How I Connect with My Ancestors

[@jasperchisum4891]

i really appreciated when you said that you don’t comment on some things because you feel you don’t have the experience. i wish a lot more people in esoteric spaces had that mentality.

[@DrDino123]

Frankie just a warning that the owl of Duolingo is all knowing and is all seeing too. If he knows that you are not learning Italian, he would come for you lmao But serious this is a beautiful video and always love seeing not only the information that comes from you but that sparks of personal experiences within the information or knowledge. Much love Frankie for everything you do with this video. I know that your ancestors are proud of you for the person you are today ❤

[@ClaudiaDCD]

I am definitely an 'always learning' type of person. But I loved how you combined it with not losing your voice. Definitely would be fascinated to see how you combine those ideas. But to be honest, you live it and I should just do that quiet meditation on it myself too. I love how you go to older videos and update them. I love seeing the evolution and it doesn't ruin the videos from before or anything. It actually is a great way to embrace the power of now in our current culture, the strong impulse for the most updated info and media entertainment, instead of demonizing it all the time.

[@ChaoticWitchAunt]

Thank you ❤️

[@federicovidetta6467]

As a Neapolitan practitioner i'm glad to see other people connect with other italian spiritual traditions, thank you for sharing your practice and spread this culture

[@NovaStella_]

I was so lucky to be able to take a winter/spring course at my town's tribal college about my culture this year. It was taught by an elder, and everyone that was there all grew up in the area. And starting out on the first day, I saw so many of these people who weren't even my own age that I'd never seen before and feeling like such an outsider. But over the course of learning about the songs and gatherings and rituals that have survived over the generations, the teacher encouraged us to talk about our own experiences or even Lack of experiences with these traditions. And as more people shared, I realized that there was a lot that I also connected with. There were a lot of people in my class who were insecure about their skin color or names being passed down that were signs of colonization, feeling like they weren't enough to carry on the teachings of our ancestors. There were other people who also struggled with the language. But sharing and confiding with each other made me realize that it doesn't matter if we think we're perfect enough to honor these traditions and the people before us. We're alive, the lessons of our ancestors survived to this day, we're willing to learn them, and that is perfect enough. That being said, this video also felt a bit emotional for me as well Frankie. XD Thanks so much for sharing your point of view with us

[@Madeleinewith3Es]

Reconnecting with food is so real, my maternal grandfather was Sicilian, but his parents never passed down the language or culture (he was the middle of five kids, and the Louisiana Sicilian community was Wild in the 1910s and they dodged associating with the mob). I finally visited Palermo a few years ago, and learning about arancini, and later learning to make them, felt more right than any Americanized Italian foods ever have. I visited the Capuchin monastery crypts and saw the mummies and felt this strange sense of Right-ness, visiting them. There's Piedmontese on my dad's side, but they're farther back and I just have the family name that might be a misspelling anyway. The Sicilian side is closer, and while I understand why it was cut off so the family could move of, not knowing or having that community really does feel like we're missing something I'm just starting to rediscover and reclaim.

[@danidoodles30]

Thank you for sharing! I've been working and connecting a lot with my ancestors this year, and it's so nice to hear what others are doing to connect with their ancestors and culture. I love it.

[@mayrose9387]

When I feed myself with these foods and things u ate and ingested as you did to heal myself I heal you. That's absolutely beautiful and I love that. I feel similar to this for myself and my own ancestor veneration path. My background is Mexican, so food is huge, and we do it already for Dia de los Muertos. ❤

[@ljdiben7774]

Oh man!!!! My roots are from Calabria and I grew up playing scopa and briscola on Calabrian playing cards....I wish I knew what happened to that deck!! Thank you soooo much for this video! VERY helpful in my practice....much love to you

[@Francesca_https]

there is this song that is absolutely my favorite and truly makes you feel italian. I bet you know it, its called "L'italiano" by Toto Cutugno. Every italian knows it and you should too. What I recommend, by experience, is to just blast it on while you're cooking and just sing it. Such a satisfaction.

[@maryh2730]

Thank you for sharing this!! I almost forgot about this song and when i listened to it, it brought me right back to when i was kid. Such a great song!

[@Arlo-bug]

This video came up at just the right time! I’ve just recently been trying to work through a lot of barriers I’ve put up in regards to my connection with my culture as a very white and very disconnected Hispanic person who has spent way to much time disregarding the fact that I have any culture..even though as a kid I literally grew up in a Mexican household and was at one point even on track to becoming bilingual (before the American school system ruined that. As it does. 😒). Hearing different folk practitioners experiences with ancestor work and connecting to their culture is super helpful an encouraging so thanks for making this :D

[@paula-pq5ry]

A little tip for language learning: comprehensible input has been a game changer for me. It is so much easier to acquire the language and also faster. Steve Kaufman talk a lot abt.

[@amandadiamond7147]

When I started my own practice, my first aims were re-examining my family's own internal spiritual practices for witchy roots, fairly easy as I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church so talking about dreams and interpreting them as messages wasn't off limits, or heretical, My mom even had dream interpretation books. So that's been something I've been looking into.

[@Cottagewitch_tn]

I've been working almost a year on the Italian hard-core. I've found it very powerful in my personal practice when I'm reciting Hail Mary's and such in invoking my Roman ancestors to recite it in Italian. I like Duolingo but I think using Google Translate helps more. I can write my own prayers and use that tool to translate and hear how it should be said.

[@lizomen9719]

I am grateful you mentioned that you couldn't find a calabrese deck because I was about to start looking

[@somethingbookishthiswaycomes]

I studied Italian throughout high school and college and I know I'm pretty proficient with it, but I will prove it to that damn owl if it's the last thing I do. Also, I've been dealing with chronic illness for the last couple of years and doing duolingo every day helps me keep up with Italian at least a little bit until my health is more stable and I can more easily be in community with other Italian speakers. I so appreciate you sharing your journey with reconnecting with your Italian ancestry. Watching these videos and consuming content from other Italian American practitioners you've recommended has helped me feel more in community with other Italian Americans in a time of my life that can feel very isolating. Grazie mille 💜

[@WithMarianneMoore]

Pasta fazool is soooooo good! I'm third generation Irish-Italian American, but grew up with my mother’s family which left me with a strong appreciation of my Italian heritage. I was fortunate to know my great-grandmother until I was 19, and she was such a cool woman. She passed away a week away from her 99th birthday still with a thick Italian accent despite her coming over here in the early 1900’s from Bari with just her sister at the age of 13. She actually ended up marrying a man from her same village while living in Athol, MA.

[@kittercarwile]

I found my Abuelita’s cards of this type of deck right before she passed. She used them for divination and I didn’t know what they were called or how to read them, thanks for this video!

[@jackiedibiase9391]

Food is so important to Italian culture, and I feel most connected when cooking recipes my grandmother has passed on. Also, I always call them Italian cards, and I have been taught two games, scopa and brisk. I did not know they could be used for divination looks like I need to buy that book.

[@simonliu-uw7tl]

three real powerful witch region：Sicilia，sabine，estrucan。i think they are the main origin of stregheria ，and still active in covens such as blujeria.

[@ChaoticWitchAunt]

“stregheria” is actually a term referenced mostly by Grimassi and refers to an Italian American tradition! While Etruscan remains exist in Italy, Etruscan isn’t actually a current region. Sabine would have also been a tribe or a group of people located in the Apennine region, similar to other tribes and groups around Italy! It also should be added that folk magic is not witchcraft and many folk practitioners don’t identify as such (even though I do! Folk magic exists throughout much of Italy, not just those three regions - nor are those the origins of stregheria.

[@simonliu-uw7tl]

@@ChaoticWitchAunt I think, according to Titus Flavius Vespasianus，Titus Tatius et Romulus rule ROMA together,so that definitly make it part of italy,since Romulus is the one who creat ROMA,and according to Στράβων,sabines are 100% pure local people.The mother of Caesar Augustus is a noble of Etruscan,that makes it also a very important bloodline of romans.In fact,Senatus is consist of 1/3 estrucans,1/3 romans and 1/3 sabines. As we all know, ROMA in ancient time, people worship deities, and thus persue power，mostly magic, witchcraft is part of magic,and stregheria is from witchcraft.Since the most powerful ones are from these 3 ethnics,it is very likely the magics also do.The only excetion is Pompeii, which is destroyed by the abuse of casting spells.

[@simonliu-uw7tl]

@@ChaoticWitchAunt maybe stregheria is a bad example since they worship inverted pentagram，kind of satanic.but i think connect with ancestor is like séance more or less，that makes it dark magic, only better than Necromancy.

[@keremefetopcu5775]

Waiting for a notification pop up "So you wanna work with your Ancestors" in my lock screen

[@CremeBrulee543]

Love this so much!

[@strngetrails]

another GREAT video, love your content!!

[@Thecopperdoll69]

I really love all your videos and you helped me a lot during my journey, I hv a question I was reading the book burn a black candle the other day and was wondering if I can use it even if I’m not Italian-American, I’m from Algeria and we hv really similar folk-magick practices even the pendants u were wearing the other day we hv them as well , thnx for answering in advance I love u ❤

[@dogflog8438]

my family is also from Calabria! I've been trying to reconnect with my culture a lot recently

[@JoeSuncoast]

Hey! I’m Calabrese and I just wanted to say I have never seen a Calabrese card deck in my life, we always use the napoletane or piacentine cards for playing, it’s always been this way! And as far as I know “la calabresella” is actually a card game just like scopa, briscola, tressette etc. I use napoletane cards for divination, so i think in my opinion you picked the best deck✨If you come across any Calabrese card deck online it is definitely a modern reinvention, I wouldn’t trust that! ❤️

[@Erynenchanted]

This was such a beautiful video! Thank you for sharing! ❤

[@alenayushkevich8159]

omgggg, it would be extremely cool if you will be able to do a video on these italian decks and how to do divination on them - I'm trying to research (cause I'm just genuinely curious) but it's a bit all over the place... sorry if I'm just dumb lol, but thanks for the this video anyway!

[@JuliaGNava]

Your video was very enlightening. I'm italian brazilian, and it pains me being unable to reconect with my ancestors.I know my family has done some terrible things in the past and I carry insane amounts of guilt for it. I wish I could connect to them, honor them, receive protection from them, but due to their mistakes it feels immoral for me to do so. I'm trying to do shadow work on it, but I'm really new to witchcraft and I'm having a hard time navigating these waters.

[@nightingale-03]

Woah I've never been first before :0 Keep up the great vids!

[@antonia.westcoast]

Loved this video. Thank you for sharing 💛💛💛

[@cookieshard3]

I’ve been hoping for a video like this

[@giannam464]

Hey Frankie, my family is off the boat Calabrian and to my knowledge there isn’t a Calabrian deck. I’ve seen my family uses both the Sicilian and Napoletane decks. Hope this helps!

[@ChaoticWitchAunt]

This helps so much!!! Thank you! I felt crazy searching for one and not finding one. The deck I use is Napoletane I believe, or at least a Southern deck.

[@lilyshealinggarden5648]

Thank you.. this is awesome. I,v been thinking about this lately

[@arurora5474]

I'm so glad to hear all of this and for every Italian-american who is reconnecting and I also want to add something: We are indeed for ever learners and sometimes our beliefs are corrected by someone more knowledgeable BUT please do remember that not only italy is very regional in it's culture but also italians have been emigrating since for ever and thus sometimes a thing was very correct and real when your ancestors left our land but may not be true anymore today or at any point in time after. This does not mean you can't do that ritual your grandma thought you or use that herb because it's not used anymore. A non magical belief that comes to my mind is the idea that "sicilians are not italian" which I'm sure before the "unification" must have been a real feeling for the people of sicily (just like many sardinians feel it today) but right now a sentence like that said in italy is going to make people stare because it sounds like something a racist northerner would say to imply southerners should not have the same rights as them. So if a sicilian or sardinian person says it it's fine but if anyone else sais it it does feel like an insult. Two things can be true at the same time, within context. That's all, I hope we all learn as much as possible together!!

[@ilove2run89]

This is such great information, thank you! Do you have any recommendations for Irish folk practice?

[@bobbi311]

I hope it’s alright for me to respond. “The Irish Pagan School” has amazing resources about ancient and modern practices from Ireland. Everything is taught by Irish natives. They’re here on KZbin and have a website with free and paid classes. I found the classes about heritage, cosmology, and seasonal holidays the most helpful when getting started. I wish you well on your connection journey 😊 Edit: I remembered a couple other KZbin channels with shorter videos about Irish folk magic: “The Crafty Cailleach” and “Diary of a Ditch Witch.”

[@thesun3548]

On official business of the universe, THE ARIES WAS HERE!!!

[@Mixedtrini777]

One of things I do to connect with my ancestors is burn ancestor money for them! I speak to them with a candle and a cup of water. I also read the books of psalms to them. They love it!

[@lachlainegordon806]

Thank you ❤

[@juliacampanella6444]

Frankie I wonder if there are no calabrese scopa cards because I think different parts of Calabria were part of the Kingdoms of Naples/Sicily?!

[@JoeSuncoast]

You’re right, there aren’t !

[@jturn103]

I want to learn about Italian folk magick and veneration some of my Italian ancestors. l have be told that I am part Italian on dad side of the my family. But l don't know what on region of Italy l am from..

[@blue_twitch___5371]

I love your videos

[@magikyuu3279]

how would i go about connecting to my ancestors if I have blood from many cultures? Would I work with the biggest amount?

[@ngonfinda9606]

My ancestor work is heavy espiritismo and atr based.

[@AlchemyOfTheFourthKind]

I hate that you have a shadow over you because your light is so pure and bright, it's ts beyond me.

[@NanaLine001]

Is it the Calabresella deck?

[@ChaoticWitchAunt]

I couldn’t find a Calabresella deck 😭

[@NanaLine001]

@@ChaoticWitchAunt Did you try TaroBair's Lair? I am now trying to track down this Calabresella deck (Terziglio) as I have this mental compulsion to search. Must have been a dog in another life 🤣 Anywho, there is a Sicilian deck there. Otherwise, I willl have to travel to Italy and that will have to wait a little. I went down a rabbit whole and learned soooo much about this! Researching is a glorious thing.

[@SimmyKushner]

What are your pronouns? PS I love your videos ❤

[@marilyndreamland]

a few months ago, i started being so much more in touch with my culture, listening to music that makes me feel really deep my culture, visiting places where really old people in my family lived a long time ago, dressing, eating, doing activities related to my culture, and i'm some way, i started feeling that i'm honoring my ancestors, i feel so much more protected and i feel a energy full of happiness around me, as if they were proud of seeing me embracing my roots. does this make sense? 🖤

[@thesun3548]

On official business of the universe, THE ARIES WAS HERE!!!