East Bay Slimes

CAIT SIDHE //

🖐 silky fatty base + clay cait sidhe to mix in + 2 oz silky fatty "cream" + add ins
👃base: my own special blend of lapsang souchong (black tea leaves smoked over a pinewood fire), with hints of clove and resins.
"cream": real cream & light notes of sugar, honey, & roasted nuts

Are black cats bad luck after all? Perhaps this stereotype comes partly from the Cait Sidhe, a mythical creature in Scottish and Celtic folklore. This feline spirit takes the shape of a large black cat with a white patch of fur on its chest. By crossing over a person's grave, it could steal their soul, trapping them in eternal purgatory. Naturally, folks did everything they could to distract the cait sidhe from passing over the body of a dead body prior to its burial. Day and night, the body would be guarded by a vigil during a Feille Fadalach or “late wake.” Because the cait sidhe was drawn to the warmth of fires, there were none lit anywhere near the body. Other methods used to distract the spirit were to challenge it in contests of speed, strength, and intelligence — or even use catnip and music to entertain it.

The Cait Sidhe was said to be able to transform from a witch into a cat and back eight times, remaining a cat on the ninth transformation. At Samhain, it was customary to leave a saucer of milk out for the Cait Sidhe, as this offering would ensure the Cait would bless next year's harvest. But it did not pay to anger it - a lack of offering would mean next year's harvest would perish. (sources: Liath Wolf; Dark Emerald Tales)

Cait Sidhe is a black-as-night silky fatty slime (7 oz) representing the fluid, slippery, and elusive nature of cats - scented my own special blend of lapsang souchong (black tea leaves smoked over a pinewood fire), with hints of clove and resins. It comes with 2 oz of "cream" scented like real cream & light notes of sugar, honey, & roasted nuts, to represent the cait's signature white spot. Mix in the clay cait sidhe with its color-shifting gleam and glowing eyes and decorate your "gravesite" with your fimo mix of ghosts, coffins, bats, demons, skulls, bones, paw prints, marigolds (for mourning), daisies (which the gods would sprinkle to comfort parents of children who died as infants), and poppies (symbolizing peaceful sleep and death). Will your cait sidhe succeed in capturing a spirit?