![]() ![]() No matter who you are or what you’ve done, there is a deity out (or up, or down) there who is looking out for you, and there is an abundance of comfort in that: When I was at my lowest, I can safely say that is was Laverna who had my back and acted as my spiritual getaway driver.īut it’s also important to note that Laverna paid Her debts and made amends. There are a couple of takeaways from Laverna’s story, one of them being that everyone is deserving of a God. Who swears that I contracted debt to him,Īnd have not paid although the time is o’er,Īnd so Laverna became the goddess of all dishonest and shabby people. ![]() Have come to answer to that lord’s complaint, And in reply to him Laverna showed to all present her whole body without mincing matters, and it was one of extreme beauty, but without a head and from the neck thereof came a voice which said: “How’s your head?” “I haven’t had any complaints yet.” (Rimshot via Pixabay.)Īfter the priest came the lord who had also been tricked, and to whom she had sworn by her head. “Behold me! I swore by my body, but body have I none!” She replied by a strange deed which amazed them all, for she made her body disappear, so that only her head remained visible, and it cried: ![]() For most of recorded history, it’s been believed that if you’re running around after dark, you’re up to no good: As my mom used to say, “Nothing good happens after midnight.” And so, as an extension of Her shady spheres of influence, Laverna became associated with those who use the cover of darkness to hide their activities.Īnd when she was asked what she had done with the property of the priest, unto whom she had sworn by her body to make payment at the time appointed (and why had she broken her oath)? The Romans considered her one of the di inferi - the “gods below” - deities of the Underworld. Laverna was originally a Goddess of the night, with close ties to both the Witch Goddess Diana and the Etruscan Goddess Furrina. As my final act of 2021, in a post I mostly didn’t copy and paste, I give you Laverna: the Goddess of thieves and plagiarists. Readers, let’s rectify this situation immediately. I mean, the hell? How could I write a post about theft and Witchcraft and not mention Laverna? After reading my last blog entry, my friend Christopher was like, “I can hear Laverna popping her tongue right now.” And y’all, I was mortified at my oversight. ![]()
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