Blissful Bigfoot: Alone in the woods, one could say that the Sasquatch is in peace. Unless you’re counting the numerous times that human society throws his photo into the news! Blissful Bigfoot is a calming, earthy scent with a splash of spice just so you can find your inner peaceful Sasquatch.
Sleepy Snallygaster:
Do you or a loved one have trouble sleeping? Sleepy Snallygaster is here to help! A lovely blend of lavender and sweet orange, this spray is used in Tranquil Turtle’s own home every night to help get to sleep. Maryland’s dragon, the Snallygaster, finds nightly peace by falling asleep to lovely.
Jersey Devil Deliverence: It was definitely our most popular spray when we were at the International Cryptozoology Conference 2018! Jersey Devil Deliverance is a beautiful scented spray that clears negative energy, lightens the mood, and assists in meditation!
2oz spray, roll-ons and beard oils are also available!
Shipping to USA and Canada!
Edited! Some scents in the Etsy right now are limited and won’t be remade so get them when you can. Flatwoods Fall and Skunk Ape Escape won’t be remade after they’re sold out.
RAVENCLAW: “Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable.” –Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions)
Why are there so many stories abt the ghosts of Confederate soldiers, but nothing abt black slaves coming back to haunt the fuck out of their former slave owners. Even ghosts on plantations are usually white people who died there. Like, given just how much death and destruction America is built off of, you would think that there wouldn’t be an inch of this country that wasn’t haunted by the spirits of black people or native Americans. You have whole cities like New York built on mass graves, all these places where white people rioted and murdered black people en masse, entire tribes of Native Americans who died because their way of life was destroyed…and yet ghost stories are disproportionately focused on white people. What the actual fuck.
This is because you’re listening to white people.
Like, white people tell ghost stories to scare their kids, and they do so from their own world view, with references they relate to. Above all, they tell these stories with a perspective that they aren’t true, because ghosts aren’t real to them. And because America is white-centric, that becomes the model if the ghost story. But it isn’t.
I can’t speak for all CoC, and I can’t speak for all Black people but I can say this; in my experience, when we talk about ghosts it’s vastly different. Black people talk about ghosts as though they’re as factual as gravity. They’re treated as an inherent part of life and the world. No, they aren’t bring them up all the time, but when spirits are mentioned, it’s often done so in a passive manner unless dealing with an actively spiritual problem. When we tell stories of those that have passed, it’s very rarely about trying to scare each other, and more than often it’s done to encourage people. Ghosts exist to watch, help, and protect people. Sometimes they’ll play a trick or get at you for being disrespectful, but they won’t harm you. And stories of ghosts of enslaved people? Those are extremly popular. They serve as a way to provide closure to their descendants. And yes, sometimes there are stories about us coming back to haunt the white people that victimized us in life.
Stories of Black ghosts exist. They just operate differently and white people don’t tell them.
