and her early mystical experiences
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Ride or Die melds Hubbard’s entertaining conversations with her Black girlfriends and her personal experiences as a redeemed ride-or-die chick and a former “captain of the build-a-brother team” to fervently dismantle cultural norms that require Black women to take care of everyone but themselves
Drawing on the natural beauty of the wild woods
Jake offers these common Appalachian methods of divination paired with the honored pastime of sharing and interpreting dreams
The Comparative Sigrdrífumál water witchcraft and her early mystical experiencesThe Comparative Sigrdrfuml: Historical rune magic, advice from a valkyrie, & a pagan prayer. Branch runes learn, if a healer wouldst be, And cure for wounds wouldst work; On the bark shalt thou write, and on trees that be With boughs to the eastward bent. Linguistically dated to the late pagan period of the Viking Age, Sigrdrfuml is a fascinating poem that features the voice of a valkyrie, here called Sigrdrfa (meaning victory driver; victory