kitchenwitchcraft:I was so fed up with the sex-object-witches, teenage shiny slick things in hats an
kitchenwitchcraft:I was so fed up with the sex-object-witches, teenage shiny slick things in hats and stripper outfits that are EVERYWHERE… I was looking for “classical” witches, women rich in experience and also in age, women who are not sex objects or shiny eye candy. And I found this.’WOMEN OF POWER’ is a series of 29 portraits and interviews of modern-day Polish witches, healers, enchantresses, visionaries and spiritual leaders. Poland is more than 90% Catholic. Christianity, introduced now many centuries ago, erased almost all traces of paganism, witchcraft and shamanic traditions. For some, especially women, this has left a yearning for something more. Katarzyna Majak, feeling a personal void and the need for other knowledge set out on a search for women identifying themselves with the spirituality of their ancestors, be it Mother Goddess, pagan beliefs, and other old sources of wisdom. Her fascinating journey from woman to woman (the youngest in her early 30s, the oldest in her late 80s) led her all over her native land as she sought female wisdom and the plurality of spiritual paths hidden within Poland’s mono-religious society.Clockwise: Maria, the Pipe Carrier for Poland and honorary member of a Native American community (they didn’t say which, unfortunately :/), Elwing, a modern Druid, and a Whisperer - a kind of Russian-Orthodox Witch. (It’s complicated.) -- source link
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