Stone and Crystal Magical Use in the Norse/Viking World. WITH SOURCES!!

Going over some of the sources that speak about the use of stones and crystals for magic, spiritual or healing purposes going back to pagan times in Scandinavia.
According to experts, crystals/stones act as a power hold for healing as they allow positive, fruitful energy to flow into the body and do away with the negative, toxic energy. Like other forms of alternative therapy, crystals work by channelizing your energy levels, thereby, focus on healing your body from the inside. Is this a more modern idea or does it have ancient roots going back to pagan times in the north?
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[@thedirty530]

How rare is it that you find someone who has no desire to make stuff up & fill in the gaps to sound better? I respect the hell out of that!

[@Tanya_Maria]

🇫🇮 Christianiny is the worst plague to all our beautiful nordic nature-based beliefs. It would be great to see us be closer to nature today, and what those beliefs would look like today!

[@kariannecrysler640]

Fun fact. Quartz crystals, when struck or fractured, emit light. Do it in the dark or you’ll miss it. The science is that the density of the crystal structure causes the electrons when struck to bounce against each other making a flash of light.😊

[@RoughRoadHomestead]

There a certain stones I keep. My tribe calls them grandfather stones. It's simply any stones that speak to you in a significant moment...for example. I struggled greatly when we brought our third child home. And one day while walking I found a red stone with a white spot in the middle that looked like a fetus.....it said to me I am mother, but I am still daughter and have much to learn and am growing myself. I have a few others but this one I cherish the most.

[@mrcrackfish0]

That's beautiful,

[@Kit.Delaney]

I know this comment was from a year ago, but I'm glad I stumbled across it. This is exactly the kind of thing I experience - stones calling out to me, telling me their properties, offering aid with a specific thing. I don't know what your tribe is, but I find this so relatable. (Interestingly, I learned my mother does this too. It's not something she taught me and we had never discussed it before.) Thank you for sharing this piece of your story.

[@bjornekdahl721]

Thomas Rowsell (Survive the Jive) has made a fine video on the parts of the self. In the traditional Indo European animism we knew that the self had several parts, and only one was immortal and later merged with the divine (atman/brahman - that later became Valhall). They also had the view that if a thing, like a stone, had so few 'parts' in this dimension, then it must have the other parts in higher realms. It is therefore likely that our ancestors cherished and appreciated things that so obviously had so few parts left in this realm and therefore must be able to 'lend you' the energies of higher realms. As we both know it was all about the 'ghosti' principle - being the guest and host, exchanging gifts and building a relationship to every spirit.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Very interesting. I will have to look for that video.

[@bjornekdahl721]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 The 'A raven shit on my car what is Odin trying to tell me?' pagans often accuse Rowsell for being 'not pagan enough' (not the least because I think he married his wife in a Christian church), but he's a historian and extremely cunning. I'd say that he's one of the most well-read (and eloquent!) pagan sources on KZbin. He's posted many a fine video here, not the least his 'From runes to ruins' and the interview with the Vedic guru Pravartaka Acharya.

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

@@bjornekdahl721 Yes I like him. Only seen a few of his videos but I like them alot!

[@Mrrafngard]

@@bjornekdahl721 Thomas Rowsell is a little too friendly with white nationalists for my tastes.

[@logancaine9616]

@@Mrrafngard What White Nationalist/Nationalists is he too friendly with, and what makes said friends White Nationalist?

[@myjennaration4945]

It hurts to know there's so much we will never know because of Christianity taking over. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us ❤️

[@denni7173]

Darn it! Didn't get a notification! Saw your thumbnail and thought you'd gone off the rails! 😄 Coming from 3 animistic cultures, I can say stones play a very important role for them. The Irish side carry a small stone in the pocket for everything...worrying, needing to be patient, placing on a headstone to let the departed know you remembered them. My Grandparents each carried small, smooth, round white quartz stones always. Both were buried with their own stones too. My Scottish Grandpa on one side and all his family also carried a small piece of granite from their town in their pockets. They too were all buried with them or if cremated, the stone placed atop the ashes inside the urn. It was some centuries old thing of taking the homeland with you no matter where you were. During WW2 my Grandpa and his buddies never left on a sortie without their little stones on their person. The Kyrgyz side still buries in cist and/or cairn type stone monuments. When my GreatGran passed, her urn was placed in the family vault beside my Scottish Grandpa's urn and the rock she took from her family's land to Scotland then to San Francisco was placed next to her urn. So stones still play a very important role in our family. The Danish side I don't know well, so I can't speak for them 😉

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Very cool. Did not know all that is still pretty recent

[@denni7173]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 True...Greatgrandparents were end of 19th Century...BUT! That said... Living in both SE England and Armagh/NI, visiting family in Skye and Highlands, I found that the quartz pebble habit went all the way back to the 6th Century in written sources/archeological finds and most likely prior. It was a pagan custom the Christian monks absorbed. One of many they melded into the Christian faith so as to easier convert the pagans of Ireland, Scotland, and pre-Saxon England. Cairns and cist stone burials seem to be world-wide, even when rituals may vary. I will DM you about another ancient paganistic death ritual famously uncovered by archeologists and would love to hear your thoughts on it!

[@bradrmt]

Wow! So stone and crystal use in magic goes back a ways. I always thought that it dated to the 1970s with the hippies in the 1970s.

[@Rykliukas]

In the folk tales of Lithuania, people often were turned to stones because of curses on them if they were evil (like witches, devils, etc) or if they were suffering in their lives, then also turned to stones or even to trees. Or for example, many lovers-couples also were cursed and turned to stones, if the mother/father of son or daughter didn't want to let to marry some guy or gal.

[@crazynative420]

Brother I appreciate this i honestly been on this path close to 3 yrs now

[@runeguidanceofthenorse]

Absolutely. Not the way we use crystals now, but stones WERE very important. And it's ok, within reason, to evolve in our views on it. Like the precious stones on the völva cloak... I use them, love them, but don't claim that we KNOW all how they were or weren't used. At heart we're animists, so of course we love stones/crystals.

[@noctiloucous]

I'm looking forward to that new video you're working on :) it's so great that you share your knowledge and research work with us.

[@shawnwillis7561]

It's pretty funny that some of the resources for practices today are the laws meant to end them. I love it. I despise many of the unconstitutional laws we have in the U.S. of A today so this makes me very happy you can use bullshit laws to help you now

[@dusk_en]

Thank you brother

[@stolman2197]

Personally only two stones come into my spiritual practice one is an unusually large quartz crystal (7-8 inches long 3 inches thick) I tripped on it hiking and consider it a gift from the land vaettir. The second is a 'hagstone' ie has a naturally eroded hole through it that I also found.

[@groovegawdess]

This was such a helpful and informative video and I appreciate the time you must have spent researching the subject.

[@ravensmythe1]

Another fantastic and informative video. Idk if you've already made a video on earth spirits/dwarves, but I would love to see one along those lines!

[@Mentalmagic164]

Keeping it real.

[@freyatilly]

Crazy when I saw the picture at 0.50 secs is the exact bracelet I have.

[@lovelutionary8762]

Just at the end when you put up the picture of Draupnir and the following 8 rings that drip from the one, a thought came to me. Could the rings have some relationship to the circles or 'rings' in the flower of life pattern? I only just learned that the rings from Draupnir represent the parts of the soul too!

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Hmm. Good point. I'm sure they could. Interesting thought.

[@roflswamp6]

This is insanely.similar to vedic himduism and astrology the agni puranas mention the stoned as having such energies as well

[@timdebie6427]

Big respect to the no Bullshit level. Sub'd

[@Cernunnos_83]

I have a stone amulett with a carved triquetra symbol and a lot of crystals.

[@shreksnow1918]

That’s gay. I use a Sonichu medallion, and my high school ring for magic.

[@Hadrada.]

I picked up two stones together on the beach Looked at them one looks a bit like a skull or ghost second had the Hagalaz rune on it

[@thedirty530]

Is there any info about what certain types of rock being used?

[@Janellabelle]

I just bought a piece of labradorite (from Finland) and read that the Vikings believed it was a piece of the Bifrost bridge connecting asgard and midgard that had chipped off. Whether that's true or not, we could never prove or disprove, but I'm feeling it.

[@valoraknightingale9906]

Just make sure you vet your stone/crystal's original source well. Many are mined in unsafe working conditions in developing countries. They often even use child labour in these mines and are paid next to nothing for their work.

[@wishonafoxtail2819]

Are there any good books that cover the laws you mention in this video?

[@driver55]

Thank you for the information brother. Great work. I always find it amazing how invaders & colonizers want to make things illegal and force their ways upon peoples. The native author Jack D Forbes called it the wetiko disease or machi syndrome. The diseased mind and soul of the conquerors. He wrote a book called Columbus and other cannibals. Peace brother.

[@deepquake9]

Whom shall hold the staff wrapped around a crystal and vines shall wield the powers of the gods. By me. 🤣 Thank you Michael

[@jhnndrs8832]

Have you read ”Nordmanna-mystik” written by Albert Ullrik bååth?

[@haxelhoff4809]

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[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Tusen takk. Jeg har tenkt på Patreon og er bare ikke så glad i det. Informasjon vil jeg alltid gi ut gratis. Men jeg holder på å skrive ei bok faktisk. Den blir ferdig tidlig nese år tror jeg

[@darandomdog]

Velkommen min venn jeg er en norsk Dog Do live in Sweden though and can not write a lot of Norwegian, mostly because I have lived in Sweden most my intelligent life. I moved to Sweden when I was 6 and I’m nearly 14 now.

[@KingZealotTactics]

Your intro music, where do you find it? not all of em i like but many of em i do. If you tell me I'll subscribe. ; )

[@norsemagicandbeliefs8134]

Its my music. All uneleased so far. But uploading the songs to my other channel here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIDGZ6ODibGgnrc

[@KingZealotTactics]

@@norsemagicandbeliefs8134 Well shit, guess I godda subscribe now. Thanks I'll check it out.

[@thenewshaymetal666]

Sounds similar to the concept of kami. At least of what I've understood about kami

[@logancaine9616]

Stone girlfriends are great. But for the love of Woden do not let her know you have a credit card, or bank account. You will be scratching your head trying to figure out why your account is so low the day after payday, at least until your brand spanking new crystal Roman Gladdius shows up in the mail.

[@daniellac.7588]

What kind of girlfriend did you get?! Like I'm sorry but... The audacity?! I wouldn't even do that to my husband (that is if if had one 😅). But seriously, if a significant other did that to me I'd be pissed!

[@alan260785]

If you were to buy any of this stones or jewelry where is a trustworthy source?

[@sarahgilbert8036]

And now we put crystals in our bras 🤣

[@steveneardley7541]

The stones that I have found most useful are zeolite (for connection to higher consciousness), and orange calcite, to unblock problems in the solar plexus. Stones can also have bad effects. I had to get rid of a heliodor because of the crap it introduced into my life almost immediately. I also feel that iron and moldavite are strong enough to unbalance your electromagnetic energy. The best source I've found on stone-lore is The Book of Stones by Robert Simmons. The stuff I've seen on-line is crappy.

[@TedHouk]

Concrete shoes bad, Rolling Stones better

[@kendallandersen8551]

I have a bunch of crystals don’t do shit for me

[@codewordslinkydog]

Hoping someone e in co.ments gave up the crazy youtuber channel

[@correlfreehand9454]

ack...have to stop watching...but still listening...audio and video are off. hurts brain, good info though.