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Reading up on sea witch spells and seeing people suggest putting offerings in bottles and letting the sea carry then away.

This upsets me.

It’s littering. Please leave your offerings on something that’s not harmful to the environment. A sea shell, rock or even just on the beach. Please don’t use anything that could cause harm to the ocean or its inhabitants. Thank you!

Not to hijack, but all offerings in natural spaces should be planned to be safe for the environment it’s going into. This is why I’m partial to offerings of water or other consumable fluids–if it’s safe to go in my belly, it’s probably safe to pour over some plants. 

Yes. Stop telling people to bury things in jars, particularly . Bury things in (unbleached) paper towels, or the insides of bell peppers. And don’t bury things that won’t degrade. There are so many ways to do witchcraft that doesn’t involve burying things that won’t decompose!! If you can, opt to recycle the item, or better yet, just change out all your spell ingredients for stuff that is eco-friendly and able to rot if buried. Srsly.

THANK YOU!

to add: making bowls or balls of ice to bury or to be carried awayby the sea. Use unbleached paper towels or banana peels(if it’s safe) to write your spell on, etc. There are many safe ways to do magic without littering.

You can also use cabbage leaves and cotton kitchen string in place of a jar, or write your spell on a piece of un-coated (like not metallic, etc.) paper and fold it into an origami creature because the paper will degrade

Eco friendly witchery tips. 🙂

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Please don’t leave food offerings out for wild mammals to eat. Not only are a lot of the things we eat not good for them, but they can easily lose their fear of humans in search of more food. And if we artificially increase the amount of food in their habitat they overpopulate, which leads to more disease.

Birds are different, at least the ones that eat from feeders. They’re used to finding food in a variety of places, and so aren’t generally going to be dependent on just humans. However, please don’t feed ducks and geese in park ponds and the like, as they are largely sedentary and again can overpopulate as well as fill the water with too much poop, which leads to algae blooms and other badness. Moreover, people like to feed them bread, which basically has no nutritional value for them, and they can end up with deformities due to vitamin deficiencies. 

If you want to send something floating away on the ocean, why not use a coconut shell? It’ll take a long time to degrade, but it’s natural, it won’t hurt anything.