I went hiking with @Knightky today because for the first time in weeks, it wasn’t scorching hot and the air wasn’t poison. We went to Rattlesnake Point and hiked about twelve km through a beautiful forest. At one point, I heard a long, eleaborate birdsong that I did not recognize. I wonder what kind of bird it was? #hiking#nature#lake#cattails
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) near cattails (Typha angustifolia) at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States on February 9, 2024
According to 1 source via book I have as well as a couple of others online that I can't find anymore, string made from cattail is a pretty powerful protection amulet of sorts (& if dyed red, it's even more protective). This is w/in the context of Serbian/Balkan(?) folk magick.
While I've found a video or 2 showing how to get the parts from the cattail that's used to make the string, I don't know the full process such as drying it & such. The video I saw never went into that much detail & I can't find any other sources to explain it.
Anybody who's made string from cattails able to explain the whole process to me?