onion-souls:caledoniaseries:unauthorized-magic: This thread is so good. THIS. ^^ As
onion-souls: caledoniaseries: unauthorized-magic: This thread is so good. THIS. ^^ As a folklorist, this kind of thing bothers the hell out of me. So much of what people think of as ancient is Victorian era or newer. Or just wildly inaccurate, really. Another part of it is that much of what Victorians would view as planar communication or “channeling” was conceptually an altered state in ancient times. Like the Greeks knew that the oracles at Delphi were huffing fumes. And that was cool. Faerie wasn’t a land or a race, but the altered, glamorous reality of the fae, the gentry who lived in the hills. It was overtly compared to intoxication. Djinn lived all around us, invisibility, raising their own cattle herds and going on hajj to Mecca. The “other world” wasn’t another place, but another way, a demimonde, an invisible society within our own, or divine madness. What i find interesting is that there are traditions and folklores that laid out times of days or even specific days of the week where it was easier to be in contact with spirits or demons. It’s still not quite the same as a “veil between the worlds” and depends on if the lore held the idea of us existing on the same plane as these beings or not. -- source link
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