Find artwork, candles, and other decor with butterflies to bring butterfly’s magic into daily life.
decorate with butterflies: decorate your altar, sacred space, and home with butterflies. Add these to your wardrobe and wear butterflies on days when your spirit needs lifted. wear butterflies: wear clothing, jewelry, and hair accessories adorned with butterfly designs. Even if you only have a balcony or front steps, grow butterfly plants in pots! create a butterfly garden: by planting just a few host plants in your garden, you attract and support the life cycle of butterflies. How do you use butterflies in daily magic? Here are a few suggestions: Because of the butterfly’s connection with flowers, flower magic can be used in conjunction with butterfly magic. Those include: lavender, nettles, a few milkweed species, daisy species, and more. They are pollinators – they aid in the pollination of plants, mostly flowers. The butterfly is the perfect witch’s familiar.īutterflies are beneficial to the environment. If you feel like you’ve come to a dead end, use butterfly magic to transform your life. Butterflies are a symbol of transformation: they begin as an egg, turn into a caterpillar, cocoon and undergo a huge metamorphosis, then emerge anew as a the butterfly. They are connected to the elements air and earth. Have you ever just sat and watched a butterfly flit from flower to flower? Their bodies are as light as the air, and their freedom is inspiring. So did the holden of the Furious Host (Wild Hunt) and elves – both creatures connected with witches in the Dark Ages.īutterflies are pure magic. The alp, a shapeshifting nightmare bringer of Germanic folklore, was also said to appear as a butterfly or moth. The people of Slovenia believed souls looked like butterflies. How anyone could think such a lovely creature was the Devil’s helper is beyond me!Īccording to Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology, when a witch travels at night (astral travel), her spirit comes out of her mouth in the shape of a butterfly. 
Because of the superstitions surrounding butterflies and witches, butterflies were linked to the Devil. Witches’ souls would appear in the form of the butterfly, which is probably why they were thought to steal butter! Clever witches shapeshifted into butterflies and flew around to do their bidding in disguise. This matches to the belief that witches stole their neighbors’ butter. Do you know how the butterfly got its name? In the Middle Ages, people thought butterflies were insects who stole butter.
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