Heidi the owner, is sitting at a table with a few candles lit - they look at peace.

BY TOOTH AND CLAW CLOTHING

WHERE THE SAYING "BY TOOTH AND CLAW" COMES FROM

To note: Missionaries went all over the world trying to convert people. They did the same thing to the different tribal groups in Europe as they did to the other tribes overseas. Before nationstates and church (aka colonization), Europe was based in clans, tribes, and family groups. They would be loosely banded later as Scotland, England, Wales, Netherlands, Germany, etc., but mostly because of a need to come together for war and necessity.

When the missionaries were studying the witches and their way of life, they were baffled to witness their death practices. Unlike the missionaries, witches gave their body back to the land as an offering to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, which consumed them "by tooth and claw." They would sometimes report this as "red of tooth and claw" to represent blood.

In this way, the witches honored the cycle of nature by feeding the whole. There was no separation between themselves and all other living things. The missionaries were astounded by the simplicity of their death ritual, a simple opening of space and then a return to the earth.

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