The 12 Days of Christmas - An Annual Yule Plan!

The 12 Days of Christmas (Yule Tide)

Yule (Winter Solstice) happens December 21-January 1st each year. It is a winter celebration of the shortest day of the year, and as such, the return of the sun and the beginning of longer days. It is a time of peace, stillness, and healing.

December 20th, Mother's Night (Yule's Eve)

A celebration of the Disir, protective female spirits of fate and fertility; ancestral grandmothers who blessed, protected, and provided prophetic counsel to the clan. This is a night for holding vigil through the dark to honor female ancestors. This is a night to honor the women who came before you. Hearth, linage, warmth, memory, and feminine wisdom.

We honor the women who carried us, fed us, taught us, protected us.
Their strength lives here. Their love is remembered.

Activities:

• Light white candles in the windows, kitchen, and living room. One fore each maternal figure (living or passed).
• Bring evergreens and winter berries inside.
• Tell stories or speak aloud names of women who shaped you.
• Clean the kitchen together gently → “Prepare the Hearth.”

Food & Drink:

• Make family receipes and cookies.
• Tea with honey.

December 21st, Winter's Night (the Winter Solstice)

Celebrating the longest night and the return of the sun, heralding the lengthening of days and the promise of spring. Hope, renewal, quiet magic.

The Sun returns.
Light rises again.
May our home be blessed with warmth, health, and joy.

Activities:

• Dim lights all day; light only candles after sunset.
• Display the Yule Log (birch, oak, yew) wrapped in rosemary and cinnamon, and burn it. The Yule Log is a Nordic tradition of burning a tree or log in the home for the entire 12 Days of Christmas, allowing the flame of the old year to ignite the new year. The ash from the log was sometimes used for rituals such as blessing crops, protecting against storms, and healing the sick.
• Set intentions for the coming light (one per person).
• Divination: tarot, runes, or pendulum after the log burns.

Food & Drink

• Winter stew or roasted root vegetables.

December 22nd, Father's Night

A night to honor male spirits, the Alfar—male ancestors. Memory, protection, guidance, quiet presence.

You are loved. You are remembered.
Guide us softly. Watch over this home.

Activities:

• Place your father’s photo near a single candle.
• Add something that reminds you of him (object, color, scent).
• Share a favorite story about him.
• Play one song he loved.
• Eat or cook something he enjoyed.
• If weather allows → step outside and look at the night sky together.
• Warm bath with epsom salt + cedar drops
• Gentle stretching, breathwork, or chakra alignment

December 23rd, The Silly Feast (counting the blessings)

• Loki's Silly (Seelie) Feast - a party or feast while wearing your animal masks, probably where our NYE masquerades come from. A time for exchanging gifts, turning social rules, and setting up the Yule Tree.
• The Yule Tree: A Germanic tradition of decorating trees with greenery and ornaments (wish ornaments - salt dough with your hopes for the coming year, symbols of gratitude and joy). The yule tree signified abundance in the coming year. You decorate the outdoor trees for the animals and the indoor tree for you.

• Release mischief, laughter, chaos, and fear.
  Allow joy + catharsis before the return to quiet.

  Activities

  • Make a fun feast — messy tacos, finger foods, something unexpected.

  • Tell stories — funny, ridiculous, mischievous family memories.

  • Hang bells on the door to ward The Wild Hunt.

  • Write fears/resentments on paper → burn or shred.

  Words

  Let chaos move through and out.
  Only joy remains.

   Upturn the ordinary. Laugh. Release stuck emotions. Allow joy, mischief, and transformation.

  Loki isn’t “the villain” here—he’s the Unraveler so new patterns can form.
  This night loosens knots, releases stagnant energy, and breaks old emotional contracts.

  The Wild Hunt energy rides the winds — we acknowledge it, but do not invite it inside.
  This is controlled chaos → release, play, purge, reset.

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  ✨ Decor & Atmosphere

  • Red + Black + Gold accents

  • Bells hung on the front door (to guard against the Wild Hunt)

  • Candles, but one flame kept burning the entire evening

  • Incense or simmer pot with:

    • Clove

    • Orange Peel

    • Bay Leaf

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  🦊 Crafts & Hands-On Ritual Play

  1. Animal / Trickster Masks

  Make or wear masks representing:

  • Fox

  • Raven

  • Deer

  • Wolf

  • Hare

  • Crow

  • Serpent

  • Cat

  Symbolism:
  The mask allows you to step outside of your usual patterns and release stuck identity behaviors.

  Prompt to Say While Masking:

  “Tonight, let me see through new eyes.
  Let what no longer fits fall away.”

  Use:

  • Paper plates + markers/paint

  • Felt + hot glue

  • Paper bags (old school theater style)

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  2. Salt Dough Ornaments

  Recipe:

  • 2 cups flour

  • 1 cup salt

  • ¾ cup warm water

  Shape into:

  • Feathers

  • Runes

  • Spirals

  • Animal footprints

  • Trickster symbols (knots, flames, little foxes)

  After baking: paint red + gold or natural ochre tones.

  Meaning: These are talismans of transformation.
  Hang them on the Yule tree, or tie to Yule log remnants later.

  Words While Crafting:

  “What was bound is loosened.
  What is hidden is revealed.
  What holds me back is unmade.”

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  3. “Burn the Old” Ritual Notes

  Everyone writes down:

  • One habit

  • One fear

  • One resentment

  Fold and burn in a bowl or fire-safe dish.

  Say:

  “Chaos carries it away.
  I am free to choose again.”

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  🍽 The Feast — Fun, Irreverent, Delicious

  This night should feel playful, messy, and not formal.

  Examples:

  • Charcuterie “graze table”

  • Build-your-own tacos, nachos, sliders, or sushi bowls

  • Chocolate fondue + fruit

  • Spicy dishes (Loki heat!)

  • Anything colorful or over-the-top

  Drink

  • Spiced cider

  • Meade-like mocktail (honey, ginger, sparkling water)

  • Cinnamon hot cocoa for the kids

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  🎶 Activities & Storytelling

  • Tell funny family stories, even embarrassing ones kindly

  • Watch a chaotic holiday movie or a mythic themed one

  • Drum or clap rhythms

  • Dance like nobody is watching (because tonight — nobody is)

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  🌬 The Wild Hunt Acknowledgment (Night Walk or Porch Moment)

  Step outside briefly.

  Ring a bell three times.

  Say:

  “We see you.
  We honor the storm and the shadow.
  But this home is protected.
  You may pass.”

  Close the door firmly.

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  ✨ The Closing of the Feast

  Remove the masks.

  Take a slow breath together.

  Say:

  “What was released will not return.
  Only joy and truth remain.”

  Blow out candles except one — let that one burn down naturally.

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  Optional Add-On (powerful)

  • Save one salt dough ornament made this night.

  • On New Year’s Eve (Hogmanay), you will break it to seal the release cycle.

December 24th, Protecting the Home from The Wild Hunt - Santa's Night (Christmas Eve)

The Wild Hunt is described as a ghostly parade of spirits riding wildly through the night, marking a time of mystical energy. Nowadays, the Wild Hunt is known as a terrifying ordeal, where fae attack or capture anyone in their path. On the other hand, some believe it is a fae celebration, which can still be pretty scary since they're more rambunctious and violent than those on this side of the veil.

Santa was known as a fae, whose clothes matched the red-capped mushrooms that grow through the winter snow beneath the evergreen trees. Shaman or šamán means "one who knows." Bells call the spirits and fairies (that's why Santa has them on his sleigh). Milk and cookies were offerings left for the fae, for Santa, in exchange for presents.

The Deer Mother takes to the skies, carrying the light of the sun in her antlers, bringing rebirth to the land.

Also, the Yule book flood takes place, where people gift books to each other and read through the night.

Activities: 

• Lighting candles, decorating with ribbons and garlands, and hanging mistletoe in doorways for protection in the coming year.
• Evergreens: Evergreens were revered because they lasted even in the heart of winter. They were hung over doors and windows, as their greenery in a time of bleak cold was believed to ward off negative energies and illness.
• Wreaths: The Yule Wreath had dried orange for strength, oak for wisdom, holly for hope, evergreen for rebirth, clove for prosperity, cinnamon for protection, laurel for success, and mistletoe for fertility.
• Mistletoe: The druids held nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree that bears it, the oak. They call the mistletoe "uil-ìoc," which means the all-healing. A kiss under the mistletoe represents the promise of love, life, and renewal.
• A Christmas Eve care package (with books, pajamas, etc); Secret Santa or White Elephant with books.

December 25th, Christmas Day, letting light and hope in

• Exchange gifts intentionally (even if small).

• Speak one blessing for each person while they hold their gift.

• Offer food to wildlife — apples, carrots, birdseed.

• Make pinecone bird feeders for outdoor animals.

• Wassail (hot cider with oranges + cloves + cinnamon)

26th, Honor to the Hearth

• A day for feasts, particularly lamb stew and leaf bread, as kin gather together to share warmth and nourishment before the winter's grip tightens.

• Togetherness, warmth, cooking, rest.

  Activities

  • Deep Clean but Softly: open one window for 5 minutes to release stagnant energy.

  • Burn juniper, cedar, or rosemary to cleanse the home.

  • Prepare a simple dinner together.

  • Family movie night under blankets.

  Energy Work

  • Quick feng shui reset:

    • Clear the entryway

    • Sweep toward the door

    • Add one plant or evergreen bough near the front door for protection

27th, Protecting Outside the Home

• Making offerings to wildlife and spirits of the woods, preparing for the coming winter. This day is also marked by the creation of protective wards for the coming winter, ensuring a shield against unseen forces.

28th, Ritual of Completion (close out everything for the year, clear any debts)

• It is a time to conclude tasks left undone, a moment of closure and preparation for the impending new cycle. Plum (figgy) pudding is a culinary symbol of completion.

29th, Day of Contemplation (looking into the new year)

• Approaching the year’s end, the penultimate day invites a gaze into the future and an appreciation of nature’s wonders. Create open spaces for relaxation, meditate on the year to come, and engage with preferred divination tools, seeking insights for the unfolding future.

30th, Good Luck in the coming Year 

• Wassail is made, and wassailing occurs.
• Wassailing: The house-visiting wassail is the practice of people going door-to-door, singing, and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts; this practice still exists, but has largely been displaced by carol singing. The orchard-visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards in cider-producing regions, reciting incantations, and singing to the trees to scare away evil spirits and promote a good harvest for the coming year.

31st, Hogmanay (spiritually and physically cleansing the house)

• Homes are blessed for protection (saining), and the home is cleaned from top to bottom. 
• Drinking, dancing, and feasting ensue, and a massive torchlit parade occurs. Nowadays, Hogmanay (New Year's) rings in at midnight with fireworks and "Auld Lang Syne." The first person to visit on New Year's is called the "first-footer," and he should be a tall, dark-haired man bringing coal or shortbread.

Activities: decorate your home with candles to bring light into your home, go foraging, decorate with dried fruits and evergreens, bake a spiced yule log cake, have a cup of wassail, put a lantern on your porch or a candle in your front window, hang peanut butter and seed-coated pinecones for the birds, make gingerbread

Yule kitchen witchery

December 26–27 — Stillness Days

Theme: Quiet, restoration, crafting, blankets, no pressure.

Activities

• Nap.

• Read.

• Make simple crafts (paper snowflakes, pine bundles).

• Journal on:

  • What you want to release

  • What you want to grow

These are resting days — let them be slow.

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🏙 December 28 – January 3 — In Chicago

This is family time, but still sacred.

Daily Mini Practices

• Bring one travel-sized candle → light for home blessing each night.

• Walk in the cold → feel winter air on the lungs.

• One card daily divination pull each morning.

Suggested Larger Rituals

• 12/30 → Buy supplies for Vision Board

• 12/31 (New Year’s Eve / Hogmanay)

  • Sweep the entryway of your sister’s home (with permission)

  • Open the door for first-footing luck

  • Write three goals and burn them outside to send to the returning sun

• 1/1 → Vision Board Day

  • Coffee, cozy clothes, blankets, scissors, magazines, markers

  • Create boards themed:

    • Strength

    • Abundance

    • Protection

    • Family Joy

  • Seal by lighting a candle and saying:

    So it is written. So it becomes.

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🕯 Symbols to Keep Throughout

Meaning	Item	Where
Hearth & Family	Candles	Kitchen + Living room
Protection	Cedar / Juniper smoke	Doorways & Corners
Abundance	Bowl of oranges or nuts	Dining table
Prosperity	Green ribbon tied to front door handle	Entryway
Returning Sun	Gold or yellow candle lit at dawn	Window

Summer Homeschooling - Cake Wars Week

CAKE WARS WEEK -

Sunday: Batter Up! Challenge

• Welcome, bakers, to Cake Wars! For your Round One: Batter Up! Challenge today, the theme is: FLORIDA!!!
• To create your personal cake for judging, you must use at least one of these ingredients, native to the great state where you currently live. You can use your phone for ideas and recipes. You'll be judged on how distinct your special ingredient is, how well it blends with the other flavors you choose to use, and your overall creativity with your cake. AND GO!
• Ingredients:
• Key Limes
• Oranges
• Orange Juice
• Blueberries
• Grouper
• Tomatoes
• Pecans
• The Judging
• And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the Cake Off! Challenge theme - and that is: Your Favorite Disney Movie
• Tomorrow, you'll use the daytime to design and sketch out your cake on notebook paper. You can use your phone for ideas and recipes. Make sure to map out:
• What kind and flavor of cake/icing, ingredients needed
• The creative design of the cake
• Any extra ingredients you may need that we don't already have in the pantry (send that list to Mama by 12PM)
• During your design time, keep in mind the requirements of this challenge:
1. The cake flavor profile must be related to the theme or culture of your movie
2. You must have at least one design element on the cake that represents a character from your movie
• See you tomorrow evening, bakers!

Monday: Cake Off! Challenge - Part One

• Good evening, bakers! Welcome to Part One of our Cake Off! Challenge: Tonight, we will bake our cakes and then refrigerate them to cool overnight. Then, tomorrow, we will add our design elements.
• Your Disney Movie cakes will be judged based on appearance, taste, texture, creativity, execution, and clean workspace.
• Remember:
1. The cake flavor profile must be related to the theme or culture of your movie
2. You must have at least one design element on the cake that represents a character from your movie
• AND GO! Good luck, bakers!
• Feel free to use the day tomorrow for more complex design elements that you plan to add to your cake base, such as character pieces, sculpting, painting, stencils, etc. 

Tuesday: Cake Off! Challenge - Part Two

• Good evening, bakers! Welcome to Part Two of our Cake Off! Challenge: Tonight, we will add our design elements to our cakes and move them to our display stations for final judging.
• Keep in mind your judging criteria: appearance, taste, texture, creativity, execution, and clean workspace.
• Remember:
1. The cake flavor profile must be related to the theme or culture of your movie
2. You must have at least one design element on the cake that represents a character from your movie

• AND GO! Good luck, bakers!
• The Judging, and trophy gifting.

Summer Homeschooling - FNAF Week

FNAF Week -

Monday: The Lore

• Set up the house to look like the Pizzeria
• Cook from Chayton's cookbook each night
• FNAF: Chayton goes over the lore of the story, what is cannon
• In the game, the player takes control of a nightshift security guard at a derelict pizzeria known as Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, which is rumored to contain haunted and reanimated life-size animatronics that wander the facility at night.
• The pizzeria itself is in a state of disrepair thanks to a series of tragedies associated with it, namely the kidnapping and likely murder of five children by a man named William Afton. It is rumored that the victims' bodies had been stuffed inside the many animatronic mascots of the pizzeria, named Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, which had led to a widespread boycott of the business and directly led to its demise.
• With the protagonist monitoring the animatronics at night through the use of security cameras, it quickly becomes apparent that these rumors are true, with the mascots moving freely throughout the facility, edging closer and closer to the player's location with malicious intent. The player can only survive the lengthy period in the facility by managing the power supply of doors and lights, ensuring that none of the possessed animatronics can get close enough to inflict a mortal wound.
• Start on costume - watch the videos, get the materials, start on the head
• Chayton wants to do Bonnie, and Anna wants to do Foxy
• This guy does them both
• Bonnie head
• Withered Bonnie
• Foxy head
• Foxy body

Tuesday:

• FNAF 2:
• FNAF 2 was released in 2014 very close to its predecessor, telling a prequel tale to the events of the first game. Taking place in a different location of the same restaurant chain, the title features many of the same animatronics from the first game while introducing a spate of new ones, such as a more passive figure known as Balloon Boy.
• The original animatronics from the first game are kept in the restaurant initially as backup suits, but once again roam the facility at night along with their newer counterparts. FNAF 2 goes into more detail about the aforementioned murder of five children that was explored within the first game, telling the lore via Atari-style mini-games. The perpetrator of these crimes is depicted as a sinister and gaunt purple figure, earning him the moniker of Purple Guy for most of the franchise's story. Following the murderous intent displayed by the newly introduced animatronics in the title, the game ends with them being decommissioned in favor of the classic characters that dominate the first game.
• Finish the head

Wednesday:

• FNAF 3:
• The third mainline installment to the FNAF franchise gave fans a huge acceleration to the series' lore and story, taking place 30 years after the events of the original game. This game is set within a new establishment called Fazbear's Fright, a horror attraction attempting to capitalize on the sinister urban legends surrounding the restaurant chain.
• Once again, the player assumes the role of a nightshift security worker at the location, with deadly paranormal encounters saturating the core gameplay of the title. The key lore from FNAF 3 stems from the introduction of a brand-new animatronic known as Springtrap. It is revealed through the same kind of mini-games as FNAF 2 that Springtrap was formed from the killer William Afton, or Purple Guy, hiding from the ghosts of his victims in an empty rabbit animatronic suit. With the suit malfunctioning and trapping Afton inside, his spirit seemingly lingers on inside.
• Start on the body

Thursday:

• FNAF 4:
• FNAF 4 is one of the most unique installments to the franchise, taking place within a child's bedroom instead of the norm of a security office within a facility. With the player taking control of the child, it is revealed that the protagonist has an intense fear of the animatronics at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, indicating that the title takes place before the events of the first game.
• The game's story chronicles the infamous "Bite of '83", in which a child was tragically killed in an accident involving one of the animatronics at the facility. It is revealed that the protagonist of the game is the victim of this event, being relentlessly bullied by his friends and brothers over his irrational fear of the pizzeria's characters. During a birthday party at the location, his head was stuffed into one of the animatronic's mouths, with his tears causing a technical fault that caused the animatronic to bite down, killing the boy.
• Work on the body

Friday:

• Subsequent Releases:
• Many other titles have been released within the FNAF universe following FNAF 4, despite not continuing the sequential titles of the previous installments. The game Sister Location explained how William Afton was the creator of the animatronics of Five Nights at Freddy's, with his daughter's soul supposedly possessing a smaller animatronic called Circus Baby which predates the establishment of the Fazbear restaurant chain.
• During the events of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, the player takes control of William Afton's son, Michael. With the animatronics of the franchise now being seriously dilapidated, so much so that they are now barely functioning and rebuilt scrap versions of their prior selves, it is revealed in the title that Springtrap survived the events of FNAF 3, now known as Scraptrap.
• The most recent release, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, offers free-roam gameplay and only spans a single night, bringing fans up to date with the story of the franchise. Security Breach reveals that an entire mall has been created under the Freddy Fazbear franchise, with the player controlling a boy named Gregory who works alongside a new non-hostile Freddy to navigate the maliciously programmed animatronics of the facility. With the game culminating with a revisit to the ruins of the original pizzeria and the reveal of Afton's spirit living on as the even more disfigured "Burntrap", it is clear that the story of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise is not over yet.
• Finish the body
• Dinner and games at Leaderboard Arcade Bar & Pizzeria
• Outbreak at Zero Latency

Saturday: Field Trip to Sally's Dark Rides

Summer Homeschooling - Druid Week

Druid Week -

Druids are thought to have been these magical wizards who could control nature. They were the first doctors, chemists, meteorologists, botanists, and astrologists. The real King James IV (Jaime's dad) actually had a druid under his employment, and one of his tasks was turning lead into gold. This wasn't magic, however, it was just chemistry/physics. Lead (atomic number 82 on the periodic table) requires the nuclear release of 3 protons to become gold (atomic number 79).

Druids created the first medicines and used the sky to help society plan their crops. They appreciated and connected with nature in a way that is lost to us today, and throughout my journey writing Evelyn's story, I'm starting to bridge that gap within myself. Most of the holidays we celebrate today were created by the druids; this week, we will learn why.

So, were druids magical, or did they just know nature's language, Awen? What would you and I know or be capable of if we also learned it?

Monday: Druids

• Colors of the Wind
• Awen - On page 189, Baba Edith states, "Awen is the force that beats with the essence of life. It is the ebb and flow of all existence. You see, while inside the womb, we swim within it, but as we age, we feel as if we have lost that connection. It feels as though it is something to be searched for and obtained, but it is already inside every one of us..."
• Five elements: air, water, earth, fire, and spirit.
• The chakras (deep dive video), and what colors are connected to what:
• Root - anxiety disorders, fears, or nightmares; problems in the colon, with the bladder, or with lower back, leg, or feet issues.
• Sacral - feeling uninspired creatively, having emotional instability, fear of change, depression, addiction-like behaviors.
• Solar Plexus - low self-esteem, difficulty making decisions, anger or control issues; apathy, procrastination, vulnerability; tummy ache of some kind, such as digestive issues or gas.
• Heart - grief, anger, jealousy, fear of betrayal, and hatred toward yourself and others; emotionally closed off and find it difficult to get over past hurts and forgive; hard to give and receive love.
• Throat - hard to truly express oneself; hard to pay attention and stay focused or fear judgment from others; sore throat, thyroid issues, neck and shoulder stiffness, or tension headaches.
• Third Eye - trouble accessing your intuition, trusting your inner voice, recalling important facts, or learning new skills; act more judgmental, dismissive, and introverted.
• Crown - when unblocked, you have an exalted state of spiritual connection and enlightenment. It takes a lot of practice to unblock the crown chakra.
• Crystals - What crystals are you drawn to? This will tell you what you need.
• Anna - 
1. rose quartz (practical, reliable, strong sense of family values, unconditional love, inner peace, emotional balancing, purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing, and feelings of peace)
2. garnet (determined and ambitious, attractive air of confidence, joy, forgiveness, love, happiness, creativity, prosperity, loyalty, commitment, regenerative, root, heart, sacral)
3. aragonite (patience, grounding, emotional strength, luck, centering)
• Chayton - 
1. amethyst (best grounding stone, your energy is high in the head, connected to the crown and third eye, protection against fear and feels of guilt, instilling calmness, alleviating anxiety, pleasant dreams, free, loving)
2. clear quartz (opens capacity to absorb, store, release, and regulate energy, straightforward, energetic)
3. tiger eye (courage, focus, prosperity, protection)
• Witchy pop culture:
• Looking into your crystal ball is just scrying; like a mirror or a candle, it's just meditation, visiting the astral plane, connecting with your spirit guide or ancestors
• Grimoire/Book of Shadows (sounds scary right?); Evelyn had her own in her hidden room - What is shadow work? Use shadow work cards.
• Potions in a cauldron (this is what they used to cook over the hearth, we have a Dutch oven) were the first medicines: tea, simmer pots, diffusers and essential oils
• Kitchen Witchery - Druids learned how to use food to heal us; medicine is all witchcraft
• elderberry syrup (boosts your immune system and cures sickness)
• willow bark is where aspirin came from; willow bark contains salicylate, relieves aches and pains, including headaches, and can save you if you're having a heart attack
• valerian root - Evelyn makes a tea to calm Eric
• snowdrops - contains galantamine used to treat Alzheimer's disease
• Druids stated that when you enter a forest, ask the trees for their secrets and for their permission to walk among them. They were considered the lungs of the earth, and the one thing humans cannot live without.

Weekly Activities:

• Monday - Chakra Yoga - chakra meditation: Pick out a crystal from the metaphysical store, eat with your chakra, shadow work game
• Tuesday - Ostara Yoga - spirit animal (Spring - new life and new beginnings): write down your goals or aspirations for the rest of the year (and do a spell, calling the corners), pick up a hobby that you've loved but put down, when you clean, it's like a spell, you clear the energy, protect the house, declutter and donate; pick a bouquet, get a bouquet from the store (purifies the air); baked potato, roast veggies, fish/cured meats, beans/seeds, pasta/cheese sauce
• Wednesday - Beltane Yoga - higher self (Summer - celebrating nature's energy and life/the sun): cookout or have a picnic at a shaded park, campfire with smores, learn about the fae and how to find them, make sun tea, go the beach and watch the sunset
• Thursday - Lammas Yoga - astral projection (Fall - celebrating nature's bounties/the harvest): make a gratitude list, simmer pot, go to the farmer's market, get fresh fruits and veggies for dinner; bake bread, donate to the food bank; make a besom or see if Publix has them yet
• Friday - Samhain Yoga - hiraeth (Winter - celebrating family and tradition): Silly Feast - dress in animal masks, bob for apples, make salt dough ornaments, use family recipes from my mom's cookbook, learn family history, tell ghost stories, make wassail

Tuesday: Wheel of the Year/Imbolc/Ostara - Coloring Page

• The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals. The druids considered all things to be cyclical, with time as a perpetual cycle of growth and retreat tied to the Sun’s annual death and rebirth.
• Imbolc (High Winter) February 1st-2nd: 
• Imbolc celebrates the hearth and the home. The word Imbolc literally means "in the belly" and refers to the fact that ewes give birth to lambs and begin lactating around this time, symbolizing purification and cleansing. Take this time to honor the dormant potential within, and nurture the flickering flames of creativity and inspiration that have waited so patiently beneath the winter frost.
• Symbols: white flowers (snowdrops), sheep/lambs, milk, seeds (sow the seeds, whether crops or personal)
• Activities: set your goals and intentions for the year, rekindle creative pursuits such as painting, knitting, writing, etc., make candles, make blackberry jam or cobbler, have tea and a good book by the fire, enjoy home with friends and family, bake with milk and seeds, do community service (nursing homes, shelters, food banks, litter pick up, etc.), declutter and donate, take a milk bath, focus on self-care and healing
• Imbolc kitchen witchery
• Ostara (Spring Equinox, day and night are equal) March 19th:
• The Spring Equinox is dedicated to the fertility goddess, Ostara. She is notably associated with the symbols of the hare (fertility and messengers between the living and dead because they 'burrowed between worlds') and the egg (new beginnings, the cycle of life), and she is where the word Easter derived from. This is when Spring begins. The Earth is awakening, and it is a time of rebirth and new life. Attention is brought to the balance we need in our own lives, and it is a time to nurture our bodies with healthy nutrients and to cut anything harming their growth.
• Symbols: hares, eggs, spring flowers (white lilies), shamrocks (druids, realms of land, sea, and sky; interconnected aspects of mind, body, and spirit), butterflies (transformation, growth, cycle of life), scales (equinox, maintain balance)
• Activities: spring cleaning, planting your garden (egg shells provide good nourishment), decorating/painting eggs, fresh flowers around the home, baking hot cross buns (solar cross), taking a walk through nature, making a bird house or bird feeder, bake with lavender and lemon, do yoga outside in the grass, basket weaving or crochet
• Ostara kitchen witchery

Wednesday: Beltane/Litha

• Beltane (High Spring) May 1st: watch that episode of Men in Kilts
• Also called May Day or Walpurgis Night, Beltane is the fire festival of flowers, fertility, and delight. The word "Beltane" roughly translates to "bright fire," and as such, one of its important rituals concerns the lighting of the Beltane bonfire. Fire was seen as a purifier and healer, was deemed to have protective powers, and would have been walked around and danced/jumped over by the members of the community. Farmers would also have sent their cattle between bonfires to cleanse and protect them, before driving them out to the summer pastures.
• All household fires would have been doused and then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire. In this way, the community was connected to each other by the sacred fire, which was central to all. These gatherings would have been accompanied by a feast, and since it was a liminal festival (a time when the veil is thinnest between our world and the Otherworld), some of the food and drink would have been offered to the daoine sìth, aos sí (fae, descendants of the Tuatha Dé Danann). 
• The Otherworld (called Annwn in Welsh and Tír na nÓg in Irish) is the supernatural realm of everlasting youth, beauty, health, abundance, and joy, occupied by the deities and possibly also the dead. It is described as a parallel world that exists alongside our own. It is usually elusive, but various mythical heroes visit it either through chance or after being invited by one of its residents. They often reach it by entering ancient burial mounds or caves, or by going underwater or across the western sea. Sometimes, they suddenly find themselves there with the appearance of a magic mist (or an invisible curtain in Aiden's case), supernatural beings, or unusual animals (like the ghost wolves).
• The fae: types of fae - The Enchanting Fairies of Celtic Lore - The History of Fairies | The Dark & Tragic Stories You Were Never Told
• Doors, windows, barns, and livestock would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire. Beltane was and is ultimately a celebration of casting off the darkness and celebrating the light.
• Symbols: the May Pole, bonfires, fairies, flower crowns and garlands
• Activities: make a flower crown, have a picnic, dance to music, may flowers on neighbors' doors, bake cookies, leave offerings for the fae
• Beltane kitchen witchery
• Litha (Summer Solstice) June 20th: 
• Lithia celebrates the beginning of Summer and the longest day of the year. This is the turning point when we surrender to the darkness, and the days begin to grow shorter and the nights longer from here on out. 
• Symbols: sunflowers, citrine, sea shells, bees, mirrors
• Activities: sunrise yoga, camping, strawberry, peach, or blueberry picking, cookouts with family and friends, making sun tea, going to the beach, deserts with fresh fruit, watching the sunset, baking honey cakes
• Litha kitchen witchery

Thursday: Lammas/Mabon

• Luchnassad/Lammas (First Harvest) August 1st: 
• The name Lammas (contraction of loaf mass) implies a feast of thanksgiving for grain and bread, which symbolizes the first fruits of the harvest. It is celebrated by baking bread and eating it.
• Activities: bake bread, make corn dollies, have a beer/ginger beer, dry lavender, make berry preserves to use throughout the winter
• Lammas kitchen witchery
• Mabon (Autumn Equinox, day at night are equal) September 22nd:
• Mabon is the druids' thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth, celebrated with a feast of locally grown fruits and veggies. Mabon is the second equinox, so it is a time of balance and harmony.
• Activities: make a gratitude list, go apple picking, collect fallen leaves, volunteer at the soup kitchen or donate to the food bank, make your besom or a cornucopia, drink apple cider or cinnamon tea, take a bike ride through the woods, meditate, talk to the woodland creatures and leave them offerings, bake an apple pie
• Mabon kitchen witchery

Friday: Samhain/Yule

• Samhain (High Autumn) October 31st: 
• Samhain ushers in the "dark half of the year," and that is when the cattle would have been brought down from the summer pastures and livestock would have been slaughtered. Like Beltane, it was considered a liminal festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld blurred. Also like Beltane, a druid priest would have lit a communal bonfire, and all household fires would have been doused or allowed to die and then re-lit from the Samhain bonfire. This bonfire would have been used as protection from evil spirits since they could attend because of the darkness, but light warded them off.
• Since the beings of the Otherworld were said to walk amongst the living during this time, offerings of food and drink were left for them, to ensure the people and livestock survived the winter. Mumming and guising were also part of the festival, as a way of imitating and disguising oneself from the fae, and children would go door to door, reciting verses in exchange for food or soul cakes.
• Samhain was also considered a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and respect was paid to ancestors, family members, friends, pets, and other loved ones. At this time, the ancient burial grounds were opened (seen as portals to the Otherworld), and deceased loved ones were invited to attend the feast and festivities, having a place set at the table for them during the meal.
• Because the veil was so thin, divination was also popular at this time, and this usually involved nuts and apples, which is where bobbing for apples came from.
• Jack O' Lanterns (Jack of the Lantern) - the story of Stingy Jack; the devil gave him a spare ember to see his way through the dark and scare off other evil spirits in his wake; this legend ended up with the living carving pumpkins and placing candles inside to ward off evil spirits.
• Activities: research family history, use family recipes, connect with your elders, visit graves, make squash soup, bake a pumpkin pie, bob for apples, bake soul cakes, carve a jack-o-lantern, brew divination tea, look through old photo albums, scrying and divination, tell ghost stories, eat caramel apples
• Samhain kitchen witchery
• Yule (Winter Solstice) December 21st-January 1st: 
• Yule is a winter celebration of the shortest day of the year, and as such, the return of the sun and the beginning of longer days. It is a time of peace, stillness, and healing.
• The 12 Days of Christmas:
• 20th, Mother's Night (Yule's Eve)
• A celebration of the Disir, protective female spirits of fate and fertility; ancestral grandmothers who blessed, protected, and provided prophetic counsel to the clan. This is a night for holding vigil through the dark to honor female ancestors.
• 21st, Winter's Night (the Winter Solstice)
• Celebrating the longest night and the return of the sun, heralding the lengthening of days and the promise of spring.
• The Yule Log: A Nordic tradition of burning a tree or log in the home for the entire 12 Days of Christmas, allowing the flame of the old year to ignite the new year. The ash from the log was sometimes used for rituals such as blessing crops, protecting against storms, and healing the sick.
• 22nd, Father's Night
• A night to honor male spirits, the Alfar—male ancestors.
• 23rd, The Silly Feast (counting the blessings)
• Loki's Silly (Seelie) Feast - a party or feast while wearing your animal masks, probably where our NYE masquerades come from. A time for exchanging gifts, turning social rules, and setting up the Yule Tree.
• The Yule Tree: A Germanic tradition of decorating trees with greenery and ornaments (wish ornaments - salt dough with your hopes for the coming year, symbols of gratitude and joy). The yule tree signified abundance in the coming year. You decorate the outdoor trees for the animals and the indoor tree for you.
• 24th, The Wild Hunt (Christmas Eve)
• A ghostly parade of spirits riding wildly through the night, marking a time of mystical energy. Nowadays, the Wild Hunt is known as a terrifying ordeal, where fae attack or capture anyone in their path. On the other hand, some believe it is a fae celebration, which can still be pretty scary since they're more rambunctious and violent than those on this side of the veil.
• Santa was known as a fae, whose clothes matched the red-capped mushrooms that grow through the winter snow beneath the evergreen trees. Shaman or šamán means "one who knows." Bells call the spirits and fairies (that's why Santa has them on his sleigh). Milk and cookies were offerings left for the fae, for Santa, in exchange for presents.
• The Deer Mother takes to the skies, carrying the light of the sun in her antlers, bringing rebirth to the land.
• Also, the Yule book flood takes place, where people gift books to each other and read through the night.
• 25th, Protecting the Home (Christmas Day, letting light and hope in)
• Lighting candles, decorating with ribbons and garlands, and hanging mistletoe in doorways for protection in the coming year.
• Evergreens: Evergreens were revered because they lasted even in the heart of winter. They were hung over doors and windows, as their greenery in a time of bleak cold was believed to ward off negative energies and illness.
• Wreaths: The Yule Wreath had dried orange for strength, oak for wisdom, holly for hope, evergreen for rebirth, clove for prosperity, cinnamon for protection, laurel for success, and mistletoe for fertility.
• Mistletoe: The druids held nothing more sacred than the mistletoe and the tree that bears it, the oak. They call the mistletoe "uil-ìoc," which means the all-healing. A kiss under the mistletoe represents the promise of love, life, and renewal.
• 26th, Honor to the Hearth
• A day for feasts, particularly lamb stew and leaf bread, as kin gather together to share warmth and nourishment before the winter's grip tightens.
• 27th, Protecting Outside the Home
• Making offerings to wildlife and spirits of the woods, preparing for the coming winter. This day is also marked by the creation of protective wards for the coming winter, ensuring a shield against unseen forces.
• 28th, Ritual of Completion (close out everything for the year, clear any debts)
• It is a time to conclude tasks left undone, a moment of closure and preparation for the impending new cycle. Plum (figgy) pudding is a culinary symbol of completion.
• 29th, Day of Contemplation (looking into the new year)
• Approaching the year’s end, the penultimate day invites a gaze into the future and an appreciation of nature’s wonders. Create open spaces for relaxation, meditate on the year to come, and engage with preferred divination tools, seeking insights for the unfolding future.
• 30th, Good Luck in the coming Year 
• Wassail is made, and wassailing occurs.
• Wassailing: The house-visiting wassail is the practice of people going door-to-door, singing, and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts; this practice still exists, but has largely been displaced by carol singing. The orchard-visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards in cider-producing regions, reciting incantations, and singing to the trees to scare away evil spirits and promote a good harvest for the coming year.
• 31st, Hogmanay (spiritually and physically cleansing the house)
• Homes are blessed for protection (saining), and the home is cleaned from top to bottom. 
• Drinking, dancing, and feasting ensue, and a massive torchlit parade occurs. Nowadays, Hogmanay (New Year's) rings in at midnight with fireworks and "Auld Lang Syne." The first person to visit on New Year's is called the "first-footer," and he should be a tall, dark-haired man bringing coal or shortbread.
• Activities: decorate your home with candles to bring light into your home, go foraging, decorate with dried fruits and evergreens, bake a spiced yule log cake, have a cup of wassail, put a lantern on your porch or a candle in your front window, hang peanut butter and seed coated pinecones for the birds, make gingerbread
• Yule kitchen witchery

Saturday: Field Trip to go blueberry picking.

Summer Homeschooling - Breyer/Horse Week

BREYER/HORSE WEEK -

Monday: 

• Learn horse anatomy, parts of a horse
• Tack and how to use it; print out a picture of a horse and label where everything goes (and why)

Tuesday: 

• Types of sports horses do
  
  

Wednesday: 

• Breeds of horses and identification

Thursday:

• Gaits on horses

Friday: 

• The history of where horses originated

Saturday: Field Trip to go horseback riding.

Summer Homeschooling - Backrooms Week

BACKROOMS WEEK -

Chayton is teaching this week, but I was able to get together a Backrooms meal to represent the weirdness of all things clipping. 

Backrooms food

A Backrooms Dinner:

Add-Ons:

• Almond Ice Cream
• Skinned Bread (Pork Rinds)
• Chocolate Sludge (Chocolate Pudding)

Almond-Marinated Hound Rib

Preparing the meat:

You want very fresh meat, so get the marinade into the pan before you kill the Hound. Here's how to make it:

• 1 cup of Almond Water (or Cured Almond Water)
• 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
• Liberal Crimson Oil

If you have a Hound ready, great! If not, start screaming. A Hound will probably come to try to kill you soon. Then, take your spear and stab it through the heart. This will get it nice and juicy for when you eat it. You can get a lot of meat off of it, but we won't be cooking those today. Instead, we will be curing it. Get some nice rib meat and get it into the pan. It'll marinate in its own blood as well as the marinade you made earlier. Flip it occasionally and make liberal use of herbs and spices. Serve with some vegetables. ALWAYS cook until Well Done, as consuming it while Rare or Medium-rare has a 40-50% chance or higher of infecting you with Hound Virus.

Grilled Chicken

Sadly, actual Frontrooms chickens don't exist in the Backrooms. "Chickens" are actually shape-shifting alligator void monstrosities, but you can still cook them.

Prepare the following:

• 1 Tablespoon of Smoked Crimson Fern (Tastes similar to Frontrooms Paprika)
• 1 Tablespoon of Crimson Oil
• Some Minced Garlic from the Snackrooms
• 1 Tablespoon of Almond Water
• 1 Teaspoon Crimson Leaf

Blend this into a marinade and refrigerate it. Then, head to Level 3 with your Plasma Rifle. Take left turns whenever you can, and eventually a "chicken" will come to attack you.

NOTICE: IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU KEEP TRACK OF TIME. IF YOU SPEND MORE THAN 24 HOURS IN LEVEL 3, YOU WILL DIE.

Once you see the "chicken", immediately blast it with the plasma rifle until you're sure it's dead, and then hack what's left of it into pieces. This is insurance, since chickens are some of the most dangerous entities. After you've killed it, put on latex gloves and a mask. Cut choice pieces of meat, and then get them at least 8 meters from the rest of the body. Make deep incisions into the meat, and then boil it in Almond Water. This will force the venom out of its venom glands. Discard the Almond Water and the rest of the body in a container clearly marked as a bio-hazard. Then, take the meat to your grill. Heat the grill up to at least 500 degrees Fahrenheit and start grilling the meat. Douse the meat in almond water, and then spread the marinate over it. The meat will have an amazing consistency and taste but ensure that you extracted the venom before biting into it, as it is incredibly potent.

Pizza

Ingredients:

• Tomatoes, Pepper, and Olives (from Level 92)
• Mushrooms (from Level 150)
• One bottle of Almond Water
• Mold
• Wormlings
• Wheat (from Level 10)
• Yeast
• Warm Water
• Entity Meat (A variety of different meats are suggested)
• Herbs (Optional)
• A bucket of seawater (from Level 7)

Preparation:

• Boil the water from the bucket of seawater to get salt
• Filter almond water through some mold.
• Mix the mold with boiled wormlings to get cheese (make sure to melt it)
• Get four cups of grain (from your wheat)
• Pour it in a blender for 2 minutes to get flour
• Grind and crush your olives
• Stir the olives and let it sit for a few minutes
• Filter the olive mush and siphon it to get olive oil
• Cut your meat, pepper, mushrooms, and remaining olives

Steps:

• Sprinkle the Yeast in warm water for 10 minutes
• Combine the your flour with salt, yeast, and olive oil
• Knead the mixture and put it in a bowl greased with olive oil and let it sit for a day
• Punch it and cut it into 4 parts
• Let it sit for 30 minutes
• Poke the dough and stretch it
• Add your tomato sauce, meat, pepper, melted cheese, mushrooms, and olives on the dough
• Bake it in a oven at 500˚F for 15 minutes
• If it's made correctly, it should taste good. (Might take a long time to make, but it's totally worth it)

Grilled Salmon

If you want to make the Grilled Salmon in the Backrooms, you'll need to travel to Level 585 to go and fish some salmon. You will also need a grill too. The salmon in the Backrooms is a bit different, eating it plain by grilling immediately, will cause it to taste very bland and bitter. But if you boil it in Almond Water, let it cool, then grill it, it will taste better, I recommend you add a few drops of Moth Jelly, a cut-up knob of garlic and a splash of lemon juice before grilling. After waiting for 10-15 minutes, while grilling it perfectly, Ta-da! You have yourself grilled backrooms salmon, which will nourish you very well. Since it contains Almond Water, it will restore your sanity, and have a salty-sour-sweet taste.

Mac & Cheese

Butter - Find any mold you can. Then, grab a container half full of Almond Water and leave the mold in there overnight. After that, put it through a coffee filter to filter out the Almond Water. Then take the same amount of body fat as the mold from an entity of your choice, preferably a Wretch, and mix it together in a mixing pot until the substance becomes creamy. Then leave it to solidify, preferably in a fridge.

Milk - The process of making milk is similar to the process of making butter, only instead of leaving it to solidify after mixing mold with entity body fat, you boil it using a saucepan and pouring a cup of Almond Water.

Cheese - Use the same technique to make mold as used for butter and milk, but instead of mixing it with entity fat, you get a handful of Wormlings and boil them in a saucepan while churning it until they reach a cream-like state. After this, you slowly churn the substance for ten minutes for it to be easier to pour. You then want to mix the mold with the Wormling substance vigorously until you have a cream-like substance. You then let it solidify, preferably in a fridge.

Flour - The process for substituting flour is very simple compared to the other ingredients. All you need to do is grab some wheat crops, preferably from Level 10, and put it in a saucepan half full with Almond Water. After half an hour, pour it onto a coffee filter and leave it out to dry. After drying, grind it until it turns into powder.

Pasta - Take two cups of your flour and 200 grams of any entity fat and mix it in a saucepan half full of Almond Water until it solidifies into the pasta you want. Then form the substance you have into macaroni shape.

Summer Homeschooling - Supernatural Week

SUPERNATURAL WEEK - SEASON ONE

Saving people, hunting things – the family business.

Preparation: 

• Hunter journals
• U.S. map & pins
• Supernatural Bestiary

Season One Mystery: What killed Mary and Jessica?

Monday: Spirits, Wendigos, & Demons

• Math: How many miles on Baby? All Locations - Miles traveled in Baby during Season One: 20,290 - Mark the map as they travel. 750K for Baby's lifetime.
• Art: Get John's journal - build your own journal like John - Season One Creatures - make creature grids with stats like in D&D
• Science: EMF Meter - Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are a central part of many paranormal theories, including the idea that ghosts may interact with the environment through them. EMF meters are often used in ghost hunting equipment to detect these fields, which can be generated by moving electric charges and the Earth's core. Some believe that spirits may disrupt or manipulate these fields when they are present.
• What's in Baby's trunk?
• Survival supplies: a government credential for every occasion, a spare tire, toolbox, silverware set, first-aid kit, gasoline gallon, sledgehammer, and emergency flares. 
• Monster-killing basics: lighters, matchboxes, and shovels to banish ghosts; candles or spray paint for spells and sigils. A stack of burner phones and replaceable laptops are essential for research, while ropes, chains, lock picks, and duct tape rolls all come in handy.
• Basic hunting tools: EMF meters to read paranormal activity appeared frequently during early seasons, as did rosaries for blessing holy water (also available in gallons in the trunk), anti-possession necklaces to ward off demons, and salt for pretty much everything. Curse boxes to hold cursed objects, modified tasers for taking down rawheads, flamethrowers to deal with changelings, and flare guns for wendigos. Jars of dead man's blood, holy oil and Borax are necessary for fighting vampires, angels and Leviathans, respectively. The purpose of the wooden and silver stakes is unknown, as is the reason for carrying dreamcatchers and crucifixes, although they may act as warding. Dean's crossbow and silver-tipped arrows are also a mystery. The most important tools in the trunk, however, are probably the books. John Winchester and Bobby Singer's journals are valuable sources of hunting lore, while Rowena's journal and spell books help Sam master several spells.
• Knives and blades: axes, pocket knives, and machetes (for beheading vampires). Iron knives are effective against a long list of creatures, including demons, ghosts, fairies, and hellhounds. Silver is similarly powerful, wounding monsters such as djinn, lamias, revenants, shapeshifters, werewolves, and wraiths.
• A surplus of firearms: Dean is most often seen with is his Colt M1911A1, a .45 caliber handgun used by the U.S. military in the early 1900s. Sam is primarily seen using the Taurus Model 99, a 9mm pistol similar to the Beretta. Revolvers, shotguns and rifles are also used by Dean and Sam Winchester depending on the situation. Shotguns are often loaded with rock salt shells to dispel ghosts, while revolvers are also useful for loading specialized bullets. The brothers store a variety of ammunition in the Impala's trunk including iron, silver, and dead man's blood bullets, as well as bullets capable of killing witches and etched with devil's traps to contain demons.
• Rare specialty weapons: 37mm DefTech grenade launcher was visible in the very first episode of Supernatural. A harpoon gun, nunchucks, collapsible batons, and ninja stars.

Episode 1: Woman In White - SupernaturalWiki

• Palo Alto, CA (Stanford University)
• Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) - tape recorders, spirit boxes
• Jericho, CA
• Resurrection Mary, Resurrection Cemetary, Chicago
• Salt: salt repels spirits, rock salt, salt and burn bones to release trapped spirits or those who choose not move on, i.e. revenge
• Jessica's death

Episode 2: Wendigo - more resources

• Blackwater Ridge, Lost Creek, CO
• Art: Anasazi symbols for protection

Episode 3: Dead in the Water

• Lake Manitoc, WI
• premonitions 
• avenging spirit haunts the lake
• Art: draw the weirdest thing you've ever seen in your dreams

Episode 4: Phantom Traveler

• Kittaning, PA
• Nazareth, PA
• Indianapolis, IN
• demons, exorcism, holy water; black eyes - more resources; demons give off sulfur
• Why do demons set off EMF? Because they are also spirits, just back from hell. 

Tuesday: Shapeshifters & Curses

Episode 5: Bloody Mary

• Toledo, OH
• say it three times
• sleepover, tell scary stories, make smores in the microwave

Episode 6: Skin

• St. Louis, MO
• shapeshifter; eyes flash in camera like a cat

Episode 7: Hookman

• Ankeny, IA
• spirits can be attached to an object as well 

Episode 8: Bugs

• Oasis Plains, OK (Atoka County)
• Indian burial grounds, curse, plagues

Wednesday: Poltergeists, Vanirs, & Reapers

Episode 9: Home

• Lawrence, KS
• poltergeist
• Gris-gris bags to purify the house: black bags filled with five-finger grass, also known as cinquefoil, uncrossing salt, and poke root. Spray the bag with jinx-removing spray and sprinkle with uncrossing oil.

Episode 10: Asylum

• Rockford, IL
• Roosevelt Asylum
• trepanation

Episode 11: Scarecrow

• Burkittsville, IN (near Scottsburg)
• Vanir is being summoned in the form of a scarecrow to protect the town, in exchange for annual sacrifices, with a sacred tree in the town giving it power.
• using blood to communicate with demons
• make a pie

Episode 12: Faith

• Rawhead
• Nebraska
• Reaper

Thursday: Psychics/Sensitives, Daevas, & Tulpas

Episode 14: Nightmare

• Saginaw, MI
• premonitions
• telekinetic powers
• Max's mother died just like his, connected

Episode 15: The Benders

• Hibbing, MN
• humans can be just as evil
• The Most Dangerous Game

Episode 16: Shadow

• Chicago, IL
• Zoroastrian creature known as a daeva

Episode 17: Hell House

• Richardson, TX
• Tulpa brought on by a Tibetan spirit sigil
• Art: design your own haunted house

Friday: Shtrigas, Vampires, & Devil's Trap

Episode 18: Something Wicked

• Fitchburg, WI
• vampiric witch known as a shtriga; the Witcher

Episode 19: Provenance

• New Paltz, NY

Episode 20: Dead Man's Blood

• Manning, CO
• the Colt
• vampires - more resources
• Azazel, yellow-eyed demon

Episode 21: Salvation

• Salvation, IA

Episode 22: Devil's Trap

• Sioux Falls, SD
• Bobby Singer
• Jefferson City, MO
• devil's trap

Saturday: Field Trip to Haunted Location

Food: Dean's favorite stuff

Trivia: What Godzilla movie is Dean's favorite? Godzilla vs. Mothra