Question about Gratitude Ritual

[voxwoman]

I am curious to know what kind of gratitude ritual includes graveyards and stabbing swords into the foot ground. This is a serious inquiry, even though I feel slightly snarky about it. I'm wondering if the witch in question wasn't telling a story to the police (I'm also really curious as to which deities were being called that required the

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[teshara]

HOW?!

HOW do you lose track of where your foot is?!?!

And you know, after seeing sex rituals be preformed from everything from a house blessing to getting rid of the dog's gout I just don't ask anymore about anyone else's ceremonies.

(For clarification: the was sex near the dog, not with the dog.)

[omni_videns]

HOW do you lose track of where your foot is?!?!

Being really, really drunk.

[twisted_times]

Or just really dumb/klutzy...

[vrimj]

Yep, I have a weak sense of propoception, one reason that I have unsharped ritual blades.

[smarriveurr]

What is "lying to the cops"?

What is "I made it myself!"?

[eris_star]

What is "I made it myself!"?

Why is there bacon in the soap?

[onyxtwilight]

Oooo, bacon soap! >:-)

[chasingtides]

I'm going to suggest that drinking the gods' offering is a bad idea and pay back is a bitch.

[gwynethfar]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was something they thought up themselves, and it really was an accident.

[frater_treinta]

I know of some Louisiana-based folklore about women going into graveyards to stab something in the ground on a dare or to fulfill a tradition, catching their clothing on it, and dieing of fright, but I don't think any of them explicitly refer to a "Gratitude Ritual."

Could be homespun Great Rite, though. Where are you gonna find a bigger symbol of the Mother than Earth herself?

[hyperform]

wasn't that an alvin schwartz story?

[jadedissola]

Yes, but he got it from an oooooold urban legend, which is where he got most of his stories. [off-topic] Man, I miss the Scary Stories series. Now that my kid is getting older I should buy those books for Halloween. [/off-topic]

[boy_pastiche]

how old? I LOOOOVEd that series when I was 8 or so. My 7 year old doesn't want me to read them to her. LOL