The Raven & Daisies Medium

02/28/2026

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Learned Through Pain

02/28/2026

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02/25/2026

✨🤞*Fingers Crossed*🤞✨

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🌸🖤 Bloom in the Dark 🖤🌸
A Beltane Night Market

May 2nd 2026
West End Cultural Center
5-10pm

As the light fades and the evening softens, something begins to stir ✨

Bloom in the Dark is not your ordinary spring market! It is an after dusk gathering of magic, mystery, and beautifully strange things. Set beneath the spell of the night, this enchanting market invites you into a wicked world.

Wander through a curated collection of artists, makers, and mystics offering treasures and readings.

SEEKING VENDORS!

Applications live until March 13th. Vendors announced March 20th. All applicants will receive an email regardless of whether they were chosen to vend or not. Beware scammers.

www.thewickedbazaar.com

02/23/2026

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Karma Witch

02/23/2026

A little spell casting over the weekend...

"If I had my wish"...

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01/24/2026

Lotus Bamboo.. celebrating the Lunar New Year..
Mr. Rodriguez approves...🪞

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12/16/2025

✨ Many Blessings ✨ to the Dark Irish Witch for sharing this beautiful explanation of Yule 🖤
It is truly a magical time of year...

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12/06/2025

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12/02/2025

🖤 Beautiful!

Mari Lwyd

11/28/2025

We All Dream Differently... 🖤🖤

11/27/2025

🎶🎶 "You Better Not Pout..🎶🎶

In the darker stretch of the year, when the long nights close in and the cold bites harder, the old Alpine tales tell of Krampus. Not the cartoonish monster people share online, but the older figure, half wild spirit, half winter enforcer, who walks beside Saint Nicholas in the high villages of Austria, Bavaria, and parts of the Tyrol.

He’s no “devil” in the Christian sense. He’s older than that, one of those winter beings folded into later traditions. Horned like the mountain goats, furred like the forest’s shadows, he’s the reminder that midwinter once had teeth. While Nicholas rewards the well behaved, Krampus deals with the rest… not out of malice, but out of the old belief that winter demands discipline, preparation and respect.

The clanging of bells, the carved wooden masks, the parades of Krampusläufe, these weren’t just festive spectacles. They were ways to confront the darker side of the season together, to laugh at fear while acknowledging it. A communal rite to keep the cold spirits at bay.

He’s part warning, part guardian, part echo of the wilder winter spirits that once roamed the northern mountains. And as the nights draw in again, it’s easy to see why such a figure endured, a reminder that winter is beautiful, but never entirely tame.
-Woodlarking