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Born under a cursed moon and raised among gators and gossip, Mama Sha’ has been stirring pots—both literal and metaphorical—for over 45 years. This ain’t your grandma’s apothecary—unless she hexed exes for fun and kept bones in labeled jars. Now, over the age of 50, Mama Sha’ is tired of the frilly nonsense. She’s thrown in the towel – on shiny spell jars, mass-produced “intention kits” and TikTok witches spewing out bad advice and who think magic is just lighting a candle while duck-lip pouting into their cell phone for clicks. She’s not here for the influencer alchemy or quartz-drenched nonsense blessed by algorithms and sold with a selfie, the endless parades of crystal-infused moonwater that couldn’t hex its way out of a paper bag. Mama Sha’ needs grit, not glitter. Power, not Pinterest. She has spent years building her craft with bones, fire and actual consequences. She has leaned hard into the grit, the grime, and the glory of true swamp witchery. Her hands know herbs, her boots know mud, and her mouth knows curses sharp enough to slice through generational trauma. Crystals are fine, but she prefers tools that bite back—rusted nails, crawfish mud, black salt, and the kind of herbs that get you side-eyed at TSA. She don’t cast for aesthetics. She casts for results. This isn’t a vibe. It’s a vow. If you’re looking for pastel spells and glitter jars, turn back now. But if you crave botanical vengeance and handcrafted wrath, welcome home. So buckle up, buttercups! Let’s do this!

Category: General Musings….

  • Louisiana Mud Mouth

      So, tell me this… what does a Swamp Witch do when she needs to make someone shut the hell up? Why, Mud Mouth, of course! My brand of Mud Mouth conjure is solely my own – a little different than most Tapa Boca workings – Got someone running their mouth and not minding their…

  • Best Of 2015

    Originally posted on Death and the Maiden: Women and death, particularly the role women are currently playing in the death positive movement and as death professionals made frequent headlines this year. Here is a recap of what 2015 had to offer. Fusion‘s The Death Midwife: Women Were the Original Undertakers,  exhumes (see what we did…

  • Holy Tides – The Animals of Yule

    Originally posted on Wyrd Designs: The Yule Goat, Yule Boar and Yule Cat Today, one of Sweden’s most traditional Yule symbols, is that of the yule buck or yule goat, which features prominently in the tale of Jultomten. In antiquity the common animal sacrifices included horses, cattle, boar, and goats. In Sweden in particular we…

  • The Holy Tides – The 12 Days of Yule

    Originally posted on Wyrd Designs: Just as our pagan cousins celebrate the eight major sabbats that comprise the Wheel of the Year, for those of us in the Northern Tradition we too have somewhat similar key celebrations that we call holy tides (from the Old Norsehátíðir). Some of these celebrations are more significant and special…

  • Guardians of Midgard

    Originally posted on norsestormr – musings of a heathen: I have been thinking a lot lately about the move from the city to the country, as most of us do who follow this path. For me, I feel completely drained living in the city. I have lost any vitality and crave for something quieter, cleaner…

  • Devotion to Odin

    Originally posted on norsestormr – musings of a heathen: ? Odin was my first breath, and owns my last. He is the wild wind, the insatiable hunger for wisdom and experience. He is beserker rage, instigation and poetry. He is inspiration and strategy, treachery and seduction, generosity and victory. He gathers the glorious dead into…

  • The Viking Ship Museum (part 1 of 2)

    Source: The Viking Ship Museum (part 1 of 2)

  • An Idea for the New Year

    Reblogged on WordPress.com Source: An Idea for the New Year

  • Karma – Shamarma . . .

    Karmically-speaking, I expect most of you will believe I shall be struck down by lightning before I finish this post.  I don’t “do” karma… I’m a realist. Karma – noun – is defined by the folks at Merriam-Webster as, ‘: the force created by a person’s actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to…

  • Krampus – the Anti-Claus!

    In honor of Krampus, and the upcoming movie release – Inexplicable Things is proud to, once again, offer a Boxed Gift Set of Krampus Kandles for the holidays! Pre-Order is happening, NOW! This gives you first dibs on a unique, limited-time, holiday candle with a surprise fragrance, this year!  Last year, we sold out in…