mortcatus:

highpriestness:

With Hannibal, I draw aspects of shadow work and blood magic, using the concepts of cannibalism, nightmares, and trauma as my major focus. As someone who also focuses on curses, utilizing “eating” (eat the rude, cannibalism) as a form of magic (such as in some spirit work you can also “eat” spirits), as well as nightmares (the night mare stag). 

I believe that different works, fandoms, and so on have different energies put into them, especially media due to their being collective and collaborative work of many people involved pouring their energy into it, knowingly or not, and there’s a certain energy about Hannibal that I can draw from as a source, per se, to help me cast minor spells. For me it’s like a mixture of an egregore and a reservoir – so many people know about it, are into it, have made it, and so on that it basically made it’s own pool of energy that I “draw from” as a source. 

To me it makes a little more sense than elements. You can tell me Fire means XYZ but to me, I’d rather draw from the energy of, say, Dragon Age than “Fire” or the energy of “Hannibal” then, I guess, Water maybe. 

I hope to eventually get into a pop culture paganism aspect, not just witchcraft, about Hannibal, such as potential worship of a Stag and “Wendigo” god, but until then (and until I find a better word than just Wendigo) I just use Hannibal as an area to draw out myself, shadow work, human nature, anti-human nature, and so on. 

Hope that makes sense! 

xoxo

@saturniida