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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We may be on Pilgrimage at the moment, but we thought we'd spend a second to give you some information about Fortuna's feast day today! Don't forget we stock a Fortuna statue here: www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/mini-… #altar #pagan

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It depends on the editions and books I think! Recently they made a change to their hardbacks so that they're a lot more inkeeping with other hardbacks on the market, leaving the in house editions to be the Special Editions.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🕯️ STATUARY SALE 🕯️ 20% off of our #Statuary selection, excluding our "Mini" Statues. 💥 This sale will only last a couple of days, and many of these items only have a few left. ❗ Some of these statues are no longer being made so grab them before they're gone! www.brambleandbone.co.uk

Promotional graphic for a statue sale set against a dark smoky backdrop with an ornate gold art-deco border. Bold gothic blackletter lettering reads 'Statuary Sale - 20% off Statues', framed by a display of cold-cast bronze deity figures styled with candles, trailing ivy and dried botanicals. The mood is moody and altar-like, rich in antique bronze tones, warm gold highlights and witchy apothecary atmosphere for a pagan and occult shop.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Marble is worked as a protective stone for stability and a steady home, and if you keep an #animist practice it's a way to carry the stone beings of Ireland and the spirits of the land with you. Bracelets from £9, #connemaramarble necklaces £23. #jewellery

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🌳 The Tree of Life holds the world tree - strength, knowledge, and past, present and future in one symbol - while the triskele is older still, a stone-age spiral that links land, sea and sky.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Connemara marble is a rare green marble formed over 900 million years ago, and it's the official gem of Ireland. Each piece is cut from the official quarry at Lissoughter in Recess, Co. Galway and then handmade in Dublin, so no two are ever the same. 💚

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🌿 New in: Connemara marble jewellery, the official stone of Ireland, now in stock in both Tree of Life and triskele designs.

A round green Connemara marble pendant rimmed in silver, set with a silver triple-spiral triskele, hanging from a silver chain. It rests on a piece of weathered, grainy wood. The light is warm and low, and the background falls into shadow.

Connemara marble beaded bracelet on dark oak boards, finished with a round silver Tree of Life charm. Raw amethyst points and chunks sit around them, green leaves trail across the top, and dried pale and golden flowers rest at the bottom.

a Connemara marble necklace on dark oak boards, finished with a round silver Tree of Life charm. Raw amethyst points and chunks sit around them, green leaves trail across the top, and dried pale and golden flowers rest at the bottom.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌿 All six are back in stock and ready to post out - grab one quick before they sell out again. #TraditionalWitchcraft. www.brambleandbone.co.uk

Flat-lay of six witchcraft books on dark weathered wood, edged with green ivy. White blackletter reads 'Restock' in the centre and 'www.brambleandbone.co.uk' along the bottom. Titles: Under the Bramble Arch, The Magic of the Horseshoe, Cecil Williamson's Book of Witchcraft, The British Book of Spells & Charms, Traditional Witchcraft, and The Black Toad -All from Troy Books Publishing

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌙 Traditional Witchcraft - A Cornish Book of Ways - a primer on the Cunningpath: the Fairy Faith, the Bucca, places of power and village cunning. £15.50 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/tradi…

Traditional Witchcraft - A Cornish Book of Ways displayed upright on dark weathered wood, framed with trailing green ivy and small amethyst points. The cover shows the title in white lettering.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🗝️ The Black Toad - West Country folk-ceremonial magic. Work with land spirits and the Fair Folk, with spells, folklore and history of the southwest. £12 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/the-b…

The Black Toad displayed upright on dark weathered wood, framed with trailing green ivy and small amethyst points. The cover shows the title in white lettering over a dark illustration.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🕯️ The British Book of Spells and Charms - spells, charms and folk songs for fortune, love, healing and curse removal, with museum-sourced photos. £13.75 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/the-b…

The British Book of Spells and Charms displayed upright on dark weathered wood, framed with trailing green ivy and small amethyst points. The cover shows the title in white lettering.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌱 Under the Bramble Arch - a grimoire of wayside plants like bramble, thistle and mugwort, with home apothecary recipes and over thirty charms for protection, healing and safe passage. £16.50 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/under…

Under the Bramble Arch displayed upright on dark weathered wood, framed with trailing green ivy and small amethyst points. The cover shows the title in white lettering over a botanical illustration.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🐴 The Magic of the Horseshoe - the magic of iron, fire and salt, centred on protection, with charms, amulets, spirit lore and animal lore. A 344-page facsimile. £15 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/the-m…

The Magic of the Horseshoe displayed on dark weathered wood, styled with green foliage, amethyst points, dried golden flowers, a wooden lantern and a small animal skull. The cover shows the title in white lettering.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📖 Cecil Williamson's Book of Witchcraft - his own spells, charms and folklore. Protection, plant work, water magic and spirit contact, drawn from British witchcraft heritage. £17 www.brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/cecil…

Cecil Williamson's Book of Witchcraft displayed upright on dark weathered wood, framed with trailing green ivy and small amethyst points. The cover shows the title in white lettering over a muted illustration.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🌿 Restock - six British folk magic titles are back on the shelf, most of them from Troy Books. West Country craft, Cornish ways, plant lore and the cunning path, all in one go. A quick run through each one 🧵 #witchthreads

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🗝️ She held the threshold of war - the formal declaration- alongside the frenzy that came with the fighting, kept by her black-clad priests on the Day of Blood. Two faces in a single pair of hands. 🛡️ And she reached these islands: a #Roman war #goddess with traces on the northern frontier.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

⚔️ Most people meet #Bellona as a single line in a list of Roman gods - the female counterpart to Mars, and little else. 🏛️ Rome gave her a temple outside the sacred boundary, where the Senate met to weigh war and receive foreign envoys, and built the whole rite of declaring war around her column.

A deep red-toned photo of Roman soldiers in red tunics and chainmail, holding tall red shields marked with golden wings, with an iron spearhead crossing the frame. Overlaid text reads: New Blog - Bellona, Roman Goddess of War.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Vows in his name had to be sworn under the open sky - never under a roof. His temples had a deliberate hole cut in the ceiling so oaths sworn inside could still rise unobstructed. Roman houses had the atrium compluvium - that open roof section that let the sky in even indoors.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

His name fuses dius (the bright sky-god aspect, cognate with Jupiter) and fidius (sworn faith, the binding power of a vow) - together they make him the divine oath-keeper. The most distinctive thing about him is the oath rite itself.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today is the 5 June anniversary of the Temple of Dius Fidius on the Quirinal Hill - one of the oldest deities in #Roman religion and the god of sky-witnessed oaths.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Her image outlasted Rome as well. Centuries later Shakespeare reached for her in Macbeth, so she was still very much in cultural memory. Had you come across Bellona's presence on the Wall before? #romangoddess #romanpolytheism #paganism

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🏛️ #Bellona, the goddess of war, was among them. She held temples at York and Carlisle, with further dedications and separate altars at Colchester and again at Carlisle - one of them an altar stone, found on the old Red-Dial Carlisle road.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🗡️ Where the legions marched, their gods marched with them. When the #Roman army came to Britain, it brought its full religious life along - carried in the altars and dedications of soldiers drawn from every corner of the empire. It's there we find the majority of the military gods of Roman Britain.

Educational infographic on an aged brown stone background, titled 'Bellona in Britain: The Wall and Its Gods' in blackletter type. Body text describes Roman military worship of the goddess Bellona on the northern frontier. To the right, a black-and-white engraving of an inscribed Roman altar stone reading DEAE BELLONAE, captioned as found on the Red-Dial Carlisle road.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

⚔️ In front stood the columna bellica, the war-column. When a foe lay too far off for the old border rite, a priest hurled a spear over it towards enemy ground, and the column stood in for the frontier itself. It became a piece of foreign soil held inside Rome. #Bellona

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Bellona's temple stood on the Campus Martius, deliberately outside Rome's sacred boundary, because armed force and foreign envoys were kept beyond that line. The Senate met here to receive generals returning from campaign, and to hear ambassadors who weren't allowed any further into the city. #pagan

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🏛️ Rome declared war by throwing a spear over a column, and the enemy was often nowhere near it. 🧵 #witchthreads

Educational infographic on aged parchment titled 'The Temple and the Columna Bellica'. White blackletter and small-caps text describes the Temple of Bellona, vowed 296 BCE, standing outside Rome's pomerium, and the war-column rite of casting a spear to declare war. A red-and-gold Corinthian column stands at right with a faint spear behind the text.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

One name carried two faces: the ordered war of the Senate on one side, raw blood-devotion on the other. Passionate and Practical. Frenzy and Formality. The Second of our Bellona series. Which face surprises you more? #Bellona #RomanGoddess #folkmagic #traditionalwitchcraft #wargoddess #polytheism

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Then there was Ma-Bellona. After the general Sulla dreamed of a war goddess handing him victory, Bellona's worship merged with that of Ma. This cult ran on frenzy. Her priests, the bellonarii, dressed in black and used ecstatic trance, cutting their own arms and legs and offering the blood to her.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The state goddess was all procedure. Her temple stood on the Campus Martius, deliberately outside the sacred boundary of the city. This is where the Senate handled the business of war and received enemy envoys. Her war-column anchored the rite of formally declaring war from afar. #romanpolytheism

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Rome kept two Bellonas, and they could not have been less alike. 🧵 www.brambleandbone.co.uk #paganism

A warm sepia infographic. An ornate blackletter title reads 'Bellona' with 'The Two Faces of Bellona' beside it. A bronze bust of a helmeted figure sits centre, against faded classical columns. Two text columns headed 'The State Goddess' and 'Ma-Bellona' sit either side. brambleandbone.co.uk appears at the foot.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Romans paired her with Nerio, The Greeks allied her to Enyo, and within Mars's household she resides as his sister, daughter, wife and charioteer, depending on myth. A Sabine war-spirit, taken into Rome's religion as the city grew into its appetite for war. #Bellona

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Plenty of gods count war among their domains. War is Bellona's name. She takes it straight from bellum, the word for war, and before that from the older form duellum, which is why her oldest name was Duellona. #Romanreligion

A dark, weathered parchment-and-stone infographic. An ornate blackletter title reads 'Bellona', with 'Her name is War' beneath it. Cream text sits on a brown textured background with a faint classical figure behind. The body text explains the goddess's name and origins and lists Nerio, Enyo and Mars. brambleandbone.co.uk appears at the foot.

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🌿 Carna closed the day. She holds the hinge of the door, wards children through the night, and takes offerings of bean-mash, with hawthorn set at the threshold against anything that wants in. #householdprotection

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🌊 The Tempestates, the storm goddesses, were propitiated for calm weather and safe passage - the powers you thank before a sea crossing rather than after. #stormmagic

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🛡️ Mars was honoured outside the Porta Capena, the soldier-god who guarded the threshold of the city rather than the quarrels inside it. #protectionmagic

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

💰 Juno Moneta came first. Her temple stood on the Capitoline with the Roman mint right beside it, which is how her title Moneta became our word money. Her sacred geese had once warned the city of a night attack, so she holds both prosperity and timely warning in the same hand. #moneymagic

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

☀ Four Roman powers shared a single feast day - the 1st of June - and each one still answers a different kind of working.🧵 #romanpolytheism

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

And the #Oracle of Roses is back too, for anyone who works with the rose and its spirits. All three are in store now! 😍 🌹 Oracle of Roses - brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/oracle-of-roses/ #witchcraft #tarot #witchshop

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Ethereal Visions #Tarot has landed in its Luna Edition, an Art Nouveau deck built on familiar RWS bones, so it reads easily whether you're new to the cards or have been reading for years. 🃏 Ethereal Visions (Luna Edition) Tarot - brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/ethereal-visions-tarot-luna-edition/

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Bramble & Bone @brambleandbone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

There's a lot in this tome for a devotee to carry into their own practice! #GoddessDiana #Romanpolytheism #paganism 📖 From Artemis to Diana - brambleandbone.co.uk/shop/from-artemis-to-diana-goddess-of-man-and-beast/

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