Loving the Thanksgiving traditions written here - will definitely make a video for you about this - any more?

@shariborneman-xi2yu

8 ай бұрын

Looking for a witch

There is only one Thanksgiving tradition in my family that feels pagan/witchy to me. After we have finished eating the turkey, we give the two youngest members of the family the wishbone. They hold one end in each hand and pull, breaking the bone while making a wish. Whomever gets the biggest piece of the wishbone as it breaks, gets their wish granted. 🌠🦃🍗

@Patty-vk5zr

9 ай бұрын

I think we did that a time or two.

@mistylawrence6944

9 ай бұрын

Sadly, wishes made from wishbone aren't granted, speaking from experience

@leolapennington264

9 ай бұрын

We do the same, and make sure there's apples incorporated as well as setting aside plates for passed loved ones. We're Nordic Celt but primarily practice Christian/Celtic Folk practices because of that Appalachian heritage lol

@daughteroftheblackmadonna8936

9 ай бұрын

Filling a cornucopia is something my mother always did.

@briana.gillette.makeup1

9 ай бұрын

We did the wishbone too!

As for Thanksgiving pagan traditions here in the Appalachian Mountains, the breaking of the Wish Bone is the most unanimously practiced. When I host the feast, I ask everyone to speak on what they have been most thankful for this year and we all toast and drink! Not pagan per se, but I also like to serve some traditional Native American foods for this meal, display my watercolor depicting The Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash), and to leave offerings for the spirits of the first nations peoples whose land was so brutally taken from them. For me, this is a time of both remembrance and gratitude.

Often a cornucopia is a display for the Thanksgiving dinner. Which is a bit witchy. My family always used sage in the dressing for the bird and that's delicious along with sauteed onion and celery and the liver and juices from the turkey neck and all that been boiled and croutons. Sage is a bit witchy. 😅 And well someone that I loved growing up as a child used to throw salt over her shoulder after seasoning food. I asked her why, she said to keep from ever going hungry. And I still also do it. That's anytime if year though. Everything is closed on Thanksgiving day. Except Chinese restaurants. And you'll have enough turkey and leftovers for a week often. And you usually just eat most of thanksgiving day. And drink. And usually see family.

In my family, at thanksgiving dinner, the table is set before the meal. One dry bean is placed on every plate and everyone has to pick up their bean and say one thing they are grateful for. If you can't think of anything to say then you can only eat the bean, but if you have something to be grateful for you can start the feast. Haha...I am not sure where this started, I have never heard of any other family doing this

On Thanksgiving, we gather from far and wide for a meal with extended family and eat the same dishes every year: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry, pumpkin pie. There's an emphasis on giving thanks and overeating. Usually there's some football being watched, or argument being had, or naps being taken. I usually take every opportunity to hide because I'm overwhelmed by the presence of my whole family.

Our family (I’m the only witchy one) gathers round the table for Thanksgiving and we leave one empty glass on the table, then the most senior (my dad) gives a toast to the absent members- usually grandparents who have passed. We all go around the table saying what we’re thankful for and then feast on turkey, giblet gravy that my dad and I make together, mashed potatoes, Parker house rolls, cranberry chutney, (my grandmother’s recipe that I make each year now), cranberry sauce, my mom’s delicious stuffing balls, stuffing for veggie lovers, and pumpkin pies and apple pies, recipes passed down from my maternal grandmother. Love your videos!!

The most pagan aspect of American Thanksgiving for me is that it’s a harvest feast and as such is inevitably-even if subconsciously-a form of ancestor worship/remembrance. In my own family and in any other family’s Thanksgiving meal I’ve attended, much of the conversation consists of stories about ancestors’ recipes-usually on the plate in front of us-which invariably leads to sharing memories of them and other family members. Ancestors are honored and brought back to vivid life at this meal in a way that feels different from other holiday gatherings. It’s such a warm, lovely, bonding aspect of the holiday and is my favorite part of it.

The biggest part of Thanksgiving is the sacrificial bird. It was said best on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “…it’s a ritual sacrifice, with pie.”

My favorite thing to celebrate in November is my birthday on the 4th! Even as a little girl, before I knew I was a witch, I considered it very special to have a November birthday 🖤

Hello! Thank you for another almanac vedio. They are so fun. You asked about American Thanksgiving traditions. One of the first colonizers was my ancestor. We do spend some time acknowledging the horrific loss the Native Americans continue to have due to the following waves of colonists. It's a bitter sweet holiday. I spend time in thankfulness for the original land inhabitants that welcomed in my ancestors and I morn the loss of the following generations as a massive land grab began. We light candles and feast and spend time with our family. In that way It's my favorite holiday. It's not complicated it's just family and food.

This is more about Halloween. In Ireland we traditionally eat colcannon.Mashed potatoes,cabbage or any green veg mashed up with a lil hot milk and lots of yummy butter!Mum would always wrap a coin( for prosperity)A small twig, a piece of fabric, a thimble and other tokens in greaseproof paper.Whichever token we would find in our bowl was meant to represent the future.Sadly I cant remember the other tokens and Mum is no longer here to ask I do remember thr coin was best and I do believe if you got the twig it meant you would marry a man who would beat you!OOOOPS nobody wanted that one!It has probably changed now, not very P.C.we must think of a better one for that!It sounds so simple but I remember it was exciting as butter was a treat.I also remember the ritual of stirring the pudding and feeling special as the youngest I got the last most special stir.THANK YOU MUM!XXX

I live in Devon (moved here a bit over a month ago) and had no idea the stone turning was a thing! As for Thanksgiving, my family all gather together under one roof and we share a big meal. My father is the one who usually cooks; with some help from those who wish to lend a hand (which is now more of us since we're adults or nearly adults), and we all talk about what we are thankful for and spend time remembering those we have lost, and being happy to spend another holiday together. Sadly, as I have moved to the UK, I will be unable to attend this year (my first missed Thanksgiving ever) so I'll be calling my family to wish them a happy holiday and let them know how glad I am that they are all together again.

Thank you for another amazing video!!!!🖤🖤

Omg hello Ginny I love your channel and I have been following you for a few months now. You have an amazing and really helpful channel. Keep up the good work

You are just precious thank you for posting!

thank you Ginny

Thank You for this beautiful knowledge

Thank you. Btw I love your black outfit and your black candles, makes up for a lovely Samhain ambience 🖤

I think us Americans all have had one in the family whom eats too much turkey then falls asleep watching football every year without fail. Wonderful video ❤

@Patty-vk5zr

9 ай бұрын

Macy's parade.

Thank you for the video blessed be

My first time to England was early November of last year. I’m so excited to know all what all these holidays I witnessed are about!

🦁 💫 making a wish that’s my favorite thing

I think something about Thanksgiving that may or may not be pagan is the fact that the food in Thanksgiving is always the same. one always has cranberry sauce (cranberries feel pagan), always stuffing, always green bean casserole, and turkey. personally, i always order Chinese food and go out to the bar, because bars are always open on Thanksgiving

Thank you! Watching your videos help me reconnect with small practices at home.

Just discovered you - loved this thankyou so much - have subscribed

I love your videos! I always learn something! I love hearing all the information and the fun ideas on how to celebrate! Our family gets together with a big dinner a lot of sides are my mothers recipes. She is no longer here so we get to remember all the fun times with her and other loved ones that have passed away. We always go around the table and each person tells one thing they’re great full for. Thank you for the fun video!

A new month and with it lots to think about. Thanks again for another great video.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

thanksgiving in the united states is actually a largely protestant celebration. it’s thought the first thanksgiving was celebrated in 1619 as a religious celebration for the ship Margaret landing in Virginia, which prompted the declaration “that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almoghty God.”however, in the coming years the pilgrims were grossly underprepared for life in a completely different part of the world with different foods to harvest and they nearly starved. the wompanoag native american tribe taught the pilgrims how to harvest corn, largely, as well as other foods in exchange for alliance and protection, really saving the pilgrims lives through the first winter. thanksgiving, the actual feast itself, and mostly how we know it and celebrate it today, was prompted by a particularly good harvest in 1621 and the pilgrims as well as the natives gathered for several days of feasting and celebrations. it is also thought that a sprinkle of those celebrations were inspired by the harvest festivals that the pilgrims would have grown up with in their native land, of course, england. here in america, it’s held in the fourth thursday in november, not on a certain day. we generally eat pumpkin pie (squash was a huge one they harvested!) turkey, the bird that nearly became our national bird, benjamin franklin was adamant about it, but the other forefathers must have just thought the eagle was cooler lol, ham is often eaten, cranberry jelly, potatoes of course, corn, and other casseroles and such. it’s just a giant potluck! the wishbone breaking of the turkey is pretty common, you both grab an end of the wishbone and make a wish and the person who got the larger side gets their wish, and a prayer or other type of “giving thanks” is usually pretty traditional. also we eat it at 3pm for some reason. that’s about most i know about it, hope you enjoyed! 😁

Thanksgiving has somewhat vague origins, but generally people point to the Pilgrims who survived with the help of the natives (Wompanog is a name that comes up). In general, it was to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. While there are discrepancies in the origin story of Thanksgiving, it is generally a day of feasting. Families will often gather (sometimes large gatherings with relatives or nuclear family, it varies). In my experience, it is a time for families to be together and enjoy good food (and for NFL fans to watch [American] football). Some families will play American football in their backyard. As you may have guessed, turkey is usually the main dish. Other dishes likely to be included are mashed potatoes (with gravy), pumpkin pie or other pie, cranberry sauce, and (at least for my family) green beans or peas or some other vegetable. Apple cider, wine, and simple good old beer accompany the meal (hard cider for us of age). There's also the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City with bands, floats, balloons, music artists, and more. As another commenter (dogemanthing) mentioned, some people do a breaking of the wishbone, and the one who ends up with the bigger piece gets to make a wish. Finally, in my family, at the table each family member says what they are thankful for.

Thank you for sharing ❤

❤ thanks for this video and greetings from Germany ❤

Really love your channel ❤

Thank you Ginny!My family's history is in Devon.

I look forward to these videos every month! Thank you for doing them. ❤

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

I'm so glad

Thank you, Ginny. I think I’ll take your advice of drinking a fair bit on the eleventh of the eleventh. It is the start of the carnivalseason in the catholic half of the Netherlands. Also November depresses me with all the mourning of the venerable dead. I can’t take it for more than ten days ;) My altar is set, the wintercurtains are up, my new woollen slippers ordered: let winter come! Enjoy your month, Ginny :)

i love that energy that im getting by watching witchcraft videos, oh, and another tradition we have here is my birthday, we sit in bonfire and dance when the moon is above the bonfire, we dance the whole night, laughing, eating, and joking with my friends

For my thanksgiving tradition I get together with my aunt on my mothers side since our family psychic abilities come from her side of the family. My aunt and I will read each others cards or do table tipping to connect with our passed loved ones along with receiving messages of what’s to come! 😊

Thanks Giny, very interesting. I live in the highlands and ive never heard the one about the Wednesday 1st of November one.

@GinnyMetheral

8 ай бұрын

No me neither... a strange one, I got it from an old book on folklore that I possess...

5:55 I was in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 this year it has beautiful highlands. It’s blessed by nature and magic 🪄 🧚🏼‍♀️ May all be blessed this year❤

I always have a cornucopia centerpiece for thanksgiving with fruits and leaves of my picking. Listen to Celtic fall music as well always have candles lit and fall decorations in the house.

Sounds working for me ❤

@Aaravos333

9 ай бұрын

It’s is for me

I’m a first generation American and was raised by my English grandparents. Stir up Sunday was something that my grandma always did . It was fun to hear you talk about it. I found a proper pudding bowl last year and hope to make a Christmas pudding this year. I was told stories by my grandma about her family going out to an orchard and the boys being in charge of keeping the fires going all night. The families that were there would add ingredients to a large kettle and the meal would be shared by everyone. I think it was at harvest time . If you have any more information about something like that I’d love to here it. This was pre WWII. My grandma was 13 when the war started and that was the end of that kind of frivolity for the rest of her growing up years.

My Thanksgiving tradition is to make spaghetti or lasagna and have a nap. Same for Christmas and Easter. I eat a lot of bread, milk, and potatoes (mainly mashed or baked, with cheese added) around Samhain.

Your daughter made a beautiful painting for you! I love clear quartz to charge moonwater with herbs to cleanse my alter. Also I love Smokey quartz, rose quartz and clear quartz on my alter, by my bed or anywhere actually. I use them when I want to read cards, do kundalini yoga or spells. I’m still a baby witch, but I’ve been using and attracted to crystals forever. I gave my daughter a rose quartz necklace when she wasn’t grounded enough and scared as a little girl. I’d call it her magic necklace that gave her super powers. I’m not that familiar with carniool yet, so thank you for your explanation 🌷

I am still learning about Paganism, and love your seasonal videos! I am American and I do not know if there are any specifically Pagan themes about Thanksgiving but I think it carries on many folk traditions. As a bit of an anglophile, I have noticed that our Thanksgiving shares similarities with British harvest festivals and with the traditional Christmas feast. I wonder if some of the Thanksgiving traditions were carried over from the "old world" and thus might ultimately have Pagan roots. My favorite thing about Thanksgiving is how it is centered around togetherness rather than commericialism. As we all know so much of American culture is consumerist, it is nice to have this one holiday that is just about cozy togetherness and good traditional food. There are also many Americans these days who spend their thanksgiving working in kitchens for the poor and reaching out to those who are alone. I suppose those are my favorite aspects of the holiday here.

Hello Ginny! Beginner witch from Finland over here! I just wanted to tell you how much I like your videos!

@GinnyMetheral

8 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

So needed this right now, Ginny! My little family had been down with the flu this week, so our All Hallows/Samhain celebrations were pretty much nonexistent last night. And while I do know it’s a ‘season’, it’s hard to keep those autumnal vibes when everyone starts pushing Christmas on me! 😂

@daughteroftheblackmadonna8936

9 ай бұрын

Get well soon 💐💐💐

Our home is partially decorated for Yule/ Christmas during Thanksgiving. The greenery is draped over everything that sits still 😂 Candles are a mus loved ones passed invited, and the Wishbone from the Turkey always gets saved for wish making. Our tree goes up on Black Friday, and this year it will be decorated with Purple, Gold, and Silver. My daughter wanted a proper Witchy Yule tree ☺️

Ginny, I love your Almanac Series! I came back to see if I could find a recipe for the "Stir-up Sunday" as I would love to finish up my November by Stirring up something special. Blessings to you for the New Year🧙

@GinnyMetheral

8 ай бұрын

I would just look up 'Christmas pudding recipe'

Great vid, as always Ginny, but i don't understand why some comments report no sound, the video sounds fine on my device. Have a blessed day ❤✌️

We have a traditin at thanksgving to gather at my moms house and have turkey dinner with mash potatoes, green beans ,etc. Pumpkin pie, & Pecan pie .Here in the USA

Thanksgiving is about being thankful for your full baskets. The iconographic cornucopia overflowing with harvest yes, but those tables are overflowing with friends and family. You may add slips of paper to a thankfulness jar, or otherwise count your blessings. There are as many traditions as families I'm sure. If you're invited to another's celebration, it's fun to bring your most favored, most special things to share. You get to throw off the mantle of work and routine. True that Halloween has just passed, but the adults tend to children more for that. Thanksgiving blows the lid off the holiday pot! Now It's time to live our best lives through New Year's day, and we know it's all just begun. Although, in my family, you have to wait DAYS till father says the wishbone is dry before getting to be one of the 2 pullers. And you must use your pinkie finger! There's also the newer tradition of Friendsgiving. The modern world's modern solution to changing family dynamics. Besides, the more jolly we all get, the more we tend to blur the lines of family and friends anyway. ,)

I love this video so much. You always give such wonderful information and ideas to celebrate each date. Thanksgiving for my family is really about gratefulness that each of us have. We cook lots of recipes passed down from family, we always set a plate for those that have passed,and share fun stories of them. This helps keep them close to our hearts. We also incorporate our Scottish ancestry,Clan MacGregor. That night our MacGregor tree is put up with beautiful lights that reflect our tartan colors and whiskey and sweets left for our ancestors. So enjoy your posts. Blessings to you Ginny ✨️✨️

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

that is a good idea - witchy ways to celebrate a birthday.

Thanksgiving is a time to think about everything you are grateful for 😊 here in the US it can be as big as Christmas. In my family, this is the time all our extended family comes together (I’m talking 30+ people) so it’s the only time of year I see many of my cousins, aunts and uncles. Christmas was always more of an intimate affair, with immediate family.

I love your earrings

American here! Thanksgiving is an ideal time for all manner of cooking magic. Some families create "gratitude trees", which are almost the polar opposite of hanging ribbons in trees during Beltane--and it's a way of taking stock and focusing upon the good people and good things that have come to one in life. Two people breaking the wishbone of the Turkey and whoever has the biggest piece has a wish granted. It's customary to gather with family (best gatherings of all are held at the Matriarch of the family's house) and something about the atmosphere is almost quasi-ancestor veneration. Thanksgiving is really the time of all times for Americans that is SUPER focused upon tradition--so often we seem to be obsessed with "breaking the mold" and "doing something new"--but that chaotic and creative impulse goes to bed at Thanksgiving when it absolutely is a big deal if there's breaks with tradition (even if only that Aunt Martha brought a different side, instead of her coveted green bean casserole that everyone has enjoyed for years).

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

wow thank you for this - I will definitely research into it and watch out a thanksgiving video coming soon with your name in it!

My boyfriends birthday is the 27 and he's excited about it. He will be even more excited to know its known as the frost moon because that's his last name!!!

8:42 beautiful image. Old halloween 11-10

First also Ginny may I make an edit for you? Also could you make a video on stuff witches can do on their birthdays

I very much feel as though I was born into the wrong country of Canada! There really isn't any traditions here. There are the common Christian traditions such as Christmas but I think most Christians, as you have mentioned before, don't understand really anything they're celebrating. Most of the Canadian "traditions" such as Thanksgiving is really just a day where people stress out over making a large meal and eating until they feel quite gross and have no idea what they're actually celebrating. I find it amazing that there are countries such as yours that take part in such beautiful historic traditions that actually has meaning behind it. Maybe one day I can relocate ;

Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving earlier that the U.S. October 9th was this year’s day!

We had Turkey, Sweet potato pie, Devil Eggs, and baked Green Beans.

I love where it is that you are sitting it looks so cozy and warm is it a attic or loft? ❤

What a great video! What is your sun sign? I assume you have fire in your chart somewhere as you have such amazing energy!

Thanksgiving in my family (American) always meant dinner... at around 3pm! Turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, cranberry jelly... and pumpkin pie for dessert. I'd agree with the wishbone tradition as certainly dating back some time (to pagan times?). Basically, food and family! According to my research, the Puritans brought Thanksgiving with them to the New World, and was a long religious observation held several times a year - long mass, followed by a communal feast. As it comes to us from England, there are certainly roots to investigate, likely with some pagan influence...

Spending Thanksgiving with my in-laws this year and they have no traditions other than bickering all day. Thank goodness they at least have proper drinks.

In our family- we always got together, cooked, and it was a bit of kitchen witchery- with each woman putting her blessing into her dish. Then we told stories, and played games and celebrated good fortune for the year. Not necessarily witchy.... but nice just the same. Sometimes a bonfire if it was not too cold and not too hot.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Hi GinnY, Did you say Tootles are the candles in the windoW? That was a character in Peter Pan Maybe J.M. Barrie used that reference because the lights in the windows help to keep you from loosing Your marbles....lol😄November is a hard month for me a lot of people died in this month between my husband and my families and so Albeit sad and certainly has become my most reflective time of year where everything seems to slow down to a standstill and think of those who are no longer with us then I cheer myself up by playing the KZread video from “The Lord Of The Rings” when Sam and Frodo are smoking their pipes and resting by the fire and they hear wood elves singing. I knit as well and just be still and it helps to chase away the darkness and theni think of what I/we still have and am so thankful for it and as Thanksgiving iS next week I enjoy it all the more.You know I learned power prayers if you will growing up a Methodist/Catholic but have an interest in other things obviously. So if daemons are at your heels or haunt your dreams they taught us to evoke the name of Jesus and daemons will flee and you won’t be attacked, I just say through the blood of Christ I consign you to oblivion and the darkness and oppressive feelings dissipate. Although I don’t eat a lot of meat anymore during the holidays we do partake in a wonderful traditional feast, and of course always do the wishbone from thanksgiving with my girls just like I did while growing up with my mom toO💕😊

When I was younger we would all be at our mom’s. The most pagan aspect for us was the harvest feast aspect of it. Thanking the the deity of choice for a successful harvest. My 4 sisters and I are all witchy. We are all artists and our mother was a singer so the flow of creativity and otherworldly hobbies kept every gathering weird. Then it devolved into dramas and they decided to cancel any going forward. I used to miss it but now I just make myself my favorite foods. I’m not a meat fan so mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, deviled eggs. My sister would make this amazing overnight chilled fruit salad. 24-hour salad is what I was raised calling it. Mandarins and all kinds of fruits with nuts and whipped cream. Devine. I can’t leave out the staple of the American Thanksgiving table - green beans mixed with mushroom soup and covered with dried onions. It’s yummy. Smoking joints in the stairway to the attic was also a tradition as we aged.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

green beans, mushroom soup and onions? Not heard of that one before - sounds interesting,

@MuddyHuddy259

9 ай бұрын

@@GinnyMetheral It’s the one dish that everyone I know seems to like. Dead easy. Mix the beans and soup. Cover with the onion. Bake. 🤭

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

@@MuddyHuddy259 Thank you - great veggie main so shall try it!

@MuddyHuddy259

9 ай бұрын

@@GinnyMetheral 🫶🏻🫶🏻

On Thanksgiving I fill a cornacopia( horn of plenty) with fruits and nuts for abundance. This is a symbol.of the goddess,mother earth.

Thank you for these! Took notes and it will be used as a good guide for this month. May I ask where you get this sort of info for each month?:)

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

from research in books and the British library is always useful as well as a couple of social history websites.

The sound worked for me👍 Awesome video, as always! Loved the tidbit on fingernails. So, there has been a subject-matter I have been really curious about and would love a video on if this interests you: How to protect my family, myself, and my home from evil when I open up the door to the spiritual realm while doing spiritual work of any sort? And if a malevolent spirit does start stalking us or hanging around our home, how do we get rid of it permanently? And lastly, does it really matter who’s name we use or what entity we call upon to expel the evil spirit or does the success depend on our belief that it will work…your personal opinion on that. Thank you so much, and I hope you’re having a wonderful week.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

if you have home protection in place, then whenever you open up to the psychic sphere the bad stuff still won't be able to get into your home.

Thanksgiving is technically a harvest festival, but here in the US it was always taught to schoolkids that it commemorated a feast of thanksgiving that the Puritans in Plymouth Colony shared with their Native American friends/neighbors. Since more of the actual history of the colonial period is being taught, there are more voices speaking out against it as a commemoration of colonialism & the near-extinction of Native American tribes at the hands of European settlers. As a result, for many families (and it's traditionally a family holiday) it's returning to the roots of harvest/thankfulness holiday. It's also known as the holiday that has to fight for recognition by retailers because it's kind of low-key but caught smack-dab in the middle between Halloween and Christmas, which provide massive opportunities for retail profits. (There are many examples of comics showing an angry turkey -- the de facto standard Thanksgiving meal & symbol of the holiday -- pointing at Santa Claus with some variation of, "Wait your turn, Fatso!")

I’m not sure there is much pagan about thanksgiving but I’m curious to find out ! The only paganish sounding tradition I can think of is the wishbone, when you carve the Turkey you set aside the wishbone and two people get to grab each side of it and break it and whoever’s side is bigger gets their wish granted . Aside from that we pretty much just meet up with family and eat a dinner made up of very specific thanksgiving dishes and generally have a theme of being grateful and remembering the first European settlers and Native Americans .

And for any weather lore obsessed people ( probably just me 😂) A NW wind on St. Martins (11th Nov) means a severe winter. A SE wind on St. Martins means a mild winter.

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Yesterday morning, the 1st, around 5:30 a.m. as I was lying in bed I became aware of what I can only describe as an orb on the wall facing me. As I looked at it and though "what is that?" it moved slowly along the wall onto the bedroom door then just disappeared. It only lasted about 4 seconds and colour wise it looked like the warm white fairy lights behind you in this video. I've never seen anything like it before. It wasn't from outside, a car lights or anything, perhaps it was my eyes, but I don't think it was. 🧙🏼‍♀️💜

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

sounds like a fairy! Mine often appear as orbs of light

@SilverSparkles22

9 ай бұрын

@@GinnyMetheral How wonderful 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️

Ginny i saw a pupper photo on your ancestor altar. Is the veil thin enough for him to come through?💛🧡

Nov 1st is my birthday!

I'd be very interested in hearing about pagan traditions in Thanksgiving. I'm from the West Coast, and I can't help but wonder if those on the East Coast, especially North East, might have some insight on this. Maybe the tradition of pardoning a turkey? I do make decorations out of autumn leaves though, especially a wreath for the front door. We also put out corn husks and pumpkins for decorations, but its a bit of a continuation of halloween decorations minus the jack-o-lanterns and spiders. Other then that, it's just a lot of food. Also, I'm a Sagittarius and I guess I resemble a bit of that description? I am very interested in travel, anyways.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

What on earth is Pardoning the Turkey?!! Do please explain

@MissEliseIsTired

9 ай бұрын

@@GinnyMetheral every year the president pardons a turkey, so that it is not eaten for Thanksgiving and is instead sent to live out the reminder of its life on a nice farm. I’m sorry if this reply shows up a few times, KZread keeps showing that I didn’t post so I’m posting one last time before I go to bed. I’ll try to remember to delete the extras if they show up in the morning.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

@@MissEliseIsTired How sweet! Thank you for telling me this, sleep well

Ottery St Mary's Tar Barrels is not a pre-Christian festival - it is simply an extension of Bonfire Night on November 5th.

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

History makes it not seem so, guy Fawkes night was a takeover and formalisation of an ancient pagan tradition and it seems that tar barrels is more in keeping with the pagan tradition of running through the streets top purify them with fire and smoke.

My Birthday is 21st November ✨

6:17 If you are lucky, you can see Jupiters bright moons in a pair of binoculars. A better view offers a small telescope used by amateur astronomers. Usually, they are friendly persons, so you can ask them for one (or more) views.

I lost both my grandparents in November😢

Thanksgiving. The new immigrants from England, the Puritan Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic on the ship Mayflower seeking religious freedom from the confines of the Anglican Church, survived *thanks* only to the kindness of the Indigenous People. Yet the descendants of those survivors wiped out the Indigenous populations of America. European settlers committed genocide against the Indigenous. That's probably not what you were looking for, the dark history behind this American holiday. But you may find it interesting that many Thanksgiving dishes contain sage and rosemary. The male head of the household typically holds the honor of carving the turkey. Already mentioned is the breaking of the turkey wishbone performed by the children of the household. Apple pies and pumpkin pies are the typical desserts. Cranberry sauce is nearly always served, although most people complain they don't like it (I love cranberry sauce). It's also very important to invite those without nearby family to join in with family festivities. There is an understanding that no one should not be isolated or by themselves on Thanksgiving. And the meal is typically served mid-day, while the sun is up.

I have a question when casting any spell with a object can you just intend to or think to or do you have to do a ritual or say something. Or can you just think about it and not do any ritual or speak and the spell will cast

@nicolebolton2898

8 ай бұрын

I have a question

@GinnyMetheral

8 ай бұрын

Yes, you can, but you have to be pretty practised at this in order to know that it has worked.

What actually is the wild hunt what is it about what happens and where does it come from :)

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

Wild hunt is when the the spectral huntsman crosses the lands searching for souls.....

Oh what about 6 November my birthday 😢

hi me again its been awhile but i do have a question so ive heard that magic does things but how? like say you do something and it does magic how does it work? also what is magic? also i thought that at 3am also known as the witching hour was when the veil was thin and that on hollow ween 3am was the very thinnest it could be so why november do all the things happen?

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

Magick is simply the control and movement of energy.

@calsifer1242

9 ай бұрын

@@GinnyMetheral wow its that simple but why does some magick have 'prices'?

Hi Ginny... really sorry to say there appears to be no sound to your video 😢😢

@Lucy_Brookes

9 ай бұрын

Working for me

@Aaravos333

9 ай бұрын

It is for me

Any witches on here that can help me if so reply

Some people put aluminium foil on the turkey for first hour cooking then remove it and some people roast the turkey unpside down. Claiming its juiciest and some people deep fry the entire turkey. But you must bast turkey in some form. Or very dry bird. Thats not pagan though. 😂

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

good adivce though

CHANGING TIMES - Lili They took Jesus from his burro and hung him on a cross They took my family from their hovels and hung them from the jib One was good and one was bad who knew from which was which There’s many would do the same today, they wouldn’t see the loss Spurred on by agents of their God, the message dour and glib Jesus’ punishment for blasphemy was the same for Nature’s Witch. - And listen to the message screamed from pulpit and the street Condemnation of the different, threats of burning Hell What joy they’d have arresting and bringing Hell on Earth To infidels and sinners, followers of other Gods, taken to the cell The roads and streets of every town lined with jib and cross Complete control in their God’s name, they’d judge what life is worth. - If you think that it’s all fanciful look to the cause of war You’ll find the God of Abraham and most will fall in line They’ll call for death for everyone who doesn’t think the same They’ll gladly go to glory to kill the Philistine What would they do to Wiccans when called in Jesus’ name? Times will change but people don’t, the same for early crimes. - You wonder why we hide away and keep unto ourselves Why we practice what we love in silence from the fold They’ll never understand the secrets of the night The joy and love of Ahriman, beliefs that we uphold We won’t die out, we’re always here and we contain the light Of knowledge in the darker arts, knowledge true from ages old. Blessed be.

I can't hear you.

@Aaravos333

9 ай бұрын

It seems to be working for me

@witchNwand

9 ай бұрын

It's working fine on my device.

@the_greenhouse_gardener

9 ай бұрын

It's fine for me

@claremaidofthewave251

9 ай бұрын

Working ok for me 👍🏻

Martinmas Day was not 'turned' into Armistice Day - this is a preposterous and appalling comment. Armistice Day was originally in rememberence of those who had fallen in World War 1 - later for all those who have fallen in conflict defending the United Kingdom. The presenter seems to suggest that knocking back cocktails in a bar trumps commemorating those who died defending this country. Does she not know that WW1 ended at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month?

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

I am not suggesting that knocking back cocktails in a bar is more important than commemorating war dead, I am suggesting that armistice day s a very modern festival and polar opposite to what it previously was,

Turn to the light of God not darkness of evil/demons and Satan

It’s so funny all the gimmicks that “witches” use 🤨. Do y’all really need all that shit to “make things happen”. No. You really don’t

@GinnyMetheral

9 ай бұрын

Do you mean these traditions are just that, traditions or that it is all nonsense?

A few years ago I learned that you deviled eggs are not common in the UK. They are always a part of our Thanksgiving in the south in America.