs, messages and news (very talkative bird, some say liar though). and their green wing feathers are connected to luck (actual lucky charms). also well known witch´s helpers (a witch turns into a magpie or sends one to the upper world to ask for a change in weather). i´m not quite there, but Sulis please, it´s time :) and also one of the soul birds that they made trinkets of and gave to children (all of whom were birds, even if many of the actual totems are mammals). maybe two different traditions there, totems might be more of the father´s tribal tradition, while protection charms might pass down from the mother (my current theory, and i´m not sticking to it).

@Lily_Grey

Жыл бұрын

I live in Painswick, England and the rook is common throughout England. I’m almost sure there’s a rookery near my home… however, there are a great many superstitions surrounding the rook. It’s an interesting read. If you have the time, I suggest you have a look. It’s a fascinating…💜✨

I'm from the same area of England as you and I was wondering if you had any East Anglia specific book recs for folklore? I've just discovered your channel and I am so happy as this it the type of magic which interests me x

Nice and thanks for this vid. 👍 ❤

With respect to the broken mirror, can't attest to source, but I believe we can have solid evidence of that being generated cynically by wealthy householders as a manipulative way of getting staff to be careful with the new, expensive gee-gaw.

Imbolc blessings from Devon England 🌛🌕🌜💚📚🐛

@Lily_Grey

Жыл бұрын

Sending love from The Cotswolds, Painswick! 💜✨

@sandyblack9698

Жыл бұрын

@@Lily_Grey a lovely place blessings 🖤

@Lily_Grey

Жыл бұрын

@@sandyblack9698 As is Devon! 🖤💜

@sandyblack9698

Жыл бұрын

@@Lily_Grey during the hight of the pandemic a crow visited me and a friend at work in the car park as we was social distances..blessings..x

Would like to Thank You My Beautiful Soul ❤,I Appreciate you on helping me out on some of these things .My issue is I help people out who need it and at the end they end up taking my kindness for granted they end up stealing from my home maybe you can make a spell chant on thieves ❤Love you for your help Thank you out of Las Cruces NM BLESS IT BE 🙏X3 🔺🔺🔺

Do you consider fate and chance part of the luck a triangle thanks oak witch

is there a methods for lucky to win lotto

anything new coming along??

New years eve, my dad would have a peace of coal. Silver Money and nagin of whiskey. And leave the house b4 midnight. It was to keep us with heat money, and drink for the year, also u needed a dark haired man be the first 2 enter the home,