{"title":"Cvltvs Bvfonidae","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cvlt of the Toad\u003c\/i\u003e - is the 4th release in our Cvltvs Animalia range of poppets, and corresponding materia magicka. Each entry in our Cvltvs Animalia line is dedicated to an animal in our magickal coterie of poppets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat, then, are the magickal properties of the Toad spirit, as we are honoring her? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout European folklore, the toad has represented alchemical transformation and the chemical science of poison. Seemingly morphing from fish, to land creature, to resurrected muck-beast, the toad’s life and death cycle proved fascinating to the minds of early scientists and mystics. Historical accounts place toads as a witch’s familiar, par excellence, and witch trial testimonials attest to interspecial wet-nursing, elaborate bone collection, and the harvesting of toxins, for night-flight.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cvltvs-bvfonidae-mandrake-toad-i","title":"Cvltvs Bvfonidae MANDRAKE TOAD I","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll hail the Toad Cvlt! 🐸🍄🔥🍄🐸\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese talismanic dolls are the culmination of months of spellwork and deep-diving into the lore and magick of the toad. A beast that dwells in spaces between, the Mandrake Toad \u003cem\u003eembodies\u003c\/em\u003e a twilight realm, wherein the perceived space between flora, and fauna, thins to non-existence. A vessel to attract and house the bvfonine spirits, who coalesce where Saturn meets Venus, death-dealer and enchanter. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese OOAK poppets are hand-sculpted, painted, and sewn with dozens of magickal materials, and with regard for appropriate planetary and astrological timing. Each Mandrake Toad bears an ensorcelled \"toadstone\", protruding from their foreheads, that serves as a beacon and battery for those tutelary spirits, that consider the toad to be their kin (a more detailed description of this ritual can be found on an Instagram post, dated August 29). These stones are an ideal surface to \"feed\" the Toad-spirit, with offertory \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOil Bufo, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eor other offertory libations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout European folklore, the toad has represented alchemical transformation and the chemical science of poison. 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