Image source - Original caption: "This little guy from California is hundreds of times more toxic than cyanide and has few natural predators. Evolution is increasing the newt's toxicity in a neurotoxin arms race with predators that try to build immunities to it."
Doesn't this guy look like a little magical magma creature? Looking at it, I was reminded of salamanders, but newts look way cooler. That fluorescent underside seems so magical, a bit radioactive, as if it could create light. Newt lanterns for caves!
Browsing r/NatureIsFuckingLit/, I also found this picture of magma:
Image source - Original caption: "Lava from the Kilauea Volcano of Hawaii"
The earliest mention of newts' eyes having magical properties that I've found is by Shakespeare (Macbeth).
2nd Witch:
"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
(Source)
Don't attempt to make a newt potion. You'll probably die. But its texture really looks cool. It's sad I can't touch the little guy on the picture (be it because it's a picture or because if it were real, it would be hyper poisonous).
I learned the word "newt" from Runescape. There's a quest where you need the eye of a newt to do some witchcraft. I think that you buy it from a witch shop. I also learned the words "axe", "shield", "lobster" and "shrimp", although I didn't know what shrimp were except "little fish" (I was later surprised when I learned that they're simply 'camarones' in Spanish, and are not actually fish).
Before I became interested in newts, I loved the word "salamander" because there's a word I'm intimate with that is a synonym for it. I don't know where I got that salamanders were volcanic creatures that lived in areas filled with magma. Hmm, I was probably wrong. I just read that they live in temperate areas, which means "Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold", so they can't live in volcanos.
But I like the idea of them living in volcanos. It would be awesome to have volcanic reptiles and not just bacteria. Like dragons! Only tiny. Imagine if geckos were mostly hyper-poisonous fire-breathing little creatures. I think we'd have to have gecko traps in our homes lest they come and murder us in our sleep.
But even then they would be adorable. I love fire too. I'm a bit of a pyromaniac. I wish I could burn things with a thought. I once dreamt I could and I was mesmerised by that dream. It became one of my favourite dreams by far, and I've had a lot of dreams.
I wish I could be a newt sometimes. Just make it my spirit animal and walk in its tiny body on trees and swim in rivers with its awesome tail. It would be cool.
Baia Baia...Salamander, hahaha, half of my family nicknames me tuqueque and the other rabbit, You imagine because they say it xp...I think you tasted a sip of that magic potion, that's why you're magically fabulous now HAHA, and well... Speaking more seriously, triton eyes in real witchcraft, really are grams of mustard, symbolize faith; the witches assigned adjectives of animals to their ingredients so that the common society would not do these practices, because as always, knowledge is power, power is coveted, and greed is ego. I really haven't affinity for witches, but this post gave me curiosity because I glimpsed something beyond. for example:
Then, this is extraordinary, 'the symbolism of things is what has value in the history of human culture.' (My small symbolic vows hahaha), in conclusion the third eye also only represents wisdom and discernment inside decisions of the subconscious plane what we cant see with our natural eyes.
Do you know some more of those ingredients that change names into animal parts? I hadn't ever thought of this, you know? It's awesome that you could tell me about it. <3
In that Matthew quote, mustard seed does indeed sound like a really powerful thing. :) Maybe if I eat one while I cast a spell, I could get my wishes fulfiled.
secret Cod brujil:
Actually I think that none of this has a value by itself, or it means that making a shake of bushes will give us magical powers, hahah, but As I said before, things do not have power by themselves, if for what they represent for us, then the difficult thing is to give a real representation to things, for example, just as I do the symbolism with the holy supper, and other ritos do sorcerers, but with darkness. (The dark side of the force)-stars war hahaha
I was reading a book recently called the The summoner and the protagonist has a salamander pet who has a potential to become a dragon.
Dragons might actually exist, they may have lived during the period of dinosaurs or even before that and then most likely salamanders came and newts could maybe belong that family. You see myths have a certain degree of truth (even if it's all fake) therefore there could be possibility, after all what's not possible?
There were creatures with many similarities to dragons, but there have been no fire-breathing reptiles, lol. There were small-ish dinosaurs that flew, and in fact, birds are their most direct descendant.
Hmm, sausages. :D